Category: Scores

High School Boys Basketball – Friday January 6, 2017

Quaker Valley – 78

Beaver Falls – 58

Devils 3, Penguins 0 (Final)

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

Scott Wedgewood stopped all 36 Pittsburgh shots as he and his fellow New Jersey Devils defeated the Penguins 3-0. Kyle Palmeiri had two goals for New Jersey. The Pens fall to 40-25-8, remaining four points behind the New York Rangers for second place in the Metropolitan Division. The Penguins play next in Detroit on Saturday.

Aliquippa 55, Lincoln Park 52 (Final)

(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

Aliquippa 50, West Middlesex 20 (Final)

(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

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.

Lincoln Park 68, Quaker Valley 44 (Final)

(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