KINGSTON \u2013 For four straight seasons, Lily Lengyel has served as the ace of Scranton Prep\u2019s dominant girls singles lineup.<\/p>\n
Each year, though, her greatest accomplishments have come as a doubles player.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday afternoon, teaming with her third partner, Lengyel and Adithi Velaga won the District 2 Class 2A Doubles Championship. It is the fourth gold medal for Lengyel, who gained an opportunity to repeat as the PIAA champion. She won the title last season with Emma Cuck, who graduated in the spring.<\/p>\n
The Classics\u2019 team defeated Wyoming Seminary\u2019s Lizzie Weaver-CeCe Pons, 6-0, 6-1, at the Empower Sports Academy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is so special to me,\u201d said Lengyel, who won with Alyssa Wigley in 2023 and 2024, and Cuck last season. \u201cI love playing doubles. This is a huge blessing for me. Adithi is an awesome player. I went into this very excited.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started a little nervous because we never played doubles before, but as soon as we got going, we really connected and got into a good groove.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Lengyel punched her fourth straight ticket to Hershey, Abington Heights\u2019 team of Amishi Amit and Sammy Rosenstein defended their District 2 Class 3A title.<\/p>\n
For the fourth straight season, two Abington Heights teams battled for the gold. Amit, who played No. 3 singles during the season, and Rosenstein defeated Kate Arp-Margot Rubner, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
The PIAA Championships start on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s honestly amazing,\u201d Amit said. \u201cSammy and I have been partners since freshman year. We got to states last year, and we didn\u2019t do as well as we wanted. Now we get a chance to redeem ourselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were locked in from the beginning. We were going to come home with the title.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lengyel, who reached the district semifinals in singles, and Velaga, the Classics\u2019 No. 2 singles player, reached the final, beating Wyoming Seminary\u2019s second team of Katie Zhang-Kate Minella, 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Weaver-Pons defeated Montrose\u2019s Anna Evans-Erin Tillotson, 6-2, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep\u2019s players were familiar with the Wyoming Seminary pairing. They met in the District 2 Class 2A team championship final; Scranton Prep won, 3-2.<\/p>\n
Lengyel and Adithi used power and precision to claim the gold medals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very excited,\u201d Velaga said. \u201cWe played really well. Having Lily there, she is a veteran and won a state gold last season and was the biggest confidence builder for me. I am really looking forward to states.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Class 3A, Amit-Rosenstein beat West Scranton\u2019s Chiara Pugliese-Marissa Shafer, 6-3, 6-0. Arp, a District 2 Class 3A singles tournament finalist, and Rubner powered past North Pocono\u2019s Anna Clementoni-Cameron Forgione, 7-5, 7-5, rallying to win both sets.<\/p>\n
Amit and Rosenstein, both seniors, used their familiarity as a doubles team to win the gold.<\/p>\n
Their win clinched Abington Heights\u2019 fourth straight clean sweep of district tennis championships. The Lady Comets won the team title, and freshman Addie Stark won the singles gold.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is so cool to have the opportunity to come back with the partner who I won with last year,\u201d said Rosenstein, who partnered with Rubner during an undefeated regular season. \u201cThat can be tough. We knew coming in that we were going to have tough matches with West (Scranton) and our teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew what we wanted, and we knew the strategy that we needed, and we were able to win the title again.\u201d<\/p>\n
DISTRICT 2 DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIPS
\nCLASS 3A<\/p>\n
Semifinals<\/p>\n
1-Amit-Rosenstein (AH) over 5-Pugliese-Shafer (WS), 6-3, 6-0. 2-Arp-Rubner (AH) over 3-Clementoni-C. Forgione (NP), 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Final<\/p>\n
1-Amit-Rosenstein (AH) over 2-Arp-Rubner (AH), 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n
CLASS 2A<\/p>\n
Semifinals<\/p>\n
1-Lengyel-Velaga (SP) over 5-Zhang-Minella (SEM), 6-1, 6-0. 3-Weaver-Pons (SEM) over A. Evans-E. Tillotson (MON), 6-2, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Final<\/p>\n
1-Lengyel-Velaga (SP) over 3-Weaver-Pons (SEM), 6-0, 6-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON \u2013 For four straight seasons, Lily Lengyel has served as the ace of Scranton Prep\u2019s dominant girls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-306778","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\/306778","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=306778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}