Sewickley Herald notebook: Quaker Valley adds to trophy case in fall season

By: Ray Fisher
Sunday, November 23, 2025 | 11:01 AM

It proved to be yet another championship season this fall for the Quaker Valley athletic program.

• The boys cross country team captured the WPIAL Class 2A championship after winning the Section 2 crown in Division II. The Quakers advanced to the PIAA finals where they placed second in 2A.

• QV junior Jonah Montagnese reeled in both the WPIAL and PIAA individual cross country titles in 2A with times of 15:08.7 and 16:00, respectively.

• The girls cross country team finished as the district runner-up in 2A.

• The girls tennis team hit its way to the WPIAL Class 2A championship after taking first place in Section 5.

• The boys soccer team won the Section 2-A crown with a 14-1-1 record. The Quakers compiled a 17-game unbeaten streak in 2025 and ended up 18-4-1 overall.

• The girls soccer team captured the Section 3-2A title with a 9-0-1 mark. The QV girls strung together a 13-game unbeaten streak in the regular season and wrapped up the year 16-4-1 overall.

• The boys golf team won the Section 9-2A championship.

High-scoring sisters

Did you know that Sewickley Academy’s high-energy junior Emma Eannarino is the younger sister of Libby Eannarino, who like Emma competed as a three-sport athlete for the Panthers?

Emma Eannarino led the girls basketball team in scoring last year before suffering a season-ending injury. She also led the girls soccer team offensively in 2025 with 33 goals from her forward position.

Eannarino gained some of her athletic instincts from her older sibling Libby, who was a team leader and district standout in girls basketball for two years at Sewickley after transferring from Upper St. Clair.

Libby currently is a sophomore at Vanderbilt after enjoying success with the Panthers as a three-sport athlete in soccer, basketball and lacrosse — also Emma’s three favorite sports.

Libby led the Sewickley girls basketball team in scoring for two seasons and was one of the district’s top scorers as a senior with a 21.5 ppg average. She competed in club lacrosse in college last year at the midfield/attack positions.

Several other players on this fall’s soccer team also compete in basketball for the Panthers. They include juniors Grace Jardini and Nalani Brayley, sophomore Renae Phillip-Knight and freshman Athena Ameredes.

Tall on talent

Height doesn’t make might in the Quaker Valley girls soccer program.

Senior midfielder Ari Bosh stands just 5-foot-2 while two other midfielders, juniors Rowan Wallace and Maddie Gatehouse are 5-foot and 5-1, respectively.

Eliza Rahm, a junior defender, is listed at 4-9 on the QV team roster.

Some of the taller girls who were integral players this season include senior defender Emma Currier (5-8), junior attacker Annabel Miko and sophomore attacker Lily Baker (both 5-7), sophomore D/MF Mia Duckstein (5-5) and sophomore goalkeeper Ava Hajok (5-6).

Winning tradition

The WPIAL football playoff schedule included a couple of matchups with teams that know how to win.

Four of the five programs with the most victories in league history — all with more than 700 victories — were paired off Nov. 7 in two games.

That included a Class 4A semifinal pitting WPIAL wins leader Aliquippa (797) against New Castle (769), the team with the third-most victories in league history. But also Jeannette (794), with the second-most wins, had a Class A quarterfinal against Clairton (748), which ranks fifth all-time.

Combined, the four programs also have won 55 district titles.

Winning on ice

Senior forward Max Modrovich had a hat trick and added an assist to lead Quaker Valley to a decisive 9-1 victory Nov. 17 over Meadville in a PIHL Class A hockey matchup.

Sophomore forward Matthias Lezama finished with two goals and three assists and senior forward Ben McHenry netted a goal and three assists for QV, which improved to 8-1 overall.

Charlie Pyle, a junior forward, senior forward Jace Vasbinder and Luke Koehler, a senior defenseman, rounded out the Quakers’ goal scoring. Pyle also had two assists as did senior forward Colin York.

Playoff victory

Sewickley Academy squeezed past Karns City, 2-1, Nov. 4 in the first round of the PIAA Class A girls soccer playoffs.

Emma Eannarino and senior forward Makenzie Dice were the stars of the game offensively for the Panthers with a goal apiece.

Defensively, juniors Grace Jardini and Josie Courtney, senior Bella Bellard and sophomore goalkeeper Gabby Edmunds stood out for Sewickley.

Did you know?

Did you know that the Sewickley Academy girls volleyball team closed out its inaugural 2025 season with a victory on the road against Northgate?

The Panthers defeated the host team by a 3-1 final score.

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