Chase Allen’s 3-pointer with 52 seconds left gave the Slippery Rock boys basketball team a 57-54 lead and the Rockets held on for their first win of the season, a 65-60 victory at Conneaut Area Thursday night.

Junior forward Ryan Dutton had an incredible game that included 32 points and 17 rebounds.

Allen finished with 20 points and Luke Brandon grabbed 15 rebounds for Slippery Rock (1-8, 1-5).

SLIPPERY ROCK 65

Ryan Dutton 12 8-9 32, Chase Allen 5 9-12 20, Josh Bowser 1 3-6 5, Luke Brandon 2 0-1 4, Justin Heitzenrater 1 0-0 2, Hunter Prementine 1 0-0 2, Jeff Bennett 0 0-0 0. Totals: 22 20-28 65.

CONNEAUT AREA 60

Stevenson 0 2-2 2, Litwin 6 4-4 16, Merritt 1 2-2 4, Richardson 7 2-2 18, Mattero 3 0-1 7, Roy 3 2-4 8, Williams 2 0-0 5. Totals: 22 12-15 60.

Slippery Rock 20 13 10 22 — 65

Conneaut Area21 16 6 17 — 60

3-point goals: Slippery Rock 1 (Allen); Conneaut Area 4 (Richardson 2, Mattero, Williams).

Saturday: Slippery Rock at Mercyhurst Prep

Meadville 54, Grove City 41 — Kaiden Young’s 18 points were not enough to lift the Eagles (4-4, 2-3) to a victory at home.

MEADVILLE 54

Boitnott 0 7-10 7, Lindsay 6 2-5 14, Foster 6 4-5 19, Clune 5 2-2 12, Pero 1 0-0 2. Totals: 18 15-22 54.

GROVE CITY 41

Brendan Record 4 1-1 10, Kaiden Young 7 0-0 18, Logan Lutz 0 2-4 2, Kameron Patterson 2 0-0 4, Martin Beatty 2 0-0 4, Brayden Martin 1 0-0 3. Totals: 16 3-5 41.

Meadville 11 17 16 10 — 54

Grove City15 6 9 11 — 41

3-point goals: Meadville 3 (Foster 3); Grove City 6 (Young 4, Record, Martin).

Saturday: Grove City at Hickory

Girls Basketball

Nicole McCloud and Tai Johnson both scored 21 points in Mars’ dominating 68-20 home win against Knoch.

Lauren Wasylson also had a strong game with 16 points, 13 rebounds and four steals for Mars (9-4, 5-0).

KNOCH 20

Alyssa Logan 0 1-2 1, Gabby Fennell 0 1-2 1, Emily Fraser 3 0-1 6, Casey Kretzer 2 0-0 6, Kayla Edwards 0 1-2 1, Carly Burdett 2 1-1 5. Totals: 7 4-8 20.

MARS 68

Bri Buzard 1 0-0 2, Lauren Wasylson 5 4-5 16, Nicole McCloud 6 7-12 21, Tai Johnson 7 3-5 21, Elise Sheehy 1 0-0 2, Hannah Ryan 2 0-0 4, Grace Ryan 0 2-3 2. Totals: 22 16-25 68.

Knoch 4 7 8 1 — 20

Mars16 22 17 13 — 68

3-point goals: Knoch 2 (Kretzer 2); Mars 8 (Johnson 4, Wasylson 2, McCloud 2).

Monday: Mars at Hampton; Valley at Knoch

Oakland Catholic 63, Butler 36 — The Golden Tornado (2-9, 0-5) dropped this Section 3-AAAA road contest.

Jenna Kunst paced Butler with 17 points and Alyssa Eyth added 11.

BUTLER 36

Alyssa Eyth 4 2-5 11, Jenna Kunst 5 7-12 17, Noel Pfabe 1 0-0 2, Julia Gibson 0 1-2 1, Tiana Schaffner 2 0-0 5, Liz Kuhn 0 0-2 0. Totals: 12 10-21 36.

OAKLAND CATHOLIC 63

Cromer 7 0-0 16, Renk 7 1-2 16, Gevaudan 1 2-2 4, DeAngelo 3 0-0 6, Boyd 7 1-2 15, Sestric 1 0-0 2, Skowron 1 0-0 2, Pilewski 0 2-2 2. Totals: 27 6-8 63.

Butler 7 9 9 11 — 36

Oakland Catholic17 17 17 12 — 63

3-point goals: Butler 2 (Eyth, Schaffner); Oakland Catholic 3 (Cromer 2, Renk).

Monday: Seneca Valley at Butler

Freeport 47, South Allegheny 31 — The visiting Yellowjackets (3-9, 1-5) received a pair of double-doubles in this win over the Gladiators.

Zoe Soilis had 21 points and 13 rebounds and Jenna Manke 16 points and 12 boards.

Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic 69, Eden Christian 26 — The Trojanettes (9-0, 5-0) remained perfect with this Section 2-A triumph.

Hockey

Mars trailed Hempfield 2-1 entering the third period, but received goals from Andrew Norris and William Scurci to topple the Spartans 3-2 at Kirk S. Nevin Arena.

Scurci opened the scoring with a goal in the first period.

Jonathan Kowalkowski had two assists for the Planets (12-3) while Tyler Spreng earned the win in net with 16 saves.

Bowling

Bryan Hindman rolled a 246 game and 617 series Wednesday, but Knoch dropped a 5-2 decision to Armstrong.

Dylan McCommon rolled a 214-563 for the Knights. Armstrong was led by Seth Schall with a 202-569, Owen Zablocki with a 206-561 and Kyle Totos with a 196-543.