While football season is wrapping up, high school basketball season got under way this weekend in Pennsylvania.
Top highlights included:
* Christian Locher scored 48 points Friday night in a
Mars win over Keystone Oaks Friday night.
Venango Catholic High's Maxx Rynd.
File photo by Eric Elliott
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Trinity's (Washington) Josh Valentic scored 41 points Saturday including his 1,000th career point to help the Hillers to a win over Burgettstown. Valentic scored 19 points in the first quarter alone.
* Venango Catholic's
Maxx Rynd had 36 points and 15 rebounds in a win over DuBois Friday and then came back with 28 points and 10 rebounds in a win over Keystone Saturday.
* Kittanning's
Nathan Stolitza scored 43 points in an overtime win over Riverview including going 23 of 26 from the free-throw line. That outpaced Riverview's Corey Bickert, who had 34 points.
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Quaker Valley (Leetsdale) head coach Mike Mastroianni won his 300th career game with a 69-48 victory over Peadbody Friday. Quaker Valley then beat Quigley Saturday giving Mastroianni a career mark of 301-159.
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Lincoln (Ellwood City) and
Carlynton (Carnegie) played one of the highest scoring WPIAL girls basketball games in recent memory Friday night with Ellwood City coming away with a 93-80 win thanks to 30 points from Asia Borders.
