Montour's boys basketball team closed out regular-season play with an easy win over Ringgold while Bishop Canevin lost to New Castle. In girls action, Moon downed Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and Montour lost to Canon-McMillan.
The fields for this year's WPIAL boys and girls basketball tournaments were unveiled Monday and the Montour boys team is the No. 1 seed in the Class 5A bracket. Other boys teams competing are Moon, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Carlynton and Bishop Canevin. Local girls teams are OLSH, Moon and Bishop Canevin.
The Montour Spartans, the WPIAL's top-ranked Class 5 boys basketball team, finished its section schedule unbeaten with a win over Moon Friday night. Bishop Canevin also completed its section schedule unbeaten.
Jake Johnson and Tiernan McCullough each scored 15 points to spark Our Lady of the Sacred Heart to a 54-26 victory over South Side Thursday night in a boys basketball game.
Wednesday was a rough night for West Hills area high school basketball teams, as Bishop Canevin and Montour girls teams lost, as did Sto-Rox's boys team.
Mikey Jenkins and Ishaga Barre scored 12 points apiece to lead Carlynton to a 61-48 victory over Washington Tuesday night in a WPIAL boys basketball game. The win gave the Cougars a berth in the WPIAL tournament. Montour, Moon and OLSH also won. (Photos)
Montour withstood a late rally from Hoover and posted a 65-60 victory Sunday at the Battle of the Berkey in Smithville, Ohio. Kaleb Platz scored 23 points and was named the player of the game.