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South Park boys cruise to easy win in WPIAL soccer playoffs

Matt Freed/Post-Gazette

South Park boys cruise to easy win in WPIAL soccer playoffs

South Park had a tough fi­nal week of the reg­u­lar sea­son with back-to-back losses to Key­stone Oaks and Eliz­a­beth For­ward that cost the team a section ti­tle and, quite pos­si­bly, the top seed in the WPIAL Class 2A boys tour­na­ment.

To say the Eagles are back on track would be an un­der­state­ment.

South Park (12-2-0), which fell to the No. 7 seed in the field, roared out of the gate and rolled over 10th-seeded Waynes­burg, 7-0, to move into the sec­ond round of the tour­na­ment. The last time the Eagles failed to win a post­sea­son game was 2017.

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Soph­o­more Austin Laf­ferty and fresh­man Kaiden Fis­cher each had two goals for South Park.

Other Class 2A boys

North Cath­o­lic 2, Leech­burg 0: The Tro­jans had hinted they might start their ju­nior var­sity out of COVID-19 con­cerns, but dressed and played their var­sity con­tin­gent. Fresh­man Ryan Shantz scored in the first half and ju­nior Dy­lan Greggs scored with 6:26 left in reg­u­la­tion on a penalty kick to beat the Blue Devils (7-7-0), who were shut out three consecutive times to end their sea­son.

Eliz­a­beth For­ward 7, Free­dom 2: The War­riors (11-2-2) cel­e­brated their first sec­tion ti­tle in more than two de­cades with their first post­sea­son victory since 2010, a 1-0 win against Quaker Val­ley. Robby Hrabosky had three goals and an as­sist for Eliz­a­beth For­ward.

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Deer Lakes 7, South­mo­re­land 0: The Lancers (12-1-0) blis­tered the Scot­ties (6-9-0) with 41 shots on goal, but still only led, 2-0, at the in­ter­mis­sion be­fore put­ting the game away in the sec­ond half. Deer Lakes se­nior Mike Sul­li­van had three goals and se­nior Devin Mur­ray had two goals and an as­sist.

Avon­worth 3, Charle­roi 1: Cou­gars for­ward Eben McIn­tyre led the WPIAL with 43 goals in the reg­u­lar sea­son, but No. 4 Charle­roi (14-2-0) al­lowed the most goals it had in any game this sea­son in the loss to the An­te­lopes (5-6-2). Ja­son With­erell scored two goals and ju­nior Con­nor Whalen chipped in a goal and an as­sist.

Mount Pleas­ant 3, Bur­rell 1: The Vikings (12-1-0) got two goals from Lu­cas Too­hey and rolled to a win over the 11th seeded Bucs (7-5).

Class 4A girls

Sen­eca Val­ley 7, Penn-Traf­ford 1: Ken­dall Wal­ton fin­ished with two goals and an as­sist as the Raid­ers (8-3-0) cruised to a win over the War­riors (5-6-2).

Up­per St. Clair 6, Latrobe 1: Head coach Dave Grey picked up his 200th ca­reer win and Emily Rocco scored one in the first and two in the sec­ond half to com­plete the hat trick, as the Panthers (8-5-0) cruised to a win over the Wild­cats (4-5-1).

North Al­le­gheny 3, Bethel Park 0: Tigers (8-2-0) for­wards Sarah Shupan­sky and Lu­cia Wells each chipped in a goal and an as­sist and Anna Bundy notched the other tally in a win against the Black Hawks (6-5-2). Goal­keeper Julianna Werner posted the shut­out.

Moon 1, Pine-Rich­land 0: Soph­o­more Kayla Leseck scored the only goal mid­way sec­ond half for the Tigers (8-3-2) as ju­nior Alay­shja Bable pitched the shut­out.

Class 3A girls

Hamp­ton 5, Penn Hills 0: Skye Bierker scored twice, and Ava Iamory, Madi­son Hurst and Lucy In­ter­thal had one apiece to help the Tal­bots (12-2-0) beat the In­di­ans (9-8-0) to reach the quar­ter­fi­nals for the third con­sec­u­tive sea­son.

Mon­tour 4, Con­nells­ville 1: The fourth-seeded Fal­cons (11-1-0) suf­fered their first loss of the sea­son as the No. 13 Spar­tans (9-6-0) got two goals each from soph­o­mores Eli­ana Gavin and Save­ria Ulizzi.

Tho­mas Jef­fer­son 3, Kiski Area 1: The Ja­guars (14-2-1) opened up a close game with two goals in the fi­nal 12 min­utes. Fresh­man Natalie Lamenza net­ted two goals, in­clud­ing one in the clos­ing min­utes, to help Tho­mas Jef­fer­son beat the Cava­liers (8-7-2).

West Al­le­gheny 8, Trin­ity 2: In­di­ans (10-3-0) striker Mack­en­zie Evers had a hat trick and two assists in a romp over the Hill­ers (8-6-0).

Correction, posted Oct. 27, 2020: An earlier version contained incorrect information. The last time the South Park boys failed to win a post­sea­son game was 2017.

First Published: October 27, 2020, 2:48 a.m.

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