Classic set for tonight at P-O
POSTED: March 22, 2008
PHILIPSBURG — The first Mountain League Senior Basketball Classic will be held at the Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School tonight with the girls playing at 6 and the boys at 7:30.
The event, sponsored by the Moshannon Valley YMCA Elite Athletic Training Center, will pit Nittany Division senior players against Allegheny Division seniors.
The Allegheny boys consist of Hollidaysburg’s Andrew Resa and Jimmy Shannon, Huntingdon’s Jesse McCracken, Eric Burnett, Eric Buza and Michael Fisher, Lewistown’s Tyler Fink and Central Mountain’s Zach Wert.
The Nittany boys include Philipsburg-Osceola’s Matt Curtis, J.D. Mason, Jon Whitman and Joe Komisar, Tyrone’s Brandon Gehret and Matt Brooks, Penns Valley’s Nathan Brown and Taylor Wingard and State College’s Bryan Good.
The Allegheny girls include Altoona’s Ashley Waddell, Hollidaysburg’s Linzie Stahl, Central Mountain’s Sandy Stevenson, Emily Williams and Courtney Walsh and Lewistown’s Dani Rhoades, Spring Krepps and Brittany Zimmerman. The Nittany girls consist of Tyrone’s Kayla Corle, Brooke Garbinsky and Lyndsay Christine, P-O’s Alexis Cartwright and Rebecca Rebar, Bald Eagle Area’s Carly Kristofik and Brittany Simpson and West Branch’s Kari Larson and Jolene Wesesky.
Reimer honored
PITTSBURGH — Freshman Shelby Reimer, who helped the Altoona Area High School girls basketball team to a berth in the District 6 Quad-A championship game last month, has been named one of six recipients from across the state of Pennsylvania to earn the Western Pennsylvania Youth Basketball Club, Inc. Swin Cash District Freshman of the Year award.
The award is named in honor of 2004 Olympian Swin Cash, who graduated from McKeesport High School in 1998, and the University of Connecticut in 2002. Cash led UConn to two NCAA national women’s championships and was named the Most Valuable Player in the 2002 Championship Game. Cash is currently playing for the Seattle Storm of the Women’s National Basketball Association after having led the WNBA’s Detroit Shock to a pair of league championships.
Joining Reimer as the other five freshmen Swin Cash award recipients from around western Pennsylvania were: North Star’s Emily Lohr (District 5); Baldwin’s Belma Nurkic (District 7); Allderdice’s Anna Bezner (District 8); St. Marys’ Kayla Hoohuli (District 9) and General McLane’s Valerie Majewski (District 10).
The Western Pennsylvania Youth Basketball Club also released individual girls District Players of the Year awards in honor of Cash. State College’s Emily Suhey was the District 6 Cash award recipient.
