Slippery Rock held Sharon to just 15 points in the first half and the Rockets went on to post a 55-41 boys basketball victory at home Friday night.

John Sabo led the scoring for Slippery Rock (7-10) with 16 points and Dylan Gordon contributed 10.

SHARON 41

Austin 5, Douglas 15, Hoffman 3, Piccirilli 14, Schenker 4. Totals: 17 6-13 41.

SLIPPERY ROCK 55

Levi Prementine 6, John Sabo 16, Dylan Gordon 10, Jacob Wolak 8, Josh Book 6, Elam Pyle 5, Quinn Parson 4. Totals: 20 12-16 55.

Sharon 4 11 14 12 — 41

Slippery Rock 14 9 14 18 — 55

3-point goals: Sharon 1 (Hoffman); Slippery Rock 3 (Gordon, Wolak, Pyle).

Karns City 62, Redbank Valley 38 — Karns City won its fifth straight and for the tenth time in 11 contests, downing the Bulldogs at home.

Taite Beighley tallied 18 points, five rebounds and six assists to pace the Gremlins (16-3). Hobie Bartoe scored 15 while Micah Rupp posted nine points, seven rebounds, six steals and four blocks.

KC’s offense hit its stride after scoring 11 points in the first quarter.

REDBANK VALLEY 38

Minick 5, Wagner 12, Fricke 14, Clouse 5, Rupp 2. Totals: 15 4-6 38.

KARNS CITY 62

Hobie Bartoe 15, Taite Beighley 18, Braden Grossman 2, Micah Rupp 9, Jacob Callihan 8, Brennan Harmon 2, Shane Peters 8. Totals: 25 12-14 62.

Redbank Valley 4 13 12 9 — 38

Karns City 11 18 16 17 — 62

Monday: Karns City at Marion Center

Seneca Valley 57, Pine-Richland 37 — The Raiders allowed a combined nine points between the first and third quarters.

Connor Oros continued his hot shooting, draining four treys and scoring a team-leading 17 points.

Andrew Roy and Kai West both added 10 points for SV (8-10, 3-5).

North Catholic 72, Wheeling Central Catholic 46 — Max Hurray’s 29 points included four treys as the Trojans (13-6, 8-2) dominated the first three quarters.

Matt Ellery added 13 points and Andrew Maddalon 11 for North, which won for the ninth time in 10 games.

Wheeling C.C. 9 7 15 15 — 46

North Catholic 17 16 24 15 — 72

Union 76, Forest Area 10 — The Golden Knights (9-10) got 18 points from Payton Johnston and 17 from Skyler Roxbury.

Summit Academy 65, St. Joseph 59 — Kiron Douglas scored 23 points to lead a quartet of Knights scoring in double figures.

Elijah Adams added 15 points, Allen Grimes 13 and Tayvone Bibbs 12.

Summit Academy 20 13 16 16 — 65

Saint Joseph 15 13 16 15 — 59

Girls Basketball

Mars overcame a sluggish second quarter to defeat host Shaler, 38-35.

The win keeps the Planets (14-4, 8-2) alone atop the Section 2-5A standings, a half game ahead of Armstrong.

Vita Vargo scored 12 points for Mars and Olivia Donnelly added 10.

Mars 13 9 7 9 — 38

Shaler 6 15 6 8 — 35

Hockey

Jack Smelscer had a goal and two assists as Seneca Valley defeated Canon-McMillan, 4-3, recently. Jaxson Read had two goals and an assist, Jacob Gilbert one goal.

Johnathon Nichols made 17 saves in goal for the Raiders.

Swimming

Slippery Rock’s girls improved to 8-0 and maintained first place in District 10’s Region 1 with a 113-54 win over Grove City. The Rocket boys slipped to 1-7 with a 106-51 loss.

Mollie Massella won the 200-yard freestyle and 100 butterfly for the SR girls while Natalie Double won tne 200 individual medley and 100 backstroke, Gracie Olshanski the 50 and 100 freestyle, Ann-Katherine Burns the 100 breaststroke. Slippery Rock also won the 200 medley relay and 200 free relay.

On the boys side, Cody Hartle won the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly, Connor Wallace the 50 and 100 freestyle.