Tribune-Review
WPIAL basketball coverage by TribHSSN.
With about 30 seconds until half, Mt. Lebanon decided to hold for the final shot, but Seneca Valley wasn’t in a wait-and-see mood.
Connor Lyczek converted a steal near midcourt into a breakaway layup and teammate Caiden Oros followed with a steal and layup seconds later as Seneca Valley played like a team hungry for its first playoff win in eight years.
“One hundred percent, we were winning a playoff game before we graduated,” Cole Brooks said of him and Lyczek, the team’s two seniors.
Lyczek scored 24 points and Brooks had 18 as the ninth-seeded Raiders turned any lingering frustration into all-out aggression in Tuesday night’s 72-54 first-round victory at No. 8 Mt. Lebanon in the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs. The postseason win was Seneca Valley’s first since 2013.