HERITAGE CROSS COUNTRY, VOLLEYBALL, PLUS INDIANA JR. HIGH FOOTBALL

CROSS COUNTRY

At Portage yesterday, the Marion Center girls and boys teams swept the Heritage Conference cross country championships.

The girls won by a margin of just five points, outrunning United 54-59.  Purchase Line was third with 72 points, followed by West Shamokin (88), Portage (104) and Cambria Heights (124).

Purchase Line’s Payton Wannett won the girls race with a time of 20:10.  Second place went to Cambria Heights’ Sierra Hoover, who was followed by United’s Olivia Henning and Payton Kolarik, West Shamokin’s Paige McCarthy, Purchase Line’s Bristol Warren, then Marion Center’s Macie Miller and Nora Pollock, United’s Katerina Dishong, and Marion Center’s Brooklyn Slovinsky.

In the boys race, Marion Center finished with 56 points, ten better than United (66), followed by River Valley (83), Cambria Heights (92), Portage (133), Purchase Line (141), Homer Center (147) and West Shamokin (160).  United’s Kaz Stokes won the race in 17:05, just one second faster than Cambria Heights’ Logan Paronish.  Paronish’s teammate Mason Kline was third, followed by Homer-Center’s Blake Lucas, Purchase Line’s Scott Kephart, Marion Center’s Hayden Fox, Purchase Line’s Aiden Tavel, Penns Manor’s Trevor Cameron, River Valley’s Omari Miller, and United’s Luke Shepler.

GIRLS

1. Payton Wannett, Purchase Line             20:10
2. Sierra Hoover, Cambria Heights 20:21
3. Olivia Henningm United 20:30
4. Payton Kolarik, United 20:38
5. Paige McCarthy, West Shamokin 20:43
6. Bristol Warren, Purchase Line 20:56
7. Macie Miller, Marion Center 21:08
8. Nora Pollock, Marion Center 21:38
9. Katerina Dishong, United 21:42
10. Brooklyn Slovinsky, Marion Center 21:42

BOYS

1. Kaz Stokes, United 17:05
2. Logan Paronish, Cambria Heights 17:06
3. Mason Kline, Cambria Heights 17:39
4. Blake Lucas, Homer Center 18:07
5. Scott Kephart, Purchase Line 18:11
6. Hayden Fox, Marion Center 18:17
7. Aiden Tavel, Purchase Line 18:24
8. Trevor Cameron, Penns Manor 18:30
9. Omari Miller, River Valley 18:35
10. Luke Shepler, United 18:41

VOLLEYBALL

The Heritage Conference Volleyball championships are at the KCAC tomorrow, getting underway at 9 AM with West Shamokin playing defending champ Conemaugh Township, followed by Northern Cambria against Purchase Line, and airing on Renda Digital TV beginning at 8:45.

JUNIOR HIGH FOOTBALL

Indiana Junior High played their final game of the season, topping River Valley 40-36.  Michael Carnovale started the scoring with a 51-yard run, with Tommy Spadafora running in the two-point conversion.  Ben Steve ran a kick back 70 yards for a touchdown, and ran in the extra point. Steve also scored on a 90-yard catch-and-run, with Spadafora adding the conversion. Then Spadafora ran 70 yards for another score, with Carnovale hitting Dom Previte with the conversion pass. Steve ran 45 yards for the final score of the game, and of the season for Indiana.