DISTRICT 2 CLASS 2A CHAMPIONSHIP<\/p>\n
4-LAKE-LEHMAN (13-7) VS. 2-HOLY REDEEMER (19-3)<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Where: Wilkes University.<\/p>\n
How they got here: Lake-Lehman defeated No. 5 seed Montrose, 3-1 (25-15, 25-8, 20-25, 25-22) and upset top-seeded Blue Ridge, 3-1 (25-18, 22-25, 25-20, 25-19). Holy Redeemer defeated No. 7 seed Lakeland, 3-0 (25-6, 25-11, 25-7) and beat No. 6 seed Western Wayne, 3-0 (25-20, 26-24, 25-18).<\/p>\n
Up next: The winner of the match advances to the PIAA Class 2A first round and will play the District 4 champion on Tuesday, Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
PLAYERS TO WATCH<\/p>\n
Lake-Lehman: Alexandria Patia; Cameron Janick; Isabelle Maopolski; Keira Middleton; Giolla Biscotto.<\/p>\n
Holy Redeemer: Bella Boylan; Gillian Parsons; Kira Millard; Elizabeth Bilbow; Reese Woytovich.<\/p>\n
Noteworthy: Holy Redeemer has won 18 District 2 Class 2A championships. The Royals are ranked No. 9 in the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association Class 2A poll. Holy Redeemer edged Lake-Lehman, 3-2, in the Wyoming Valley Conference regular season. Boylan had 31 kills, and Parsons had 19 in the win by the Royals.<\/p>\n
DISTRICT 2 CLASS 3A CHAMPIONSHIP<\/p>\n
2-ABINGTON HEIGHTS (22-0) VS. 1-BERWICK (17-1)<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, 30 minutes after the Class 2A match.<\/p>\n
Where: Wilkes University.<\/p>\n
How they got here: Abington Heights defeated No. 7 seed Nanticoke Area, 3-0 (25-13, 25-9, 25-15) and beat No. 3 seed Crestwood, 3-1 (25-14, 25-17, 16-25, 25-13). Berwick beat No. 8 Valley View, 3-0 (25-8, 25-13, 25-13) and beat No. 5 seed Dallas, 3-0 (25-15, 25-16, 25-16).<\/p>\n
Up next: The winner of the match advances to the PIAA Class 2A first round and will play the District 4 champion on Tuesday, Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
PLAYERS TO WATCH<\/p>\n
Abington Heights: Alaina Krempasy (188 kills); Hilde Temblador (157 kills); Abigail MacDonald (137 kills); Brielle Wentz (400 assists); Madison Smith (249 digs); Bella Carr (112 digs).<\/p>\n
Berwick: Grace Robbins; Makayla Brown (198 service points, 63 aces); Angie Colone (133 digs); Julia Rauch (583 assists); Maliyah Esquilin (38 kills); Taylor Rita-Gomez (99 kills).<\/p>\n
Noteworthy: Berwick is the defending District 2 Class 3A champion. This is a battle of conference champions. Berwick won the Wyoming Valley Conference title, and Abington Heights captured the Lackawanna League title. Abington Heights is 5-0 against teams from the WVC this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DISTRICT 2 CLASS 2A CHAMPIONSHIP 4-LAKE-LEHMAN (13-7) VS. 2-HOLY REDEEMER (19-3) When: Thursday, 5 p.m. Where: Wilkes University.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-19398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-high-school-sports","9":"tag-scranton","10":"tag-scranton-headlines","11":"tag-scranton-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}