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By DICK VANOLINDA 505-5407 / @ydsports

DALLASTOWN — Gettysburg will play in Division II of the York-Adams Football League when the Warriors join the local league in the fall of 2014.

The York-Adams principals, during their spring meeting on Monday afternoon at Dallastown High School, approved a three-division alignment for 2014 and 2015 recommenced by the football committee.

The setup features eight teams in Division I, seven in Division II and eight in Division III. The schools were placed in divisions based on their enrollments.

Joining Gettysburg in Division II will be West York, Dover, York Suburban, Susquehannock, Kennard-Dale and Eastern York.

The Division I teams are Dallastown, York High, Red Lion, Central York, South Western, Spring Grove, New Oxford and Northeastern. Making up Division III will be Littlestown, Bermudian Springs, Biglerville, Hanover, Delone Catholic, Fairfield, York Catholic and York Tech. A clause in the league constitution allows York Tech — a Class AAAA school — to compete in Division III.

The changes from the 2013 schedule will have New Oxford and Northeastern moving from Division II to I, and York Suburban and Eastern switching from Division III to II.

The first three weeks of the season will be open, allowing individual schools to schedule their own games. A league schedule will be drawn up for weeks four through 10.

There will be a rotating bye in Division II due to the odd number of teams.

“You can’t cut it with 23 without a rotating bye,” said South Western athletic director and football committee chairman Don Seidenstricker. “We would like to have three eight-team divisions, but we didn’t want to wait (and see if another school would join the league). We wanted to be proactive and put the best possible schedule together.”

Coaches recognized: Seven former coaches were recognized for their years of service with Outstanding Service Awards. The late Barb Grady was honored, along with Joe Stauffer, Ray Geesey, Dick Shoff, Dave Folkemer, Gardy Lawrence and Chuck Seidenstricker.

Grady directed Dover’s girls’ teams to five league titles, three county championships, four District 3 crowns and one state runner-up finish.

Stauffer was the head coach of Central’s first championship football team (1963). He coached varsity football for 13 years and varsity baseball for 12 years.

Geesey coached the Dallastown boys’ and girls’ track and field teams for 16 seasons. His teams won 12 league titles and 187 meets. The 1984 Dallastown girls’ team captured the District 3-AAA crown.

Shoff put in 27 years as Dallastown’s head baseball coach. His 1987 team won the league championship.

Folkemer was a head girls’ basketball coach for 10 years and head softball coach for 10 years at New Oxford High School.

Lawrence coached the New Oxford football team for 16 years along with four years at Bermudian Springs.

Seidenstricker spent 40 seasons on the football sideline at South Western coaching the offensive and defensive linemen. He and his brother, Don, the head coach, spent 26 seasons together, and the Mustangs won 13 league titles in that span.

Other news: In other league news:

—Three-person crews for boys’ and girls’ varsity basketball games will be used again next year, with the recommendation that there will continue to be recruitment and training of new officials.

—The York-Adams Softball Tournament semifinals were set for Friday, May 10, and the championship game is set for Monday, May 13. The Susquehannock, Spring Grove and New Oxford fields will be available for the games.

—The York-Adams Boys’ Volleyball Tournament will take place on Monday, May 13, and Tuesday, May 14, at Dallastown High School.

—The league entered in a sponsorship agreement for championship events with Orthopedic and Spine Specialists (OSS) for the three years at $10,000 a year. Sponsorships of $5,000 and $3,000 are also available.

– Reach Dick VanOlinda at dvanolinda@yorkdispatch.com.

COLUMN By STEVE HEISER 854-1575 x455 / @ydsports

It’s a phrase that sounds quaint now — like something Ward Cleaver would tell the Beaver.

“Be a good sport.”

In this age where winning seems to override all other concerns, sportsmanship often takes a back seat.

It’s an unfortunate reality. We read about it all the time. Here are just a few sad examples from recent months:

—There was the Canadian ice hockey coach who tripped an opposing teen player in the post-game handshake line, breaking his wrist.

—There was the mayor of Bethlehem, who got ejected from a wrestling match for screaming at officials.

—And worst of all, there was a gang-related murder at a pizza party after a peewee football game in Los Angeles.

Those are extreme cases, to be sure, but they make the point. Sportsmanship, in many instances, seems to be in short supply.

In southern York County, however, sportsmanship is alive and well.

Need proof?

Just ask the York County Chapter of PIAA Basketball Officials. That group recently bestowed the 2013 Gretchen Wolf Swartz Sportsmanship Awards to the Susquehannock boys’ and girls’ programs.

This is no fluke, either. In the 13-year history of the awards, this is only the second time that both winners (boys and girls) have come from the same school. It last happened in 2003 … when Susquehannock again swept the awards. In fact, the Warrior basketball programs have been honored with 10 Swartz awards. Bermudian Springs is a distant second with five.

They are clearly doing something right down in Glen Rock.

But don’t get the idea that the Warriors won the awards because their athletes were “good sports on bad teams.” The Susquehannock girls’ team recently made a stirring run to the District 3-AAA title game and will enter the PIAA state playoffs this weekend with an 18-8 record. The Warrior boys weren’t quite as successful, but they finished a more-than-respectable 14-8.

Susquehannock boys’ coach John Zerfing is a believer that sportsmanship and success aren’t mutually exclusive.

“I believe that competitiveness and sportsmanship are not opposites and both can, and should, be present in athletics,” Zerfing said. “The real value of athletics is in helping develop the character qualities that will enable our student-athletes to be successful in life off the court — in the classroom and in society.”

Susquehannock athletic director Chuck Abbott said the school tries to emphasize the importance of winning the Swartz awards by hanging banners in the school gym recognizing the sportsmanship achievements — right next to the banners for winning championships.

Abbott believes coaches play a key role in promoting sportsmanship.

“We tell (the coaches and the players) that there is not much you can control, but you can control, as a coach and a student athlete, your actions on and off the playing surface,” Abbott said. “We feel it is the responsibility of the head coach and the assistant coaches to set the tone and lead by example.”

The Susquehannock coaches have apparently taken Abbott’s words to heart — and it didn’t start this season.

“The basketball program at Susquehannock has been blessed to have had high-quality people as head coach over the years, such as Wayne McCullough and Tom Laure,” Zerfing said. “Sportsmanship has been ingrained in the basketball program from well before I became the head coach.”

Susquehannock girls’ coach Dave Schreiner said parents also play a key role in developing sportsmanship.

“I want my players to play harder than anyone, but to do it in the right way — no trash talk, no arguing with officials, no dirty play,” Schreiner said. “Our kids are always nice and respectful. It’s a tribute to our parents.”

It appears that sportsmanship at Susquehannock is a total team effort. The athletes, the coaches, the administrators and the parents have all bought in.

The end result is an athletic program that Warrior Nation — and Ward Cleaver — can be proud of.

Steve Heiser is sports editor of The York Dispatch. He can be reached at sheiser@yorkdispatch.com.

About the Swartz awards

The Gretchen Wolf Swartz Sportsmanship Awards are presented each year to the boys’ and girls’ basketball programs that achieve the highest level of sportsmanship among fans, players, coaches and administrators from the seventh-grade level through the varsity level.

The awards are given out by the York County Chapter of PIAA Basketball Officials.

Gretchen Wolf Swartz was a York County basketball official from 1981 until 1995. She died from leukemia in 1997 at age 41. Her fellow officials then created the awards in her honor. Traveling trophies are awarded to the winning schools.

In May, the Gretchen Wolf Swartz Scholarship Fund Board of Directors will award two $5,000 scholarships — one to a senior from each of the winning programs. The scholarships can go to players, cheerleaders or managers. This year, Susquehannock swept both awards. That is the second time that has happened in the 13-year history of the awards. The last time it happened was 2003, when Susquehannock also swept the awards.

The value of the scholarships has increased nearly 43 percent over last year, when each scholarship was worth $3,500. York Catholic’s Karli McFatridge and York Suburban’s Dylan Keller won last year’s scholarships.

The first scholarships — both in the amount of $1,000 — were awarded in 2001. More than $50,000 in scholarship money has been handed out since the inception of the awards.

By ED GOTWALS(Chambersburg) Public Opinion

The Mid Penn Conference finally found football nirvana this fall — four divisions of eight teams each that were as geographically and competitively balanced as possible — and athletic directors all over the league could breathe a sigh of relief.

That satisfaction didn’t last even a week into 2013.

On Monday, Gettysburg’s school board approved a measure that allowed the school to apply for admission to the York-Adams League. The York-Adams League is expected to vote this Monday on that application and it’s an almost certainty that it will go through. If so, Gettysburg will become a York-Adams member starting in the 2014-15 season.

Gettysburg’s board had voted twice previously to remain in the Mid Penn. This time, the vote went the other way, by a 7-0 count, and the stated reason was to reduce travel costs associated with middle school contests.

For Mid Penn athletic directors, especially the ones in the Colonial Division, of which Gettysburg and four area schools — James Buchanan, Greencastle-Antrim, Shippensburg and Waynesboro — are currently members, scheduling suddenly got more difficult.

With an eight-team division, ADs need to fill the first three weeks of the football season with non-league games, and the final seven weeks are division games. When Gettysburg leaves, the Colonial teams will have an open date somewhere in the middle of the season, and it’s proven to be difficult to fill that open date because other leagues are playing league games then, too.

Mid Penn executive director Fred Isopi said, “This will mess things up. We’ll have to deal with going back to using a floating bye week. We’ve been here before and we have a year or so to figure it out. Maybe if we luck out, York will now have an odd number in a division, too, and maybe we could match those dates up.”

James Buchanan athletic director Larry Strawoet said, “This was a big surprise. We just found out about it and it looks like they really moved swiftly. The Mid Penn seemed like it was settling down, and now this. You just wish you could get through more than one two-year (scheduling) cycle without the divisions having to be reshaped.”

Greencastle-Antrim AD Vicki Ritchey was on the MPC’s realignment committee that came up with what appeared to be the league’s most workable division alignment in many years, thanks to the addition of Mifflin County and State College. Now it’s back to the drawing board.

“The committee spent a lot of time and effort trying to balance the divisions based on enrollment and travel,” Ritchey said. “Gettysburg seemed like a good fit into our division. The shame is, everybody had those three weeks to schedule rivalry games and then you didn’t have to worry about finding an in-season opponent.”

Isopi said he is not aware of any other schools interested in joining the Mid Penn, or any other schools looking to leave. But he did say that the West Shore School District, which includes Cedar Cliff and Red Land, almost annually has looked into merging those two high schools into one.

Football, of course, is not the only sport affected.

For Colonial schools, the loss of Gettysburg will have far-reaching issues.

Ritchey said, “Our division, in a lot of sports, already has fewer teams than other divisions (because of the geography). We already get fewer league games, so we have more non-league dates to schedule. Plus, Gettysburg was a very competitive team in most sports and you hate to lose that.”

With the most recent realignment, Boiling Springs replaced Northern in most sports in the Colonial. To balance the numbers, Northern may have to be put back in the Colonial, and that will not be Northern’s first choice because of the geography.

“You look back years ago at the old Blue Mountain League and you felt like you were finally re-establishing some of those rivalries again,” Strawoet said. “Now we’ll be redoing it again.”

#YAIAA football capsules for Week 7

Posted: October 11, 2012 in Main Page

By DICK VANOLINDA 505-5407 / @ydsports

Following are capsulized looks at this weekend’s York-Adams League football games.

FRIDAY Division I

SOUTH WESTERN (0-1, 3-3) AT CENTRAL YORK (0-1, 3-3), 7 P.M. The Mustangs and the Panthers will seek to bounce back following losses last week. South Western counts on the running of Dillon Thomas, who’s third on the rushing leaders chart with 811 yards. Central will counter with the league’s top-rated passer, Corey Hartz. The 5-8, 157-pound senior has passed for 1,206 yards and 15 touchdowns. Darian Hampton and Marquis Fells have combined for 47 catches for the Panthers. Fells also averages 5.9 yards a carry.

SPRING GROVE (1-0, 4-2) AT RED LION (0-1, 1-5), 7 P.M. The Rockets are thinking title following their victory over Central. Spring Grove quarterback Matt Runge has accounted for a total of 1,027 yards on the ground and in the air, and Jeff Delaughter has delivered 561 rushing yards to the Rockets’ attack. Red Lion’s young cast has been outscored 213-76 while playing an extremely strong schedule. The Lions’ junior quarterback, Blake Cahill, has thrown for 819 yards and four touchdowns.

Division II

DOVER (1-0, 3-3) AT WEST YORK (1-0, 6-0), 7 P.M. The Eagles and Bulldogs resume the Route 74 North rivalry, with the series even at 18 victories apiece. Dover, which scored a victory in last year’s game, is clearly the underdog this year. The Eagles’ running backs, led by Isaiah Green and Logan Ambrose, are averaging an impressive 5.6 yards a carry, but this week, they’ll go against a West York defense that is holding opponents to just 80.8 rushing yards a game. The Bulldogs’ offense is in the capable hands of quarterback Brandon Kinneman, who’s passed for 661 yards and nine touchdowns and rushed for 261 yards. Zach Smith, the league’s leading receiver with 35 catches for 567 yards, is Kinneman’s favorite target.

KENNARD-DALE (0-1, 0-6) AT NEW OXFORD (0-1, 1-5), 7 P.M. Mike Young and Dan Hare are an excellent one-two running combination for Kennard-Dale with 750 yards between them. The Rams have played well at times and are aiming to break into the winning column. Wesley Beans averages 5.9 yards a carry for New Oxford, and Colonials’ quarterback Anthony Lippy has passed for 359 yards.

SUSQUEHANNOCK (0-1, 0-6) AT NORTHEAST ERN (1-0, 4-2), 7 P.M. Northeastern’s Daniel Adams is having a terrific year. Only three York-Adams running backs have more rushing yards than Adams, who’s compiled 739 yards on 131 carries (5.6 average). Bobcats’ quarterback Alec Miller has passed for 493 yards and six touchdowns. Susquehannock, which was missing three starters last week because of injuries, has been outscored 222-57.

Division III

BERMUDIAN SPRINGS (5-0, 6-0) AT FAIRFIELD (0-5, 0-6), 7 P.M. Fairfield has been much more competitive this season, but the Green Knights are outmatched this week. Bermudian Springs’ lockdown defense is holding opponents to a paltry 4.8 points a game. Fairfield’s Thomas Bollinger and two Bermudian players, Zach Stroup and Tristan Sponseller, have almost identical rushing totals. Bollinger has racked up 562 yards, Stroup has 561 and Sponseller has 560.

EASTERN YORK (2-3, 2-4) AT BIGLERVILLE (4-1, 5-1), 7 P.M. Biglerville, coming off an emotional overtime victory over York Catholic, features the highly productive running back trio of Oakley Fissel, Joe Hurda and Jordan Wenk, who have teamed for 1,360 yards. Speaking of rushing yards, Eastern’s Alex Cooley is the league’s all-time leader with 4,686 yards, including 1,516 this season.

YORK CATHOLIC (3-2, 3-3) AT DELONE CATHO LIC (3-2, 3-3), 7 P.M. This is one of the most interesting games of the weekend. Along with the matching records, the Fighting Irish and Squires have scored a lot of points. York Catholic is averaging 32.8 a game, and Delone Catholic is scoring at a 30.3 points-per-game clip. Fighting Irish quarterback James Dougherty has connected for 1,817 passing yards and 15 TD passes, and Matt Lehr has rushed for 586 yards. The Squires’ Nick Braun and Lance Reneker have teamed for 495 ground yards. Delone quarterback Brett Smith has passed for 557 yards and eight touchdowns.

YORK SUBURBAN (3-2, 4-2) AT HANOVER (0-5, 0-6), 7 P.M. Suburban’s Isaiah Randall, Marquese Dillon and Jamie Nixon-Alark possess the speed to turn any touch into a touchdown. Nixon-Alark is averaging 7.9 yards a carry, Randall is at 7.2 and Dillon is at 5.5. Brad Irvin (5.6 yards a carry) and Ian Brown (5.8 a carry) are Hanover’s top rushers. The Nighthawks’ Brady Goodfellow has passed for 745 yards and four touchdowns.

YORK TECH (2-3, 2-4) AT LITTLESTOWN (3-2, 4-2), 7 P.M. York Tech running back Calvin Savary needs 66 yards to reach 1,000 for the season. Savary’s teammate, Dalmar Dickson, has supplied 522 rushing yards. The Spartans have struggled to stop the run, and that could be a problem against the Thunderbolts, who are averaging 262.3 rushing yards a game. Dustin DeGroft, Ryan Rickell and Dustin Crouse have accounted for 1,120 of Littlestown’s total.

– Reach Dick VanOlinda at dvanolinda@yorkdis patch.com.

By DICK VANOLINDA 505-5407 / @ydsports

Anderson Novalin will never take the opportunity to play high school football for granted.

Particularly not after the events of this past spring and summer, when the York City School Board considered cutting all extra-curricular activities to help close a $14 million budget deficit.

The board eventually did eliminate some sports, but it spared others, including football.

“I was definitely worried when it seemed like they were going to cut football” Novalin said. “I wanted to finish my senior year strong, and I would have had some (college) recruiters coming. If they cut football, I don’t know what I would have done. I’m here every day (at practice), and I play like every day is my last day.”

The 6-foot, 268-pound Novalin is a starter on the offensive and defensive lines for York High, which will take on Dallastown at 7 p.m. Friday on Homecoming Night at Small Athletic Field.

Both teams are 1-0 in Division I of the York-Adams League. The Wildcats and Bearcats have something else in common: they each lost their first three games of the season.

“The intense practices have helped us since then (the 0-3 start),” Novalin said. “The guys are starting to realize if we play together as a team, we’re strong. We feel more like a family now.”

York High coach Shawn Heinold said his team can compete with any team in the division if it plays to its potential.

“We’ve played pretty well recently,” Heinold said. “We have a lot of returning defensive players this year, and we mixed them with a couple of sophomores, and the defense has really stepped up this year.”

Heinold said his team will need to keep the penalties and turnovers to a minimum if it expects to beat Dallastown.

“They’re fundamentally sound. They’re not going to beat themselves,” Heinold said of the Wildcats. “We’re going to have to play at that level.”

Dallastown counts on the running of Rob Catchings (450 yards), the passing of Andrew Henry (537 yards) and receiving skills of Malik Lewis and Josh Chronister (30 combined catches).

York High’s offense features Kelvin Nieves, the sixth-leading rusher in the league with 595 yards. James Way, who took over as York High’s quarterback in the third game of the season, can burn defenses with his arm and his legs. Way has passed for 300 yards and rushed for 252 yards.

“James is improving on a daily basis,” Heinold said. “He’s really into the position. Kelvin comes to practice every day and works hard. He’s come a long way. He had some issues coming into the program as a sophomore, but he’s grown into a fine young man.”

Way, Nieves, Novalin and the rest of Bearcats’ squad, which numbers just 30 players, are aiming to bury the memory of the disappointing start with an unforgettable finish.

“The numbers hurt the most in practice because we aren’t always getting looks against our starters,” Heinold said. “We didn’t get off to the start we were hoping for this year, but the selling point is this is a second season. We’re 1-0, and we can still be county champions and still get in the (District 3) playoffs. That’s our goal right now, finish strong.”

– Reach Dick VanOlinda at dvanolinda@yorkdispatch.com or 505-5407.

For the fifth year in a row, our highly successful High School Football Scoreboard at http://www.yorkdispatch.com/sports as well at @YAIAAScores will offer up-to-date scores from all the action around the York-Adams League this season.

Last year we had a very good turnout that included contacts at 12 of the 22 schools in the league. Special thanks to those schools (Dallastown, Red Lion, Central, Spring Grove, West York, Northeastern, Dover, Kennard-Dale, Bermudian Springs, Fairfield, Littlestown, and York Tech).

We’re hoping to get continued support from those schools as well as new support from those other 10 schools to assist us out with our endeavor.

Specifically we are looking for passionate students, staff, teachers, and/or boosters from all schools in the YAIAA to help keep us up-to-date with scores and key plays that we can share with fans unable to attend the games.

For convenience purposes, we’ve setup a number of ways to relay the information back to us.

  1. Via Text message
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What we are looking for is at least one person to update us, at the minimum, with the scores after every quarter of every contest throughout the season.

Ideally we are hoping to get live scoring updates that would allow us to display the latest scores from around the league on our site.

If you can help out, get back to me via one of the above methods and I’ll fill you in on the details.

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By DICK VANOLINDA 505-5407 / @ydsports

Dallastown High School’s female athletes kept their impressive York Dispatch Cup streak going this season, but the Wildcats did have to share first place with their biggest rival.

Dallastown and Red Lion ended in a tie for first place in York-Adams Division I girls’ competition with identical ratings of 3.8 Central finished third at 3.0.

The Wildcats have placed first in every one of the competition’s seven years.

Under the Cup format, boys’ and girls’ programs are separated into three divisions with the eight largest schools (by enrollment) placed in Division I, the next seven largest in Division II and the final seven in Division III.

Teams are awarded points in each sport for first through fifth-place finishes in divisions or sections during the regular season, with division or section winners getting a little added weight. Six points are gained for first-place finishes, four for second, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth.

The point total is divided by the number of sports a school sponsors. The result is an overall rating.

The Dallastown girls earned first-place finishes in tennis, swimming and diving and soccer. The Wildcats took second in basketball, softball and track and field.

Red Lion, meanwhile, captured first place in cross country, field hockey, basketball and track and field and seconds in swimming and lacrosse.

The Susquehannock and Delone Catholic girls, second in Division II and Division III, respectively, last season, both vaulted to the top this year. The Warriors posted a rating of 3.8 to win their division, and the Squirettes put up a winning 4.4 rating.

Eastern (3.5) was second and York Suburban (3.1) was third in Division II, and York Catholic (3.1) and Biglerville (2.8) took second and third in Division III.

Susquehannock’s teams won division titles in volleyball, tennis and field hockey. Delone Catholic’s teams were division winners in volleyball, softball and track and field.

Boys’ winners: In the boys’ competition, Dallastown earned its third straight Division I title with a score of 4.4. South Western (3.6) and Red Lion (2.5) were second and third.

York Suburban recorded a 3.5 rating to grab top honors in Division II. West York (3.2) was second and Northeastern (2.8) was third.

Bermudian Springs leaped from third in Division III last season to first place this year. The Eagles prevailed decisively with a 3.7 rating. York Catholic and Delone Catholic tied for second place with a score of 2.7.

The Dallastown boys racked up first-place finishes in golf, soccer, swimming and diving, baseball and lacrosse. The Wildcats placed second in cross country, wrestling, tennis and track and field.

The York Suburban guys won outright division crowns in basketball, swimming and volleyball and shared titles in tennis and track and field. The Trojans were second in soccer and cross country.

Bermudian Springs featured championship teams in football and wrestling. The Eagles placed second in basketball, baseball and track and field.

Reach Dick VanOlinda at dvanolinda@yorkdis patch.com or 505-5407.

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Final Results

POOL A:

Match 1: York Suburban def. Northeastern, 2-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-17); Bethlehem Catholic def. Derry, 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 30-28)

Match 2: York Suburban def. Derry, 3-0 (25-17, 25-15, 25-13); Bethlehem Catholic def. Northeastern, 2-1 (25-18, 14-25, 25-23)

Match 3: York Suburban def. Bethlehem Catholic, 2-1 (25-20, 22-25, 25-19); Derry def. Northeastern, 2-1 (25-21, 19-25, 25-23)

POOL B:

Match 1: Dover def. Ambridge, 2-1 (26-24, 15-25, 25-22); Cochranton def. Holy Redeemer, 2-1 (24-26, 25-20, 25-17)

Match 2: Dover def. Holy Redeemer, 3-0 (25-15, 25-18, 25-19); Ambridge def. Cochranton, 2-1 (22-25, 25-14, 25-20)

Match 3: Dover def. Cochranton, 2-1 (25-13, 25-20, 19-25); Ambridge def. Holy Redeemer, 2-1 (25-18, 25-13, xx-25)

Standings -

Pool A
Team Record Games
York Suburban 3-0 7-2
Bethlehem Catholic 2-1 6-3
Derry 1-2 2-7
Northeastern 0-3 3-6
Pool B
Team Record Games
Dover 3-0 7-2
Ambridge 2-1 6-3
Cochranton 1-2 4-5
Holy Redeemer 0-3 1-8

Results (through 2 Matches)

POOL A:

Match 1: York Suburban def. Northeastern, 2-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-17); Bethlehem Catholic def. Derry, 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 30-28)

Match 2: York Suburban def. Derry, 3-0 (25-17); Bethlehem Catholic def. Northeastern, 2-1 (25-18, 14-25, 25-23)

POOL B:

Match 1: Dover def. Ambridge, 2-1 (26-24, 15-25, 25-22); Cochranton def. Holy Redeemer, 2-1 (24-26, 25-20, 25-17)

Match 2: Dover def. Holy Redeemer, 3-0 (25-15, 25-18, 25-19); Ambridge def. Cochranton, 2-1 (22-25, 25-14, 25-20)

Standings -

Pool A
Team Record Games
York Suburban 2-0 5-1
Bethlehem Catholic 2-0 5-1
Northeastern 0-2 2-4
Derry 0-2 0-6
Pool B
Team Record Games
Dover 2-0 5-1
Cochranton 1-1 3-3
Ambridge 1-1 3-3
Holy Redeemer 0-2 1-5