Moon Area sophomore Haley Smarsh will look to make it two straight championships at Saturday's WPIAL Girls Wrestling Individual Championships, held at North Allegheny High School. Smarsh is the top seed at 130 pounds while Montour's Kristen Walzer is seeded No. 2 in her 100-pound weight class.
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 Moon Area boys and girls swim teams both lost to Seneca Valley Thursday night, a week after both squads beat Butler. Moon will host Pine-Richland Thursday in the final dual meet of the year and then host the Midwestern Athletic Conference meet Friday and Saturday.
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.
Jaedin Griggs scored 26 points and Maria Depner added 20 as Moon Area downed Montour, 58-45, Thursday night in a WPIAL Class 5A Section 3 matchup at Montour. In other games, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and Bishop Canevin won.
Despite getting three victories by fall, Carlynton dropped a 41-24 decision to Brooke High School of West Virginia in a non-section dual wrestling meet Wednesday night. Carlynton's Braiden Sudor earned his 100th career win. In other action, Moon claimed a 35-29 victory over Butler.