Grizzles Dominate Legends in Explosive Final 48!
SPRING MILLS, Pa. – The United High School boys basketball team’s historic season concluded Tuesday night in the PIAA Class 2A semifinal round, as Old Forge scored the game’s first 11 points and relied on the two-pronged scoring production by guard Cameron Parker and 6-foot-6 inside presence Logan Fanning. Parker (36 points) and Fanning (22) combined for all but six of the Blue Devils’ points in a 64-48 victory over the previously undefeated Lions at Penns Valley Junior-Senior High School.
PHOTO GALLERY | United boys historic run ends in 64-48 state semifinal loss to Old Forge “Right now, it doesn’t feel very good,” United coach Matt Rodkey said after his District 6-2A and Heritage Conference champions concluded a 30-1 season one game shy of the state final, “but we told the kids they’re going to look back on this and they’re going to think of a lot of positives. The feeling they have right now isn’t the one they wanted. “It’s going to be something that a week, a month, a year down the road, when they look back (they will realize),” he added.
“The same for me, I couldn’t have asked for more. “I’m so blessed with the kids we have, the coaches and everybody buying into our system. “Our community, the following, my family – I’m so blessed and honored to be their coach.
It hurts right now, but this was a pretty monumental, historic team. ” Dmitri Worthington, Camren Krushnowaski United’s Dmitri Worthington (right) works his way around Old Forge’s Camren Krushnowaski during a PIAA Class 2A semifinal playoff game at Penns Valley Area High School in Spring Mills, PA. , Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
After going winless in five previous state playoff tournament appearances, United won in each of the first three rounds of this season’s 2A bracket. Rodkey’s team won its first 30 games – a program-best mark. District 2 champion Old Forge (22-6) will face District 7 champion Sewickley Academy, a 64-39 winner over District 10 Mercyhurst Prep in Tuesday’s other semifinal.
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