Tuesday opens up regular season play for our varsity sports program here at Lititz Christian School (LCS). This is an exciting time of the year for me as the Senior Pastor of our ministry for two reasons. First, I love sports. Second, my two children play on these teams, Joy in her senior year on the volleyball team and Jonathan as a sophomore on the soccer team. So what does the year have in store for these two squads?
Our varsity volleyball team is going for a very difficult and challenging “three-peat” after winning the conference championship the past two years. To accomplish this, our Lady Eagles have their work cut out for them. Last year’s championship team graduated five seniors and returned only two juniors for the 2007 season. The rest of the team is mostly all first year varsity players who are young and very inexperienced on the varsity level.
The pre-season tune-ups for the Lady Eagles included scrimmages against Fairfield High School and against Highpoint Christian Academy. Following that was last Saturday’s all day tourney at Lancaster Mennonite High School (LMH). The Eagles were definitely in the harder pool play as they started out first thing in the morning against the home team of LMH who entered the tournament as the heavy favorite to win it all. The Lady Eagles were soundly beaten in both games. The second match for LCS was in no way easier as they went up against Cocalico High School who arguably had the best player in the tournament on their team. After losing quickly in game one, the Lady Eagles played what may have been their best volleyball of the day in game two falling by only 5 points. In the end it was LMH and Cocalico that reached the finals of the tourney.
After their lunch break, the Lady Eagles went to work against Elizabethtown High School just barely losing game one and hanging on to win their only victory of the day in game two. The last match of the day was against New Oxford who ran away with both games as the young Lady Eagles ran out of juice. Though their record in the tourney ended up being just 1-7, the young Lady Eagles played some decent volleyball against these three much larger public schools and came away with some much needed experience and some growing confidence that a third straight conference championship was attainable. The Lady Eagles play on the road tonight (Tuesday, September 4) at Conestoga Christian.
The boy’s varsity soccer team returns many solid starters from a team that came within one goal of reaching the conference playoffs last year. The preseason scrimmages were a “best of times worst of times” story for the Eagles as they played well against Lancaster Country Day followed by a dismal showing against Highpoint Christian Academy. Coach Eric Lewis has great optimism that this should be the first season in many years in which LCS reaches post-season play. The LCS soccer team opens their season defending the Agape Cup on the road at Dayspring Christian Academy tonight (Tuesday, September 4). This will be the third year that LCS and Dayspring play each other for the coveted Agape Cup which LCS has won both years previously. It’s going to be an exciting fall for Lititz Christian School Varsity sports. Come on out and root for our LCS Eagles!
Our varsity volleyball team is going for a very difficult and challenging “three-peat” after winning the conference championship the past two years. To accomplish this, our Lady Eagles have their work cut out for them. Last year’s championship team graduated five seniors and returned only two juniors for the 2007 season. The rest of the team is mostly all first year varsity players who are young and very inexperienced on the varsity level.
The pre-season tune-ups for the Lady Eagles included scrimmages against Fairfield High School and against Highpoint Christian Academy. Following that was last Saturday’s all day tourney at Lancaster Mennonite High School (LMH). The Eagles were definitely in the harder pool play as they started out first thing in the morning against the home team of LMH who entered the tournament as the heavy favorite to win it all. The Lady Eagles were soundly beaten in both games. The second match for LCS was in no way easier as they went up against Cocalico High School who arguably had the best player in the tournament on their team. After losing quickly in game one, the Lady Eagles played what may have been their best volleyball of the day in game two falling by only 5 points. In the end it was LMH and Cocalico that reached the finals of the tourney.
After their lunch break, the Lady Eagles went to work against Elizabethtown High School just barely losing game one and hanging on to win their only victory of the day in game two. The last match of the day was against New Oxford who ran away with both games as the young Lady Eagles ran out of juice. Though their record in the tourney ended up being just 1-7, the young Lady Eagles played some decent volleyball against these three much larger public schools and came away with some much needed experience and some growing confidence that a third straight conference championship was attainable. The Lady Eagles play on the road tonight (Tuesday, September 4) at Conestoga Christian.
The boy’s varsity soccer team returns many solid starters from a team that came within one goal of reaching the conference playoffs last year. The preseason scrimmages were a “best of times worst of times” story for the Eagles as they played well against Lancaster Country Day followed by a dismal showing against Highpoint Christian Academy. Coach Eric Lewis has great optimism that this should be the first season in many years in which LCS reaches post-season play. The LCS soccer team opens their season defending the Agape Cup on the road at Dayspring Christian Academy tonight (Tuesday, September 4). This will be the third year that LCS and Dayspring play each other for the coveted Agape Cup which LCS has won both years previously. It’s going to be an exciting fall for Lititz Christian School Varsity sports. Come on out and root for our LCS Eagles!
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