By then, though, the Patriots rained down three-pointers on an Oley Valley team which came into the game with a 25-3 record., BY THE INQUIRER
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03/17/2010
Villa Maria ended Trinity's impressive postseason run Tuesday night at the Geigle Complex but needed big shots at both the end of regulation and overtime to pull out a 50-49 win.
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In its first year as a PIAA member last season, the La Salle boys' swim team made itself known with a third-place finish at the Class AAA state championship...
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Carroll celebrates after beating Wood 51-37 in the Catholic League girls' championship basketball game at the Palestra. Wood's Grace Mirack walks off.
The opening weekend of the PIAA state boys' basketball playoffs provided plenty of drama, including a buzzer-beating winner by Roman Catholic's Kevin Regan, a difference-making jumper by La Salle's Troy Hockaday, a 31-point effort by Penn Wood's Tyree Johnson and a power outage at Archbishop Carroll that affected two contests.
Archbishop Wood held St. Basil scoreless for nearly six minutes in the fourth quarter enabling it to catch up to and pass the Panthers on the way to a 51-48 win Saturday in the opening round of the PIAA Class AAA girls' playoffs at Wissachickon.
Just as it was for his Neumann-Goretti team, which missed nine of its first 10 field-goal attempts Friday night against Archbishop Carroll, it wasn't the greatest of starts for Tony Chennault.
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