PIAA Semifinals: Quaker Valley, Winchester Thurston boys and Shady Side girls advance to Hershey

File photo by Ed Thompson

Welcome to the PIAA semifinals scoreboard for Wednesday, November 13.

Advancing from WPIAL were Quaker Valley (2A) and Winchester Thurston (1A) boys and Shady Side Academy (1A) girls. They’ll join Mars (3A) who won on Tuesday night to advance as the four WPIAL teams that will be playing for State titles over the weekend in Hershey.

See the full scoreboard and the updates from Wednesday’s games below.

PIAA SEMIFINAL SCHEDULE

WPIAL schools are in bold.  Click links below to see full bracket for each classification.

BOYS

Boys Class 1A

FINAL:  Winchester Thurston 2, Greensburg Central Catholic 1 

Winchester Thurston will face Moravian Academy on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Hershey.

Game updates: 

⚽️BEARS WIN! Boys Soccer defeats Greensburg Central Catholic 2-1. Next stop, Hersey for the PIAA Class A final on Saturday! #gobears #proudtobeWT pic.twitter.com/zEjgmYJK6K

— Winchester Thurston (@wt_news) November 14, 2019

FT | Winchester Thurston beats Greensburg CC in the fourth match to advance to PIAA final.

68′ | Winchester Thurston 2 Greensburg CC 1, 12:49 2nd Half Nate Ward scores on a penalty kick for the Centurions.

54′ | GOAL Winchester Thurston now leads 2-1.

Buchanan dashes up field and flings one past GCC keeper Max House, who got a hand on it but couldn’t make the save.

48′ | GOAL – Winchester Thurston take the 1-0 lead!

Beck Buchanan scores for Winchester Thurston beating a pair of defenders all by himself. .

Winchester Thurston with the best chance of the night in 35′ — ball dings off crossbar. GCC and the Bears 0-0, 5 minutes left first half.

Boys Class 2A

FINAL: Quaker Valley 3, Mercyhurst Prep 0

For the third time in four years, the Quaker Valley boys soccer team will play for a PIAA Class 2A soccer championship against New Hope Solebury on Friday at 1:30 p.m. in Hershey.

GOALS D. Reiter (Fernandez) Guild (F. Reiter) R. Kriebel (Kubinski)

This is QV’s 13th PIAA finals (7-5), the most of any boys team in the state.

Game updates: 

PIAA Class 2A boys soccer semifinal at the half: Quaker Valley 1, Mercyhurst Prep 0

— Tom Reisenweber (@ETNreisenweber) November 14, 2019

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GIRLS

Girls Class 1A

FINAL: Shady Side Academy 4, Greensburg Central Catholic 1

Shady Side will take on Camp Hill on Saturday, at 11 a.m. in Hershey.

Game updates:

FT | #PIAA 1A GSOC Semis:
7-1 @shady_side (20-1) 4
7-2 @GCC_Centurions (16-5) 1

Shady Side (2017) will play for its 2nd PIAA title, Saturday at 11 a.m. against D-3 champ Camp Hill at HersheyPark Stadium. They met in the 2017 final, with SSA winning 4-0@TribLiveHSSN #TribHSSN pic.twitter.com/IdtAUC7mdr

— Kyle Dawson (@RealKyleDawson) November 14, 2019

HT | #PIAA 1A GSOC Semis
7-1 @shady_side 0
7-2 @GCC_Centurions 0

Shots on goal are 3-2 GCC. There haven’t been many real chances for other side. Skvorak has four saves, Lyndsey Szekely has two in goal for GCC @TribLiveHSSN #TribHSSN pic.twitter.com/VH9uQ0TrqG

— Kyle Dawson (@RealKyleDawson) November 13, 2019

33′ | Tatum Gretz directs a deflected corner high of the crossbar in the 33rd minute. That was the third corner for GCC. Still no score

Girls Class 2A

FINAL – North Catholic 2, Villa Maria 4   (at Slippery Rock).

Villa Maria take on Lansdale Catholic on Friday, at 11 a.m. in Hershey.

Game updates:

Villa Maria girls soccer is headed to Hershey!!!!!
The Victors win 4-2 over North Catholic and will play Lansdale Catholic for the PIAA Class 2A title at 11 am Friday at Hersheypark Stadium. @PrepVilla @VMASoccer pic.twitter.com/NLyvANrzwe

— Tom Reisenweber (@ETNreisenweber) November 14, 2019

HALF | Villa Maria 2, North Catholic 1

25′ | GOAL – Villa Maria – 2-1 – Ella Raimondi breaks through for Villa Maria, she nets a shot from outside the 18-yard box and the Victors take a one-goal lead.

13′ | GOAL – Villa Maria – 1-1 – Abby Godlewski hits a 30-yard free kick that ties up the game. A beautiful shot that slipped inside the left post.

8′ | North Catholic – 1-0 – Grace Billmann with the game’s first goal. Junior forward enters left side of the box and fires a shot past the VM goalie.

North Catholic jumps out to a 1-0 lead on Villa Maria with 31:57 left in the first half in PIAA Class 2A girls soccer.

— Tom Reisenweber (@ETNreisenweber) November 13, 2019