Local Sports

The Pleasant Valley girls' soccer team completed their first task for the week.

Now, the Lady Bears can turn their focus to their second and final step.

Pleasant Valley won the rubber match with Pocono Mountain East Tuesday night, as the Bears defeated the Cardinals 2-0 in the Mountain Valley Conference semi-finals. The Bears scored twice in the first half, including one with 11 seconds left, and will now play for their sixth conference title in seven years.

Northern Lehigh scored a run in the 10th inning to defeat Catasauqua and clinch the Colonial League North Division championship.

In other action Monday, Northwestern and Tamaqua earned baseball wins while Pleasant Valley's softball team posted a victory.

BASEBALL

No. Lehigh-Catasauqua

Northern Lehigh clinched the Colonial League North Division title with a 3-2 extra-inning win over Catty.

Jake Kern delivered with the game-winning RBI-single in the top of the tenth. He finished the day 2-for-4 and also earned the save.

On paper, the Mountain Valley Conference baseball match-up between Pleasant Valley and Lehighton had playoff implications all over it.

Pleasant Valley entered yesterday's regular season game against the Tribe with an overall record of 14-3 and 8-1 in the MVC and was sitting atop the District 11 Class AAAA rankings.

Lehighton, on the other hand, had a 14-4 overall record, an 8-2 league record and was first in the District 11 Class AAA rankings.

Last year's Colonial League All-League Meet was a coming out party for Palmerton's Kelsey Hay.

Then a freshman, Hay ended up as the Colonial champion in both the shot put (32 feet, six inches) and javelin (109 feet) at the meet held at Bangor Memorial Park.

The Colonial championships return to Bangor on Thursday, and Hay is back as a sophomore to defend her league titles in both events.

"It was quite a feat for Kelsey to go out as a freshman and become a league champion in the shot and javelin like that," said Palmerton coach Mike Gombert.