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ST. CLAIRSVILLE -- Bella Poppelriter totaled 24 points and a career-high 21 rebounds in guiding Wellsville past St. Clairsville, 41-31, Wednesday.
Poppelriter and Kenzie Bosco, who had 15 points and nine rebounds, combined for all but two of Wellsville's points.
Wellsville improves to 11-10 on the season and will host Shadyside for a varsity-only contest at 6 p.m. today.
St. Clairsville drops to 2-17, including losses to East Liverpool and Beaver Local.
W: 10-13-3-15--41
SC: 4-11-8- 8--31
WELLSVILLE SCORING: Olivia Edison 0-0-0, Bella Poppelriter 8-6-24, Karolynn Cataldo 0-0-0, Kenzie Bosco 6-3-15, Johnnie Tice 0-0-0, Kenzie Thompson 1-0-2. TEAM TOTALS:
ST. CLAIRSVILLE SCORING: Bryce Powell 1-4-6, Elizabeth Morgan 2-3-7, Bella Padilla 2-0-4, Kendal Sall 3-3-10, Clair Monteroso 2-0-4. TEAM TOTALS: 10, 10-12: 31.
Three-point goals: Wellsville 2 (Poppelriter 2), St. Clairsville 1 (Sall).
Liberty 39, Lisbon 35
LISBON -- The Liberty girls basketball team should play all of its games at noon.
The Leopards captured their first win of the season by holding off Lisbon, 39-35, in a "Hoops at Noon" game Wednesday.
Mia Benjamin scored nine of her game-high 17 points in the first quarter for Liberty. Danelle Coleman contributed 12 points and Armani Franklin eight.
The Leopards improve to 1-18, while the Blue Devils go to 6-15.
Lylah Brown topped Lisbon with 13 points, including all six of the Blue Devils' points in the second quarter. Bridgett Newbold and Eme Cook added eight points apiece.
Liberty took a 15-7 lead in the first quarter and led 17-13 at halftime.
The Leapards widened the margin to 35-25 with 5:57 left in the game, but managed only four points the rest of the way.
Jayden Smyth's steal and layup up trimmed the Lisbon deficit to 35-32 with 3:48 remaining.
Liberty countered with a three-pointer at the 3:00 mark, while Brown had a steal and layup to move the Blue Devils within 38-34 with 67 seconds to play.
Newbold had a free throw with 27 seconds left and Liberty had a free throw at the 24-second mark to close out the scoring.
LIBERTY: 15-2-12-10--39
LISBON: 7-6-10-12--35
LIBERTY SCORING: Armani Franklin 4-0-8, Danelle Coleman 3-5-12, Mia Benjamin 8-1-17, Xenia Garcia 0-0-0, Q. Watson 1-0-2, Mackenzie Rhodes 0-0-0, M. West 0-0-0. TEAM TOTALS: 16, 6-12: 39.
LISBON SCORING: Michaela Farson 0-0-0, Bridgett Newbold 1-6-8, Lylah Brown 4-4-13, Eme Cook 3-0-8, Jayden Smyth 2-0-4, Delaney Pickens 0-0-0, Maddilynn Klein 0-0-0, Sofia Brown 1-0-2, Autumn Jacques 0-0-0. TEAM TOTALS: 11, 10-23: 35.
Three-point goals: Liberty 1 (Coleman), Lisbon 3 (Cook 2, Brown).