North Allegheny Sweeps Past Norwin for 6th Straight WPIAL Title

By: HSSN Staff
Saturday, May 26, 2012 | 8:16 AM

North Allegheny won their sixth consecutive AAA boys volleyball championship defeating Norwin 25-16, 25-21, 25-21 on Friday night at CHartiers Valley High School. 

The Tigers trailed only 4 times all night.  North Allegheny and Norwin were tied 10-10 when the Tigers would score 6 straight points from kilss by Zach Hayes and Zack Shaw and a couple of blocks from Shaw as well as Norwin would never recover in game one. 

Game 2 was more of Shaw and Tommy Kiesling for the tigers with numerous kills that Norwin could not catch up to.  North Allegheny could not pull away because of the play of Nick Idele. 

Game 3 was close through out  Jeff Springer for the Knights would keep things close.  The score was 22-21 after two Springer kills but a service error and then Tommy Kiesling would put things away for the Tigers to end the match.  

Tommy Kiesling and Zach Shaw led the Tigers with 14 kills and Zack Hayes had 5 kills and 2 blocks.  For the Knights Nick Idele had 13 kills while Jeff Springer had 9 kills.  Both Teams already qualified for the PIAA tournament which starts Tuesday.

North Allegheny  :  25 – 25 – 25
Norwin  :  16 – 21 – 21