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COLUMBUS -- Cincinnati Mariemont won its first girls state soccer title with a 6-1 win over Liberty Benton in the Div. IV championship on Friday at ScottsMiracle-Gro Stadium.
Mariemont handed West Branch its only loss of the season with a 4-0 win in Tuesday’s state semifinal.
REBELS SPLIT
SALEM -- The Crestview boys bowling team opened the season by downing Liberty, 1,786-1,165, in Friday’s season opener at Hunt Club Lanes.
David Smith led the Rebels with a two-game series of 308 and a high game of 157. Kaegan Zohnd added a 301 series, Dominic Dillon a 261 series, Aidan Frye a 243 series and Tobias Field a 228 series
Liberty’s Dawaun Moody had a 122 game and a 211 series.
Liberty’s girls edged Crestview, 1,283-1,364, as Annalisa Terecki had a 218 high series and Isabella Hernandez a 119 high game.
For Crestview, Desirae Boley had a high game of 129. Aubrey Barnett had a 238 series, Kylee Wolfe a 233 series, Catie Best a 196 series and Nikki Kernich a 181 series.
BUCKEYES FALL
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Braylon Mullins hit five 3-pointers and scored 22 points before limping off the court in the second half and Na’jai Hines scored 17 of his 20 points in the second half as No. 4 UConn beat Ohio State 84-68 on Friday night.
Freshman Colben Landrew had 12 points in his first start for UConn (4-0). Silas Demary Jr. added 10 points and nine assists.
Ohio State, which erased a 14-point deficit and led five times early in the second half, got 17 points from Jimmie Williams. John Mobley Jr. scored 16 points for the Buckeyes (2-2).
With the Huskies trailing by two points, Mullins scored five consecutive points and Jayden Ross hit a 3-pointer with 13:57 left to play. The Huskies never trailed again.
UConn jumped out to a double-digit lead in the first half, helped by an early flurry of 3-pointers. Ohio State used a 9-2 run to get back into the game and ended the first half on a 13-1 run. A 3-pointer by Mobley with six seconds left in the opening half pulled the Buckeyes within 42-40 at the break. UConn didn’t have a field goal in the final 4:18 of the opening half.
Ohio State took its first lead of the game 1:14 into the second half on a Justin Pippen 3-pointer as the teams traded baskets in the first five minutes of the second session.
Demary picked up his second foul with 12:59 left in the first half and didn’t return until the start of the second half. He stayed in the game after being called for his third foul with 17:08 remaining.
The Huskies played without starting forward Nik Khamenia, who suffered a foot injury in Monday’s win over Wagner, and will miss several weeks.
CAVS DROP CUP
MIAMI (AP) -- Bam Adebayo finished with 37 points and 14 rebounds, Giannis Antetokiunmpo also scored 37 and the Miami Heat took control of East Group B by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 133-121 in an NBA Cup game Tuesday night.
It was the second time the Heat had two players score 37 in the same game: LeBron James and Dwyane Wade did it in 2013.
Davion Mitchell had 22 points and a career-high-tying 17 assists for Miami, which won its third straight. Ryan Conwell added 20 off the bench for the Heat.
Donovan Mitchell scored 25 points to lead Cleveland, which got 22 from Tyrese Proctor, 20 from James Harden, 16 from Jaylon Tyson and 12 from Meleek Thomas.
Miami was without Klay Thompson (sprained ankle) and Pelle Larsson (illness).
Cleveland played without forward Evan Mobley, who sat out for the first time this season with a sprained left great toe. “The MRI came back clean. Sprained, definitely sore, but we don’t expect it to be a long-term thing at all,” Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson said.
With the win, the Heat move to 2-0 and are now alone atop East Group B in the NBA Cup standings. They control their destiny now when it comes to making the knockout stage; a sweep of remaining group-stage games against Philadelphia and New York -- both on the road -- would get Miami into the quarterfinals. Even going 1-1 in those matchups would give the Heat a solid shot at a wild-card berth.
Cleveland falls to 1-1 in group play and will almost certainly need to win both of its remaining games -- home against Indiana, then at New York -- to have a shot at advancing. No team in NBA Cup history has made the knockout stage with less than a 3-1 record in group play.