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Perrysburg girls win district title, face Notre Dame next

FINDLAY –  Sarah Baer scored a game-high 15 points Sat­ur­day to lead the Yel­low Jack­ets to a 51–33 vic­tory over Ash­land to claim their sec­ond straight Divi­sion I dis­trict cham­pi­onship and fifth in the past six seasons.

Lindy DeLong and Alexx Brown scored 12 points apiece for the Yel­low Jack­ets (23–1).

Per­rys­burg will face Notre Dame in a regional semi­fi­nal on Tues­day at Cen­tral Catholic in Toledo. Perrysburg’s only loss this sea­son came against Notre Dame.

Boys basketball team wins sectional title; next opponent is Anthony Wayne

FINDLAY — Junior guard Nick Moschetti scored 19 points and Per­rys­burg used sti­fling defense, forc­ing 24 turnovers, to knock off Fre­mont Ross 48–36 to cap­ture a Divi­sion I sec­tional boys bas­ket­ball title on Fri­day night.

The Yel­low Jack­ets will face Anthony Wayne on Thurs­day in a dis­trict semi­fi­nal. The top-seeded Gen­er­als beat Find­lay 64–51 to advance to the next round on Fri­day night.

Per­rys­burg (15–8) never held a com­fort­able lead over the Fre­mont Ross Lit­tle Giants (14–9), who pulled within four points with 1 min­utes, 49 sec­onds to play. But the Yel­low Jack­ets scored the final eight points.

Senior Bryant Byrd, who con­verted on five of six free throws down the stretch, fin­ished with nine points. Nate Pat­ter­son had 10 points.