WL-S’s Chaley Wade drives to the basket against Jonathan Alder at WL-S on Thursday.
Photo by John Coffman Photography
Triad’s Abbey Overfield shoots over WL-S’s Ava Johnson during Saturday’s game at WL-S.
Photo by John Coffman Photography
WEST LIBERTY – Lilly Weaver scored a team-high 16 points as WL-S defeated Jonathan Alder, 53-37, in non-league girls basketball on Thursday.
For the Tigers (16-3), Ava Astorino had 14 points.
WL-S won the jayvee game, 43-41. Maddie McGill had 24 points for WL-S.
On Saturday, WL-S downed visiting Triad, 56-24, in OHC girls basketball.
For the Tigers (17-3, 13-2), Astorino had 15 points and Bailey Poppe added 13.
For the Cardinals (7-14, 4-12), Emma Ferguson had 11 points and Ashlyn McCoy added 7 rebounds.
WL-S won the two-quarter jayvee game, 22-15. For the Tigers, Maddie McGill had 10 points and for the Cardinals, Gracie Martin had 9 points.
UHS prevails
LONDON – Peyton Mounce had 33 points and 15 rebounds as Urbana beat London, 53-34, in CBC/KTD girls basketball on Saturday.
UHS led, 26-18, at the half.
The Hillclimbers are now 16-6, 6-3.
Indians win
MECHANICSBURG – Olivia Skillings surpassed the 1,000-point milestone for her career as Mechanicsburg upended West Jefferson, 69-30, in OHC girls basketball on Saturday.
Skillings scored a co-game-high 24 points while also recording five assists, six steals and four blocked shots and Addie DeLong had 24 points, four assists and five steals.
Skillings and DeLong are the only pair of classmates in Mechanicsburg basketball history (girls or boys) to reach 1,000 career points.
For the game, the Indians (18-1, 14-0) shot an even 50 percent from the floor (27 of 54), accounted for 19 assists among those 27 field goals and forced 29 West Jefferson turnovers (including 20 on steals).
Falcons fall
ST. PARIS – North Union knocked off Graham, 57-44, in CBC/MRD girls basketball on Saturday.
The Falcons trailed, 27-13, at the half.
Graham is now 11-10, 6-3.
JH basketball
Northeastern nipped WL-S, 23-22, in the second round of the OHC 7th grade girls basketball tournament.
For the Tigers (7-8), Karlee Lucas had 8 points.
WL-S defeated Fairbanks, 34-25, in the OHC 8th grade girls tournament championship game on Saturday. For the Tigers (17-0), Addi Wallen had 20 points.
