For the second straight year, Knoch fields the top two girls tennis doubles teams in the WPIAL’s Section 3-2A.

The Knights’ duos of Ally Bauer/Lindsey Greb and Ava Santora/Jade Nether met in the championship match Thursday at Hampton Community Park. Bauer and Greb earned the section title with a 6-3, 6-1 victory, though both tandems will be competing in the WPIAL tournament, which begins next Thursday.

Last year, Emily Greb and Lindsey Greb topped Santora and Nether for the title. This year marks the fourth straight season the championship has gone to Knoch.

This year’s tournament began Wednesday, with Bauer and Greb receiving a bye before dispatching teams from Burrell and Hampton to reach the final.

Santora and Nether also received a bye and topped duos from Ellis School and North Catholic’s Riley Pylant and Katie Hardy in the semifinals.

Pylant and Hardy went on to fall in the consolation match.

Class 3A — Mars’ Cece Crowley and Reese Hanna, who entered the Section 2 tournament as the sixth seed, rolled all the way to the final, where they ran into North Allegheny’s top-seeded duo of Emily Wincko and Abbey Swirsding.

Wincko and Swirsding won the match 6-1, 6-0, on their home court, but Crowley and Hanna advance to the WPIAL bracket.

Their run included wins over Butler’s Mikayla Turner and Cameron Hanratty and duos from North Allegheny and North Hills.

Seneca Valley’s Anna Winland and Bridget Elms won a match before falling in the quarterfinals.

Butler’s Jillian Clark/Ali Smith, Mars’ Claire Magness/Carla Genevro and SV’s Kylie Staudt/Sydney Boucher all lost in the first round.

In a home meet Wednesday against Clarion, Moniteau’s girls captured four of the top five spots, with senior Jenna Zendron leading the way with a time of 22:43.

Also for the Warriors, Lucy Hartle was second (28:46), Jaycee Relihan was third (30:28) and Ava Ball fifth (35:27).

No team scores were recorded.

In the boys meet, sophomore Allen Matz paced Moniteau with a fourth-place effort (21:03) as the Bobcats defeated the Warriors 17-44.

Girls Volleyball

A-C Valley made its trip to Rimersburg a brief one as the Falcons swept the Damsels by scores of 25-13, 25-17 and 25-13.

Lexi Ruckdeschel tallied 12 kills, 12 digs and eight assists and Jenna Stefanacci added 18 assists in the victory.

Mackenzie Parks had four kills and 13 digs, Bella Ielase five kills and Keira McVay eight digs for A-C Valley (7-3).

Moniteau 3, Karns City 2 — The Warriors edged the Gremlins by scores of 25-14, 12-25, 22-25, 25-22 and 20-18.

Abbey Jewart had 13 assists in the win. Marissa Pry tallied six kills, Bella Hernandez three aces and three blocks and Lily Staab five digs.

For KC, Ava Fox dropped 14 kills and added 22 digs. Rosalie Carden had nine kills and 22 assists and Jessica Dunn chipped in eight kills.

Mars 3, Knoch 0 — The host Planets swept the Knights by scores of 25-9, 25-15 and 25-17.

Sabrina Schlott had six kills and Nina Szymanski 15 digs for the Knights (3-5, 3-3).

Stats for Mars were unavailable.

Freeport senior goalie Ethan Rapp stopped 12 shots in a 3-1 victory over Leechburg.

Garrett Risch scored twice and added an assist for the Yellowjackets (5-6, 5-5).

Isaac Wetzel also scored while Zach Fairman and Angelo Porco both contributed an assist.

Butler 1, North Allegheny 0 — Cody Lubinsky scored in double overtime to lift the Golden Tornado (8-3-2, 4-3-2) over the visiting Tigers. Drew Knight was in net for the shutout.

Butler is 6-0-2 in its last eight games.