The basketball season is off and running.

And the Lebanon Ephrata girls game was what one would expect.

A 42-41 victory for Ephrata is a reflection on how these two teams are expected to be dominant.

Lebanon is defending their Lancaster-Lebanon League girls championship.

McCracken scored 16 points for Ephrata while Brandt scored 18 for Lebanon.

Lebanon took the only lead they had in the game with 24 seconds left.

And Ephrata’s Coldwell drilled two foul shots to give them the lead for good.

Here are last season’s section winners: