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Burrell’s Lydia Flanagan won the WPIBL girls singles championship Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.
In her first two years of high school competition, Burrell junior Lydia Flanagan was on the verge of claiming a WPIBL championship.
On Thursday, she took the final step.
Flanagan defeated Elizabeth Forward’s Kaylee Christeson, 175-159, in the finals of the WPIBL girls singles tournament at AMF Mt. Lebanon Lanes.
Flanagan qualified for the step-ladder finals in her first two years at Burrell, falling in the quarterfinals as a freshman and the semifinals as a sophomore.
The top six scorers from a three-game qualifying series advanced to the finals Thursday. Flanagan was fourth in qualifying with a 545 series, including a 202 in the third game. She defeated Apollo-Ridge’s Mia Ament in the quarterfinals, 173-137, and Latrobe Kayle Zuzak in the semifinals, 192-154.
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Freeport’s Mark Livingston took second in the WPIBL boys singles competition Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Nick Johnson edged Freeport’s Mark Livingston by four pins to capture the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Bowling League boys singles championship Wednesday at AMF Mt. Lebanon Lanes.
Johnson, the No. 2 seed for the bracketed playoffs, rolled a 195 in the finals to Livingston’s 191.
The Jaguars junior made a big leap in the standings after he placed 57th at last year’s WPIBL singles event at Sims Lanes in Beaver Falls.
In the semifinals, Johnson topped the No. 3 seed, East Allegheny’s Ian Baker, 202-182, and Livingston, the No. 5 seed, upended No. 1 seed Dominick Vallano from Hempfield, 181-167.