Novotny's huge night aids Knights
Hannah Novotny's monster game led the Knoch girls basketball team to a monster win.
The junior guard netted 19 points, 10 rebounds, six steals and six assists as the Knights toppled Mohawk 58-32.
Gina Robb added 10 points for the Knights (3-3).
MOHAWK 32Brown 3 4-5 10, Natale 6 2-7 15, Shaffer 1 1-2 3, Shasteen 0 4-6 4, Boyer 0 0-0 0, Fox 0 0-0 0, Eichenlaub 0 0-0 0. Totals: 10 11-20 32
KNOCH 58Hannah Novotny 7 1-2 19, Haley Hutterer 3 0-0 7, Gina Robb 5 0-0 10, Taylor Tresatti 3 0-0 6, Laura Gray 2 2-2 6, Emily Protzman 2 4-6 8, Quinn Pendred 1 0-0 2. Totals: 23 7-10 58
Mohawk 9 5 9 9—32Knoch 9 22 11 16—583-point goals: Natale; Novotny 4, Hutterer
JV: Mohawk 32-28
Thursday: Hampton at Knoch
Reynolds 53, Grove City 37 — Lexi Caporali scored 14 points, but the Eagles couldn't take advantage of a fast start.Grove City (1-5) led 17-15 after the first quarter, but struggled the rest of the way.
REYNOLDS 53Nelson 5 5-8 15, D'Urso 10 0-0 21, Parker 2 6-6 10, Mostoller 2 0-0 4, Gruber 1 1-2 3, McDonald 0 0-0 0, Siege 0 0-0 0, Paker 0 0-0 0, Bower 0 0-2 0, Stegkamper 0 0-0 0, Schuaf 0 0-0 0. Totals: 20 12-16 53
GROVE CITY 37Caitlin McNamara 4 3-6 12, Lexi Caporali 5 2-2 14, Brogan Foster 0 0-0 0, Maddie Torok 3 0-0 6, Mariah Jenkins 1 0-0 2, Grace Bennett 0 0-0 0, Venessa Sprando 0 1-2 1, Katie Byers 0 0-0 0, Jackie Previty 0 0-0 0, Sammi Bell 1 0-0 2. Totals: 14 6-10 37
Reynolds 15 20 8 10—53Grove City 17 8 7 5—373-point goals: D'Urso; Caporali 2, McNamara
JV: Reynolds 28-20
Thursday: Grove City at Franklin
Michael Gallagher poured in 23 points, including five 3-pointers, but Knoch (2-3, 0-1) fell to Kittanning 45-40.It was the Wildcats' first win over a section opponent on the court since 2003. Kittanning won a section game by forfeit over Valley last season.<B>KNOCH 40Michael Gallagher 7 4-5 23, Andrew Wirtz 1 0-0 2, Chris Cetnar 2 0-0 4, Jake McTighe 4 2-4 11, Corey Miller 0 0-0 0, Kevin Wood 0 0-0 0, Micah Lio 0 0-0 0. </B>Totals: 14 6-9 40<B>KITTANNING 45Dillan Klingensmith 7 3-6 17, Nathan Stolitza 3 5-8 13, Ryan Risch 3 2-2 8, Tyler Rumbarger 1 1-2 3, Jordan Martin 0 0-0 0.</B> Totals: 14 11-18 45<B>Knoch 11 17 6 6—40Kittanning 10 14 10 11—453-point goals:</B> Gallagher 5, McTighe; Stolitza 2<B>JV:</B> N/A<B>Friday:</B> Hampton at Knoch<B>Summit Academy 56, Riverside 53</B> — Jalik Peay scored 10 points and added 15 rebounds as the Knights (2-3, 1-1) won their first section game of the season.A complete box score was unavailable.
<B>Knoch 7, Richland 0 — </B>The Knights improved to 5-4 as Ryan Naples got the shutout in goal Monday.Evan Gorse scored two goals, with Brandon McCarthy, Shayne Hennessey, Brett Campisi, R.J.Hughes and Shane Donnelly getting one each. Eric Egler and Robert Maust had two assists each.Knoch plays at Valley at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
<B>Titusville 90, Slippery Rock 80 (boys); Titusville 101, Slippery Rock 68 (girls) — </B>The Rockets boys set three school records in this Monday loss. Jacob Johnston, James Udlsious, Andrew Opalewski and Caleb Sykora-Bodie swam the 200 freestyle relay in 1 minute, 37.65 seconds.Opalewski broke a five-year-old record in the 200 freestyle relay by almost five seconds, at 1:55.90 and reduced his record 50 freestyle time to 23.07 seconds. Kyle Hawk reduced his 100 backstroke record to 1:03.35.In the girls meet, Kelsey Reott broke an eight-year-old school record in the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.44 seconds. She also won the 500 freestyle.Reott joined Nicole Moraitis, Hannah Parsons and Katie Kosiorek in breaking the school 200 medley relay record with a 2:33.56. Moraitis won the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly and Katie Kosiorek won the 100 backstroke.Both Slippery Rock teams are 3-1 and travel to Grove City Thursday night.
