A very exciting end to a very fantastic year Lincoln Park  finish’s with a 30 and 1 record and the 4A state title against what most considered the best team in the state and the defending champs. Newman Goretti won the tip and went straight to the hoop for 2 then Brandon Cummings scores on Lincoln Parks first possession of the game, The Newman Goretti  Dukes hit a three and Lincoln Park then get four straight stops trialing 7 to 2 Brandon Cummings made a great move going from left to right and Meleek Thomas drills a three and the score is 15 to 14 the Dukes up. Magee hit a great over the shoulder flip of the ball as described by Bruce Frey to give Lincoln Park a 18 to 17 lead. With 6:33 left in the second quarter Meleek Thomas hits a 26 footer and DeAndre Moyle hits a 3 and is playing good defense  keeping the Dukes off the boards at the end of the second the score 28 to 28. Brandin Cummings scored the first 8 points for the Leopards in the third quarter  DeAndre Moyle goes in hard gets a big rebound and gets fowled and makes one the score is now 38 to 37 then DeAndre Moye hits a long  3 pointer to put Lincoln Park up by 40 to 38 with the Leopards on top Dorian McGhee gets a basket at the end of the third With Dontay Green and Dorian McGhee doing a great job on Newman Gorettis big 6 foot 8 inch big man, at the end of the 3rd quarter the score Lincoln Park 44 Newman Goretti 41. In the 4th quarter Lincoln Park moved into a two three zone because of fowl trouble and Newman quickly gets the game tied at 48 to 48, with 5;24 to go tied at 50 Brandin Cummings takes a pass from Meleek Thomas and Dunks 52 to 52, then they get the ball back and Meleek Thomas missed missed again rebounded again missed again rebounded again and scores. With the score 54 to 52 Dorian McGhee fowled out and Rashon Russell came in as the 6th man and played well.  For the Leopards. Meleek Thomas drives and shoots to make it 55-53 Lincoln Park in the lead with 1:30 left  Its again 58 to 58 with 47 seconds on the clock the Leopards ballthey call  call time out  with 20.4 seconds left to come up with a play and that they did, and the play worked Mellek Thomas hits a basket with about 10 seconds on the clock the Dukes had one more chance to tie and they missed 4 tips and Meleek Thomas finally comes down with the ball and they pummeled him he goes to the line for two shots makes them both the game is the Leopards with only .5 seconds on the clock Lincoln Park 62 Newman Goretti 58, the game was broadcast right here on 99.3 FM 95.7 FM 1230 WBVP/1460WMBA and around the world on  Beaver County Radio by Mike Azadian And Bruce Frey, stay tuned Friday 3-24-23 for Aliquippa boys  VS. Lancaster Mennonite at 1;30 pm and the Blackhawk girls VS. Lansdale Catholic Saturday at 11;30 am.

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Heading to Hershey the Blackhawk girls who were what many called the underdogs in this 4A PIAA state playoff game at New Castle High School against a team that beat them a few weeks ago. The game was good from the start Alena Fusetti scored the first points for the Cougars with a little shot from the stripe for 2 then she hit a 3 to give them a 9 to 6 lead and then Aubree Hupp hits a 3 make it 12 to 7, with Blackhawk rebounding well and Potts hits 3 to make it 15 to 11 and Aubree Hupp gets fouled hits 2 free throws and its 17 to 11 and  Kassie Potts hits a nice left handed layup to makes the score 21-17 this is all good for the Blackhawk fans and the Cougars took the lead in at the half 21- 20. On the first possession of the second half Kassie Potts scored and North Catholic came right back and scored 23-23 all tied up then Hupp from Potts makes it 25 to 25 and Piper Romigh passes to Aubree Hupp she scores and Kassie Potts gets fouled and makes one from the line and its 33 to 33 with 1:15 left in the third quarter and then Kassie Potts makes a great  move to make it 35 to 33 then Kassie Potts hits a 3 pointer and Andrea Kinger puts a nice pass on Aubree Hupp who gets fouled and goes to the line and makes both its now 40 to 36 Blackhawk in the lead. then Alena Fusetti gets called for a charge and and North Catholic hits a 3 and the score was 42to 40 the Cougars with a 2 point lead with 2;24 to go they tried fouling Blackhawk and it got the ball back for them they put up a 3 it came off the rim and Haley Romigh went up got the rebound and took a hard elbow to the nose and was taken out and Aubree Hupp was up and ready on the line and made one 45 to 40, you could here the fans feeling it and all they had to do was burn 36 seconds off the clock and that they did final score Blackhawk 45 and North Catholic 40,the game was broadcast right here on Beaver County Radio by Mike Azadian and Joe Sager stay tuned for more High school playoff games from Hershey PA.

The Lincoln Park Leopards traveled to Norwin High School to battle for a chance to move on in the PIAA High School boys basketball 4A quarter finals against the Laurel Highlands Mustangs. The game started slow for these two high powered teams with all the marbles up for grabs, Meleek Thomas started the scoring off with a 2 pointer DeAndre Moyle cleaned up the boards and went all the way  to make it 10-7 Leopards and Meleek Thomas hit a big three pointer to make it 13-7,at the end of the first it was the Leopards 15 Mustangs 12. The Mustangs came out in the 2nd quarter and got out to a 19-15 lead, the game was a little bit strange for the Leopards with 3 players having 2 fowls each in the second, but the Leopards went into the half 28-25. This game had a lot action this is just some of the highlights in the second half, DeAndre Moyle hit a three pointer to put them up by 6 And Green then gets a slam dunk to put them up by 8 and Brandon Cummings made 4 big free throws when they needed them last but not least Meleek Thomas scored 7 points in one minute to create a spark for Lincoln Park. It ended with two good teams making some great plays when they needed to final score 69-66. The game was heard right here on 95.7fm 99.3fm 1230WBVP/1460WMBA and world wide on Beaver County Radio by Mike Azadian and Joe Salopek stay tuned for Aliquippa  boys and Blackhawk girls will both play on Saturday 3-18 23 In the PIAA state playoffs.