Apr. 24—Fox Chapel girls lacrosse senior Caroline Leland scored seven goals to lead the Foxes to a 13-12 victory over Peters Township on April 16.
She added three in Thursday's 9-6 win against rival Shady Side Academy, lifting the Foxes to 5-2 overall and 4-1 in Section 2-3A. The 10 goals in those games put her at 104 for her varsity career.
She is one of number of Alle-Kiski Valley boys and girls lacrosse players who have reached the 100-goal milestone this season.
Junior Macey Edwards scored three goals to help the Freeport girls top Armstrong, 12-1, on Thursday to improve to 8-4 overall and 5-3 in Section 2-2A. She continues to add to her career goal totals — she has 47 this season — after surpassing 100 in a 17-1 victory over Ambridge on April 9.
The Plum girls, 6-6 overall and 2-6 in Section 1 of Class 3A, have two who have reached 100 goals this season. Senior Ella Pedley hit that mark March 25 against Norwin, and senior Carly Venanzi did so April 15 against Canon-McMillan.
On the boys side, junior Tucker Cullen, who verbally committed to Cleveland State, has scored 53 goals through 11 games (4.8 avg.) for a Fox Chapel squad that is 10-1 overall and 3-1 in Section 2-3A. The Foxes have won seven in a row since their only loss, 13-9 to Pine-Richland on March 31.
Cullen came into the season with 78 goals and now has a career total of 131.
The Riverview athletic community continues to mourn the passing of assistant wrestling coach Justin Orbich.
The Oakmont resident and Castle Shannon native died earlier this month after a short battle with liver disease.
Raiders wrestling coach Joe Murphy said Orbich, who also devoted many hours to coaching baseball and flag football in the Riverview Athletic Association, was dedicated to mentoring many of the student-athletes he worked with on and off the wrestling mat.
"He was in the hospital and was fighting all of his health issues throughout the season, but he was wrestling with the kids right up until the end of the season in February," Murphy said. "He was working out with them, and we were joking around about him getting a black eye in one practice because a kid hit him by accident.
"He wanted to do everything he could for the kids. He didn't want the attention on him. He was just so positive and encouraging through it all. It still is difficult. It doesn't seem real because it happened so fast. There's been so much support for his family."
The Riverview School District released a statement on Facebook at the time of his death.
"Justin made a lasting impact through his dedication to our student-athletes and belief in hard work, discipline and character," it read. "His steady presence and care for every wrestler will be remembered."
Justin's son, Owen, was a sophomore this past season. He won 12 matches, with five coming by pin and two others by technical fall.
Seven Alle-Kiski Valley track and field teams will take on the competition at the WPIAL Class 3A and Class 2A team semifinal meets Tuesday at 3 p.m. with the hopes of advancing to Thursday's finals at Peters Township.
The Kiski Area boys and girls teams went undefeated (6-0) to win Section 4-3A titles. Both will join the Section 5 champion Plum boys (6-0) and the Section 5 runner-up Plum girls (5-1) at North Allegheny.
The Knoch boys and girls, both 5-1 and runners-up to Kiski in the Section 4 standings, will compete Tuesday at Butler.
The Riverview boys, champions of Section 4-2A at 7-0, will travel to South Park. The Raiders handed North Catholic its only section loss this season.
The Burrell girls went 6-1 in Section 4-2A with their only loss coming to undefeated North Catholic. The Bucs fended off Freeport (5-2) and Deer Lakes (4-3) for one of the two playoff berths from the section.