ARCHBALD \u2014 After the final point and a celebration with teammates, Delaney Washo ran into the bleachers, tears streaming down her cheeks. She hugged her mom, Allison Phillips, and kept saying, \u201cI can\u2019t believe this. We won the league championship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then she looked at the gymnasium wall, filled with banners honoring past title-winning teams that defined Valley View\u2019s sports tradition. Washo pointed out that soon, the Cougars girls volleyball team will have a place in the school\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Valley View defeated neighboring rival Mid Valley, 3-1 (18-25, 25-13, 25-12, 25-22), to claim the Lackawanna League Division II championship in the program\u2019s fourth year Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t stopped crying,\u201d said Washo, who had eight aces and three kills. \u201cThis is such an incredible feeling. We are the first team to have our year displayed on the wall, despite only being a program for four years. It\u2019s an incredible accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Valley View (12-0) fed off the energy of an overflow crowd on the one open side of the bleachers on Parents\u2019 Night.<\/p>\n
This senior class was part of the Cougars\u2019 first team in 2023 and developed their skills to a point where they have an overall 14-2 record. They hold the No. 2 seed for the District 2 Class 4A playoffs.<\/p>\n
Valley View finished 1-13 that first season when the Lackawanna League was one division with 15 teams. The Cougars\u2019 record jumped to 8-6 in their second season, and last fall, they were 8-7.<\/p>\n
When the league aligned into two divisions this season, Valley View earned the preseason favorite\u2019s role in a coaches\u2019 poll.<\/p>\n
The Cougars met the expectations.<\/p>\n
In a second meeting with Mid Valley, after Valley View lost the first set, 25-18, the team rallied, building momentum with their accurate service game.<\/p>\n
Layla Marino, an All-Region player last season, had a team-high nine aces, pushing her career total to 111.<\/p>\n
Alexa Farina contributed three aces, Maggie Hallett had two and Amelia Pulman had one for the Cougars.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so proud of this team,\u201d said Marino, who also contributed five kills. \u201cThis is so amazing. We really pulled through. Mid Valley played great. Our coach is always stressing, \u2018service, service, service.\u2019 If your serve isn\u2019t on, you aren\u2019t going to have a good game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel it is one of my best attributes as a player. I have been working hard on my serving since I was 12 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n
Valley View had a balanced attack. Emma Pienkowski had seven kills, Alyssa Peralta had four, Amelia Pullman had three, Tiana Castro scored one and Clare Murphy had three.<\/p>\n
During a momentum-shifting sequence, Murphy made a diving save and dig and closed out the rally with a kill that defined the Cougars\u2019 determination to win the title.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a really emotional night,\u201d Murphy, a junior, said. \u201cEveryone on this team has grown so much. It\u2019s been amazing with all of these girls, and our seniors have put in so much work. I feel like we have all connected really well, and the commitment has always been there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kept the energy up because there were so many people here, and it was a loud environment. I think we thrived in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hallett ran the offense with 24 assists. Monica Orellana led the defense with 10 digs, while Marino had six digs and Gracyn Ramus had a dig for the Cougars, who have league matches remaining at Susquehanna on Thursday and at West Scranton on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n
Mid Valley\u2019s Aubrey Comstock had seven kills. Olivia Parry added nine assists and two kills and Jailey Capman had six kills for the Spartanettes (8-3 in the league), who are also in their fourth season. They are 10-4 overall and in third place in the District 2 Class 3A power-rating standings.<\/p>\n
West Scranton 3, Susquehanna 0:\u00a0At West Scranton, Sophia DeLuca had 12 aces and three kills, leading the Lady Invaders to a 25-13, 25-16, 25-20 win in Division II.<\/p>\n
Sydney Williams had nine kills, 10 digs and six aces; Aubrey Kerrigan added three kills and two aces, and Violetta O\u2019Hora had 10 assists and six aces for the Lady Invaders (7-5).<\/p>\n
For Susquehanna (4-8), Piper Heller had 13 digs, Jordyn Spoor had nine digs, five aces and three kills and Lauren Huyck had 12 digs.<\/p>\n
Lakeland 3, Forest City 1:\u00a0At Lakeland, Jada Chavies had 19 service points, five aces, including the 50th of her career, 19 assists and seven kills leading the Lady Chiefs to a 25-13, 24-26, 25-9, 25-16 win in Division II.<\/p>\n
Eliana Rogari added 21 service points, 10 kills and 18 digs for Lakeland (9-3).<\/p>\n
Amethyst Kealoha-Silva had five kills, 25 digs and three blocks to lead Forest City (0-12). Bella Bilsky added five digs and Rayn Conrad had five aces.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna Trail 3, Elk Lake 2:\u00a0At Elk Lake, Ava Dake had 21 assists, 11 service points, five aces and nine digs as the Lady Lions rallied for a 21-25, 18-25, 31-29, 25-19, 15-12 win in Division II.<\/p>\n
Aubrie Pinney had 39 digs, Sara Drake had 12 points and Grace Kelly had 18 points, eight aces, six kills and four digs for Lackawanna Trail (2-9).<\/p>\n
Aleece Greenley led Elk Lake (5-7) with 25 kills, 12 service points, five aces and 11 digs. Mia Blair added 15 service points and 15 assists; Morgan Aukema had six service points, six digs and five blocks and Alex Perez had 11 kills, six service points and four aces.<\/p>\n
North Pocono 3, Montrose 2:\u00a0At Montrose, Avarie Roscioli had 20 kills and 24 digs, and Ashtynne DeLucy had 26 assists and 18 digs in a 17-25, 21-25, 25-15, 25-18, 15-12 win in Division I.<\/p>\n
Ryan Masters added 23 digs, and Julia Black had 22 digs and eight kills for the Lady Trojans (10-2).<\/p>\n
Kirsten Eschbach had 44 digs, Sadie Jones contributed 10 kills, six blocks and two aces, Gracie Jones had 22 assists and Ava Bell had three kills for Montrose (7-3).<\/p>\n
Blue Ridge 3, Western Wayne 3:\u00a0At Western Wayne, Abigail Gelinger had nine kills, nine service points and four blocks, leading the Lady Raiders to a 25-17, 25-16, 26-24 win in a Division I match.<\/p>\n
Lynndee Barbour contributed eight kills and seven service points, Peyton Rutter had 10 service points and four aces and Mckenna Zick had 19 assists and eight service points for Blue Ridge (7-5).<\/p>\n
For Western Wayne (2-10), Olivia Haines had 15 kills, five digs and five blocks. Adysen Wargo had 17 digs, and Abbie Washine had 21 assists.<\/p>\n
Delaware Valley 3, Holy Redeemer 1:\u00a0At Holy Redeemer, CeCe Dickerson had 13 service points, 14 digs and 14 kills, leading the Lady Warriors to a 26-28, 25-20, 25-12, 25-21 win in the Wyoming Valley Conference.<\/p>\n
Peyton Machado had 15 kills, Paris Machado had eight kills and Kayla Snyder had 12 digs for Delaware Valley (10-5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARCHBALD \u2014 After the final point and a celebration with teammates, Delaney Washo ran into the bleachers, tears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-306342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306342","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=306342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}