Tennis, Track & Basketball ‘22
We’ve spent a good amount of time recently focusing on local high school baseball here on “The Shop” as well as on the Astound TV Network, so I wanted to be sure we touch on some of the other great sports action that has been going on in our coverage areas over the last couple of weeks in the other ATVN viewing areas.
First of all, hats off to our Lehigh Valley tennis champions as the District XI Doubles Finals was recently held at Parkland High School.
In the 2A Finals, the number three seed, Armaan Makwana and Anthony Barczynski (Bethlehem Catholic HS) defeated Will Menichelli and Ford Koch (Moravian Academy) with final scores of 6-0, 6-3.
In the 3A Finals, the top-ranked team of Dan Zolatarev and Fyodor D’Souza (Parkland) defeated #2 Shayaan Farhad and Roman Farhad (Liberty), 6-2, 6-3.
Congratulations to these local tennis champions!
Other local teams claiming District XI titles in our coverage area over the last week include the Northampton volleyball and the Central Catholic and Freedom boys and Emmaus and Southern Lehigh girls lacrosse teams. The Vikings and Spartans were both the defending champions.
For both Freedom and Emmaus, it was their first district title in their programs’ history (for Freedom, it was the first time a school in Northampton County won a district championship). We’ve been in contact with the head coaches of both the Patriots’ and Green Hornets’ programs and plan to have them on the June 9th edition of “SportsTalk” next Thursday on ATVN.
Baseball and softball champions will also be crowned over the next few days.
In the DMV, the Washington, DC public schools athletic department announced the following honors for their track-and-field teams:
Girls Outdoor Track Runner of the Year: Jacqueline Braxton – Roosevelt HS
Boys Outdoor Track Runner of the Year: Jahari Miller – Wilson HS
Girls Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year: Nadia Lytle – SWW HS
Boys Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year: Morris Walker – SWW HS
Also, congratulations to McKinley High School for winning the 2022 team boys track championship and to Wilson for winning the girls title.
Last but not least, the eastern Pennsylvania outdoor summer basketball season tipped off a few weeks ago. Here are some pictures that I took on the courts (see if you recognize any of these local athletes in action).
Keep checking back to the “SportsTalk Shop,” throughout the spring and summer months as we continue to follow the sports action in our Pennsylvania and Washington, DC viewing areas.
We’ll also have more end-of-the-school year honors, all-star listings and awards here at “The Shop” as they become available over the next several weeks.
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