Kori Barrett tied a school-record with six three-pointers and had a game-high 19 points as Kenton pulled away from Lima Central Catholic 54-25 in the Lady Wildcats’ season-opening basketball contest Saturday night.

On Friday night, Upper Sandusky blew out New Riegel behind a 32-point performance by Abigail Fogle. On Saturday night, the Rams used balance to defeat Riverdale, 59-44, in the Falcons’ season opener. Fogle scored 14 points to lead four players in double figures.

DOLA — Toledo Christian rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to spoil Hardin Northern’s home opener with a 56-43 victory in non-league girls basketball action Saturday night.

ADA — Junior Nate Burger scored a career-high 22 points in a losing effort as the Ohio Northern men's basketball team, fell to visiting Wisconsin-Whitewater 87-72 on Saturday afternoon.

MOUNT VICTORY — Ridgemont girls basketball coach Tim Weyant couldn’t have asked for a much better start to the season than he got from his team Friday night. The Gophers outscored Ridgedale 20-5 over the first six minutes of the season-opener for both teams and went on to a 67-58 victory.

SPENCERVILLE — Spencerville outscored Hardin Northern by seven points in the third quarter on the way to a 53-48 victory over Hardin Northern in season-opening girls basketball action Friday night.

Hanna Legge has been working toward earning a college softball scholarship for a long time. All that work paid off recently as the Kenton High School senior signed a national letter of intent to play next year at Urbana University.

Several area high schools are in action as the girls basketball season tips off tonight and Saturday. Ridgemont begins the 2016-17 season at home tonight as it hosts Ridgedale in the second game of a season-opening tournament at 8 p.m. Fairbanks and Elgin will play in the first game of the night at 6 p.m.

ADA — Britt Lauck poured in a team-high 20 points and added a career-best eight assists as the No. 23-ranked Ohio Northern women defeated Defiance 82-58 on Tuesday. The Polar Bears improve to 4-0 overall, while the Yellow Jackets fall to 1-2.

With the regular season starting this weekend, Ridgemont and Kenton got together for a final girls basketball scrimmage Tuesday night.