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Tribune-Review
WPIBL
Burrell’s Lydia Flanagan won the WPIBL girls singles championship Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.
In her first two years of high school competition, Burrell junior Lydia Flanagan was on the verge of claiming a WPIBL championship.
On Thursday, she took the final step.
Flanagan defeated Elizabeth Forward’s Kaylee Christeson, 175-159, in the finals of the WPIBL girls singles tournament at AMF Mt. Lebanon Lanes.
Flanagan qualified for the step-ladder finals in her first two years at Burrell, falling in the quarterfinals as a freshman and the semifinals as a sophomore.
The top six scorers from a three-game qualifying series advanced to the finals Thursday. Flanagan was fourth in qualifying with a 545 series, including a 202 in the third game. She defeated Apollo-Ridge’s Mia Ament in the quarterfinals, 173-137, and Latrobe Kayle Zuzak in the semifinals, 192-154.