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SALINEVILLE -- Tonight's Leetonia at Southern Local boys basketball game will be varsity only beginning at 5:30 p.m.
McDonald tops Reserve
BERLIN CENTER -- McDonald senior Molly Howard scored a game-high 26 points, including the 1,000th of her career, to beat state-ranked Western Reserve, 49-42, Thursday.
It was a rematch of the last two Division IV district finals with McDonald winning in 2020 and Western Reserve in 2019.
McDonald improves to 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference Scarlet Tier. Western Reserve moves to 6-2 and 4-1 MVAC.
McDonald led 37-27 heading into the fourth quarter before Western Reserve pulled within 37-36. With McDonald leading 41-39 with 1:30 to play, Howard hit a field goal and then was 6-for-6 from the foul line in the final minute to pull out the victory.
Danielle Vuletich topped Western Reserve with 14 points and 12 rebounds.
Drummond leads Cavaliers
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Andre Drummond had 22 points and 15 rebounds, Larry Nance Jr. added 18 points on 7-for-7 shooting from the field and the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 94-90 on Thursday night.
Cedi Osman scored 16 points as Cleveland snapped a two-game skid. JaVale McGee added 13 points.
Jonas Valanciunas led Memphis with 17 points and 10 rebounds, while Brandon Clarke had 14 points. Dillon Brooks scored 11, but was 4 of 13 from the field.
A key sequence came with 34 seconds left. On a breakaway by Memphis guard Tyus Jones, Isaac Okoro was called for a foul on Jones' layup attempt. Cleveland challenged, the foul was overturned and the Cavaliers won the ensuing tip. That led to a dunk from Okoro with 10.6 seconds left for a 93-90 lead.
The Cavaliers were minus leading scorer Collin Sexton, who sat out with a left ankle sprain. That left Cleveland trying to pick up Sexton's missing 25.1 points a game.
In the aftermath of Wednesday's chaos at the U.S. Capitol, and to protest racial and social injustice, the teams paused at the opening tip, went to the sideline, locked arms and took a knee. They were joined by coaches, staff and reserves covering the entire sideline from end line to end line. The three officials knelt at midcourt behind the line of players.