Union road a 19-6 edge in the second quarter to a 66-51 boys basketball victory over North Clarion in Rimersburg on Monday.

Payton Johnston scored 19 points to spark the playoff-bound Golden Knights (12-10) and Dawson Camper added 15.

Union will enter the District 9 Class 1A playoffs following four straight wins.

NORTH CLARION 51

Watterson 6, Hartle 24, Bish 2, Castner 12, Hargenrader 7. Totals: 20 10-12 51.

UNION 66

Roxbury 10, Camper 15, Bish 2, Fleming 10, Johnston 19, Laughlin 10. Totals: 25 12-16 66.

North Clarion 14 6 18 13 — 51

Union 14 19 18 15 — 66

3-point goals: North Clarion 1 (Hartle); Union 4 (Laughlin 2, Roxbury 2).

Beaver 61, Mars 58 — Tasso Sfanos scored 18 points and Ryan Ceh added 16 in this loss for the playoff-bound Planets.

MARS 58

Campbell 6, Sfanos 18, Black 8, Ceh 16, Zukowski 4, Jordan 6. Totals: 22 8-9 58.

BEAVER 61

Mayo 18, S.Butler 16, T.Butler 7, Tomalski 4, Townsend 11, Gibson 2, Porto 3. Totals: 23 8-14 61.

Mars 16 14 18 10 — 58

Beaver 12 11 21 17 — 61

3-point goals: Mars 6 (Campbell 2, Jordan 2, Ceh, Sfanos); Beaver 7 (S.Butler 4, Mayo, T.Butler, Tomalski)

Knoch 56, Shady Side Academy 53 — Teagan Finucan and Jackson Bauman both scored 15 points for the Knights (8-14) in this victory at home.

SSA 16 13 10 14 — 53

Knoch 14 12 13 17 — 56

Girls Basketball

Knoch closed the regular season with a 45-40 loss at Laurel.

Nina Shaw scored 12 points for the Knights and Hattie McGraw added 11 points.

Reagan Atkins tallied 21 points to pace Laurel, which won for the 20th time in 21 games.

Knoch 14 10 5 11 — 40

Laurel 15 11 8 11 — 45

Swimming

Slippery Rock’s girls 200 medley relay team broke the Oil City High School pool record with a time of one minute, 54.63 seconds as the Rockets remained unbeaten with a 115-53 win over the Oilers.

The previous record had stood for 28 years.

In the same meet, the Rockets’ Mollie Massella turned in a time of 59.16 in the 100-yard butterfly, topping the pool standard (previously 1:00.19) and the Slippery Rock school record (59.24).

Indoor Track

Slippery Rock competed at the SPIRE Indoor Games over the weekend. Dustin Joyce leaped 38 feet, 7 inches to place fourth in the triple jump. Eli Anderson placed fifth in the 60-meter boys hurdles with a time of 8.85 seconds.

Tyler Arblaster was fifth in the 400 meters with a time of 51.56 seconds and broke his own school 200-meter indoor record with a time of 23.30 seconds.