District 2 champions Scranton Prep and Abington Heights return to the courts as the PIAA Team Championships begin with a doubleheader at Birchwood Racquet Club.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep (15-2), the defending PIAA Class 2A champion, opens against District 11 champion Allentown Central Catholic (19-2) on Tuesday at 11 a.m. in a rematch of last season\u2019s first round.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights (18-2) takes on Conestoga (13-3), the fourth-place team from District 1, in a Class 3A first-round match on Tuesday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
Winners of first-round matches advance to the quarterfinals Friday at Hershey Racquet Club.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep has reached three straight state final matches, winning gold in 2023 and 2025. The Classics are in the state tournament for the 23rd time and are 37-20.<\/p>\n
In the last four seasons, the Classics are 96-7 overall.<\/p>\n
Lily Lengyel leads the Classics at No. 1 singles. She is 10-1 all-time in the PIAA team tournament.<\/p>\n
Adithi Velaga is at No. 2 singles for the Classics. Last season, she and her doubles partner Maci Bulzoni, who graduated, clinched the state championship with a No. 1 doubles win.<\/p>\n
Hannah LaCoe, Scranton Prep\u2019s No. 3 player, clinched the District 2 team title in a 3-2 win over Wyoming Seminary.<\/p>\n
Donatella DeNaples and Sage Michel play at No. 1 doubles, and Grace James and Mia Bovani are at No. 2 doubles for the Classics.<\/p>\n
Allentown Central Catholic lost to Scranton Prep, 3-1, in the 2025 first round.\u00a0This year\u2019s ACC team defeated Lackawanna League champion Abington Heights, 4-1. The Lady Comets beat Scranton Prep twice in the regular season.<\/p>\n
The winner of the Scranton Prep-Allentown Central Catholic showdown meets the winner of the Central-Columbia-Lancaster Catholic match at 9:30 a.m. at Hershey Racquet Club on Friday.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights is making its 15th appearance in the state tournament after winning its ninth straight District 2 Class 3A championship. The Lady Comets are 4-14 all-time in the PIAA team tournament.<\/p>\n
Freshman Addie Stark, the District 2 Class 3A singles champion, sophomore Kate Arp, the District 2 Class 3A runner-up, and Amishi Amit, one half of the District 2 Class 3A doubles championship team, will lead the Lady Comets.<\/p>\n
Sammy Rosenstein, Amit\u2019s partner in the district doubles tournament, teams with Margot Rubner at No. 1 doubles. Rubner reached the district doubles final with Arp as her partner.<\/p>\n
Anna McVety and Rebecca Rothwell team at No. 2 doubles for the Lady Comets.<\/p>\n
Conestoga is in the state tournament for the 16th time and has won two team championships (2021, 2022) and finished as the runner-up last season.<\/p>\n
The winner advances to play the winner of the Hempfield-Radnor match in the quarterfinals on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Hershey Racquet Club.<\/p>\n
PIAA TEAM TOURNAMENT<\/p>\n
At Birchwood Racquet Club<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s Class 2A First Round<\/p>\n
2-1 Scranton Prep (15-2) vs. 11-1 Allentown CC (19-2), 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s Class 3A First Round<\/p>\n
2-1 Abington Heights (18-2) vs. 1-4 Conestoga (13-3), 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"District 2 champions Scranton Prep and Abington Heights return to the courts as the PIAA Team Championships begin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-315057","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\/315057","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=315057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}