Kayla Zboran finished 12th overall to lead the Freeport girls cross country team to a third-place finish and a spot in the state meet at the WPIAL Cross Country Championships at Coopers Lake Thursday afternoon.

Zboran ran a time of 21 minutes, 34 seconds to lead five Yellowjacket runners in the top 100.

Rebecca Dudek placed 14th for Freeport.

Seneca Valley's boys and girls teams each placed sixth as a team and will send multiple individuals to the PIAA Cross Country Championships, which will be held at the Parkway Cross Country Course in Hershey Nov. 5.

Madison Goodman placed 12th in the boys race with a time of 17:42 for the Raiders. His teammates, Ben Nickel and Jake Perri also advanced.

Taryn Latsko placed 39th for the SV girls to advance.

Mars placed eighth in both meets and will send Christopher Georgiadis and Sean Gannon on the boys side and Maggie McChesney for the girls team to the state meet.

WPIAL Cross CountryChampionshipsBoysClass AAATeam Results1-North Allegheny 50, 2-Mount Lebanon 115, 3-Pittsburgh Central Catholic 122, 4-Kiski Area 149, 5-Fox Chapel 159, 6-Seneca Valley 186, 8-Mars 301, 17-Butler 498, 32-Knoch 82

Individual Results(Top 5)1-Logan Steiner (NA) 17:04, 2-Mike Runco (PCC) 17:05, 3-Andrew Kutchta (Baldwin) 17:06, 4-Brent Kennedy (Kiski) 17:22, 5-Richard Lednak (Kiski) 17:23

Seneca Valley: 12-Madison Goodman 17:42, 38-Ben Nickel 18:18, 39-Jake Perri 18:19, 47-Kylan Hill 18:23, 50-Garrett Urban 18:24

Mars: 15-Christopher Georgiadis 17:45, 24-Sean Gannon 17:54, 61-Scott Slaney 18:40, 96-John Caraway 19:07, 105-Zach McManus 19:15

Butler: 77-Jake Ferguson 18:56, 84-Christopher Short 19:00, 106-Jerome Geibel 19:15, 113-Jordan Blum 19:19, 118-Alex Russo 19:20

Knoch: 60-Preston Carlsson 18:40, 182-Paul Kasunic 20:03, 191-Alex Cetnar 20:09, 193-Luke McCullough 20:11, 198-Philip Kletzli 20:16(PIAA Track and Field Championship qualifiers in bold)

Class AATeam Results1-Quaker Valley 29, 2-Beaver Area 146, 3-Vincentian Academy 166, 4. Freedom 173, 5-Shady Side Academy 178, 20-Freeport 550

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ndividual Results(Top 5)1-Roy Hadfield (QV) 17:21, 2-Nat Fox (QV) 17:27, 3-Ryan Archer (VA) 17:32, Ryan McGuire (Trinity Christian) 17:38, 5-Alex Archer (VA) 17:46

Freeport: 60-Colin Meehan 19:54, 81-Nick Brosius 20:30, 118-Zane Geist 21:25, 134-Jared Kapistik 21:42, 157-Jeremy Wyles 22:13

GirlsClass AAATeam Results1-North Hills 46, 2-Mount Lebanon 137, 3-North Allegheny 156, 4-Pine-Richland 223, 5-Hempfield 235, 6-Seneca Valley 261, 8-Mars 319, 17-Butler 476, 33-Knoch 821

Individual Results1-Margo Malone (NH) 19:25, 2-Shannon Malone (NH) 12:23, 3-Charlotte Lampenfeld (Oakland Cath.) 6:22, 4-Mary Malone (NH) 12:36, 5-Morgan Ansel (Hempfield) 12:47

Seneca Valley: 39-Taryn Latsko 21:31, 45-Katie Lutz 21:38, 48-Emilyy Seibert 21:44, 57-Kristen McKinney 21:52, 72-Becky Paine 22:14

Mars: 31-Maggie McChesney 21:12, 50-Shannon McChesney 21:46, 63-Reilly Butler 22:05, 70-Salina Smialek 22:12, 105-Amanda Alikhani 22:57

Butler: 29-Holly Keefer 21:06, 75-Tori Sawhney 22:22, 83-Alexis Swiergol 22:32, 133-Emily McDonald 23:27, 156-Olivia Swiergol 23:48

Knoch: 47-Emilee Hertweck 21:42, 88-Tena Pettit 22:37, 212-Katie Jones 25:36, 226-Tess Haverstick 26:08, 248-Valeria Travis 27:17

Class AATeam Results1-Quaker Valley 36, 2-South Park 186, 3-Freeport 213, 4-South Fayette 231, 5-Derry Area 263Freeport: 12-Kayla Zboran 21:34, 14-Rebecca Dudek 21:45, 39-Hayley Davis 22:57, 59-Laura Will 23:47, 89-Nicole Miller 24:43, 138-Marrisa Mattioli 26:19, 145-Carol Amadee 26:29(Freeport qualified for the PIAA Cross Country Championships as a team)

VolleyballMaura Randolph had eight kills to lead Mars to a 25-23, 25-6, 25-11 win over Elizabeth Forward in the WPIAL Class AA volleyball playoffs.Jaden Zimmer and Emily King each added seven kills for the Planets, who will play Freeport Tuesday in the semifinals at a site and time to be determined.

Slippery Rock 3, Greenville 0 — The Rockets concluded a perfect regular season with a 25-15, 25-12, 27-25 win.Marie Takach had 28 assists and two aces, breaking the Slippery Rock single-season ace record in the process.Heather Urbanik added 12 kills for the Rockets (14-0), who will open the District 10 Class AA playoffs Thursday in Meadville.

HockeyTanner Gilliland scored the lone Butler goal in a 9-1 defeat at the hand of State College.The Golden Tornado were 0-of-7 on power plays while State College was 3-of-4.State College outshot Butler 46-20.