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Trojans move on

North Catholic boys roll past Valley View in PIAA 4A

Andrew Maddalon scored 24 points and Max Hurray added 23 Wednesday night as the North Catholic boys basketball team advanced to the PIAA Class 4A quarterfinals with a 78-56 win over Valley View.

The Trojans (21-7) won for the 11th time in 12 games. Max Rottmann netted 14 points for North Catholic. Valley View is 22-5 on the year.

North Catholic will play Uniontown (22-5) — a 67-46 winner over Littlestown on Tuesday — Friday night at a site and time to be determined.

Swimming

Slippery Rock’s 200-yard freestyle relay team placed sixth at the PIAA 2A Championships, setting a school record in the process.

The team of Ann-Katherine Burns, Natalie Double, Season Grant and Grace Olshanski swam a time of 1 minute, 40.84 seconds. They swam the event in 1:41.69 during the preliminaries.

Moniteau’s Katelyn Reott is eighth in the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.42 seconds. Freeport’s Kira Schecongost is seventh in the 200 individual medley with a mark of 2:07.74.

Boys Tennis

Butler traveled to Gateway and dropped a 5-0 decision, losing a pair of tight doubles matches.

Gateway 5, Butler 0

Singles: Adam Memije (G) def. Andrew Bocci 6-2, 6-1; Zidaan Hassan (G) def. Ben Busler 6-0, 6-0; Logan Memije (G) def. Jackson Morgus 6-0, 6-0

Doubles: Matt Bandos-Zack Meshanko (G) def. Thomas Sheptak-Ryan Conaway 6-2, 7-5; Zane Almoukamal-John Falbelli (G) def. Wyatt Morgus-Landon Stevenson 6-2, 7-5

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