The Bellwood-Antis girls volleyball team won their semifinal match against Penns Manor on Saturday afternoon. But top seed Northern Cambria took advantage of the Lady Blue Devils\u2019 fatigue to post a three-games to none triumph in the District VI-A championship finals to claim their first title.
\nIn a great semifinal match against Penns Manor, Bellwood-Antis, with first-year head coach Stephanie Burner opened with a 25-19 win and fought back from an 18-24 deficit to take the second game 28-26, before Penns Manor won the third game 25-16. The Lady Blue Devils rallied to take the fourth game 26-24, to earn a berth in the finals against a well rested Northern Cambri, who easily defeated Conemaugh Valley in three straight games 25-9, 25-14, 25-16 in their semifinal.
\nIn the final, Northern Cambria defeated Bellwood-Antis in three games, 25-16, 25-14 and 25-19.
\n\u201cPenns Manor was a good team and we went at them hard,\u201d said Bellwood-Antis coach Burner. \u201cUnfortunately, we didn\u2019t really seem to have enough left for the second match today.\u201d
\nIn a battle of some of the area\u2019s best middle blockers, Lady Blue Devils Stephanie Hatch and Lauren Carter carried the Bellwood-Antis squad through their semifinal match and had 21 kills and five blocks between them in the finals.
\nElyse Schreckengost had six service points in the finals for Bellwood-Antis and Nicole Ross added five service points.
\nBellwood-Antis, by virtue of their second place district finish, advances to the PIAA first round. The Lady Blue Devils (19-2) will play Geibel Catholic, the District 7 second placer, on Tuesday at a time and site to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bellwood-Antis girls volleyball team won their semifinal match against Penns Manor on Saturday afternoon. But top seed Northern Cambria took advantage of the Lady Blue Devils\u2019 fatigue to post a three-games to none triumph in the District VI-A championship finals to claim their first title. In a great semifinal match against Penns Manor, Bellwood-Antis, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}