Wvw (14-4) Vs. North Allegheny (23-2) 
Piaa Class Aaa Championship Game 
12 P.m., Riverside Stadium, Harrisburg 
Admission -- $6 Adults, $3 Students 
Probable Starting Lineups 
North Allegheny Wyoming Valley West 
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By TOM HOUSENICK; Times Leader Sports Writer
 Wednesday, June 12, 1996 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 





POTTSVILLE -- Wyoming Valley West's Kevin Miller walked around the
Pottsville McDonald's restaurant in a cutoff T-shirt with a huge ice wrap on
his left elbow. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Pat Storz barely walked at all as he attempted to get some solid food in
his system for the first time in nearly a week. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; T.J. Carlin, feeling under the weather himself, was smiling that his
prediction had come true. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Prior to the last Thursday's Eastern semifinal against Chambersburg,
Carlin, a junior second baseman, mentioned that Storz, a senior shortstop who
was back at home with an illness, would be back in time to play the following
game. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Carlin also made note that there would have to be a time change in the
state championship game because Valley West's graduation program was on the
same day. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Both comments assumed, of course, that the Spartans would beat Chambersburg
and Bethlehem Catholic. The Spartans did. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Valley West knocked off Chambersburg 10-0 last Thursday and Bethlehem
Catholic 6-4 in 10 innings on Tuesday to reach the PIAA final, set for
Thursday at Harrisburg's Riverside Stadium. The original time for the state
final was 3:30 p.m.. However, Valley West graduates at 7 p.m., thus a time
change is in the making. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Outside of the Spartan dugout, not many people thought Valley West had a
right to talk about playing for a state championship. Inside, however, they
believed. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "We set out to do it. It was the last of our goals," Pat Storz said moments
after his game-winning double in the top of the 10th inning against Bethlehem
Catholic. "We all set out to accomplish this. We kept getting closer and
closer. We finally got this far." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The state championship appearance by the Spartans will be the first by a
Wyoming Valley Conference team since Coughlin lost in the 1980 Class AAA final
to District 7's Shaler, 5-2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "We really thought we could make it," Miller said after gutting out nine
innings in 146 pitches for his third straight postseason victory. "We pulled
together at the right time and feel we're going to win every time we play." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Regardless of Thursday's outcome against District 7 champion North
Allegheny (23-2), it will be the last game of the 1996 season for Valley West. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 For Miller, Storz, Carlin and the rest of the team, they believe they have
one more win in them. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ailing Spartans Keep Believing