Moon baseball receives bye, OLSH volleyball plays tonight
The spring sports postseason has arrived for WPIAL schools, but with limited participation from area teams.
Cornell's dramatic win over OLSH locked up its postseason spot, but only one other team on the diamond -- Moon baseball -- reached this year's postseason.
Despite finishing as the section runner-up, the Tigers (16-4, 9-3 Section 3-AAA) were rewarded with the No. 3 seed and a first-round bye in the WPIAL Class AAA playoffs, due in large part to a strong non-section schedule and a win over top-seeded West Allegheny.
OLSH's boys volleyball team also reached the postseason with a 5-5 record in Section 1-AA, good enough for a third-place tie. The Chargers face Section 3-AA runner-up Derry in the first round at Fox Chapel, tonight at 6 p.m.
"We set a goal to reach the playoffs at the start of the year," OLSH coach Mike McDonald said. "I don't think we've arrived quite yet, but we set this goal and we are where we expected to be."
"Derry is very similar to us. It will almost be like a mirror image across the net. They're very young and have decent skill, but they're looking for consistency."
The winner of the OLSH/Derry contest will face No. 2 seed Latrobe in the quarterfinals on Monday.
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