High School Sports News

You just can not spend that much time playing defense without something bad happening.

The Millville High School boys' soccer team erased a 1-0 halftime deficit and rallied to defeat top-seeded Clearview, 4-2, in penalty kicks Friday in the Group IV South quarterfinals.

With all the St. Charles East girls volleyball program has accomplished - a list that includes 10 sectional titles, six state appearances and two state titles, including last year's - the Saints get to do something tonight they never have before.

The Montana Highway Patrol says a bus carrying the Kalispell Glacier volleyball team ran a red light and crashed into a truck, but there were no serious injuries.

Prospect Mountain's Eric Aldrich, left, gets a head on the ball in front of Hopkinton's Brandon Mansfield during the Class M schoolboy soccer semifinal contest at Merrimack Valley High School Thursday.

For the second straight season Poland and Hamilton clashed for the Class D title and for the second straight season, Hamilton came out on top.

The Pleasant Valley High volleyball team made sure to harness a team effort in Thursday's final regular-season home match, whether or not it was a necessity without the services of its leading hitter against Paradise.

Never before has the Bishop Grimes boys soccer team earned a Section III championship - but the Cobras have a chance to alter that history for good.

The Grantsburg Pirate volleyball team is in the Division 3 final. They did so by defeating the Laconia Spartans, three games to none .

Five postseason series in a row had ended with the Phillies spraying champagne in clubhouses from Milwaukee to Los Angeles to Denver to South Philadelphia.

Seneca Valley takes a 21-match unbeaten streak into Saturday's WPIAL Class AAA girls soccer championship.

Mill River girls soccer coach Randy Chadburn, in his ninth season, is headed to his first title game.

Carson High puts its unbeaten Northern Nevada 4A League record on the line Thursday night at 7 against Sierra League rival South Tahoe in the semifinals of the 4A regional girls' soccer playoffs at Damonte Ranch High School in Reno.

The total school absence rate rose to 13 percent Wednesday, but the spike is most concentrated at the middle school level, Harvey said.

Otsego's volleyball team finally ran out of answers Wednesday night.The Knights - who have played consistently well all season - couldn't overcome Archbold's power, depth and experience.

Despite being 100 miles from home, Christian Academy of Knoxville found itself in a very familiar place Wednesday - the quarterfinals of the state A-AA girls soccer tournament.

The Gilbert High School Lady Lions volleyball team emerged unscathed from the first night of the Class A Region 4 Section 2 tournament Monday night, while the Man Lady Billies, Matewan Lady Tigers and Williamson Lady Wolves stayed alive and the Burch Lady Bulldogs saw their season come to an abrupt end.

Sure, the talented swimmers like Maiya Hilliard and Kayla Dlugopolski are the ones who draw the headlines and get the state medals at the end of the year.

It felt destined for penalty kicks. And as the second overtime wore on in the first of two Class M girls' soccer semifinals yesterday at Merrimack Valley High School, Belmont Coach Jim White began preparing for that eventuality.

Scotia-Glenville had no trouble matching the speed and intensity of Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake in Tuesday nighta s Section II Class A girlsa soccer semifinal on the turf at Stillwater High School.