Ken Wunderley's feature on the Beaver Area softball team:
(Photo: Beaver's Ashley Kondracki connects with a pitch during WPIAL quarterfinal victory against Greensburg Central Catholic Monday. Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette.)
John D'Abruzzo features the Beaver Area baseball team:
"The senior members of the Beaver Area High School baseball team had been waiting a long time for this season.
"Basically since they were about 5 years old," Bobcats coach Bruce Herstine said. "They knew that they would play together in high school and believed they would have the right amount of talent when their senior year came around.
"They had been waiting for this opportunity.""
There was much discussion among coaches in Class AA Section 5 that Beaver Area was one of the best young teams in the WPIAL and that the Bobcats could surprise some teams.
It took all of one game for Beaver to surprise some teams, one in particular, No. 4 seeded Seton-LaSalle (12-2). The No. 13 seeded Bobcats (11-6) upset the Rebels 10-3 in a WPIAL first-round contest.
In track and field, 79-71 is a horse’s nose difference at the Preakness.
“It came down to distance,” said Beaver Area coach Steve Goldcamp. “And I believe throws were where we were losing it [last Thursday]. We came up short -- we had a couple kids out with other activities.”
Goldcamp noted that he could not be too sure whether the missing Beaver Area athletes would have made the difference between winning and losing; he took nothing away from South Fayette.
Ok, that’s not quite true. The Bobcats took away some points in the 800-meter race.
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