Parkersburg, WV

Wheeling Park         04  15  15  17  =  51

Parkersburg South   21  15  11  22  =  69

South Scoring: Jessica Moore 20, Mary Seagraves 14, Kelsi Halbert 10, Hannah Maston 8, Kristiana Hunt 7, Asia Greenleaf 6, Sammy Hicks 2, Allison Parsons 2.

Park Scoring:  Petrinia 12, Puskarich 12, Creighton 8, Stefanow 8, Robb 6, Scammell 4, Morris 1.

South Statistics:  Rebounds, 21 (Hicks 5);  Assists, 22 (Halbert 6, Hunt, Seagraves 4);  Steals, 25 (Hicks, Hunt 6);  Blocks, 7 (Moore 3); Turnovers, 18;  Field Goal Shooting, 25-55 (45%);  3-Point Field Goal Shooting, 0-12;  Free-Throw Shooting, 19-25 (76%);  Total Fouls, 20.

Park Statistics:  Turnovers, 31;  Free-Throw Shooting, 17-22 (77%);  Total Fouls, 18.

Junior Varsity

Wheeling Park         10  13 06 08  =  37

Parkersburg South   22 14 19  07  =  62

South Scoring:  Jenna McAtee 11, Genna Trippett 11, Katelyn Hamilton 8, Allison Parsons 8, Carmen Cutlip 6, Taylor Gribble 6, Mary Lewis 6, Kayla Dixon 4, Rachel Chapman 2.

Park Scoring:  Tarovisky 11, Waile 6, Franke 5, Waialae 4, Ball 3, Robb 2, Dailer 2, Morris 2, Petrini 2.

Preps Round-Up

Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail

PARKERSBURG SOUTH 69, WHEELING PARK 51: A 21-4 first-quarter run propelled Parkersburg South to a home win. Jessie Moore led the way for the Patriots (6-1) with 20 points and Mary Seagraves added 14. Emily Puskarich scored 12 points for Wheeling Park (6-2).

Parkersburg South girls win Patriots’ battle

By Jay Bennett, News & Sentinel

PARKERSBURG - Unranked Wheeling Park's ice cold start proved to be its undoing here Saturday night inside the Rod Oldham Athletic Center as No. 6 Parkersburg South won the battle of the Patriots, 69-51.

Head coach Scott Stephens' squad used a pressing defense to help score the first 10 points of the game and the Parkersburg South girls led 21-4 after the opening stanza and never looked back in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference tilt.

Jessica Moore netted half of her game-high 20 points in the fourth quarter for the hosts, who also received 14 counters from Mary Seagraves and 10 tallies from Kelsi Halbert.

After winning the tip, Halbert scored 44 seconds into the contest off a Kristiana Hunt dish to give the hosts a 2-0 lead they wouldn't relinquish.

Seagraves and Moore then alternated deuces twice as the WP Patriots (5-2) continued to turn the ball over again and again.

Wheeling Park's eighth turnover of the opening period, which came at the 4:15 mark, led to a 12-2 deficit just three seconds later when Asia Greenleaf scored in the paint from a Seagraves dump down pass out of the corner.

Finally, the visiting Patriots had to call timeout after Hannah Maston scored on a lay-in following a Sammy Hicks steal and assist that made it 14-2 with 2:44 showing on the clock.

Wheeling Park, which missed its first five shots and had 14 turnovers in the opening quarter, finally recorded a field goal when C.J. Petrini, who joined teammate Emily Puskarich by scoring a dozen markers apiece, converted an 18-foot jumper with 18 ticks left to make the score 20-4.

Parkersburg South not only hit half of its 16 field goal attempts in the first quarter, but coach Stephens' squad forced the visitors into 37 turnovers.

Six straight points from WPHS, the final two coming via a Puskarich steal and layup, closed it to 25-12 about midway through the second. The hosts used a 9-1 spurt to go ahead by 21 at 34-13, but Carly Slater's 3-pointer helped make it a 36-19 game at intermission.

An Austyn Creighton lay-in from a Haley Robb assist started a 6-0 run early in the third that was capped by Mallory Morris finding Puskarich open for a 15-foot jumper and a 40-25 deficit with 4:19 remaining in the third.

WPHS tried to narrow the deficit to single digits in the third and scored six straight again to make it 45-32, but South answered with an Allison Parsons short baseline jumper.

Parkersburg South, now 6-1 with a game on Thursday versus John Marshall at the Tyler Consolidated tournament, led 47-34 after three and wasn't seriously challenged in the final eight minutes.

The host Patriots, who got six boards and five steals from Hicks along with five Hunt thefts, missed all nine of their 3-point attempts.

Creighton added eight points and a game-high nine boards in the setback.

Maston also scored eight points and Hunt seven for the victors while Liz Scammell hauled down seven caroms in the loss.

Round-Up

Wheeling News Register

Parkersburg South 69, Wheeling Park 51

PARKERSBURG - C.J. Petrini and Emily Puskarich each scored 12 points, but it wasn't enough as Wheeling Park (5-2) fell to Parkersburg South (6-1).