In the end, the 2026 postseason looked a lot like 2025 to the Allentown Central Catholic girls basketball team.
Last year, the Vikettes lost to Emmaus in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference quarterfinals, bounced back with three District 11 tournament wins — including victories over Northwestern Lehigh and Palmerton — to claim 4A gold, beat a District 4 team in the first round of states and then had their season end with a lopsided loss to Scranton Prep.
This year, there was another EPC tourney loss to Emmaus, wins over Northwestern Lehigh and Palmerton and a District 11 4A championship followed by a first-round PIAA triumph over a District 4 entry.
Unfortunately for ACCHS, the pattern continued with another loss to Scranton Prep and Wednesday night’s 63-28 defeat was decided even earlier than the 74-36 setback at Stroudsburg last March.
Allentown Central Catholic’s Morgan Seagreaves looks to score against Scranton Prep’s Kamyl Lynady on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, during a 4A second-round girls basketball game at Hazleton Area High School. (April Gamiz/The Morning Call)
Scranton Prep, the District 2 champions, led 15-2 halfway through the first quarter and never looked back. The Vikettes committed 21 first-half turnovers, many of them leading to easy baskets for the Classics, who improved to 22-5 and advanced to a quarterfinal-round meeting with District 3 champ Susquehanna Township on Saturday.
Eva Kaszuba scored eight of her 15 points in the first quarter and Ava Fenton had nine of her 11 in the first half. Chloe Mamera scored six of her 14 in the third quarter as Scranton Prep outscored Central 15-3 to build a 54-17 lead and kick in the mercy rule.
“We always seem to fall in where if you get by that first round, the second round is a doozy,” said Vikettes coach Kathy Davidowich, who has gone 4-for-4 in winning district championships but lost in the state’s second round for the third straight season.
“Scranton Prep is a fantastic team and we knew that coming in,” Davidowich continued. “My key to winning the game is that we had to handle their pressure, and we just couldn’t do it tonight.”
The Vikettes got 3-pointers from Lena Hartman and Shamiya Roberts in the fourth quarter and Roberts fed Morgan Seagreaves for the last basket of the season. Roberts and Seagreaves were two of the team’s three seniors and Seagreaves finished with 16 points.
“We’re all very emotional right now because they have been here the four years since I started,” Davidowich said. “This was a tight-knit group this year and one of the girls said it felt like a family. That’s what led us to stick together after we started 0-4. These girls just kept fighting and said ‘we’ll get better, we’ll get better.’ They just fought. They weren’t ready to go home.”
Davidowich said Seagreaves had a great season and a great career.
“I’m so proud of her and I wish here well wherever she is going to go,” Davidowich said. “I hope she’ll continue to come back and help us out wherever she is.”
Seagreaves, the granddaughter of football coaching legend Jim Morgans, continued a family legacy at ACCHS.
“I love the two other seniors [Roberts and Annika Spinosa] because I’ve been with them for all four years and I love my team,” Seagreaves said. “It’s hard right now, but we had a great season and went far. No one expected it. Everyone in my family went to Central and I wanted to make them proud. I played soccer and basketball here and I couldn’t ask for anything more. I love it so much here.”
Scranton Prep 63, Allentown CCHS 28
Allentown CCHS 9 – 5 – 3 – 11 — 28
Scranton Prep 26 – 13 – 15 – 9 — 63
ALLENTOWN CCHS (28)
Hartman 1 0-0 3, Roberts 1 1-2 4, Seagreaves 6 4-6 16, Hursh 1 0-0 3, Menecola 1 0-0 2. Totals 10 5-8 28.
SCRANTON PREP (63)
Fenton 5 0-1 11, Bestrycki 2 0-2 5, Krzywiec 3 1-2 9, Lynady 3 0-0 6, Toolan 1 0-0 3, Kaszuba 7 0-0 15, Mamera 6 2-2 14. Totals 27 3-7 63.
3-pointers: Allentown CCHS (3) Hartman, Roberts, Hursh. Scranton Prep (6) Krzywiec 2, Fenton, Bestrycki, Toolan, Kaszuba.
Notre Dame-Green Pond wins
Justin Manning scored 24 points and had the game-clinching steal and layup in a 66-61 Notre Dame-Green Pond win over Lancaster Mennonite at Hamburg to advance to the PIAA Class 3A quarterfinals.
Notre Dame, the District 11 champion, improved to 26-3 and will play Warrior Run, the District 4 champs, on Saturday in 3A’s elite eight. Warrior Run advanced with a 64-59 overtime win over Audenreid.
It’s the first time the Crusaders have reached the third round of the state tournament since 2004 when they reached the semifinals.
Tommy Murphy had 11 points, including three of the team’s 10 3-pointers. Drew Boyd had a pair of treys in scoring 12 points and Manning and Hayden Levy also had two 3-pointers.
While Notre Dame advanced, District 11 runner-up Executive had its season end with a 52-49 loss to defending state champion West Catholic in a game played at Norristown. Ziyon Wilkins led the Raptors (17-8) with 22 points.
Kingston Wheatley led West Catholic, the District 12 champs, with 23 points. The Burrs will play District 2 champ Riverside in Saturday’s quarterfinals.
Liberty season ends
The Hurricanes dug themselves a 17-5 after one quarter and were down 37-17 at halftime and couldn’t recover in a 59-46 loss to District 1 champion Plymouth-Whitemarsh in a PIAA Class 6A second-round game played at Pottstown.
Towson commit Mani Sajid scored 16 points, while Penn commit Michael Pereira added 14 as the Colonials advanced to Saturday’s quarterfinals where they will meet District 12 runner-up Father Judge.
Liberty had its season end with an 18-11 record. The Hurricanes reached the EPC tournament semifinals and the District 11 title game.
Brayden Kashner had three of his team’s eight 3-pointers and led the Hurricanes with 13 points, while Jarrell Teague and Dylan Bilger added 11 and 10 apiece.
Jake Pukszyn scored seven points in his final game and ended his career with 1,382 points — third-most in Liberty boys basketball history behind Warren West and Darrun Hilliard. He will continue his athletic career at Lehigh where he will play football.