Quaker Valley

Quaker Valley’s boys soccer team has the toughest of acts to follow in 2022. A year ago, the Class 2A Quakers captured PIAA, WPIAL and Section 4-2A championships and finished with a 24-2 overall record. QV was dominant, outscoring the opposition 128-8 in the regular season, 27-3 in the WPIAL...

High school golf starts in a month. That’s when Quaker Valley senior Eva Bulger officially will begin her quest to win a fourth consecutive WPIAL Class 2A championship. Although if you ask Bulger, it’s more about team goals than personal aspirations. Quaker Valley does not have a girls golf program,...

Quaker Valley athletics is synonymous with success. Over the years, the Quakers have established a championship caliber reputation around the WPIAL with many elite performances. But there hasn’t been a better school year for title-winning teams and individuals, perhaps, than 2021-22. “QV athletics over the last 10 years has won...

Mike Mastroianni was in a no lose situation in this year’s race for the Trib HSSN Cup in Class 4A. He is the athletic director and boys basketball coach at Quaker Valley while he lives in the Montour school district. Those two schools finished first and second, with Mastroianni’s Quakers...

Nora Johns is a natural. Name the sport and she’s a natural fit. It didn’t surprise Quaker Valley coach Jared Jones that the rising senior won WPIAL and PIAA titles during the 2022 track and field season. “Nora is a great athlete but an even better competitor,” Jones said. “I...

They formed a firm foundation for the Quaker Valley boys tennis program the past four years. Twin brothers Mike and Will Sirianni were top-flight singles players at QV since their freshman season. “As a coach, if someone came to you and said you will ‘inherit’ twin brothers who will define...

Quaker Valley’s boys lacrosse season started early and ran late. “This was a historic and fun season,” coach Chip Hansen said. “This started with the senior dinner in February when the seniors set their goals to win the section, finish in the top three of the WPIAL and win a...

Quaker Valley’s boys tennis team ended its banner 2022 season on a high note coated with a bit of disappointment. QV finished 16-1 overall, winning section and WPIAL Class 2A titles and advancing to the PIAA semifinal round. The Quakers were the only WPIAL team in either Class 2A or...

There wasn’t a single “unsung hero” on the 2022 Quaker Valley boys championship tennis team. Instead, it was a group of players that carried the Quakers to their second consecutive WPIAL Class 2A title and an appearance in the PIAA semifinal round. “In my mind, this year’s whole senior varsity...

The big news circulating out of the Quaker Valley baseball program is that veteran coach Dean Owrey has resigned. Owrey was hired in 2018 and served as the Quakers’ field boss for four seasons, including the pandemic-marred 2020 campaign. He led QV to three WPIAL playoff appearances and posted a...

Quaker Valley’s celebrated three-sport athlete Nora Johns didn’t just repeat as the PIAA Class 2A girls 300-meter hurdles champion. Johns broke the school record in accomplishing the feat May 28 at Shippensburg University. The talented QV junior won the event with a time of 44.78 seconds, lowering her personal-best time...

Quaker Valley’s girls track and field team offered cogent proof as to why it was able to claim its first WPIAL title since 2007. The QV girls reeled in medals in 10 events at the WPIAL Class 2A individual championships May 18 at rain-soaked Slippery Rock University. “I am very...

SHIPPENSBURG — Quaker Valley’s Nora Johns shocked herself when she won the Class 2A 300-meter hurdles at last year’s PIAA track and field championships. Johns said she continued to shock herself by winning her second consecutive title Saturday at Shippensburg University’s Seth Grove Stadium. The junior edged Bedford sophomore Autumn...

Around these parts, “one for the thumb” was a popular rallying cry for a couple of decades. The Mars boys lacrosse team already took care of that last season. This year, the goal for the Fightin’ Planets was sixth consecutive WPIAL championship, and they reached that goal with a dominant...

Last spring, Mars became the most decorated boys lacrosse program in WPIAL history with a fifth consecutive Class 2A championship. On Thursday, the Fightin’ Planets hope to start a second hand of title rings. Top-seeded Mars faces Quaker Valley in the WPIAL 2A boys lacrosse championship at 8 p.m. at...

Welcome to Semifinals Monday in the 2022 WPIAL baseball playoffs. Unless your team is in classes 6A or 4A, then it’s Welcome to Quarterfinals Monday. Whether it’s the second or third round, the recurring theme is rematches. Of the 16 scheduled games, 11 are matchups between teams that faced each...

It’s being acclaimed as “Championship Wednesday” at Quaker Valley. Two teams at QV reeled in WPIAL championships on Wednesday, May 11, and did so in impressive fashion. The girls track and field squad won its first WPIAL title since 2007, defeating Greensburg Central Catholic, 83-67, Riverside, 85-65, and Shenango, 89-61,...

One social aspect of the newly established PIHL girls division is the camaraderie among the teams. “Girls hockey is the largest growing sport right now. The timing could not have been better,” West coach Jeff Tindall said. “I think it is an amazing opportunity for these girls and girls hockey...

WPIAL champion Quaker Valley saw its bid for a PIAA Class 2A team tennis title end in the state semifinals Saturday in Hershey. The Quakers lost to eventual state champ Masterman, 3-2. For Quaker Valley, Will Sirianni defeated Daniel Li, 6-4, 6-0, at No. 2 singles and Henry Veeck and...

One WPIAL boys tennis team remains in the hunt for a PIAA title after Quaker Valley earned a 3-1 win over District 6 champion Juniata in the state quarterfinals Friday at Hershey Racquet Club. Mike Sirianni won at first singles, and the doubles teams of Henry Veeck/Justin Hajdukiewicz and Michael...

Quaker Valley’s performance this season in boys lacrosse has been off the charts. It’s been the case of 12 up and 12 down in games played through May 8. The perfect 12-0 record vaulted the Quakers into first place in Section 1-2A. They were the only undefeated team in the...

When Mike Brewer took over the Greensburg Central Catholic track and field program 10 years ago, he had a team of 12 — five boys and seven girls. Now the program has a full roster and Wednesday, the boys and girls teams are hoping to perform at a high level...

Welcome to the final week of the WPIAL baseball and softball regular season. With weather not an issue, several district baseball teams hope to join the long list of schools that have qualified for the 2022 WPIAL baseball playoffs with a victory Monday. *Kiski Area can clinch a playoff berth...

Quaker Valley senior Adou Thiero committed Sunday to play basketball for Kentucky and coach John Calipari, who also coached Thiero’s father at Memphis in the early 2000s. Thiero chose the Wildcats over offers from Pitt, Maryland and Xavier, having visited all four schools in the past month. He announced his...

Kadin Johnson is the fastest athlete at Quaker Valley this school year. A senior sprinter on the QV boys track and field squad, Johnson was a medalist in three spotlight events at the recent MAC Invitational at Shenango. Johnson won the 400-meter dash in 51.02 seconds and placed second in...