Our Lady of the Sacred Heart girls basketball coach Don Eckerle notched his 400th career victory Sunday night, and even going on age 72, he has no intentions of hanging up his whistle any time soon.
Moon Area's boys won its second tournament game in two outings in the OHSBCA Shot Clock Tournament in Canton, Ohio. Montour evened its Tampa Bay Invitational record.
Winchester Thurston went to overtime to edge Carlynton in the consolation game of the Aquinas Academy Tournament Sunday. Moon Area's girls prevailed in the Butler Tournament.
MJ Thomas had a big second half to help Sto-Rox to a victory over New Brighton in the Ambridge Tipoff Holiday tournament. Moon also came away with a tournament win while Montour fell in Florida.
Michael Santicola scored 11 points in the third quarter and Moon Area turned up the defensive pressure in that quarter to pull away from host Bishop Canevin in a boys basketball game Monday night.
Claudia Ierullo scored nine of her 23 points in the first quarter, and that proved to be the difference as Our Lady of the Sacred Heart went on to beat Quaker Valley Monday night in a girls basketball game at Cornell High School.
Moon Area coach Jeff Berghoff welcomes a large contingent that features a number of qualifiers from last year's WPIAL meet and a talented newcomer or two.