Lincoln Park Holds Off A Rugged North Catholic Team And Take Home Gold For the Sixth Time!!!

After a Lincoln Park student Sanga beautiful National Anthem and the cheers from a great crowd that assembled to watch the to top teams in class 4A WPIAL Playoffs at the Peterson Events Center In Pittsburgh PA play for the third time this year. It was a game that started out with Moye drilling the first three pointer of the game getting the Leopards out to a 7-4 L.P. lead with both teams running hard and North Catholic playing many subs which took a little while as they went down as much as 13 points but climbed back in the game and stayed their in a very exciting game . At the end of the first the the score was 27-17 Leopards in the lead. North Catholic who was finding the basket with some easy layups could not hit any threes until late in the second quarter when they hit two 3 pointers to get the game to a 33- 33 tie with a couple left in the half they had came back from 13 down. North Catholic had out scored Lincoln Park in the second quarter 16 to 12 and in the third Quarter L.P. had missed some easy layups and drew some yelling from the fans it was 49-46 late in the third when Maddalen making it look easy cut the lead to 51 – 50 and the quarter ended with the score Lincoln Park 55 North Catholic 54 very much any ones game. The fourth quarter was L.P. strongest with a 64 56 lead Milak Thomas goes left then right and faked somebody out of their boots according to Mike Azadian who was broadcasting the game with Joe Sager to make a great move to the hoop. After that the Leopards played good defense and N.C. could not get back in it final score Lincoln Park wins their 6 WPIAL Championship title in 11 years over North Catholic 78-68. The game was broadcast here on 99.3 FM 95.7 FM 1230WBVP/1460WMBA and around the World on Beaver County Radio, stay tuned tomorrow for a double header first game will be the Blackhawk girls at 1pm and the Aliquippa boys at 3pm today 3-4-23, right here on Beaver County Radio.