KENTON — The Kenton Wildcats jumped out to a 10-point halftime lead and went on to defeat the St. Marys girls basketball team, 61-46, on Thursday night. Kelly Heitkamp, Ashleigh Falk and Molly Albert scored 10 points apiece to lead the Roughriders. St. Marys fell to 0-5 on the season and 0-2 in the Western Buckeye League. The Riders host Sidney Lehman Catholic next Thursday at 6 p.m. Kenton improved to 3-1 on the season and 1-1 in the WBL.
A decade ago this week, the St. Marys Lady Roughriders locked horns with the Ottawa-Glandorf Titans in a battle of unbeatens as far as the Western Buckeye League was concerned.
Marcus Reineke, Cedarville
Reineke, a Cedarville freshman and New Knoxville grad, scored seven points, grabbed a rebound and dished out an assist in Cedarville’s 83-68 loss to Kentucky Wesleyan on Saturday in Owensboro, Kentucky. Reineke has played in all nine Yellow Jacket games and is averaging 7.1 points per game with a 51.7 percent shooting percentage from beyond the three-point arc (15-of-29).Cedarville is 6-3 on the season and will be at Southern Indiana on Saturday in Evansville.
For a few minutes midway through the second quarter everything St. Henry tossed at the basket seemed to splash through the net.
That big second quarter surge lifted the Redskins to a 73-57 win over the St. Marys boys basketball team on Friday night at Murotech Court in St. Marys.
NEW KNOXVILLE — For most of the first half the New Knoxville Rangers basketball team controlled the action against the Waynesfield-Goshen Tigers Friday night as they went to halftime up by 15 points.