Bishop Carroll, Central Cambria get Cambria County basketball first-teamers
High school digest
JOHNSTOWN — Bishop Carroll and Central Cambria each placed one player on both the boys and girls Cambria County Basketball Coaches Association All-County First Team.
BC’s Jace Casses and Central Cambria’s JD Brouse made the boys first team, while BC’s Emily Lucko and CC’s Katie George were on the girls first team.
Penn Cambria’s Caden Gibbons made the boys second team, and CC’s Brayden Swope was on the third team. BC’s Ben Kirsch and PC’s Landon Semelsberger were honorable mention picks, and Portage’s Tyson Burkett was the freshman of the year.
Cambria Heights’ Kinley Rogal, PC’s Makenna McCoy and Portage’s Kendall Bednarski made the girls second team, and BC’s Ava Pablic and Adelyn Myers, and CC’s Alaina Long were on the third team.
PC’s Sophia Beard, Rachel Fisher and Reagan Ronan were honorable mention picks, along with Heights’s Julia Karlheim and Portage’s Cassie Burkett. CC’s Delaney Snyder was the freshman of the year.
Several of the selections will play in the fifth annual CCCA Senior Showcase Games on Sunday at Greater Johnstown High School.
McCoy, Ronan and Meghan Andersen of Penn Cambria will join Burkett, Britton Myher and Liana Bagby of Portage on the Team Conemaugh girls who will take on Team Allegheny, coached by BCs Nick Smith, at 1 p.m.
Rogal, Long, BC’s Madison Delauter and Sarah Miller and Heights’s Markie Bender are on the Allegheny girls roster.
Casses, Gibbons, Swope and PC’s Blake Lilly will play for the Conemaugh boys, who will play at 3 p.m. against Team Allegheny, which will have Kaiden Ivory of Heights.
Marauders fall
Bishop Guilfoyle took the second set after dropping the first to Derry, but then lost the next two in a 3-1 loss on Monday in high school boys volleyball at the Pleasant Valley Gymnasium.
Derry won by scores of 26-24, 26-28, 25-13, 25-20.
Griffin Chwatek fronted BG with 17 kills, nine digs and eight service points, Brenden Young dished out 36 assists, while Jacob Mellott finished with 12 digs.
SERVICE POINTS
BISHOP GUILFOYLE: Chwatek 8, Shall 5, Young 3, Weimer 3, Mellott 3, RIce 3.
Records: Derry (1-0); Bishop Guilfoyle (0-2).
JV: Derry won, 25-11 and 25-13. Record: Bishop Guilfoyle (0-2).





