Boyertown girls secure wild card for PAC Final Six playoffs
Girls basketball
The Bears clinched a PAC Final Six place and enabled head coach Jason Bieber to reach a personal milestone while handling the Eagles in Thursday’s PAC Liberty Division contest.
Leading wire-to-wire, Boyertown got Bieber the 200th victory for his 11 years leading the program. Julia Smith hit for a game-high 18 points and Ashley Kapp another 12.
Boyertown (10-12) improved to 9-7 in the PAC to claim the second wild card for next week’s league playoffs.
Boys basketball
Boyertown fell in a matchup for Pioneer Athletic Conference playoff seeding on Saturday in its regular season finale.
The Bears finished the regular season 6-4 in the PAC Liberty, 11-5 in the PAC and 16-6 overall. Boyertown is the No. 5 seed for the PAC playoffs, which begin Wednesday at Spring-Ford, and will face the second seed from the Frontier
Division, either Pope John Paul II or Phoenixville.
Mason Marinello and Tre Digugliemo had 12 points apiece in the game against Spring-Ford.
The Bears got off to a fast start Tuesday, and they rode the momentum to victory over the Trojans in their Pioneer Athletic Conference divisional crossover game.
Boyertown ran out to a 21-0 first quarter lead, upping it to 27-10 after three. Leading the Bears were Tre Diguglielmo with 16 points, Alex Obarow and Aarick Salata (eight apiece) and Chris Kiefer with (seven). The host Trojans were led by Donovan Towson with nine points and Robert Buress with eight.
Wrestling
The Bears picked up seven pins in a PAC Liberty victory Wednesday.
Chris Goggin (160), Jimmy Sinclair (182) and Anthony Bauer (220) secured early pins for Boyertown as it stormed out to a 26-0 lead. Luke Heimbach (106), Julien Maldonado (113), Teague Miller (120) and Christian Wise (138) followed with falls later on to seal the win.
Isaiah Tucker (132) won by major decision and Jared Rubin (126) won by decision for Norristown.
Boys swimming
Though the Eagles got two individual wins from Devon Carpenter, the Bears’ Justin Morris figured in on three firsts to help his team win this PAC meet Tuesday.
Morris, winner of the 200 free (2:24.79), also swam legs of Boyertown’s winning 200 medley (2:07.62) and 200 free relays (1:52.52). Carpenter’s firsts came in the 50 free (25.73) and 500 free (4:56.75).
Girls swimming
Madison Tyson won two individual events to lead the Bears in Tuesday’s PAC meet with the Eagles.
Tyson headed the 50 free (32.22) and 500 free (5:09.79). Norristown got firsts from Rachel Phan in the 100 back (1:53.23) and Brooklyn Pendleton in the 100 breast (1:42.12).