A Knoch High School trio of Lauren Wick, Kristen Gagen and Carol Cress finished second in the recent 3-on-3 basketball tournament at Knox High School.

Gagen, Cress and Jade Thrower won the girls division of Moniteau's 3-on-3 tournament. Knoch's Sarah Montgomery, Nicole Fleishner and Lindsey MacArthur finished second.

Karns City graduate Karissa Kusick, a senior on the Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio) College women's basketball team, was named an Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference selection.Kusick has a 3.82 grade point average as a chemistry major. She averaged 6.9 points and 3.7 rebounds per game for the Yellow Jackets (23-4, 15-3) and was second on the team with 67 assists and 20 steals.

Parker High School graduate and former A-C Valley boys basketball coach Ronald Botz will be inducted into the Clarion University Sports Hall of Fame at a 7 p.m. April 30 dinner at Chandler Dining Hall on campus.Botz ended his Clarion University basketball playing career as its No. 2 all-time scorer with 1,098 points. He was an all-state basketball player at Parker.He was 409-286 in 29 years of coaching high school basketball and led A-C Valley to five Clarion County League titles, three District 9 championships and a PIAA runner-up finish in 1973.

Grove City High School graduate and Seton Hill College freshman Josh Pratt tallied the game-winning RBI in a 1-0 win over Bethany (W.Va.) Wednesday.Pratt's single in the bottom of the seventh plated teammate Steve Long with the game's only run.

The Pittsburgh Hornets 12-and-under hockey team dropped an 8-3 decision to the Ramapo Saints Wednesday in the first round of the USA Hockey Nationals at the Robert Morris Island Sports Center on Neville Island.Three players from the Seneca valley School District play for the Hornets: Sam Jarrett, Tom Comunale and Logan Pfeffer.

Knoch's Lindsey Wiefling, Lauren Wiefling and Alana Reeping were recently named to the WPIAL Class AA Section 1 volleyball all-section team.Amber Long was a second-team selection.In PIAA Class AA, Lauren Wiefling was a first-team all-star selection and Lindsey Wiefling was a second-team pick.