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Saturday, December 31, 2022 | 10:01 a.m
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The Freeport girls volleyball team celebrates its state championship trophy after defeating York Catholic in the PIAA Class 2A final Nov. 19 at Cumberland Valley.
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The Deer Lakes boys soccer team celebrates its WPIAL championship trophy by defeating Beaver in overtime, 1-0, in the Class 2A semifinals Nov. 3 at Highmark Stadium.
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Fox Chapel’s Eli Yofan (2) and Colin Kwiatkowski celebrate with the student section after defeating North Hills in the WPIAL Class 6A championship game March 5 at the Petersen Events Center.
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Skyy Moore warms up before the game against the Houston Texans on Dec. 18.
2022 will be remembered for many monumental events, from the achievements of A-K Valley athletes to championship performances and teams bringing home gold at the district, regional and state levels.
Once again the athletes were able to put in many hours of dedication and determination to achieve, but not exceed, their goals.
It’s time to look back at the many stories of the year in the A-K Valley.
10. The Burrell wrestling team has been a model of consistency through back-to-back WPIAL titles that began with a 40-18 victory over Derry in 2007. But it is said that all good things must come to an end.
That end came Feb. 5 in Burrell’s 30-28 loss in the WPIAL Class 2A finals to a Quaker Valley team in just his fifth year.
The Bucs reached the final against Montour (57-18) and Mt. Pleasant (33-24) win.
In the finals against the Quakers, Burrell earned a 28-24 victory after senior Shawn Szymanski won at 145.
But QV got a pin in the final bout at 152 to secure the upset win.
Burrell, coached throughout the season by VND Wrestler of the Year Cooper Hornack, competed in the PIAA tournament and went 1-2 with a win over District 10’s Corry in the first round of the consolations. The Bucs finished 12-7 overall.
9. Leechburg senior Bryalan Lovelace rushed for more than 4,000 yards in his four-year high school career. He was a part of the Blue Devils’ 2021 and 2022 WPIAL playoff trips. His talents on both sides of the ball caught the attention of the Pitt coaches, who expected him to be a running back and linebacker. One of the latest recruits in the WPIAL.
Lovelace verbally committed to the Panthers over the summer and finalized his decision Dec. 21 on the first day of the national letter of intent to sign football. He is the first Leechburg player to sign with a Division I school since his father, Dave, put pen to paper at Rutgers in 1993.
Lovelace is one of several A-K Valley student-athletes who have signed with Division I athletic programs. That team includes Plum’s Kaley Simqu and Kaitlyn Killinger (Pitt women’s soccer) and Cam Collins (St. Francis women’s soccer), Kiski Area’s Parker Sterlitz (West Virginia swimming) and Levi Hansen (Cincinnati swimming), Highlands’ Jimmy Kunst (Eastern . Michigan baseball), Apollo-Ridge’s Nick Curci (Duquesne soccer), and Fox Chapel’s Makayla Mulholland (Appalachian State women’s soccer) and Gabi Folino (Northern Kentucky women’s soccer).
8. New Kensington native, Shady Side Academy graduate and Western Michigan standout Skyy Moore had a big day at Heinz Field in September 2021 with 11 catches for 124 yards and a touchdown in the Broncos’ 44-41 win over Pitt.
The performance, one of several by Moore in his college career, helped put him on the radar of some NFL teams. He finished his final season at Western Michigan with 95 catches for 1,292 yards and 10 touchdowns.
In late April, the Kansas City Chiefs drafted the wide receiver in the second round and the 54th overall pick in the NFL Draft.
During Week 16, Moore caught 19 passes for 217 yards from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes as his rookie season progressed.
In his debut against the Cardinals on September 11, he had a 30-yard reception.
Moore caught 10 passes for 99 yards in two games, wins over the Chargers and Rams on November 20th and 27th.
The NFL has been a resident of New Kensington for the past 10 years. Toney Clemons (Valley, Colorado) was selected by the Steelers in the seventh round in 2012.
7. San Jose’s young girls basketball team, with only one senior, improved as the 2021-22 season progressed, but still, not many people gave it much of a chance against the WPIAL Class A champion and No. 1 seed. Rochester’s seed in the quarterfinals of the WPIAL playoffs on Feb. 24.
San Jose won three of four to finish the regular season and topped Mapletown in the first round by a measure that entered the contest with the Rams.
Julie Spinelli, a sophomore last season, led the Spartans with 15 points. Anna Kreinbrook and Gia Richter combined for 11 in the 57-54 win.
Richter scored nine points in the fourth quarter as St. Joseph beat Rochester 20-10 to complete the comeback.
The win put the Spartans in the WPIAL semifinals for the second time. They fell to Aquinas Academy at North Hills, but a quarterfinal win put them into the PIAA playoffs.
San Jose lost to Shanksville in the first round of the state tournament to end its season at 10-15, but the Spartans had momentum on their side, which has carried over into the current campaign.
6. The A-K Valley is home to some of the top high school bowlers in the state of Pennsylvania, and Burrell’s Lydia Flanagan was the cream of the crop in March.
Flanagan finished second in the girls singles and bowled a sweep where she topped No. 4 Mareana Pilyih of Plum, 247-173, in the semifinals, and Taylor Miller of Warwick, 223-156, in the semifinals.
He scored over 200 points in six of his eight games, recording two qualifying games of 197 and 199.
Apollo-Ridge’s Mia Ament also qualified for the playoffs.
Pilyih earned a spot at states by finishing second behind East Allegheny’s Skyy Nichols in the West Region qualifying round, while Flanagan was third.
Pilyih and Deer Lakes’ Kaylee Lipp met in the regional playoff finals with Pilyih taking the title, 191-172.
On the boys side, Plum’s Nicholas Daniels tied for second in the qualifying round of the WPIBL singles tournament behind Freeport’s Colin Cummings behind North Allegheny’s Jeb Jorden.
Daniels topped Cummings in the playoff semifinals, 219-147, before defeating Jorden, 234-191, in the championship game.
5. The WPIAL swimming championships returned to Pitt’s Trees Pool after a one-year hiatus, and the Fox Chapel and Freeport girls were atop the podium after their gold medal swims March 3-4.
In her WPIAL debut, Freeport freshman Kira Schrecongost followed in older sister Alexa’s footsteps and captured WPIAL gold. She won the Class 2A girls 100-meter butterfly title with a time of 56.09, matching South Park sophomore and 2021 WPIAL 50 and 100 freestyle champion Katie Jackovic.
Alexa Schrecongost, now a freshman at Toledo, won the 2021 WPIAL Class 2A 100 breaststroke crown.
Kira Schrecongost also finished runner-up in the 200 individual medley and helped Freeport finish second and third in the 200 relay and 200 free relay.
In Class 3A, a 38-year-old WPIAL record fell when Fox Chapel senior Sophie Shao captured the 100 fly, her third in as many years, with a time of 53.85 seconds.
In 1984 Melanie Buddemeyer broke the longstanding Class 3A mark of 54.16 set at the WPIALs.
Shao also won the 200 IM in a 2:02.51 victory and the girls 200 medley relay of Talia Bugel, Ariana Pasquella and Rei Sperry helped them to gold in a school-record 1:43.90.
Shao, Pasquella, Sperry and Payton O’Toole finished the two-day WPIAL event by winning the 400 freestyle relay in a school-record time of 3:29.23.
Fox Chapel’s four caps, along with 10 other medal-winning swims, put the Fox Chapel girls in second place in the final team standings with 314 points, 30 behind team champion North Allegheny.
4. Carson McCoy had a strong first season with the Eastern Michigan University men’s cross country team this fall, just a few months after ending his outstanding high school career on the track.
At June’s PIAA track and field championships in Shippensburg, McCoy raced toward the end of the Class 2A boys 1,600-meter run to win gold and defend his 2021 title in the event.
Schuylkill Valley’s Luke Seymour edged out the pair by less than two seconds as the pair battled for the title for the second year in a row.
McCoy’s time of 4 minutes, 13.14 seconds was a personal best with five second hundredths and three seconds better than his 2021 time.
He then added PIAA gold in the 800, once again edging Seymour with a personal-best time of 1:51.02 to claim the title.
McCoy’s PIAA championship title followed a triple in the WPIAL finals at Slippery Rock a week earlier.
He posted victories in the 1,600 and 800 runs, also anchored the WPIAL champion 1,600 relay with senior Fletcher Hammond and juniors Nathan Buechel and Aidan Herman. The Lancers 1,600 relay finished sixth at states.
3. The Fox Chapel boys basketball team averaged 63.9 points per 29 games in the 2021-22 season. But defense and enough offense helped the Foxes claim the program’s second WPIAL championship on March 5 and first since 1977.
Fox Chapel, the Class 6A No. 2 seed, held off a low-scoring 37-32 win over Central Catholic in the WPIAL semifinals in Peters Township.
The Foxes then stunned No. 1 North Hills, 43-36, in the final at the Petersen Events Center. Senior Eli Yofan, the team’s leading scorer all season and the VND Player of the Year, had only one basket in the game, but it was a big 3-pointer in a tight fourth quarter.
JP Dockey led the Foxes with 10 points, while Colin Kwiatkowski and Russell Fenton each scored eight points in a balanced attack, while Jake DeMotte also scored seven points.
Fox Chapel denied North Hills its first WPIAL title in program history. The Indians finished 30 points below their season average. North Hills won by 30 in a December contest.
The Foxes had a similar run in the state playoffs, beating Cumberland Valley, Allderdice and Northampton in the first three rounds.
Fox Chapel lost its state title hopes with a 56-54 final loss to District 1 Archbishop Wood. The Foxes finished the season 27-2.
2. The Deer Lakes boys soccer team captured its first WPIAL championship of 2020 as the Lancers navigated a season of uncertainty plagued by covid changes and cancellations across the WPIAL landscape. Deer Lakes stayed at Shady Side Academy in North Allegheny.
This year, with several members of the 2020 team still in the lineup, the goal was to return to the finals and bring home another title.
That’s what the team did. After going to a Section 2-2A championship with Shady Side, the Lancers used excellent defense and enough offense to go 1-0 in the WPIAL tournament. The highlight of the four was the title game with Beaver at Highmark Stadium.
Two of the team’s youngest members connected for perhaps their biggest goal of the season, as freshman Peyton Kushon found Jacob Orseno in overtime for the game-winning score.
Senior captain Ryan Hanes, the VND Player of the Year, led the team in scoring, and goalkeeper Nick Braun helped provide a defensive wall for Deer Lakes as it qualified for the PIAA playoffs and finished with a 20-3 record.
1. When the Freeport girls volleyball team captured its 18th straight sectional championship in October, it was the first step on a list of goals the Yellowjackets hoped to achieve in the 2022 season.
Freeport earned the No. 1 seed for the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs and beat OLSH, Neshannock and Quaker Valley in the championship game at Robert Morris, where it fell just one game short of Shenango’s second straight WPIAL championship and seventh since 2010.
But Yellowjacket wasn’t done. Led by all-state selections Cassidy Dell, a senior setter, Josie Russo, a junior middle hitter, and Sydney Selker, a junior outside hitter, Freeport began a run that ended with an all-marble matchup of Cumberland Valley.
The Yellowjackets made quick work of Corry, 3-0, in the first round of the PIAA tournament in a rematch of their WPIAL semifinal meeting at Quaker Valley.
Freeport survived District 6 champion Philipsburg-Osceola, 3-2, in Punxsutawney to set up a title game with District 3 champion York Catholic.
The Yellowjackets battled back in Game 1, winning 25-21, then rallied and finished 3-0 with wins of 25-15 and 25-18.
The state championship is the second in program history, and it comes five years and one day since the team captured the 2017 Class 2A crown.
• Last year, the Springdale girls soccer team fell short of its goal of a trip to the WPIAL championship game. This fall, that goal was realized as the Dynamos, the reigning Section 1-A champions, defeated Sewickley Academy, Mohawk and Waynesburg in Freedom’s Class A title game at Highmark Stadium.
With a WPIAL runner-up finish and a trip to the state playoffs, Springdale finished the season 17-5.
Plum finished the season 19-3, surrendering just 17 goals in 21 games and was one of three teams to score a goal in the 2022 season against WPIAL and PIAA Class 3A Moon (24-0).
The Mustangs finished third in the WPIAL tournament and advanced to the PIAA quarterfinals. They capped a four-year run that included a 72-10-1 overall record, four sectional titles, three trips to the WPIAL finals and three state playoff appearances.
• A 50-year sectional title drought ended when the Knoch girls basketball team captured the Section 1-4A title with a 12-0 record over runner-up Highlands (10-2).
Led by senior Maddie Boyer and junior Nina Shaw, Knoch finished the regular season 19-2 and defeated Montour and Southmoreland in the WPIAL playoffs en route to their first appearance in the WPIAL title game.
The Knights fell to the Blackhawks at the Petersen Events Center, but continued on to the PIAA playoffs, where St. They beat defending District 9 champion Marys in the second round before ending the season.
• It was a strong spring season for A-K Valley teams, with 11 of them qualifying for the WPIAL playoffs. Deer Lakes, Burrell and Springdale won sectional titles, and the Bucs and Lancers qualified for the state tournament.
Deer Lakes defeated Waynesburg and South Allegheny to reach the WPIAL Class 3A title game. The Lancers also defeated District 10 champion Corry in the PIAA first round and finished the season 14-6.
Burrell, behind all-state pitcher Katie Armstrong and a young lineup of lone seniors, swept Freeport, Highlands and Knoch in sectional games, qualified for the WPIAL semifinals and reached the state quarterfinals. It was the Bucs’ 16th straight season in the postseason.
Springdale beat Leechburg for the Section 3-A title and made it to the WPIAL semifinals and PIAA tournament, the Blue Devils qualified for the playoffs for a WPIAL record 32nd straight season.
• The Freeport football program’s first game was on October 6, 1922, and the Yellowjackets celebrated their 100th anniversary on October 14 with a win over rival Knoch.
Freeport also celebrated throughout the season as it captured its first conference title since 2015, shutting out Allegheny 6 opponents and going 9-1 during the regular season.
Freeport, a WPIAL 3A No. 4 seed, received a first-round bye and routed No. 5 West Mifflin, 42-6, in the quarterfinals before falling to eventual state champion Belle Vernon at Gateway in the semifinals.
• Interest in girls wrestling at Plum developed in recent seasons with individuals competing in statewide school and club tournaments. Ball was launched in early 2022 for a girls program, and in June, the school board voted to make it all official.
At the time, Plum was the seventh WPIAL school to launch a girls program, joining the likes of Kiski Area and North Allegheny and Canon-McMillan, and the 47th school in Pennsylvania. A total of 100 schools are needed for the PIAA to sanction girls’ wrestling as an official college sport, and as of Wednesday, 90 schools have joined the party.
• In May 2022, the Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame returned to the area’s top athletics after a two-year absence due to the covid pandemic.
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It was a celebration of great and historic moments in area sports as attendees joined and reminisced with this year’s class: Rich Kriston, Harry Crytzer, Lizzie Suwala Sheaffer, Dianne Haney, Bob White, Terry Preece, Robert Foster, Frank Phelps and Jeff Cortileso. On the same subject : Aaron Rodgers runs the Packers ad machine.
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