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2016 District 2 Girls Soccer Glance

The Holy Redeemer boys soccer team needed a pair of late second-half goals Friday against GAR to force Monday&#8217;s Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 playoff game against Wyoming Seminary for the No. 3 seed in the upcoming District 2 Class 2A Tournament.Josh Perta paced the Royals in the 5-4 win, scoring a pair of goals while recording an assist. Holy Redeemer&#8217;s Zack Patterson also registered a goal and an assist in the win.GAR goalkeeper Jackie Tang recorded a game-high 10 saves in the loss.FIELD HOCKEYDallas 8, Pittston Area 0Maddie Kelley and Hannah Yanovich each finished with two goals and one assist as Dallas cruised past Pittston Area.Jolee Tresler scored two goals, while Mikaila Chakon recorded a goal and an assist.GIRLS VOLLEYBALLNanticoke 3, Lake-Lehman 0Nanticoke&#8217;s Jenna Lipowski finished with eight aces, three kills, 26 assists and one dig as Nanticoke swept Lake-Lehman 25-17, 25-21, 25-19.The Trojans were also led by Kasey Radginski&#8217;s 17 kills and four blocks and Jilann Baron&#8217;s seven kills, one block and one dig.Lake-Lehman&#8217;s Devin Lindley finished with four kills, four digs, one block and Hailey Kubiski had four kills, six digs and one block.WOMEN&#8217;S VOLLEYBALLWilkes drops a pairWilkes went 0-2 on Day 1 of the 1st annual Colonel Clash tournament, falling to Keystone College (21-25, 20-25, 23-25) and Moravian College (17-25, 18-25, 22-25) by 3-0 finals.In the first match against Keystone, freshman Jamey Mikovich led the Wilkes attack with 16 kills while junior Alexis Morgan tallied 28 assists.Against Moravian, junior Grace Boyle finished with six kills while Paskas and senior Abby Sanders contributed five kills each. Morgan again led the passing game with 21 assists.MEN&#8217;S CROSS COUNTRYKing&#8217;s finishes 5th in regular-season finaleKing&#8217;s College wrapped up its regular season schedule when the team competed in the LVC Last Chance Run Fast Invitational at Union Canal Tunnel Park in Lebanon. The men&#8217;s team finished fourth out of seven teams.In the men&#8217;s 8,000-meter run Ben Siegel was King&#8217;s top finisher in ninth place overall out of 69 runners with a time of 28:40.8. Michael Havrilla finished right behind him in 10th place with a time of 28:42.1. Nilang Suthar ran a 28:58.7 to finish 18th and David Bors crossed the line in 32:19.8 to finish in 52nd place.Sean Hilverding of Point Park was the winner of the men&#8217;s 8K in 27:27.9 to lead the Pioneers to the team title with 38 points. King&#8217;s finished fourth with 112 points just ahead of host Lebanon Valley in fifth with 113 points.Wilkes finishes 7th at Lebanon ValleyAlan Sebastianelli led Wilkes with a time of 29:47 for 29th place at the Last Chance Run Fast Invitational, as the team finished in seventh. Ryan Weber followed in 33rd place at 30:19. Brandon Ver-Non crossed the line at 32:02 for 48th place while Jason Montemuro came in 59th at 33:02.Jeremiah Bower (64th/34:46) and Dhruv Patel (69th/40:30) rounded out the Colonel finishers in the event.WOMEN&#8217;S CROSS COUNTRYKing&#8217;s Johnson 3rd in finishes-regular finaleKing&#8217;s College finished seventh in the LVC Last Chance Run Fast Invitational at Union Canal Tunnel Park in Lebanon.The Monarchs had the majority of their runners tempo the race in preparation of next week&#8217;s conference championship race. Tara Johnson was third overall out of 72 runners and the top NCAA finisher in the women&#8217;s 6,000 meter run crossing the line in 24:25.4.Alexandra Evangelista finished in 37th place with a time of 27:37.6 followed by Morgan Albrecht in 38th place with a time of 27:38.9. Tara Weitz crossed the line in 41st place with a time of 27:55.7 while Lauren Sterner and Gabrielle Longchamp were 45th and 46th with times of 28:34.4 and 28:37.0 respectively.Point Park won the team title with 26 points while Gettysburg was second with 51 points. King&#8217;s had 129 points to finish fifth followed by host Lebanon Valley with 139 points.Misericordia finishes 3rd at Last Chance Run FastMisericordia finished third at the Last Chance Run Fast meet at Lebanon Valley.Misericordia had 77 points while Point Park topped the seven-team field with 26.Lauren Hause (24:47) led the Cougars in sixth place while Katelyn Maffei (25:30) and Laura Heinzlmeir (25:37) were 14th and 15th, respectively. Elise Reardon (25:58) finished 19th and Jacqueline Bamberski (26:21) was 26th.BOYS SOCCERHoly Redeemer 5, GAR 4GAR`0`4`&#8212;`4Holy Redeemer`2`3`&#8212;`5First half &#8212; 1. HR, Josh Perta (Lucas Barnak), 35:35; 2. HR, Zack Patterson (Perta), 11:13. Second half &#8212; 3. GAR, Francisco Espinoza, 37:46; 4. GAR, Espinoza (Emmanuel Edoukou), 37:21; 5. GAR, Edoukou, 27:12; 6. HR, Perta (Barnak), 13:17; 7. GAR, Edoukou (Charles Witczak), 9:22; 8. HR, Keith Williams (Patterson), 9:01; HR, Eric Schramm (Perta), 3:52.Shots &#8212; GAR 7; HR 15. Saves &#8212; GAR 10 (Jackie Tang); HR 3 (Anthony Khoudary). Corner kicks &#8212; GAR 3; HR 2.FIELD HOCKEYDallas 8, Pittston Area 0Pittston`0`0`&#8212;`0Dallas`4`4`&#8212;`8First half &#8212; 1. DAL, Maddie Kelley (Mikaila Chakon), 23:28; 2. Sam Banks (Hannah Yanovich), 16:56; 3. DAL, Yanovich (unassisted), 3:40; 4. DAL, Jolee Tresler (Kelley), 0:10. Second half &#8212; 5. DAL, Kelley (Banks), 26:08; 6. DAL, Yanovich (unassisted), 21:48; 7. DAL, Chakon (unassisted), 6:54; 8. DAL, Tresler (unassisted), 2:56.Shots &#8212; PIT 1 DAL 24. Saves &#8212; PA 12 (Shelby Gardner); DAL 1 (Melinda Ratchford). Penalty corners &#8212; PIT 2; DAL 8.<style>
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