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Three Wyoming Valley Conference sports teams have a score to settle.And if they can chase down the one that got away, a shot at a state championship is waiting right around the corner.So expect the Holy Redeemer girls volleyball team and the Wyoming Seminary and Wyoming Valley West field hockey teams to play as if they&#8217;ve been backed into a corner Tuesday, during the next-to-last round of the PIAA playoffs.They all insist they owe the state one.&#8220;That&#8217;s pretty much the feeling,&#8221; Holy Redeemer volleyball coach Jack Kablick said.Wyoming Seminary&#8217;s field hockey team may be carrying the biggest grudge.The 19-2-1 Blue Knights, ranked No. 7 in Pennsylvania by MaxFieldHockey.com, will face a Greenwood team that beat them 2-1 in last year&#8217;s PIAA Class A title game &#8212; a defeat that stung Sem at the time and tormented them through the offseason.&#8220;Of course,&#8221; Sem junior center-midfielder Bari Lefkowitz said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had them in the back of our minds this whole season, obviously. We&#8217;re going to see them soon.&#8221;The Blue Knights warmed up for the showdown &#8212; to be played at Emmaus High School instead of Whitehall this time &#8212; by lashing Lehighton, 11-0 in a PIAA quarterfinal Saturday while erupting for what is believed to be the most goals ever scored in a state field hockey game. Although results from the 1975 PIAA playoffs are not available, no game scores were recorded for the 1976 state championships and a handful of other results are missing scores over the years.&#8220;It was going to be the last game before we played Greenwood,&#8221; shrugged forward Hannah Maxwell, who led Sem&#8217;s explosion with four goals and an assist. &#8220;We&#8217;re not backing down this year.&#8221;Don&#8217;t expect Holy Redeemer&#8217;s volleyball team to retreat, either.A strong senior corps led by Skylar Osenkarski, Sarah Kuderka and Julia Andrejko suffered a 3-1 defeat to North Starr in the state semifinals as sophomores &#8212; and are still bothered by that missed opportunity.The Royals, now the top-ranked team in Pennsylvania in the state&#8217;s Coaches Poll, will play Delone Catholic in the PIAA Class 2A semifinals at Exeter Twp. High School near Reading.That&#8217;s the team that went five sets to hand the 22-1 Royals their lone loss of the season.&#8220;That was two months ago,&#8221; Kablick said. &#8220;We had 25 hitting errors, we had 17 service errors and we haven&#8217;t come close to that the rest of the season. That was our only loss of the year.&#8221;Wyoming Valley West won&#8217;t get the opportunity to directly confront a team that caused it agony.The Spartans will have to settle for trying to beat the team that beat the team they lost to in last year&#8217;s state field hockey championship.But it promises to be a dynamic showdown when Valley West plays at Emmaus High School against Palmyra, which pulled a 2-1 overtime upset of defending state champ Villa Maria Academy &#8212; the team that downed the Spartans 2-1 in the 2017 state title game.Star Spartans scorer Karaline Stelma, who produced the only goal of a 1-0 victory over Bangor in Saturday&#8217;s state quarterfinal round, has been extremely vocal all season about recovering a state championship that was lost last year.&#8220;That was her motto this year &#8212; &#8216;I don&#8217;t like second,&#8217;&#8221; Valley West field hockey coach Linda Fithian said. &#8220;We know it&#8217;s Palmyra. We&#8217;re just going game by game.&#8221;In a way, though, those three state semifinal games may look more like grudge matches.&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a difficult task,&#8221; Kablick predicted.Especially when the teams they are challenging are also chasing a state title dream.&#8221;They have a very good team,&#8221; Wyoming Seminary field hockey coach Karen Klassner said of Greenwood. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a really great game.&#8221;<style>
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<div class="neCaption">Wyoming Valley West forward Karolina Stelma scored the only goal Saturday to put the Spartans into a PIAA Class 2A field hockey game against Palmyra on Tuesday. Stelma has made it clear her main goal is a state championship this season after Valley West suffered a 2-1 defeat in last year&#8217;s PIAA final. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/web1_WVW-Bangor-4-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Wyoming Valley West forward Karolina Stelma scored the only goal Saturday to put the Spartans into a PIAA Class 2A field hockey game against Palmyra on Tuesday. Stelma has made it clear her main goal is a state championship this season after Valley West suffered a 2-1 defeat in last year&#8217;s PIAA final. </caption0><photoCredit0>Tony Callaio | For Times Leader </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>WVC teams carry grudges into state semifinals</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>By Paul Sokoloskipsokoloski@www.timesleader.com</bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta>PIAA SEMIFINALS(District and seed in parenthesis)FIELD HOCKEYClass AWyoming Seminary (2-1) vs. Greenwood (3-1), 6 p.m. at Central Columbia HSClass 2APalmyra (3-2) vs. Valley West (2-1), 6 p.m. at Emmaus HSGIRLS VOLLEYBALLClass 2ADelone Catholic (3-1) vs. Holy Redeemer (2-1), 6 p.m. at Exeter Twp. HS</factboxMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta>Reach Paul Sokoloski at 570-991-6392 or on Twitter @TLPaulSokoloski</shirttailMeta></div>

Holy Redeemer, Wyoming Sem, Valley West have scores to settle in PIAA semis