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Congratulations to Piper Coffield as she signed her NLI to continue her soccer career with
@IUHoosiers
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Reese Dunaway as she signed her NLI to continue her soccer career with
@StJohnsRedStorm
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Gwen Howell as she signed her NLI to continue her Soccer career with
@SpiderAthletics
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Olivia Wilson as she signed her NLI to continue her Soccer career with
@MariettaPioneer
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Eden Gerlach as she signed her NLI to continue her soccer career with
@BoroAthletics
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Mars Girls Soccer: Mars defeats Lower Dauphin, 2-0, to reach the PIAA 3A Semi-final game!
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Congratulations to Ava Balazentis as she signed her NLI to continue her soccer career with
@Rock_Athletics
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Mars Girls Soccer: Mars falls to the Moon Lady Tigers, 2-0. Best of luck to Moon in the PIAA 3A Championship Game on Friday. Congratulations to
@marsgirlssoccer
on a phenomenal run & 2022 season! Best of luck to our senior class in their future endeavors & soccer careers! 💙⚽️💛
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MARS BOYS’ LACROSSE:
⭐️PIAA 2A SEMI-FINALS⭐️
@planetslax
- 11
Lampeter-Strasburg - 7
Mars comes from behind to tie it up & go ahead in the 4th quarter to make it BACK to the PIAA STATE FINALS!!!!
@PIAASports
@MarsAreaSD
@WPIALacrosse
@PghLaxSource
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Congratulations to Maddie Wolf as she signed her NLI to continue her Soccer career with
@VassarAthletics
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Ava Lewis as she signed her NLI to continue her Soccer career with
@TribeAthletics
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlssoccer
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Ryan Ceh on joining the prestigious 1,000 point scoring club! Ryan finished his career with 1,007 points! ELITE!
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Time to make some more room in the trophy case!!!🏆🥇Mars does a clean sweep of the 2023 WPIAL 2A Lacrosse Championships! 🧹🧹
@MarsHSGirlsLax
wins their 2nd title in 3 years &
@planetslax
wins their 7th straight!!
#itsagreatdaytobeaplanet
👏🙌
@MarsAreaSD
@WPIALacrosse
@wpial7
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Check out Tasso Sfanos’ buzzer beater winning shot from tonight’s
@MarsHS_Hoops
game!!!
Sfanos answers for the win!
Mars wins it in incredible fashion, 73-72. A classic.
Sfanos finishes with 40 points.
@PghSportsNow
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🙏🏼⚽️ Many thanks to those who came out to support our boys’ & girls’ soccer teams in their home scrimmages today, as well as those who donated towards our collection to assist the victims of last weekend’s home explosions in Plum💜💛
#plumstrong
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ELITE start for the basketball programs!
2 tournament champs!
“The standard is the standard”
@MarsHS_Hoops
@marsbasketball_
@MarsAreaSD
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Our thoughts and prayers are with the Plum community.
At this Saturday’s soccer scrimmages, we will be collecting donations for those impacted for last weekends events.
@MarsAreaSD
@MarsSoccer1
@marsgirlssoccer
@GLCATATHLETICS
@SV_Sports
@wpial7
@TribSports
@PGSportsNow
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Mars Girls Soccer (
@marsgirlssoccer
) will face Moon on Tuesday, 11/15, in the PIAA 3A State Semifinal, in a rematch of the WPIAL 3A Championship ⚽️ Site & Time TBD
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Congratulations to Adam Rohrbaugh who will continue his academic and track & field career at Muskingum University!
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Congratulations to Connor Hartle who will continue his academic and football career at California University of Pennsylvania!
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Congratulations to our very own Bob Marcoux who was named the NFHS Section 2 Boys Lacrosse coach of the year!
Bob is as ELITE as they come!
@MarsAreaSD
@planetslax
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Our inaugural captain's breakfast!
The three parts of leadership:
1- Be the standard - lead by example
2- Earn trust - look out for each other and instill belief
3- Accountability - holding everyone to the standard
@MarsAreaSD
@PIAASports
@wpial7
@WPIAL_Insider
@PGSportsNow
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Our very own
@MarsHSGirlsLax
Head Coach, Abby Latona, was selected as the
@PositiveAthWPA
Most Positive Girls’ Coach for 2023!!
Abby is an incredible role model to our female athletes & truly embodies this award, with the lessons she teaches both on & off the field! Congrats!!!
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Huge congratulations to Tasso Sfanos, Ryan Ceh, Annalyn Issacs, and Olivia Donnelly on being named 1st team all-section.
We. Are. LIVE!
Here are your Big 56 all-section teams!
6A Boys:
6A Girls:
5A Boys:
5A Girls:
Congrats to all 1st-teamers, 2nd-teamers and honorable mention players!
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Some scenes from tonight’s
@MarsHS_Hoops
“Mars Madness” event, also featuring
@MarsHSCheer
& the Mars Dance Team! Awesome turnout from the community &
@mars_youth
!! What a way to kick off the 2022-2023 season!! 🏀🪐
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Mars goes two for two with WPIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS today!!!!
Your
@planetslax
team wins their SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE WPIAL 2A TITLE!!!!
Final:
Mars - 16
South Fayette - 7
@wpial7
@WPIALacrosse
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Rosie Pellegrino who will continue her academic and soccer career at Ashland University.
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Congratulations to Ryan Ceh and Cecilia Christy on their first team all section award at yesterdays Big 56 banquet!
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Our fall captains breakfast!
ELITE discussions on leadership and life lessons!
@MarsAreaSD
@wpial7
@PIAASports
@TribLiveHSSN
@ButlerEagle
@LatrobeBulletin
@PGVarsityXtra
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Recap of an ELITE night for the Fightin’ Planets:
1-
@MarsHS_Hoops
win over a top 5 team in the state
2-2022
@planetslax
state title team was honored
3- received a donation to the school
4- honored our officials for
#officialsappreciationweek
@PIAASports
@PGSportsNow
@TribSports
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Mars Girls Soccer: Mars leads Lower Dauphin 1-0 on a header by Gwen Howell! 30:48 remaining in the 1st half!
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We want to send a big thank you to our officials! You are the real heros and we appreciate all that you do!
@PIAASports
@wpial7
@MarsAreaSD
#officialsappreciationweek
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YOUR
@MarsHSGirlsLax
ARE WPIAL 2A CHAMPIONS!!!!!
Mars Girls’ Lacrosse erased a 5-goal deficit to tie it in regulation before winning in overtime!!!!!!!
Final (OT):
Mars - 10
Blackhawk - 9
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Congratulations to Emma Grell as she signed her NLI to continue her Lacrosse career with
@GUKnights
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlslax
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Kate McEnroe who will continue her academic and soccer career at Washington and Lee University!
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We want to send a big thank you to our officials! You are the real heros and we appreciate all that you do!
@PIAASports
@wpial7
@PGSportsNow
@TribSports
#officialsappreciationweek
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@marsgirlssoccer
defeats
@BradfordAreaHS
, 5-0, to claim a victory in the First Round of the PIAA Playoffs. Leading the offense for the Planets were Lewis, Balazentis & Gerlach with 1 goal each. Caringola lead the Planets with 2 goals. McEnroe & Goodworth secure the shutout!
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At last night’s game against South Fayette,
@MarsHSGirlsLax
Junior Captain, McKenna Merritt, hit her 150th career point AND scored her 100th career goal (on a behind-the-back shot to boot!)!!! Congratulations McKenna!!!! 👏👏👏
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Mars Girls Soccer: Mars leads Bradford 5-0 on a header from Eden Gerlach! 29:32 remaining in the 2nd half!
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MARS BOYS’ LACROSSE
⭐️PIAA 2A CHAMPIONSHIP⭐️
Marple Newtown - 11
@planetslax
- 10
Marple Newtown scores with 2 seconds remaining to go ahead with the game-winner. Congratulations to Marple Newtown & congratulations to our
@planetslax
team on a PHENOMENAL season! 👏💙💛
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MARS GIRLS’ LACROSSE:
⭐️ PIAA 2A Quarterfinals ⭐️
Bishop Shanahan - 10
@MarsHSGirlsLax
- 6
Not the outcome we hoped for but our girls fought hard!! Congratulations on a fantastic season & best of luck to our seniors!!! 💙💛
@PIAASports
@WPIALacrosse
@wpial7
@MarsAreaSD
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It’s time to pack the “Joe” as our Girls’ and Boys’ Lacrosse teams head to Joe Walton Stadium at Robert Morris University TOMORROW to each compete for a WPIAL 2A Championship!!!
6pm:
@MarsHSGirlsLax
vs. Blackhawk
8pm:
@planetslax
vs. South Fayette
Come out & support our teams!
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Congratulations to Charlotte Stamper as she signed her NLI to continue her Lacrosse career with
@GoDuquesne
ELITE lives here!
@marsgirlslax
@MarsAreaSD
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🏀MARS BOYS’ BASKETBALL🏀
WPIAL 5A First Round
Final Score:
@MarsHS_Hoops
- 76
Bethel Park - 40
Mars High Scorers:
Sfanos - 26 pts
Ceh - 18 pts
Bethel Park High Scorers:
Guffey - 14 pts
Brown - 12 pts
Next Game:
📅Wed, 2/22
🆚Penn Hills or Trinity
📍& ⏰ TBD
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Congratulations to Annalyn Isaacs as she signed her NLI to continue her softball & basketball career with
@mountaloysius
ELITE lives here!
@marsbasketball_
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Lauren Atwell as she signed her NLI to continue her volleyball career with
@GUKnights
ELITE lives here!
@marsvball_
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to
@MarsHS_Hoops
’
@TassoSfanos
on being named the Post Gazette Athlete of the Week! 🏀
#ELITE
Athletes of the week: Peters Township's Gemma Walker and Mars' Tasso Sfanos
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🏀MARS BOYS’ BASKETBALL🏀
‼️Final Score‼️
@MarsHS_Hoops
- 73
@NHAthletics_
- 72
Mars High Scorers:
Sfanos - 40 pts (Career High!)
Black - 13 pts
North Hills High Scorers:
Parham - 33 pts
Z. Pollaro - 14
J. Pollaro - 10
Next Game:
📆Sun, 1/29
🆚Baldwin
📍Montour HS
⏰12:30pm
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🥍MARS GIRLS’ LACROSSE🥍
Final Score:
@MarsHSGirlsLax
- 18
Chartiers Valley - 8
Stats:
Merritt - 5G
Stamper - 3G, 2A
T. McGrath - 3G, 1A
Kolson - 3G
McNulty - 2G, 1A
Cote - 2G
Goalie, Ella Roach, with 12(!!!) saves!!!🔥
HUGEEE win by
@MarsHSGirlsLax
tonight!! Way to go! 👏👏
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Congratulations to Coach Petruska on a fantastic high school coaching career!!! 👏👏 Your years of dedication have made
@marsbasketball_
the successful program that it is! 🏀 Enjoy your well-deserved retirement!! 💙🪐💛
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Girls Soccer Playoff Information:
@marsgirlssoccer
🆚
@MoonTigersAD
🗓 Tuesday, November 15th
⏰ 6:30pm
📍North Allegheny Senior High School
▶️ Reminder: All tickets will need to be purchased online at ! No ticket sales will be available at the gate!
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👏👏 Congratulations to Mars junior, Evan Kurpakus, on claiming the title of WPIAL 3A Boys’ High Jump Champion!!!!🥇🏆
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐖𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐋/
@UPMCSportsMed
𝟑𝐀 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐬' 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 & 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐩
🥇 Evan Kurpakus,
@MASDFP
(6-01.00)
🥈 Orein McBridge-Cager,
@GTathletics1
(6-01.00)
🥉 Cody Mankowski,
@WestASports
(6-01.00)
#WPIAL
| 🎽🏆
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Congratulations to Cole Yoshioka who will continue his academic and lacrosse career at Wagner College!
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MARS GIRLS’ LACROSSE:
⭐️WPIAL SEMI-FINALS⭐️
@MarsHSGirlsLax
- 17
Chartiers Valley - 8
Next Stop: WPIAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!
Congratulations to the Mars Girls’ Lacrosse team on making it to the WPIAL Final! Opponent & date/time TBD!
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Our spring captain's breakfast!
Components of leadership discussed:
1- Be the standard - lead by example
2- Earn trust - look out for each other and instill belief
3- Accountability - holding everyone to the standard
@MarsAreaSD
@PGVarsityXtra
@TribLiveHSSN
@wpial7
@PIAASports
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Mars Girls Soccer:
@marsgirlssoccer
leads Bradford 4-0 at halftime! Ava Balazentis & Ava Lewis score 1 each for the Fightin’ Planets. Jenna Caringola leads the Planets with 2 goals!
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Boys Lacrosse PIAA CHAMPIONSHIP:
Saturday - 6/17
Location - Penn State University - Panzer Field
Panzer Stadium, Dauer Dr, State College, PA 16801
Opponent - Marple Newtown
Time - 2:30 PM
Tickets - Online only
Streaming:
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🥍 At last night’s game against Knoch,
@MarsHSGirlsLax
Junior, Mya Cote, scored her 100th career goal!! 👏👏 Congratulations Mya!!!
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🏀MARS BOYS’ BASKETBALL🏀
Final Score:
@MarsHS_Hoops
- 82
West Allegheny - 56
Mars High Scorers:
Sfanos - 30 pts
Black - 18 pts
Ceh - 18 pts
West Allegheny High Scorers:
Bell - 14 pts
Blatz - 11 pts
Next Game:
📅 Tues, 1/10
📍AT South Fayette
⏰ 6/7:30pm
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🏀MARS BOYS’ BASKETBALL🏀
Final Score:
@MarsHS_Hoops
- 71
Chartiers Valley - 34
Mars High Scorers:
Sfanos - 31 pts
Ceh - 17 pts
Black - 12 pts
Char Valley High Scorers:
Sleva - 14 pts
Next Game:
📅 Saturday, 1/14
🆚 New Castle
📍 At Westminster College
⏰ 6:30pm
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Gwen is the ultimate role model!
We are beyond proud of all of her accomplishments and excited to watch her next phase of life!!
#ELITE
OUT OF THIS WORLD🌎🚀
@gwenhowell2023
of
@marsgirlssoccer
is the 2⃣0⃣2⃣3⃣ High School Hoops
@BergerandGreen
Scholar Athlete of the Year‼️ ✏️
@MASDFP
Howell is a
@SpiderSoccer
commit ⚽️, has a 4.6 GPA & is the senior class president.
FULL STORY: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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New Story: Zach Stitt hired as new Girls Basketball Coach
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Mars
@marsgirlslax
volunteered at Mars Home for Youth to help sort and organize gifts/items/donations to local families and children in the community.
@MarsAreaSD
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Congratulations to Mya Cote who will continue her academic and lacrosse career at St. Joseph's University.
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In addition to their history-making, first ever Section title, the boys’ volleyball team continues to make history with the first PIAA playoff berth in program history!! 👏👏👏
Congratulations Mars Boys’ Volleyball & let’s keep it rolling into the state tournament!!!☄️🏐🔥
New Story: Boys Varsity Volleyball beats Latrobe 3 - 2
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Congratulations to Zoey Krock who will continue her academic and hockey career at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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🔛 to the Quarterfinals!🏀
#7
seed,
@MarsHS_Hoops
, will take on
#2
seed, Penn Hills, in the WPIAL 5A Quarterfinals on WEDNESDAY!
Tickets must be purchased online at
📅Wed, 2/22
🆚Penn Hills
📍Chartiers Valley HS
⏰8pm
@MarsAreaSD
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Our
@planetslax
Senior Captains help to continue to recognize these unsung heroes during
@PIAASports
Officials’ Appreciation Week! 👏👏
@MarsAreaSD
@wpial7
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Congratulations to Taylor Schmitt who will continue her academic and softball career at Seton Hill University.
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🏀MARS GIRLS’ BASKETBALL🏀
WPIAL 5A First Round Playoff
Final Score:
@marsbasketball_
- 56
Lincoln Park - 29
Mars High Scorers:
Cashdollar - 17 pts
Donnelly - 17 pts
Lincoln Park High Scorers:
Scott - 12 pts
Next Game:
📅Fri, 2/24
🆚Oakland Catholic
📍& ⏰ TBD
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Big weekend for our wrestlers at sectionals:
Liam Hein - 1st place - 145
Gus Aubrecht - 5th place - 215
Cooper Courson - 6th place - 160
@MarsAreaSD
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ELITE
MARS PROUD
Congratulations to
@elliecoffield1
on being named this month’s GBU Life Community Champion ✨
#H2P
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New Story: Girls Varsity brings home the Slippery Rock Tip-Off Championship behind Vargo and Moore's double digit night!
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🏃♂️🏃♀️Mars Varsity T&F athletes competed in the TSTCA Outdoor Championship meet yesterday! Mars had a great showing, with TWO athletes earning 1st places!!
🥇Kasra Ghadimi won Pole Vault with a height of 13 feet!
🥇Jacob Thompson won the 200m dash with a time of 22.05 seconds!
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Our 7/8 grade wrestling team finished their season this week, ending the year with an overall record of 11-9!!!
🤼♂️👏🏼 Congratulations to Coach Chase Komara, Coach Steve Joseph & the rest of the squad on a fantastic season!
@MarsAreaSD
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At this Friday’s
@MarsHSGirlsLax
Game, the team will be recognizing the Mars Youth Lacrosse players, as well as hosting their annual Fundraising Game!
This year, the team will be donating all proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation!! Wear your BLUE & join us! 💙
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Our 7th grade boys’ basketball team played their final game of the season today, ending their season with an overall record of 15-5!
Congratulations to Coach Mark Murphy & the team on a successful season! 🏀👏🏼
@MarsAreaSD
@MarsHS_Hoops
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👏👏 Congratulations also going out to our other All-Section honorees!
@marsbasketball_
:
▪️Second Team:
Lauren Atwell
Vita Vargo
▪️Honorable Mention:
Alexis Cashdollar
@MarsHS_Hoops
:
Second Team:
Remi Black
Awesome job to these Fightin’ Planets!! 🎉🪐
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New Story: Girls Varsity Soccer beats Montour 2 - 0
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Congratulations to Emma McCosby who will continue her academic and volleyball career at Westminster College!
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Best of luck to our athletes competing in this weekend’s PIAA Championships in Shippensburg!
Jacob Thompson will be competing in the 200, 400 & 4x400. Jeremy Stevenson, Nico D’Angelo & Hayden Mayer will also compete in the 4x400. Evan Kurpakus will compete in the High Jump!
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Congratulations to Gael Avalos who will continue this academic and lacrosse career at Immaculata University!
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Members from Mars Youth Girls’ Lacrosse were recognized before the
@MarsHSGirlsLax
Varsity game tonight at the team’s annual Youth Night! 🥍
With this many promising athletes in the youth program, the future looks bright for Mars Girls’ Lacrosse! 💪😎
@MarsAreaSD
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We want to send a big thank you to ELITE officials! You are the real heros and we appreciate all that you do!
@PIAASports
@wpial7
@PGSportsNow
@TribSports
@22ThePoint
#officialsappreciationweek
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Mars Girls Soccer: Mars leads Bradford 1-0 on a goal by Jenna Caringola! 33:14 remaining in the 1st half!
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Congratulations to Jack McKenzie who will continue his academic and lacrosse career at UMBC.
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