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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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Plum freshmen Sam Snyder (left) and Antonino Walker (right) look toward coach Mike Supak during a practice on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021.
The Plum wrestling team turns its focus this week from team competition to individual accomplishments with subsection and section tournaments taking center stage throughout the WPIAL.
The Mustangs were slated to wrestle at the Class AAA Section 1B tournament Wednesday which feeds surviving qualifiers to Saturday’s main Section 1 tournament at Kiski Area.
Wednesday subsection matches were to be contested past this week’s deadline.
A number of Plum wrestlers established themselves throughout the team duals and helped the team compile a 9-6 overall record and a 3-2 mark in section matches.