Rockets sweep Mercer
Freeport freshman Audrey Clawson fired an 87 at 3 Lakes Golf Course on Monday to finish fourth at the WPIAL Class AA Girls Championship, which punched her ticket to the PIAA Western Regional.
Mars freshman Bridget Merten took 15th in the WPIAL Class AAA Championship with a 91, but only the top-seven golfers moved on.
Seneca Valley junior Alex Steighner finished 28th with a 108.
Elsewhere:
Seneca Valley 219, Ambridge 327 — At Harmony Ridge, Alex Steighner's 50 earned medalist honors to lead the Raiders (6-9) on Tuesday.
Seneca Valley (219): Alex Steighner 50, Jess Howard 54, Courtney Wahlstrom 54, Sarah Johanknecht 61
Ambridge (327): Janelle Persuit 71, Maya Niven 81, Natalie Erwin 82, Lydia Aquino 93
Pine-Richland 194, Seneca Valley 205 — Sam Dunsmore's 35 helped lift the Rams to victory at Cranberry Highlands.Blake Miller and Brennan Bench led the Raiders (7-6, 7-5) with 39s.Pine-Richland (194): Sam Dunsmore 35, Evan Kunkle 38, Connor White 40, Nick Lowery 40, Brandon McCuen 41Seneca Valley (205): Blake Miller 39, Brennan Bench 39, Evan Hangliter 41, Mike Trotta 43, Travis Becker 43
Butler 16, Shaler 47; Mars 20, Butler 37; Mars 15, Shaler 49 (boys); Butler 26, Mars 31; Butler 20, Shaler 37; Mars 20, Shaler 43 (girls) — Butler's Alexis Swiergol and Kelsee Callihan finished in second and third place, respectively, to pace the Tornado girls, while Mars' Scott Slaney, Chris Georgiadis and Brendan Knox grabbed the top-three places to lead the squad to the double-dual win.Boys Top 10Scott Slaney (M) 18:36, Chris Georgiadis (M) 18:36, Brendan Knox (M) 18:42, Chris Short (B) 18:50, Jeromee Geibel (B) 19:00, Nathan Mrdjenovich (M) 19:00, Sean Rundle (B) 19:03, Frankie Petrini (M) 19:06, Chris Boyd (B) 19:41, Gage Zimmerman (M) 19:42Girls Top 10Brianna Schwartz (S) 20:42, Alexis Swiergol (B) 21;38, Kelsee Callihan (B) 22:38, Maggie McChesney (M) 22;39, Shannon McChesney (M) 23:09, Tori Sawhney (B) 23:16, Amanda Wiest (B) 23:21, Salina Smialek (M) 24:13, Maria Monberg (M) 24:16, Amanda Alikhani (M) 24:19Slippery Rock 25, Sharon 30 (boys); Sharon 22, Slippery Rock 33 (girls) — Caleb Bickel led the Rocket boys (2-2) with a second-place finish of 18 minutes and 28 seconds.For the girls (1-3), Lauren Dietz was first overall with a time of 23:20.Boys Top 101-Cody Buchanan (S) 17:52, 2-Caleb Bickel (SR) 18:28, 3-Andrew Maxwell (SR) 19:38, 4-Matthew Dilts (S) 19:38, 5-Will Henry (SR) 20:14, 6-Aaron Eilenfeldt (SR) 21:53, 7-Joshua Fabian (S) 22:35, 8-Scott Greenawalt (S) 23:04, 9-Tyler Yarington (SR) 24:07, 10-Andrew Campbell (S) 24:53Girls Top 101-Lauren Dietz (SR) 23:20, 2-Lani Ser (S) 23:36, 3-Zhanea Davis (S) 23:43, 4-Julia Foltz (S) 24:06, 5-Becca Novak (SR) 24:24, 6-Jolynn Anderson (S) 25:24, 7-Brienna Roys (S) 25:47, 8-Amie Kravener (SR) 25:48, 9-Becky Anna (SR) 27:56, 10-Becky Masterson (SR) 28:15Karns City 27, Clarion-Limestone 28; Karns City 26, Clarion 29 (boys); Karns City 29, Clarion 30 (girls) — KC's Matt Slagle was the overall boys winner. The Gremlins (both 4-1) run at Cranberry on Tuesday.Boys Top 101-Matt Slagle (KC) 18:31, 2-Beau Rankin (Union) 19:30, 3-Liam Raehsler (C) 19:49, 4-Kyle Kiser (C-L) 21:30, 5-John Hazlett (U) 21:33, 6-John Garing (KC) 21:52, 7-Cody Kemmer (C-L) 22:02, 8-Jordan Kraer (Union) 22:10, 9-Michael Lavan (C) 22:12, 10-Max Lane (C) 22:25Girls Top 101-Abby Steele (C-L0 22:55, 2-Lacee Scbheerbaum (KC) 23:19, 3-Emily Jones (KC) 23:34, 4-Tabby Deitz (Union) 24:46, 5-Drew Barnhart (KC) 25:24, 6-Anna Frakes (C) 25:47, 7-Marcy Kroh (C) 25:54, 8-Shannon Roberts (Union) 26:22, 9-Sara Shingledecker (C) 27:34, 10-Emma Gieling (C) 27:55Moniteau 23, A-C Valley 36 (boys); Moniteau 21, A-C Valley 36, Moniteau 24, Keystone 34 (girls) — Evan Miller won the boys race for the Warriors.Boys Top 101-Evan Miller (M) 19:10, 2-John Anderson (ACV) 19:20, 3-Nick Baughman (K) 19:35, 4-Jake Fullerton (M) 21:06, 5-Jake Taciuch (M) 21:33, 6-Brady Thompson )K) 22:01, 7-Drew Krajl (ACV) 22:11, 8-Clayton Mcnany (ACV) 22:17, 9-Devin Nassy (M) 22:39, 10-Roman Weingartner (M) 22:45Girls Top 101-Emily Baughman (K) 22:17, 2-Heather Porter (M) 23:10, 3-Shannon Quail (ACV) 23:20, 4-Allison DeMatteis (M) 23:37, 5-Kelly Daugherty (K) 24:05, 6-Emily Rider (M) 24:52, 7-Kristen McDeavitt (M) 24:58, 8-Kelsey Milford (ACV) 25:05, 9-Rachael Viertel (ACV) 25:11, 10-Lindsay Mays (K) 25:41Freeport 19, Ford City 40 (boys); Freeport 15, Ford City 45 (girls) — Colin Meehan and Kayla Zboran won their respective events to lead the Yellowjackets' boys (3-2) and girls (5-0) squads to victories over the Sabers.Boys Top 10Colin Meehan (F) 18:09, Caleb Smith (F) 18:55, Andrew Hamilton (FC) 19:22, Jared Kapustik (F) 19:49, Noah Bowser (F) 19:55, Nathaniel Sedlack (FC) 20:04, Nathan McCombs (F) 20:12, Michael Sweeney (FC) 20:44, Ryan Miller (F) 20:49, Matt Huston (F) 21:45Girls Top 10Kayla Zboran (F) 19:25, Becca Dudek (F) 20:06, Rachel Kubeldis (F) 21:15, Laura Will (F) 22:04, Nicole Miller (F) 22:07, Clair Smathers (FC) 22:45, Cadlyn Cujas (FC) 23:51, Katie Hill (F) 23:52, Blair Willyard (FC) 24:44, Marsia Mattiolo (F) 25:05
Butler 3, North Hills 0 — The Golden Tornado (5-5) won by scores of 25-21, 25-16, 25-15 as Mackenzie O'Donnell had 12 kills and two blocks, Heather Straynick eight kills and 16 digs, while Harley Skibicki added six kills.The Golden Tornado travel to North Allegheny Thursday.Slippery Rock 3, Mercer 0 — Taylor Stamm contributed 21 assists and Carly Shearer 14 kills to help the Rockets (6-0) remain undefeated.Megan Little added eight digs and 21 passes and Laura Hilliard eight kills and four service aces in the 25-9, 25-13, 25-13 victory.Freeport 3, Burrell 0 — Alexis Schrecengost tallied 10 kills, eight blocks and seven service points, while Emily Toy had 24 points, including five aces and 23 assists, to lead the Yellowjackets to the 25-9, 25-14, 25-11 victory.Zoe Pawlak had eight kills, 11 points and four blocks and Lauren Frazetta eight points, six blocks and five kills for Freeport (7-1, 6-1), which hosts Knoch Thursday.A-C Valley 3, Union 0 — Makayla Terwilliger had 12 points and five kills, Meredith Snyder 10 points, six kills and 18 assists and Jessica Callender nine points, eight digs and six kills in the Falcons' 25-19, 25-13, 25-19 sweep.Alexis Linamen had 10 kills and Abby Wetzel 10 digs for A-C Valley (8-1), which hosts Redbank Valley next Wednesday.A-C Valley also won the junior varsity match, 25-12, 26-24.Karns City 3, Moniteau 0 — Kristen Smith paced the Gremlins (6-4) with 26 assists and Kendyll Smith had 10 kills.KC, which prevailed with scores of 25-17, 25-17 and 25-14, also received six kills from Heather Henry and three kills and 15 points out of Leah Bullman.Knoch 3, Highlands 0 — The Knights dominated the host Golden Rams by scores of 25-8, 25-9 and 25-11.Celina Sanks dropped 17 kills, Mary Zellhart 18 points and four kills and Kara Fitzpatrick 18 points for Knoch (8-4, 6-2).Grove City 3, Hickory 1 — Jordyn Wyllie tallied nine blocks and five kills for the Eagles, who pulled out a 25-20, 25-23, 15-25, 26-24 victory.Kaitlin Miller added 18 assists, eight kills and seven blocks and McKenzie Fagan recorded nine blocks for Grove City.
Knoch 1, Deer Lakes 0 — Andy Fritz made two saves to preserve the shutout for the Knights. He was helped by a strong defensive effort from Isaiah Webb, Alex Slomer, Devin Sherman and Lucas Kunkel.Ben Andrews scored the game's lone goal on an assist from Nick Kadunce.
