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Sullivan County’s girls and boys cross country teams took third place at the NTL Coaches Invitational Saturday. Wellsboro’s Lauren Kosek won the girls race in a time of 19 minutes, 1 second and North Penn-Mansfield’s James Knefley was second in the boys race, finishing in 16:54. Sullivan’s Paige Jordan took third in the girls race in 20:34; North Penn-Mansfield’s Leila Garverick was fourth and South Williamsport’s Kendall Smith was 11th. Sullivan’s Calen Sweigart was fifth in the boys race and South’s Spencer Beatty 10th.
• Kennedy North, Payton Spigelmyer and Mya Jusko scored goals as Lewisburg’s girls’ soccer team battled to a 3-3 draw against 13-win Midd-West. North and Kinlee Lytle also had assists. Goalie Nora Hockenbrock made nine saves, helping Lewisburg erase a 3-1 halftime deficit.
Williamsport also was in a tie, this one 1-1 against Athens. Breah Phillips scored Williamsport’s goal off a Brynli Carnevale assist.
Loyalsock inched closer to a possible playoff berth by shutting out Miflinburg on the road, 3-0. Rachel Buffington, Mackenzie Miller and Madi Perry all scored as Olivia Alberts, Mallory Paronish and Miller had assists.
The Lancers (5-7-4) have two games left against Shamokin and Sullivan County, and would need to win both to qualify for districts with a .500 record.
Milton fell to Line Mountain, 7-0, as the Eagles scored five second-half goals to put the game away. Delia Reynolds-Miller did all she could in goal, recording an impressive 20 saves as Line Mountain peppered the goal throughout the game.
• Loyalsock and Muncy battled for 80 minutes, but neither team could find the back of the net en route to a scoreless draw. Kason Burrows had three saves for the Lancers while Bodie Moyer had 12 for Muncy. Loyalsock out-shot the Indians, 21-3.
CJ Lucas recorded a hat trick and had an assist as Montoursville defeated Sullivan County, 6-0. Cooper Boyes, Levi Nolan and Wesley Foster all scored and Nolan, Solomon Gregory, Landon Mertes and Brody Hagemeyer added assists.
• Claire Chandler had a big day, producing 28 assists, eight aces and two digs as Lewisburg volleyball blanked Sugar Valley, 3-0 (25-18, 25-12, 25-6). Penelope Voneida generated 10 kills; Tainaliz Martinez and Maya Bronner seven kills and Ella Vance seven aces.
• The Lycoming men’s soccer team fell, 1-0, in a Landmark Conference match to Elizabethtown College. Elizabethtown (6-4-5, 2-1-3) found the back of the net in the 13th minute, with Jason Stark scoring off a Carlos Salazar corner kick for the deciding goal over Lycoming (6-8, 2-4).
The Warriors outshot the Blue Jays, 9-7, in the match, with junior Jace Bennett playing the first half and making two saves. Sophomore Ben Polito made one save in the second half.
Penn College battled for a 0-0 draw at St. Mary’s College (Md.) in a United East Conference showdown. The Wildcats absorbed an early Seahawks push in the first half, with Justin Crismale saving shots at 2:16 and 3:08 as the Seahawks generated multiple looks and two corners. The Wildcats answered with a Diego Diaz shot at 6:24 and a corner seconds later, then added attempts by Hunter Gabloff and Andrew Mathes before the opening half finished without a goal.
The Wildcats made their push in the second half with six shots and two corners. Penn College fired off shots by Elliott Rattiram, Diego Diaz and Warrick Beachy in the first 20 minutes. Diaz had another chance blocked in the 77th minute. The Wildcats had two more late chances Christian Bressler’s attempt missed right in the 84th minute and Scott Goldfeder missed to the left with less than a minute to play.
• Penn College shutout Penn State Abington, 2-0, in a United East women’s soccer game on Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats outshot the Nittany Lions,16-6 and put seven shots on goal.
Megan Kurian opened the scoring for the Wildcats at 13:43, finishing Camryn Lobb’s assist on a shot that hit the crossbar and ricocheted in. Kurian has scored in eight consecutive games. PCT kept pressure on after the goal, taking five shots from 14:27 through 22:32, including a saved Kurian attempt. Harley Oliphant made a late save, and the Wildcats went into halftime ahead 1-0.
Aaliyah Stocks put three shots on goal as Mansfield lost, 4-0 to West Chester. West Chester scored all four of its goals in the first half.
Senior Mikayla Long, a Lewisburg graduate, scored her 33rd career goal for the Lycoming College women’s soccer team, which fell, 2-1, to Elizabethtown College in Landmark Conference action.
Lycoming (4-7-1, 1-4-1) honored their eight graduating seniors for their contributions to a pair of record-breaking seasons for the program ahead of the match against Elizabethtown (5-6-3, 3-3).
The Blue Jays scored the first two goals before junior Ella Magee found Long on the left side, who fired a shot inside the right post for the Lycoming score shortly before halftime. Lycoming outshot Elizabethtown 15-10, but did not score in the second half.
• Penn College’s cross country teams competed at Gettysburg’s Aubrey Shenk Invitational on Saturday morning. The men placed 35th out of 44 teams with 994 points in the 8K race, while the women had five individual finishers in the women’s 6K.
Logan Bohrer led the Wildcats, finishing in 189th place out of 465 runners with a time of 27:29.9, followed by Bryce Martin in 268th at 28:21.0 and Chase Ebeling in 281st at 28:36.8.
Amy Rohl led the Wildcat women finishers in the 6K race. Rohl placed 303rd with a time of 26:30.6, followed by Kate Butzler in 324th at 27:01.0 and Adelyn McDermott in 365th at 28:27.9.
Mansfield’s Alyssa Parks took 29th at the Bloomsburg Invitational, finishing in 25:07. Teammates Brook Illsley and Mayla Frank finished in 26:43 and 26:50, respectively.
• The Lycoming College field hockey team fell, 5-0, in a Landmark Conference match at Elizabethtown College. Elizabethtown moves to 9-6, 3-3 in the Landmark, while the Warriors fall to 4-9, 1-5 in conference play.
Junior keeper Hillary Clark made five saves for the Warriors, who took 10 shots in the match. Sara Watson scored twice and Carly Schumacher added a goal and two assist for the Blue Jays, who also received six saves from Lily DeBlasio.
Kaylie Ranere scored a goal for Mansfield in the field hockey team’s loss against No. 1-ranked Kutztown. Ranere’s goal was just the sixth scored against Kutztown this season.
• Penn College dropped a three-set United East Conference women’s volleyball match to Cairn on Saturday afternoon in Bardo Gym. The Wildcats posted 19 kills while dropping the sets 16-25, 17-25 and 14-25.
The Wildcats traded early points, tying the set at 1-1 on a block by Sam Prisco and Sara Seyfert and at 2-2 following a Highlander service error. Cairn answered with six straight points to go ahead 8-2. Lilly Stockum gave PCT three kills and a service ace, while Claire Roan added two kills, but the Highlanders kept control and took the opening set 25-16.
Sophomores Kamyrn Skeith and Emi Wenger led the Lycoming College women’s volleyball team, which fell, 3-0, to Goucher College at the Decker Sports and Recreation Center.
Goucher (9-13, 1-6) took the three-set match, 25-22, 25-16, 25-18, fighting off a late 7-1 run by Lycoming (3-18, 0-5) to win the first set.
Skeith notched five kills and a team-high 12 assists, while adding four digs. Wenger, meanwhile, led the squad with nine kills and eight digs. Senior Haley Balgavy added 11 assists and six digs.
• After winning 10 of the 13 events, the Lycoming College men’s swimming team opened the Jackson Miller-era with a 124-111 win over Marywood, while the women’s team fell 177-72 despite winning four events.
Miller, in his first meet as head coach, earned his first win with the Warrior men in dramatic fashion, overcoming a 94-90 deficit in the last three events by posting three wins to take the meet.
Sophomore Jason Ricci won the 100-yard backstroke in 58.90 and the 200-yard IM in 2:14.43, and he swam on Lycoming's winning 200-yard medley relay and 200-yard freestyle relay teams. Freshman Luke Luberski took first in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:08.83 and the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:33.87, while also contributing to both winning relays.
Freshman Nathan Jackson won the 50-yard freestyle in 22.93 and the 100-yard butterfly in 54.02, adding spots on the first-place 200-yard medley and 200-yard freestyle relays. Junior Sean Martinez captured the 200-yard freestyle in 2:00.17 and the 500-yard freestyle in 5:30.10, and he joined the winning relay lineup in both the 200-yard medley and 200-yard freestyle.
GIRLS SOCCER
Loyalsock 3, Mifflinburg 0
L--Rachel Bufington (Mackenzie Miller). L--Mackenzie Miller (Mallory Paronish). L--Madi Perry (Olivia Alberts).
Shots: L 12, M 4. Saves: L 4 (Ava Deknecht), M 9 (Mia Reibsome).
Records: Loyalsock (5-7-4).
Line Mountain 7, Milton 0
Line Mountain goals: Cora Meyer 2, Jenna Shields 2, Abby Kohl 2, Olivia Kelley 1.
Shots: LM 27, M 2. Corners: LM 0, M 0. Saves: LM 2, M 20 (Delia Reynolds-Miller).
BOYS SOCCER
Loyalsock 0, Muncy 0
Shots: L 21, M 3. Corners: L 4, M 0. Saves: L 3 (Kason Burrows), M 12 (Bodie Moyer).
Records: Loyalsock (9-6-3).
Montoursville 6, Sullivan County 0
M--Cooper Boyles (Brody Hagemeyer), 0:29. M--CJ Lucas (Levi Nolan), 12:56. M--Lucas (penalty kick), 32:50. M--Nolan (Lucas), 63:07. M--Wesley Foster (Solomon Gregoy), 74:45. M--Lucas (Landon Mertes), 76:24.
Shots: M 17, SC 1. Corners: M 8, SC 3. Saves: M 1 (Mason Fry), SC 3 (Justin Heminghaus).