The Central Valley Warriors scored 24 unanswered from the gun, and eased to a 34-6 victory over the Ellwood City Wolverines in the season opener. The Warriors improve to 1-0 in the Beaver Valley Conference (and overall), while the Wolverines drop to 0-1.

Danny Santia was the CCBC Player of The Game for Central Valley; Richard Pitrell earns the honor for Ellwood City.

Tom Hays has the recap for beavercountyradio.com.

Girls’ Classic: Home 80, Away 72

The Girls Game in the 2016 Quigley Classic went to the Home All-Stars by a score of 80-72. The CCBC Players of the Game were Courtney Alexander of OLSH, who led all scorers by scoring 26 for the Away All-Stars, and Beaver’s Logan Vuchinich, who netted 16 for the victorious Home squad. Tom Hays has the full scoring recap for beavercountyradio.com.

Boys’ Classic: Away 109, Home 103

The Boys Game in the 49th Quigley Classic went to the Away All-Stars by a score of 109-103. The CCBC Players of the Game were Tomas Johnson of Beaver Falls, who led the losing Home All-Stars (and all scorers) with 39 points (including seven three-pointers), and Cornell’s Blake Lipke, who led the winning Away squad with 30 points. Bob Barrickman has this full recap for beavercountyradio.com.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

When an individual player fouls out, you lose a piece of the team.
When multiple players foul out, you lose a chunk of the team.
But the one thing you do not lose is the team itself.

With three players fouled out in crunch time, the Aliquippa Quips held on to beat the Lincoln Park Leopards 55-52 in the PIAA AA West Final. The game, played in front of 2,623 at the Metheny Fieldhouse at Geneva College, saw the Quips survive the final minutes without Jassir Jordan, Robert Crute, and Chucky Humphries–all three fouling out in the final quarter.

Kaezon Pugh led the Quips with 16 points, including being 8-9 from the charity stripe. He was named the CCBC Player of the Game for Alquippa. The Player of The Game for Lincoln Park, who scored 20 to lead all scorers.

Lincoln Park finishes its season at 25-5. Aliquippa (29-0) plays Mastery Charter North in the PIAA Championship at 2 PM in Hershey on Saturday afternoon.

Bob Barrickman and Tom Hays had the call tonight. They now present beavercountyradio.com with tonight’s recap, final call, and an interview with winning coach Nick Lackovich.

Final Call

Nick Lackovich Interview

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Sometimes a basketball game is won when the scoring pace rather resembles football.

It was 2-0 Aliquippa at the media timeout.
It was 8-0 Aliquippa at the end of one quarter.
It was 16-9 Aliquippa at the half.

Luckily for the Quips, many of their star players also played football, and they knew how to win there too.

Despite early foul trouble, the Quips coasted to a 50-20 win over the West Middlesex Big Red in the PIAA Boys’ AA Quarterfinals on Saturday.

Chuckie Humphries and Jassir Jordan led the Quips in scoring with 14 a piece, while Josh Porterfield led the Big Red with 8. Porterfield earned CCBC Player of the Game honors along with Humphries.

West Middlesex ends their season at 20-9. Aliquippa is now 28-0 and will face Lincoln Park once again, this time for a chance to play in the PIAA Championship in Hershey.

Tom Hays has this recap for beavercountyradio.com.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

The hope for Quaker Valley was that between Nick Aloi and Nelly Cummings, Lincoln Park’s top shooters, is that one of them would go cold, and that would allow the Quakers to put more pressure on the other.

It didn’t happen. And to make matters worse for the Quakers, Nick and Nelly had company.

With the team effort powering them, Lincoln Park steadily advanced to the PIAA Class AA semifinals with a 68-44 victory over the Quaker Valley Quakers. The Leopards ran out to a 14-4 lead, and though the Quakers cut it to as little as 4, a strong start to the second half propelled Lincoln Park towards the win.

Aloi led all scorers with 23 points, followed by Nelly Cummings with 19 and Quaker Valley’s Amos Luptak with 14. Luptak joins Aloi as the selected CCBC Players of The Game.

Lincoln Park (25-4) moves on to the PIAA AA Semifinals, where they will have a rematch of the WPIAL Championship with Aliquippa. Quaker Valley ends its season at 22-7.

Bob Barrickman has this scoring recap for beavercountyradio.com. He and Jason Colangelo interviewed Leopards coach Mike Bariski, and it too is presented here.

Mike Bariski Interview

Boys’ Basketball

Class AA
Lincoln Park 76, Washington 73
Aliquippa 56, Bishop Canevin 38
Quaker Valley 57, Greensburg Central Catholic 47

Girls’ Basketball

Class A
Bishop Carroll 76, Quigley Catholic 43

Mens’ College Basketball

Pitt 72, Syracuse 71

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

There is no W in pretty.
There is no W in dominant.
There is no W in foul trouble.

But there is a W in win, and that’s ultimately what Quaker Valley wanted.

The Quakers defeated the Greensburg Central Catholic Centurians by a score of 57-47 at Peters Township. The game saw Quaker Valley start the game on a 16-3 run, but persistence allowed the Centurians to keep within a reasonable range. This game was also slowed down by mesmerizing foul trouble on both sides, as six players fouled out of the game (4 for QV, 2 for GCC).

Coletrane Washington led all scorers with 23 for the Quakers, while Domenic Rullo notched 12 for the Centurians. These two were picked as the CCBC Players of The Game.

Greensburg’s season closes at 24-3. Quaker Valley improves to 22-6 and faces Lincoln Park in the State Quarterfinals on Saturday.

Bruce Frey has this scoring recap for beavercountyradio.com.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

27 down, three to go. At least that’s the goal for the WPIAL Class AA Champions.

Aliquippa remains undefeated with a comfortable 56-38 victory over the Bishop Canevin Crusaders at Baldwin. Leading the Quips was Kaezon Pugh with 20 points, while Mitchell King scored 15 to lead Canevin. The leading scorers were chosen as the CCBC Players of The Game.

Bishop Canevin ends its season at 20-7. Aliquippa improves to 27-0 and will play West Middlesex in the PIAA Class AA Quarterfinals on Saturday.

Bob Barrickman has this scoring recap for beavercountyradio.com.

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

Another night, another game where a big lead almost slipped away from the potential victors.

Lincoln Park led 47-35 early in the second half, but the Washington Prexies stormed back to take a 67-63 lead midway through the fourth. But the Leopards were not to be denied, ending the game on a 13-6 run and winning the PIAA 2nd Round match at Peters Township, 76-73.

Nelly Cummings led the way for the Leopards with 21 points, including the bucket that gave Lincoln Park the lead back after being down. His timeliness and scoring prowess give him CCBC Player of The Game honors, along with Markel Pulliam, who scored 17 for the Little Prexies.

Washington ends its season at 20-8. Lincoln Park plays Quaker Valley in the PIAA Quarterfinals on Saturday.

Tom Hays has this scoring recap for beavercountyradio.com.