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Montoursville held off Williamsport at Balls Mills for a thrilling 3-2 boys soccer win on Monday night. Williamsport cut the deficit to 3-2 when Charles Plummer scored with 40 seconds left, but it was too little, too late for Williamsport to rally.
Riccardo Montini Bellosio had two first-half goals, assisted by Colton Beadle and Liam Lucas, to go ahead 2-0 into the break. Connor Hofstrom scored of a penalty kick in the 48th minute to make it a 2-1 deficit before Montoursville went back ahead by two when CJ Lucas scored off a penalty kick in the 62nd minute.
Carter Gormont had a monster game, scoring seven goals and dishing out a pair of assists in Hughesville's 9-1 rout over Shikellamy on the road. The seven goals gives Gormont 40 this season.
Bradley Mackenzie and Brody McConnell both added goals for the Spartans as well and Royce Gardner had four saves.
Jersey Shore twice tied the game against Southern Columbia, including overcoming an early 2-0 deficit, but a late goal by Kole Myers in the second half gave the Tigers a 4-3 win.
Dylan Hensler and Mitch Branton both scored off assists by Ezra Paulhamus to tie the game at 2-2. After Southern made it a 3-2 lead, Paulhamus had another assist, dishing a pass to Ben Gill who scored to tie it at 3-all.
Two second-half goals helped Midd-West beat rival Lewisburg, 3-1. Keegan Crosby scored in the second half to tie the game at 1-1, but Jacob Sellers and Nathan Horst both scored in the second half to put Midd-West back ahead to secure the win. Gabe Pawling had three saves for the Green Dragons.
• In girls soccer, South Williamsport and Lewisburg tied 1-1. Payton Spigelmyer scored for the Green Dragons.
• In girls volleyball, North Penn-Liberty beat Hughesville, 3-1 (25-10, 21-25, 25-21, 25-7). Lilly McNamara had a team-high 22 digs, Maddison Smith had 21, Maddie McNamara posted 19 and Gabby Bubeck had 15. Liberty was led by Bubeck's 11 kills, Elaina Shaw's 10 kills and Maddison Smith's impressive 32 assists.
Statistics for Hughesville were not made available.
• The Penn College men's golf team completed their fall schedule with an 11th-place showing at The Melee Tournament held on Sunday and Monday at the Williamsburg National Golf Club.
The Wildcats finished the two-day outing with a combined score of 660. Individually, Brett Keenan led the Wildcats and finished in 35th out of 55 golfers with a score of 162 (18-over). Keenan chopped four strokes off his first day score of 83 to post a round of 79 on Monday.
Logan Gawlinski finished tied for 41st after rounds of 85 and 80 for a total score of 165 (21-over), Chase Dillman tied for 47th with a score of 167 (23-over) and Bryce Carey finished one shot behind Dillman to tie for 50th. Carter Girton rounded out the Wildcat performances with a two-day score of 172 (28-over).
BOYS SOCCER
Montoursville 3,
Williamsport 2
M--Riccardo Montini Bellosio (Colton Beadle), 21:52. M--Bellosio (Liam Lucas), 22:44. W--Connor Hofstrom (penalty kick), 47:48. M_CJ Lucas (penalty kick), 61:16. W--Charles Palmer (Hofstrom), 79:20.
Shots: M 10, W 12. Corners: M 4, W 5. Saves: M 8 (Mason Fry), W 4 (Max Fink).
Hughesville 9, Shikellamy 1
S--(not available). H--Carter Gormont (Landon Miller). H--Gormont (Peyton Hartman). H--Gormont (Hartman). H--Gormont (Patrick Stine). H--Bradley Mackenzie (Gormont). H--Gormont (Mackenzie). H--Gormont. H--Brody McConnell (Gormont). H--Gormont.
Shots: S 5, H 11. Corners: S 3, H 6. Saves: S 1 (Allen Light), H 4 (Royce Gardner).
Southern Columbia 4,
Jersey Shore 3
SC--Jake Gehret, 3:03. SC--Colton Starkoski (Charles Singley), 12:44. JS--Dylan Hensler (Ezra Paulhamus), 15:48. JS--Mitch Branton (Paulhamus), 30:23. SC--Gehret, 39:16. JS--Ben Gill (Paulhamus), 25:48. SC--Kole Myers (penalty kick), 34:35.
Shots: SC 12, JS 9. Corners: SC 3, JS 8. Saves: SC 6 (Will Visnosky), JS 8 (Kaleb Greider).
Midd-West 3, Lewisburg 1
MW--Ace Kidd. L--Keegan Crosby. MW--Jacob Sellers. MW--Nathan Horst.
Shots: L 6, MW 6. Saves: L 3 (Gabe Pawling), MW 5 (Derek Wert).
JUNIOR HIGH FOOTBALL
Montoursville 36, Central Mountain 0
Montoursville 8 28 0 0 -- 36
Central Mountain 0 0 0 0 -- 0
First quarter
M--Jackson Smith 8 run (Luca Pulizzi pass from Smith)
Second quarter
M--Smith 7 run (Smith run)
M--Smith 70 punt return (Zach George pass from Smith)
M--Smith 29 run (pass failed)
M--George 35 pass from Smith (run failed)