Scranton Prep and Abington Heights, the two dominant girls\u2019 programs in District 2, head to the PIAA Team Championship playoffs.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, both teams start the first round.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep (17-0) plays against District 11 champion Allentown Central Catholic (19-1) at the Lehigh Valley Tennis Club at 12:30 p.m., having won the PIAA Class 2A championship in 2023 and being the runner-up last season.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights (17-1), winners of the last eight District 2 Class 3A championships, hosts Wilson (14-2), the District 3 runner-up, at noon at Birchwood Racquet Club.<\/p>\n
Winners of first-round matches advance to the quarterfinals on Friday at the Hershey Racquet Club. Semifinals and finals are Saturday.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep has enjoyed another dominant season.<\/p>\n
The Classics\u2019 strength in the singles ladder and depth in doubles has led to another undefeated run to the district title.<\/p>\n
Lily Lengyel and Emma Cuck, who just teamed to win the District 2 Class 2A doubles championship, lead the team at No. 1 and No. 2 singles. Lengyel is 19-2 this season, with both losses coming to Montrose junior Cara Evans, the unbeaten district champion. Cuck is 19-1 and is 77-2 in her career.<\/p>\n
They each have extensive state-playoff experience.<\/p>\n
Hannah LaCoe, who was a key contributor on the past two Scranton Prep teams in doubles, has moved up to No. 3 singles this season and is 17-0.<\/p>\n
Allentown Central Catholic defeated Moravian Academy in the District 11 Class 2A championship match last week.<\/p>\n
Bernadette Gasser won at No. 1 singles, and Valentina Munoz won at No. 3 singles in the final. The doubles team of Carly Eisenhardt and Charlotte Hood also had a win for the Vikettes.<\/p>\n
Last season, the Classics defeated ACC, 5-0. Lengyel defeated Gasser, 6-2, 6-1, at No. 1 singles, and Cuck beat Munoz at No. 3 singles, 6-1, 6-1. Cuck moved up to No. 2 singles this season and will face Madelyn Groff.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights won its first-round match against New Oxford last season.<\/p>\n
Sona Hanumali is the District 2 Class 3A singles champion, and Amishi Amit and Sammy Rosenstein teamed up to win the doubles gold last Friday.<\/p>\n
In last year\u2019s state tournament first round, Amit, the No. 3 singles player, won her match, while Rosenstein and her partner Mary Booth won at No. 1 doubles, and Elsie Phillips and Bernie Mullen secured a victory at No. 2 doubles.<\/p>\n
This season, Hanumali has a record of 21-2, and Amit is the No. 2 singles player and the District 2 runner-up. She has a record of 18-3. Rosenstein is 15-1 at No. 3 singles.<\/p>\n
Phillips teams with Kate Arp at No. 1 doubles. The team reached the district final and faced Amit-Rosenstein.<\/p>\n
Jenna Follansbee and Brielle Crowell play at No. 2 doubles for the Lady Comets.<\/p>\n
Wilson, which upset top-seeded Cumberland Valley in the tournament, lost to Manheim Township in the District 3 Class 3A championship match, 3-0.<\/p>\n
JinLen Chen and Madison Uzar are the top singles players from Wilson. Uzar, a freshman, reached the District 3 quarterfinals in singles, and Chen teamed with Brooke Mengel to win the District 3 doubles championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton Prep and Abington Heights, the two dominant girls\u2019 programs in District 2, head to the PIAA Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-9736","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\/9736","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=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}