After serving as an assistant on Central Valley’s tennis team the last two seasons, Tim Casey has taken over as head coach of the Warriors this season.

Casey will have his work cut out for him, as the Warriors were winless last season and only have a few players who have played competitive tennis before.

“Most of our players are in their first year,” Casey said.

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Back on Feb. 23, Central Valley girls basketball fans likely thought the Warriors season might have come to an end with a 66-45 loss to Elizabeth Forward in a WPIAL Class AAA quarterfinal game at West Allegheny High School. At that time, many thought that Blackhawk would defeat Elizabeth Forward in their eventual quest for a WPIAL Class AAA girls basketball championship.

But that didn't occur as Elizabeth Forward stunned Blackhawk, 78-64, to advance to the WPIAL Class AAA championship, where it eventually lost to South Park 50-32.

The strange set of circumstances allowed Central Valley to participate in the PIAA Class AAA tournament. But the schedule drawn up by the PIAA meant Central Valley would meet Elizabeth Forward in a first-round game this past Saturday at Baldwin High.

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Penn State Behrend sophomore guard Nick DeLisio was a third-team selection on the All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Men's Basketball Team.

DeLisio, a Central Valley graduate, averaged 11.7 points and 3.3 assists per game. He ranked fourth in the conference in free-throw percentage at 81.9 and fifth in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.1.

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Central Valley kept ahead of South Fayette enough in this game to win it, 47-35. The following photos were taken of the Central Valley team at the game.

Also, video highlights were posted after the game; click here to view the video.

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