Montrose and Western Wayne, a pair of Lackawanna League Division I teams, advanced to the District 2 Class 3A semifinals in girls volleyball with wins Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Sadie Jones had 12 kills and five blocks, leading fourth-seeded Montrose past No. 5 Lake-Lehman, 3-2 (25-16, 15-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-11). The Lady Meteors (12-5) will play top-seeded and semifinal-round host Holy Redeemer (14-5) in the second match of a doubleheader on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Gracie Jones had 22 assists and five blocks, and Kirsten Eschbach had 21 digs for Montrose. Sierra Brown added seven kills, four blocks and five aces, and Ava Bell had 12 service points, four aces and five kills.<\/p>\n
Western Wayne 3, Lakeland 1:\u00a0At Lakeland, Olivia Haines had 22 kills and four blocks, leading the sixth-seeded Lady \u2018Cats to an upset of No. 3 Lakeland, 25-16, 21-25, 25-10, 25-11), in the District 2 Class 3A quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Abbie Washine had 31 assists, Addison Wargo added seven digs, and Olivia Black had six kills for Western Wayne (4-16), which will play No. 2 Mid Valley (13-4) on Thursday at 5 p.m. at Holy Redeemer.<\/p>\n
Eliana Rogari had 15 digs to lead Lakeland. Jada Chavies had 12 service points and four aces, Meadow Biamonte had 16 service points and six digs, and Adeline Biondo had six digs, five service points, and five kills.<\/p>\n
Class 5A<\/p>\n
The Class 5A tournament opens at Berwick on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna League champion Abington Heights (17-1) plays second-seeded Dallas (16-1) at 5 p.m. in the first match. Alaina Krempasky leads the Lady Comets with 170 kills this season. Hilde Temblador has 120 kills and 232 assists; Brielle Wentz contributes 290 assists, 205 service points and 76 aces.<\/p>\n
Dallas junior Ava Adams has 179 kills and 38 blocks, and sophomore Brynlee Herron has 148 kills and 29 blocks. Aurora Deem has 302 assists and Karly Kovitch has 217.<\/p>\n
Fourth-seeded North Pocono (13-5) plays top-seeded Berwick (16-2), the Wyoming Valley Conference champion, in the second match of the doubleheader.<\/p>\n
Avarie Roscioli, Julia Black, Emily Jennings, Ryan Masters and Abby Franklin lead the Lady Trojans, who finished second to Abington Heights in the Lackawanna Division I standings.<\/p>\n
Grace Robbins has 257 kills, 178 digs, Taylor Riera-Gomez has 138 kills, and Julia Rauch has 527 assists for Berwick, the No. 8 Class 5A team in the state rankings by the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association.<\/p>\n
Class 4A<\/p>\n
Crestwood, the No. 1 seed, hosts the semifinal round in the Class 4A playoffs.<\/p>\n
Third-seeded Tunkhannock (8-7) takes on No. 2 Valley View (16-2) in the 5 p.m. match.<\/p>\n
Layla Marino leads Valley View, the Lackawanna League Division II champion, with 85 kills and 124 aces. Maggie Hallett has 312 assists, Monica Orellana has 133 digs, and Emma Pienkowski has 80 kills for the Cougars.<\/p>\n
Fourth-seeded Nanticoke Area (8-8) plays host Crestwood (12-3), 30 minutes after the first match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montrose and Western Wayne, a pair of Lackawanna League Division I teams, advanced to the District 2 Class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-316167","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\/316167","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=316167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}