Kenton boys basketball coach Matt McCullough felt his team had a good chance to pick up its first Western Buckeye League win in 15 tries dating back to the 2014-15 season when St. Marys visited KHS on Friday night. But the Roughriders had other ideas as they put some space on the scoreboard between themselves and the Wildcats with a 10-3 second-quarter run and then held Kenton off the rest of the way for a 63-54 victory.

MOUNT VICTORY — Trading leads for much of the first half, Ridgemont and Upper Scioto Valley appeared to be headed for a shootout in boys basketball action Friday night. But after a stretch of a combined five three-pointers in-a-row from both sides, USV made an offensive adjustment and finished the half on an 11-0 run.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — The heavyweights traded their share of blows in Arlington’s 55-49 victory over Riverdale on Friday night. Noah Hough made 9 of 11 foul shots, scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Falcons (2-8, 0-5 Blanchard Valley Conference), but he was bested by Logan Speyer, who had seven boards with 18 points, including four big ones in the fourth quarter to help the Red Devils (4-5, 2-3 BVC) pull ahead on the road against a rival.

ST. PARIS — Graham outscored Ben Logan in all four quarters on the way to a 62-38 Central Buckeye Conference boys basketball victory over the Raiders on Friday night. The host Falcons took a 20-12 lead after one quarter before stretching it to 29-17 at halftime and 49-27 after three quarters.

DOLA — Lima Temple Christian defeated Hardin Northern 57-49 in a Northwest Central Conference boys hardwood matchup on Friday night. The Polar Bears, who were paced by Zach Wilhelm’s 13 points and 5 rebounds, drop to 2-8 overall and 1-2 in NWCC play.

The Black team defeated the White team by two points in Masonic Pool Tournament play on Thursday night. The White team now leads the tournament by five points. High runs were by Russ Blue 53, Clarence Hensel 46, Gene Cook 46-54-47, Murrell Pryor 58-60, Boyd Downey 58-40, Dave Schwemer 48, Jesse Downey 60. High series were by Russ Blue 32, …

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MOUNT BLANCHARD — “Eth-an!, Eth-an!, Eth-an!” a nearly full Riverdale gymnasium started chanting midway through his 182-pound wrestling match against Columbus Grove’s Enoch Jones on Thursday afternoon.

DOLA — Hardin Northern was able to keep things close against Upper Scioto Valley for 12 minutes of the Northwest Central Conference girls basketball matchup on Thursday night.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale battled with North Baltimore for most of a Blanchard Valley Conference girls basketball game Thursday night. But a stretch of hot shooting put the Tigers ahead in the second quarter of the contest, and a cold stretch later kept Riverdale out of it.