PHOTO PROVIDED Williamsport's William Pence Kieser, Owen Trump, Isabelle Sanders and Madeline Sanders are all state-bound after placing high in the District 4-6 cross country championships on Saturday.

Williamsport’s cross country team competed in the District 4-6 sub-regional championships on Saturday morning and the Millionaires are sending a total of four state qualifiers to the state meet in William Pence Kieser, Owen Trump, Isabelle Sanders and Madeline Sanders.

Isabelle Sanders, a freshman, took fifth overall while Maddie Sanders, a freshman, finished eighth overall. Keiser, a senior, took seventh overall and Trump, a senior, finished 12th.

“Heading into the district championship meet I told the boys we would need some individuals to step up because our returning state qualifier and senior captain Patrick Nardi was still not fully recovered from an early season injury,” Williamsport coach Jeremy Stepped said. “Pence Kieser and Owen Trump both took on the challenge and set a goal that they would run for one of the five state qualifying spots – that is just what they did.

“Pence has been leading the Millionaires throughout his entire senior year and was prepared to make a statement in the championship meet. Owen was the underdog going into the race but very determined to punch his ticket to Hershey,” Steppe added. “With 200 meters to go, Owen dug deep for a kick to close a 20-meter gap and pass a competitor securing the last state qualifying spot.”

Kieser ran a 16:46.10, just five seconds behind fifth-place finisher Sam Hennett of Shikellamy. State College’s Theo Opperman won the race in 16:07.40. Trump ran a 17:09.30.

As a team, Williamsport took third on the boys side and fourth on the girls side.

Isabelle Sanders ran a 19:37.70. She was behind only State College’s Chloe Poindexter (18:44.60), State College’s Deon Jackson (19:23.0), Hollidaysburg’s Addison Smith (19:30.20) and Altoona’s Ashlyn Noce (19:33.80).

Madeline Sanders ran a 20:18.10.

“Isabelle and Madeline Sanders entered high school this fall ready to work hard and make a statement as freshmen. They quickly rose to the top and caught the attention of area coaches and athletes,” Steppe said. “Both entered Saturday’s championship meet nervous as they toed the line of their biggest race yet. The ladies trusted their training and raced with confidence to secure their first trip to the state championship meet in Hershey next weekend.”

• Some fans may have been nervous watching South Williamsport competing in double overtime, but for the players, they kept at it. And South Williamsport eventually broke through to win.

Ella Moore scored from 15 yards out after Line Mountain goalie Jaenelle Fry lost possession of a ball and was able to send the Mounties to the District 4 Class A semifinals with the game-winning goal in double overtime.

South Williamsport will face Mid-Penn foe Benton in the semifinals at a time and place to be determined.

Line Mountain took a 1-0 lead late against South Williamsport before Naomi Pfirman scored and tied the game up in the 70th minute and forced overtime. Abby Akers had the assist on Pfirman’s goal.

Line Mountain out-shot South Williamsport, 10-6. Althea Street came up with eight saves.

It took two overtime periods, but Lewisburg ended up with an exciting 1-0 win over Midd-West to advance to the District 4 Class AA semifinals.

McKenna Eardley scored the game-winner off an assist by Kara Brazier.

Defensively, Lewisburg played great and held Midd-West to just six shots on goal through more than 90 minutes of action. The Green Dragons fired 19 shots on goal. Izzy Wood earned the shutout win in goal.

• Top-seeded Milton’s potent offense was silenced as the Black Panthers were shut out in the District 4 Class AA boys soccer quarterfinals to Midd-West, 3-0.

William Stover, Cole Shutt and Wyatt Nelson all scored for the Mustangs while Noah Romig dished out two assists. Midd-West held an 8-7 shots on goal advantage. The Mustangs moved to 13-6 and Milton is now 16-3.

Wellsboro scored three first-half goals to defeat Williamson in the District 4 Class AA quarterfinals.

Caden Smith scored twice for the Green Hornets and Jack Bryant added a goal. Micaiah Fitch added an assist for Wellsboro.

• In the District 4 playoffs in girls volleyball, Wellsboro defeated Loyalsock, 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-18). Meredith Brownlee had seven kills and eight points and Blake Eckart added five kills.

Taylor Mann led Wellsboro in both assists (10) and points (nine). Natalie Cleveland had a team-high 13 digs while Ari Lawton added seven.

Eckart and Paige Logsdon each contributed two blocks.

• Penn College’s men’s cross-country team, paced by Mitchell Campbell’s third-place individual finish, scored 53 points and won the United East Conference Championship on Saturday, while the Penn College women, led by Elaina Brady’s 14th-place, tallied 188 points and placed sixth.

The crown was the first for the Wildcat men in the NCAA era that began in 2014 and the first overall since 2012.

For their finishes, Campbell and teammates Matthew Woolcock, who placed sixth, and Alec Rees, who was seventh, earned United East first-team honors; and Holden Furey, who was 17th, and Jacob Parker, who was 20th, earned UE third-team nods. For the women, Brady was named to the UE second team and Splain to the UE third team.

Campbell was clocked in 28:44 over an 8K course while Woolcock finished in 29:05, Rees in 29:16, Furey in 31:30 and Parker in 31:46.

On the women’s side, Brady ran the 6K race in 29:22 while Splain finished in 29:44. Also for the Wildcats, Kayleigh Miller was 46th in 35:36; Natalie Greiner was 47th in 35:44; and Sofia Laspina was 70th in 46:59.

The Lock Haven women’s cross country team hosted the annual Go Fast River Run and the Bald Eagles finished third of five teams behind Gwen Lloyd’s individual title. She topped the 44-runner field with a time of 22:22.1 (6K).

Overall, Lock Haven women put three runners in the top-10, and the top-five Bald Eagle finishers all placed among the top-25 today.

Kiersten Lloyd placed seventh with a time of 24:27.6 and Megan Mudger finished 10th with a time of 24:41.5.

Ella Bray was 21st in 26:18.0 and Paige Daugherty rounded out the Bald Eagles top five today with a 24th place finish (26:40.8).

• The No. 10 Mansfield Mountaineers field hockey team earned its first trip to the PSAC postseason tournament since 2019 after their road victory against No. 9 Millersville, where the Mounties came out on top, 3-2, in a shootout thriller to earn the four seed.

This will be the second time in the Brittany Hansrote era that the Mounties make a postseason run. Also under her direction, the team will host their first home playoff game in program history at Karl Van Norman Field after earning the fourth seed to host the fifth seed in the PSAC quarterfinals.

The first fifteen minutes of the game saw three corners by the Mounties, but the only shots on goal came from the Marauders, with two.

• Penn College handled Penn State Abington, 4-0, in the opening round of the United East Volt Division playoffs. The Wildcats improved to 11-1-7, while the Nittany Lions concluded their season at 2-14.

Penn College advances to Tuesday divisional semifinal at Penn State Harrisburg at a time still to be determined.

Kaelynn Sheetz converted a Brooke Klinger pass in the ninth minute for her 24th goal of the season and a 1-0 Penn College lead. Cassie Johnson made it 2-0 in the 13th minute after she deposited Sara Darlington’s pass.

Johnson found Billiegean Hennessy in the 52nd minute to make it 3-0 before Darlington fired a ball from 30 yards for her eighth goal of the year and a 4-0 advantage.

Penn College outshot Abington, 28-3, and held a 7-4 advantage in corner kicks.

The Lycoming College women’s soccer team fell to Elizabethtown College, 3-0, in Landmark Conference action.

The Warriors (6-5-6 overall, 1-4-4 Landmark) had two shots and one corner kick in the first half. In the second half the Warriors had four more shots, two from freshman Julia Bidelspach, but Elizabethtown’s had 14 shots, including scores from Caleigh Bold, Jenna Hoffman and Elizabeth Rajnik.

Bailey Groff had two assists for Elizabethtown (4-8-3 overall, 3-4-2 Landmark), which clinched the No. 5 slot in next week’s Landmark Conference Championship with the win, while the Warriors were knocked out of the last tournament slot, as Susquehanna beat Drew, 2-0, to earn the sixth slot.

Lock Haven fell to visiting Shepherd, 3-1, tonight in PSAC Eastern Division action.

Prior to the start of the match, head coach Sunny Gelnovatch and the Bald Eagles honored the program’s 12 seniors in Mayleigh Perkins, Avery Landrum, Jocey Francis, Morgan Ciara, Trinity Seaman, Emily Shaw, Mackenzie Herney, Ella Hart, Evelyn Ciaccia, Jocelynne Kuhns, Allie Stover and Allyse Filipowich.

Francis, an aforementioned senior, scored for Lock Haven and goalkeeper Megan Miller finished with three saves.

• Senior Nick Wilke notched his 10th shutout of the season, one shy of the Lycoming College men’s soccer team’s program record, as he helped the team post a 0-0 tie at Elizabethtown College to finish the Landmark Conference regular season tied for first with Catholic.

The Warriors clinched the No. 2 seed in next week’s Landmark Conference Championship and will play the winner of Tuesday, Oct. 31’s game between No. 6 Goucher and No. 3 Elizabethtown, on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. at home.

Wilke made a penalty kick save in the first half to ensure the tie with the Blue Jays (8-6-3 overall, 5-3-1 Landmark).

The Warriors (10-3-6 overall, 7-0-2 Landmark) outshot the Blue Jays, posting 13 shots and five being on goal. Lycoming also had seven corner kicks. Wilke made three saves and faced five shots and three corner kicks.

Bucknell turned in its best defensive performance of the season and earned a hard-fought 0-0 draw at Lafayette. The Bison held the Leopards to only four total shot attempts and none in the second half.

Lafayette (8-5-4, 4-2-2 PL) entered the day in third place in the Patriot League, just three points off the lead, while ranking fourth in the league in goals per game (1.2). Bucknell freshman goalkeeper Rex Alphen made his first career start, splitting the game with Freddie Lapworth, who returned after a five-game injury absence to play in the second half. The Leopards were limited to only two shots on frame, both from 10-goal scorer Hale Lombard, and Alphen was well-positioned to save both.

Approaching the half-hour mark Lawrence Aydlett fired a ball into traffic in the box and it fell for Lombard in the center of the area. The Patriot League’s top scorer fired over the bar, however, it what would be the home team’s best chance of the day.

• The Lock Haven swimming team impressed with a pair of victories over Lycoming College and Juniata College in a non-conference double dual at Juniata’s Binder Natatorium.

The Bald Eagles upended Juniata 130-79, while defeating Lycoming 131-79. Lock Haven swimmers dominated the afternoon, winning 10 different races, with a total of 14 finishes in the top-two.

With the win, the Bald Eagles secure their first dual victory since the 2017-18 season.

The pool inside Juniata’s College Binder Natatorium is a short-course meter pool, which should be noted when viewing times in the results link above.

Holly Cleworth stood out in just her third collegiate meet, bringing home a total of four victories, including three solo.

Freshman Drew Degnan and senior Eliot Keith each won three individual events to pace the Lycoming College men’s swimming team, as it posted a 71-35 win over Juniata College. The women’s team also notched a 106-86 win over Juniata, while it fell to Lock Haven University, 131-78.

Degnan notched wins in the 200-meter freestyle (2:17.44), the 50-meter freestyle (26.41) and the 100-meter butterfly (1:10.10) and Keith took the 100-meter backstroke (1:05.57), the 100-meter freestyle (58.34) and the 200-meter individual medley (2:29.83). Junior Brian Hulsey won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:33.51.

In the women’s double-dual, the Warriors won four of the 14 events to defeat Juniata and fall to Lock Haven.

Sophomore Megan Lonergan won the 50-meter freestyle in 32.09, senior Elisa DiNicola, a Loyalsock graduate, won the 100-meter butterfly in 1:14.12 and senior Cathryn Brought, a Wellsboro graduate, took the 200-meter individual medley in 2:39.23. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of DiNicola, Brought, senior Courtney Chapman and Lonergan won in 4:37.81.

• The Lycoming College women’s volleyball team notched a three-set sweep (25-12, 25-22, 25-10) against Goucher College to wrap up its Landmark Conference schedule in Lamade Gym.

The Warriors honored seniors Megan Starkweather, a Wellsboro graduate, and Catherine Milkovich in a brief ceremony before the match.

Junior Brynne Bisel started the match with eight straight serves for the Warriors (14-9 overall, 2-7 Landmark), as Lycoming had 12 kills and just three errors in the 25-12 first-set win.

Lock Haven fell to visiting Kutztown, 3-0, (21-25, 22-25, 22-25). Despite the loss, the Bald Eagles remain in fourth place in the PSAC East, one game ahead of Bloomsburg for the fourth and final postseason spot.

Kutztown fought off The Haven comeback bids in each set, but none more exciting than the third and final set when the Bald Eagles clawed their way out of a 23-16 hole to make it 23-22. However, as they were able to all night, the Golden Bears held on to seal the victory and the 3-0 sweep.

GIRLS SOCCER

South Williamsport 2, Line Mountain 1 (OT)

LM-Jenna Foulds, 67:53. SW-Naomi Pfirman (Abby Akers), 69:16. SW-Ella Moore, 96:14.

Shots: LM 10, SW 6. Corners: LM 7, SW 2. Saves: LM 4 (Jenelle Frye), SW 8 (Althea Street).

Lewisburg 1, Midd-West 0 (2 OT)

(District 4 Class AA quarterfinals)

L-McKenna Eardley (Caroline Blakeslee).

Shots: L 19, MW 6. Corners: L 8, MW 2. Saves: L 5 (Izzy Wood), MW 15.

BOYS SOCCER

Midd-West 3, Milton 0

(District 4 Class AA quarterfinals)

MW-William Stover (Noah Romig). MW-Cole Shutt (Romig). MW-Wyatt Nelson (Evan Leitzel).

Shots: MW 8, Mi 7. Corners: MW 3, Mi 5. Saves: MW 7 (Cole Keister), Mi 5 (Jonah Strobel).

Records: Midd-West (13-6), Milton (16-3).

Wellsboro 3, Williamson 0

(District 4 Class AA quarterfinals)

W-Caden Smith, 30:17. W-Jack Bryant, 25:28. W-Smith (Micaiah Fitch), 20:08.

Shots: We 15, Wi 5. Corners: We 7, Wi 3. Saves: We 4 (Mitchell Butler), Wi 9 (L. Strickler)