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Jadyn Dunlap recorded her 25th career shutout in goal, blocking 11 shots, as Wellsboro blanked Athens, 2-0, in a Northern Tier League girls soccer game. Haylie Smith and Luna Moyer both scored goals and Smith had an assist.
Ansley Baldwin scored off a penalty kick and Sophia Livezey added a goal to give Sullivan County a 2-0 win against Athens. Charley Insinger had nine saves for the shutout victory.
• Lewisburg senior Claire Chandler reached 1,000 career assists, highlighting the Green Dragons’ 3-0 volleyball win over South Williamsport. Lewisburg took the three sets, 25-10, 25-16 and 25-17. Chandler celebrated her big day with 20 assists, eight aces and eight digs. Ella Vance had 10 kills and six digs, while Maya Bronner and Brooke Leauber added eight and seven kills, respectively.
• At the sixth annual LHU Pennsylvania Middle School Cross Country Championships at Lock Haven University, Loyalsock eighth grader Grace Stoltz won the two-mile run with a time of 11:14.70, winning by 16 seconds over Lower Dauphin Middle School eighth grader Maren Neide (11:30.70).
Stoltz was one of four middle schoolers from District 4 within the top-15, joined by Shamokin seventh grader Addlee Wagner (ninth, 12:09.20), Mifflinburg eighth grader Mariah Daubert (11th, 12:10.10) and Danville seventh grader Charlotte Mori (13th, 12:12.20).
• The Mansfield sprint football team won a defensive battle against the University of Pennsylvania, 6-3.
The tandem of Jackson Taylor and Jack Burbage led the way for the Mountie Defense. Taylor had 15 total tackles and Burbage had 14 total tackles including three for loss and a sack. Eight Mountaineers accounted for a tackle for loss. The Mountie defense had a big goal line stand and prevented a trick-play to secure the victory.
Joseph Frye accounted for 109 total yards and had a rushing touchdown. Weston Bellows ran for 74 yards.
The first quarter was a defensive battle, with neither team able to break onto the scoreboard. The Mountaineers had a solid first drive but it was spoiled with an interception in the end zone.
• Kamryn Skeith produced a triple-double, helping Lycoming’s volleyball team roar back from a set down on two occasions to defeat Elizabethtown, 3-2 (15-25, 31-29, 22-25, 25-18, 15-11) on Senior Day. The Warriors won a wild second set before taking the last two sets with Skeith going off for a career-best 18 kills, 27 assists and a season-high 12 digs. It was the sophomore’s sixth triple-double this season.
Maddie Mitchell led the way with 18 kills as Lock Haven (16-6, 8-2 PSAC) toppled East Stroudsburg by a 3-2 tally on Saturday afternoon at Koehler Fieldhouse in a PSAC women’s volleyball showdown.
With the win, the Bald Eagles secured a spot in the PSAC Volleyball Championships for the first time since the 2023 campaign. The victory also wrapped up a season sweep of East Stroudsburg for the Bald Eagles.
The Warriors took the opening set by a 25-21 score. ESU led most of the way, and Lock Haven pulled even at 19-19 before the Warriors closed the set out to take a 1-0 lead.
Lock Haven answered in the second set, hitting .448 with one attack error to win, 25-19. The Bald Eagles built a 13-3 lead in the third stanza before holding on by a 25-22 tally after ESU closed the gap late in the set.
Penn College dropped a 3-0 United East Conference women’s volleyball final to Penn State Abington on Saturday at Bardo Gymnasium. The Wildcats were held to 16 kills, while Penn State Abington finished with 36 kills and hit .301. The Wildcats dropped to 0-25 overall, 0-8 United East.
The Wildcats recovered from an early 3-0 deficit to tie the first set at 3-3 on Kendall Shade’s service ace, then pulled even again at 7-7 on Claire Roan’s kill from Eleana Falkner. Penn State Abington followed with four straight points to move ahead 11-7 and kept separation from there, taking the set 25-18. Lilly Stockum finished the set with five kills for PCT.
The Wildcats fell into a 20-8 hole after Penn State Abington scored 10 straight points in the second set. PCT answered with four straight points, getting kills from Stockum and Avani Rainier and a block from Stockum and Sam Prisco to make it 20-12. Penn State Abington closed out the set 25-15.
• The Lycoming College field hockey team fell to Susquehanna, 2-0, in a Landmark Conference match. Susquehanna (6-12, 4-4) scored once in each of the first two periods to take the win over Lycoming (4-11, 1-7) in the Warriors’ final home match of the regular season.
Jada Thompson scored six minutes into the match off a Sydney Jordan assist, then Asia Daskalakis added a second goal off an Isabel Goncalves feed midway through the second for the River Hawks.
Keeper Hillary Clark made two saves for the Warriors. Susquehanna keeper Taytum Lombardi also made two saves.
• Three Lycoming College men's soccer players scored in the first 60 minutes of the game, creating more than enough offense for the team, as it posted a 3-2 win over Susquehanna in the Battle for the Boot.
Lycoming (7-9, 3-5) defeated Susquehanna (2-10-4, 0-5-3) for the fourth consecutive season and has now retained the traveling Boot trophy since 2015, having gone unbeaten in their last 11 tilts in the rivalry game.
The Warriors wasted no time, as freshman Dylan Siegel scored off a cross from senior Aidan Stillman in the second minute. Less than five minutes later, it was Stillman’s turn, scoring low on the left side off a Leandro Cruz feed to give Lycoming a quick 2-0 lead that held into halftime.
Lock Haven scored twice in the first seven minutes and four more times in the second half as the Bald Eagles ran way from visiting California (Pa.) by a 6-0 tally at Hubert Jack Stadium on senior day.
The victory completed a season sweep of the Vulcans by the Bald Eagles and extends the Lock Haven unbeaten streak to nine games and earned the Bald Eagles a spot in the upcoming PSAC Men’s Soccer Championships.
Two of the seniors honored before the game figured in the first half. Kyle Hoyt scored in the third minute off a Kade Black assist. Black set up Nicholas McGhin three minutes later, and the Bald Eagles led 2-0 after 6:12 of play.
Lock Haven took a 7-4 shot advantage in the first half and held the lead through limited Vulcans pressure. California (Pa.) put three shots on goal before the break, and Ethan Beck saved all three. The Vulcans did not put another shot on frame the rest of the way as the Lock Haven defense turned in another outstanding effort in the win.
Penn College fell to Notre Dame of Maryland, 2-0, in a physical United East Conference men’s soccer match on Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats finished with a 15-11 shot advantage and matched the Gators with six shots on goal but couldn’t break through.
The Wildcats generated the early push in the first half, taking shots by Logan Berfield, Andrew Mathes and Will Watson plus a Diego Diaz corner in the opening six minutes. Justin Crismale kept the Gators off the board with two saves, including one at 42:28 during a late stretch of corner pressure, and the teams went into halftime tied 0-0.
Notre Dame converted a penalty kick at 48:56 for the first score of the game and added another goal at 52:06. The Wildcats pushed late, putting shots on goal through Mathes and Joshua Hudak and earned back-to-back corners in the 85th minute, but the Gators held on to finish the 2-0 result.
• Junior Ella Magee moved into a tie for second in school history in goals for the Lycoming College women’s soccer team, which fell, 4-1, at Susquehanna in Landmark Conference action.
Magee converted on a penalty kick goal in the 21st minute, her Landmark Conference-leading ninth of the season. That score also was her 34th for the Warriors (5-9-1, 1-6-1), pulling her even with Rebekah Shipe for second in program history.
Susquehanna (9-5-3, 2-3-3) scored three times in the first half and once more after halftime. Magee tallied the lone score for the Warriors, while keeper Leah Elliott made seven saves.
Mansfield took the road to face No. 4-ranked Kutztown for a PSAC contest and took a 4-0 loss.
Goalkeeper Angel Gule recorded nine saves in the outing for the Mounties. Serenity Esterline finished the final 21 minutes of the game in goal, recording a save of her own, putting Mansfield at 10 on the day. Offensively, Aaliyah Stocks recorded two shots.
Slippery Rock scored in the 21st minute and held off Lock Haven over the remainder of the contest as the Bald Eagles fell by a 1-0 score on Saturday afternoon in a PSAC matchup at Hubert Jack Stadium.
Bailey McGee scored the game winner in the 21st minute off of assists from Abby Paterline and Lillian Snyder to put The Rock in front. The Bald Eagles managed two shots in the first 45 minutes, one of them off the boot of Colleen Lloyd in the 42nd minute.
Lock Haven pressed for the equalizer after the break. Lock Haven took seven second-half shots but couldn’t find the back of the net as Slippery Rock held on for a 1-0 win.
Penn College defeated Lancaster Bible, 1-0, in the United East Conference women’s soccer regular-season finale. The Wildcats protected the one-goal margin through the second-half to record its 10th shutout of the year. The Wildcats finished the regular season with a 12-4-1 overall record, 7-1-0 in United East play. The Chargers finished 6-7-2, 4-2-2 UEC.
Megan Kurian scored from Camryn Lobb’s assist at 20:41 to put PCT in front 1-0. Earlier, Harley Oliphant made four saves as the Chargers generated several first-half chances before the Wildcats broke through. PCT finished the half ahead 1-0.
The Wildcats protected their 1-0 lead through a scoreless second half, with Oliphant making five more saves after the break. LBC pressed late with a corner kick, a save-forcing shot and an attempt off the crossbar between 76:33 and 81:26, but the Wildcats’ defense kept the Chargers off the board to preserve the shutout victory.
• Susquehanna defeated Lycoming 155-41 in men’s swimming and, 160-32 in women’s swimming in the opening meets for both teams. Lycoming’s men’s 400-meter freestyle relay team of Luke Luberski, Jason Ricci, Sean Martinez and Nathan Jackson won in a time of 3:25.69. Gwyn Fox highlighted the women’s side, taking second in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:13.30.
• The Lycoming College men’s golf team stood ninth after the opening round of the Landmark Conference Fall Preview at the par-72, 6,714-yard Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort.
Senior Will Eberz finished the day tied for 20th after a 5-over-par 77, posting a pair of birdies. Sophomore Tre Lesperance finished tied for 27th with a 6-over-par 78, first-year Seth Fisher posted a 10-over-par 82 and sophomore Hill Meserve posted an 11-over-par 83, posting a birdie on the par-4, 360-yard No. 12. Sophomore Ryan Ault, a Jersey Shore graduate, also competed for the Warriors, posting an 89.
• Junior Kaydence Strange crossed the finish line in a time of 22:43.7 to finish in 48th place overall to lead the Lock Haven women’s cross country team to a 17th place finish on Saturday morning at the Go Fast River Run on the West Branch Course.
Strange’s performance set a new season best for the Wrightsville, Pa. native at 6,000 meters and paced the way for Lock Haven which finished the event with 476 points.
Closely behind Strange, fellow junior Nicole Carroll finished in 52nd place overall in a time of 22:48.3.
Freshman Madeleine Guzevich finished in the middle of the pack in 145th place overall in a time of 24:34.6 while junior Addison Farrer finished close behind in 158th place crossing the line in a time of 24:48.5.
Lock Haven’s scoring quintet was rounded out by the efforts of junior Sophie Dillon. Dillon finished in a time of 24:50.1, good enough for 161st place overall.
The Mansfield women's cross-country team competed in the Go Fast River Run on Saturday, a 6K race hosted by Lock Haven. All eight Mountaineers improved their times from last weekend's Bloomsburg Invitational.
Leading the way for the Mounties was Alyssa Parks, who finished with a time of 24:03.8, improving her time by over a minute from last weekend. Mayla Falank and Brook Illsley followed, finishing with times of 25:11.8 and 25:20.7, respectively. Wyoming Trudeaux crossed the finish line at 26:31.7, while Libby Moore finished in 26:49.9.
The Mansfield men’s cross-country team traveled to Lock Haven to compete in the Go Fast River Run (8K). All four Mountaineers improved their times from last weekend’s Bloomsburg Invitational.
Leading the way for the Mounties was freshman Carson Strano, who crossed the finish line with a time of 28:32.2, improving his time by over a minute from last weekend. Following Strano were Greysen Kupsky and Rylan Ebner, who recorded times of 29:36.6 and 29:49.7, respectively.
GIRLS SOCCER
Wellsboro 2, Athens 0
W--Luna Moyer (Haylie Smith), 4:10. W--Smith, 0:40.
Shots: A 11, W 10. Corners: A 6, W 1. Saves: A 7 (Annika Lezak), W 11 (Jadyn Dunlap).
Sullivan County 2, Wyalusing 0
SC--Ansley Baldwin (penalty kick), 26:14. SC--Sophia Livezey, 3:28.
Shots: SC 8, W 8. Corners: SC 7, W 2. Saves: SC 9 (Charley Insinger), W 3 (Gromley).