Spotlight on Sports: Basketball teams begin conference run

Last week: After early-week nonconference losses, the Wildcat basketball teams returned to action on Saturday in their first of 12 regular-season-ending United East Conference games.

MEN’S BASKETBALL
Last week’s highlights: Octavio Alexander, of Dallas, Texas, scored 11 points, and Josh Shepherd, of Breinigsville, tallied 10 in Monday’s loss to Eastern Connecticut State in the first round of the Eastern Holiday Invitational.

In the invitational’s consolation game Tuesday against No. 23 Wesleyan University, Monday’s top two scorers repeated their prior day’s stats, with Alexander scoring 11 and Shepherd adding 10 points in the loss.

On Saturday at Notre Dame (Md.) University, Alexander poured in 24 points as the team experienced its second six-game losing streak of the season.

UEC standings: Penn State Harrisburg 3-0, Notre Dame (Md.) University 3-0, Cairn University 2-0, Penn State Brandywine 2-0, St. Mary’s (Md.) College 1-0, Lancaster Bible College 1-0, Rosemont 1-2, Penn State Berks 1-2, Penn State Abington 1-2, Wilson College 1-2, Keystone College 1-2, Penn College 0-2, Gallaudet University 0-2, Valley Forge 0-3.

SCHEDULE/RECORDS
Overall: 1-12
UEC: 0-2
Monday, Dec. 29 – Eastern Holiday Invitational at Eastern Connecticut State University, L, 86-57
Tuesday, Dec. 30 – Eastern Holiday Invitational vs. Wesleyan University, L, 99-44
Saturday, Jan. 3 – at Notre Dame (Md.) University (UEC), L, 92-70
Wednesday, Jan. 7 – at Keystone College (UEC), 5 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 10 – host Wilson College (UEC), 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 13 – at Penn State Berks (UEC), 5 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Last week’s highlights: Gigi Parlante, of Williamsport, tallied 17 points, and Breana Valentine, of Fairfield, scored 13 in Tuesday’s loss at Centenary University.

In UEC action on Saturday at Notre Dame (Md.) University, Parlante scored 23 points, and RaeAnna Andreas, of Berwick, added 10 as the Wildcats dropped their fourth game in a row.

UEC standings: Lancaster Bible College 3-0, St. Mary’s (Md.) College 2-0, Wilson College 2-0, Notre Dame (Md.) University 2-0, Penn State Abington 2-1, Keystone College 2-1, Penn College 1-1, Penn State Brandywine 1-1, Penn State Berks 1-2, Penn State Harrisburg 1-2, Cedar Crest College 1-2, Gallaudet University 0-2, Valley Forge 0-3, Cairn University 0-3.

SCHEDULE/RECORDS
Overall: 9-5
UEC: 1-1
Tuesday, Dec. 30 – at Centenary University, L, 76-53
Saturday, Jan. 3 – at Notre Dame (Md.) University (UEC), L, 68-61
Wednesday, Jan. 7 – at Keystone College (UEC), 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 10 – host Wilson College (UEC), 3 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 13 – at Penn State Berks (UEC), 7 p.m.

WRESTLING
Last week’s highlights: At NCAA Division III sixth-ranked Roanoke College on Thursday, Carter Davis, of York, had the Wildcats’ most competitive match as he lost on a 10-3 decision in the 165-pound weight class.

SCHEDULE/RECORD
Overall: 3-4
AMCC: 1-0
Thursday, Jan. 1 – vs. Roanoke College at Skyline High School, L, 51-0
Saturday, Jan. 10 – Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Duals at Alfred State College, 10 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 24 – at Elizabethtown D. Kenneth Ober Memorial Invitational, 9 a.m.

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