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Here are boxscores and highlights from Monday’s baseball and softball action.

Baseball boxscores
Baseball highlights
Softball boxscores
Softball highlights

– Tom Reisenweber

High schools across the country are looking for ways to cut costs, including cutting sports all together. In McKinney, Texas, school administrators have found a way to save thousands of dollars. High school head coaches are being required to drive the team bus to and from away games. All coaches will receive training to drive a bus and will be paid $40 each time they sit behind the wheel. If a coach isn’t trained and won’t drive the bus, they won’t be able to coach. Click here for the blog item from the Dallas Morning News.

– Tom Reisenweber

Thank you for your patience through some technical difficulties this weekend. The Breakout Player of the Week voting for all four polls will extend to Wednesday night at 11:59 p.m. this week because of the lost voting time. The baseball and softball winners will still be featured in Friday’s paper and the track and field winners will be in Saturday’s edition.

Former Fort LeBoeuf wrestling coach Ryan Yates, who led the Bisons for most of their 2007-08 season and all of 2008-09, has resigned from that same position at Burrell.

Yates, 28, wrestled for the WPIAL power in high school before competing at Edinboro University, where he recently received his master’s degree and principal’s certification. He took over the Bucaneers from longtime coach Chris Como, who served as an assistant for the 2010-11 season.

– Mike Copper

Cathedral Prep’s Tyler Parsons and General McLane’s Caleb Baker were the only first-round winners of the 14 District 10 entries who began Thursday’s PIAA Class AAA wrestling tournament.

The district didn’t have a single winner until Parsons survived a 2-1 overtime tiebreaker against Southern Lehigh’s Matt Gotzon at 145 pounds. The Ramblers senior will face Nick Catalano of Canon-McMillan in Friday afternoon’s championship quarterfinals.

Baker salvaged the district’s poor showing with a 3-1 decision over Williamsport’s Tim Maeshack at heavyweight. The Lancers senior continues his bid for a second straight state medal with Friday morning’s championship quarterfinal against Chambersburg’s Dawson Peck.

Thursday’s district results from the AAA meet are listed below.

– Mike Copper

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Thanks for checking the Varsity Blog for updates from the District 10 swim meet at Behrend’s Junker Center. Results will be posted as soon as possible.

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York Catholic, the team Villa Maria defeated the past two years in the PIAA Class AA championship, looks like it will be returning to State College once again. The Fighting Irish (28-0), the No. 1 team in the state, captured its six straight D-3 championship on Thursday with a 61-45 win over fellow eastern power Delone Catholic.

The scary thing about York Catholic this season is the fact that Vanderbilt recruit Kady Schrann is only one of several big-time scorers. In fact, Schrann (11 points) was outscored by teammates Rachel Forjan (18) and Morgan Klunk (16) against Delone Catholic. Click here for the game story from the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

– Tom Reisenweber

Warren swimming Cameron Daniels has been removed from the Breakout Boys Swimmer of the Week poll because he had already won the award previously this season. Athletes are eligible to win the award one time per season.

Fans are encouraged to send in nominations each week for the Breakout Player of the Week poll. Voting will continue until Tuesday night at 11:59 p.m.

Here are boxscores and highlights from Saturday’s basketball action.

Boys boxscores
Girls boxscores
Boys highlights
Girls highlights

– Tom Reisenweber

Here are links to athletes of the week, notebooks and more from this week’s print edition of Varsity.

Male Athlete of the Week
Female Athlete of the Week
Team of the Week
District 10 by the numbers
No. 1 spotlight with Fort LeBoeuf’s Brandon Puckly
All-sports notebook
Basketball notebook
Wrestling postseason preview

– Tom Reisenweber

Here are links to everything in this week’s edition of Varsity.

Male Athlete of the Week
Female Athlete of the Week
Team of the Week
No. 1 spotlight with Iroquois’ Alaina Davison
District 10 by the numbers
All-sports notebook
Varsity Cup standings
Duane Rankin’s look at athletes making the choice to stay at home or go away for college

– Tom Reisenweber

Zac Peters

Peters is a senior leader of the Grapepickers, and it showed last week when he had four wins in each of North East’s two dual victories.

He opened the week by winning the 100-yard freestyle (54.28 seconds) and 200-yard freestyle (2:01.52) in the Pickers’ 100-50 victory over Girard on Jan. 10. He also swam on the winning 200 and 400 freestyle relays.

In a 100-73 victory over General McLane on Jan. 13, he finished first in the 100 butterfly (1:02.56) and 200 free (2:06.03) and was a member of the winning 200 medley and 200 free relays as the ’Pickers improved to 4-3 in Region 2.

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