High school sports roundup: Seneca Valley’s Marcotte comes up big with 2OT winner
By netting the game’s lone goal 18 seconds into the second overtime, Seneca Valley’s Maddie Marcotte sent her team into the WPIAL Class 4A girls soccer semifinals with a 1-0 win over No. 7 Upper St. Clair.
Sydney Postler made seven saves in goal for the No. 2 Raiders, who will play No. 3 Norwin at a time and location to be determined.
Plum 0, Mars 0 (Plum wins 5-4 on PKs) — Jade Breese, Maeve O’Leary, Katie Blake and Miley Gratton scored penalty kick goals for the No. 5 Planets, who couldn’t stop the No. 4 Mustangs from converting their five chances during this WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal.
Behind 47 combined kills by Cecilia Christy and Rylee Wooldridge, No. 3 Mars downed No. 6 Greensburg Salem 3-2 in a WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal on Thursday night.
Alaina Graham added 30 digs and Gabi Weidemann 48 assists for the Planets, who won by scores of 25-16, 13-25, 23-25, 25-17 and 15-10.
Mars advances to face off with either No.2 Beaver or No. 15 Ringgold at a time and location to be determined.
Logan Skibinski and Max Gallagher both had touchdown runs, Andrew Kifer hit Gallagher for a 25-yard air strike and Union/A-C Valley dispatched Reynolds 22-14 to cap its regular season.
The Raiders (6-4) got on the scoreboard first with Gabriel Minjarez’ 33-yard sprint early in the second quarter, but their 2-point conversion try failed. Skibinski ran in from 17 yards out just over two minutes later, then Kifer connected with Gallagher 13 seconds befor halftime.
Parker Noy’s 90-yard third-quarter pick-six pulled Reynolds within a point at 15-14, but Gallagher put it away with a 4-yard surge with 1:24 to play. The Falcon Knights finish the regular season with a 9-1 mark.
North Catholic lost its WPIAL Class 2A boys soccer quarterfinal against Deer Lakes 2-0.
