It wasn’t a pleasant evening for our local basketball teams Friday night. Bellefontaine, Benjamin Logan, Indian Lake, Riverside, and West Liberty-Salem all lost.
Graham beat Indian Lake 40-34.
The Falcons used defense to stifle the Lakers’ attack and pulled away late for the CBC Mad River Division victory.
Ben Sells scored 15 for the Falcons while Caiden Nicol had 12 for Indian Lake.
This was the first Mad River loss for the Lakers.
Shawnee beat Bellefontaine 46-42.
Urbana crushed Northwestern 65-28.
The Hillclimbers blitzed the Warriors 46-14 in the first half and cruised through the final two quarters.
Urbana is now tied with Indian Lake (5-1) atop the Mad River.
North Union beat Benjamin Logan 56-33.
The Wildcats move to (8-7) (3-3) while the Raiders are (0-14) (0-6).
West Liberty-Salem fell to Madison Plains 60-58.
Taran Logwood scored 21 for WL-S while Matt Jones chipped in 13, and Brevin Louden 11.
Madison Plains took the JV game 41-30.
Caleb Hershberger had 10 points.
WL-S won the freshman game 29-11.
Garrett Wallen had 13 and Dylan King 7 for the Tigers.
Northridge blasted Riverside 80-39.
Triad beat Greenon 55-47.
Fairbanks edged Catholic Central 50-48.