MEYERSDALE — The Northern Bedford boys basketball team improved to 2-1 Tuesday night with a 59-52 win at Meyersdale in high school play.

The Panthers, who led 18-9 after one quarter, got 18 points from Nate Eckenroad to go with 12 points from Nevin Lloyd. Cavan Lloyd added 11 points for Northern in a game it led, 29-24, at halftime.

Meyersdale got 16 points from Gavan Steinberg to go with 14 points from Carter Vogt.

NORTHERN BEDFORD (59): Eckenroad 7 1-4 18, Food 1 6-8 8, C. Lloyd 3 5-7 11, Cottle 0 2-2 2, N. Lloyd 3 6-7 12, Horsh 1 0-0 2, Black 1 2-2 4, Moyer 1 0-0 2, Love 0 0-0 0, Miller 0 0-0 0. Totals — 17 22-30 59.

MEYERSDALE (52): Vogt 6 2-3 14, Kimble 1 0-0 3, Steinberg 7 0-0 16, Thomas 1 6-6 8, Hainsworth 2 1-3 5, Whitfield 1 1-4 3, Weber 1 1-2 3. Totals — 19 11-18 52.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

Northern Bedford 18 11 18 12 — 59

Meyersdale 9 15 20 8 — 52

3-point goals: NBC 3 (Eckenroad 3); Meyersdale 3 (Kimble, Steinberg 2).

Records: Northern Bedford (1-0); Meyersdale (0-1).

JV: NBC, 27-26 . High scorers–Horsh, NBC, 9; Adriance, M, 12.

Lady Panthers roll

LOYSBURG — The Northern Bedford girls basketball team is 2-1 after a 51-40 win at home over McConnellsburg.

The Lady Panthers, up 34-31 after three quarters, put the game away with a 17-9 showing in the final frame. Halle Baker led NBC with 16 points while freshman Ava Verbit chipped in with 11 points on an 11-for-14 showing from the foul line.

McConnellsburg, down 24-18 at halftime, got 17 points from Serenity Rengifo.

MCCONNELLSBURG (40): Rengifo 5 3-8 17, Jefferson 3 1-4 7, Buterbaugh 1 1-6 3, Gelvin 2 0-2 4, Clevender 3 3-6 9, Deshong 0 0-0 0, Lowery 0 0-0 0, Hendershot 0 0-0 0, Washenbaugh 0 0-0 0, Newman 0 0-0 0. Totals — 11 26-40 51.

MCCONNELLSBURG (51): Baker 4 7-9 16, Smith 1 3-8 5, Detterline 1 2-4 4, H. Yeatts 2 1-2 5, Bl. Gable 1 0-0 2, Verbit 0 11-14 11, L. Barton 1 1-1 3, Troy 0 1-2 1, Reasy 1 0-0 3, B. Barton 0 0-0 0. Totals — 11 26-40 51.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

McConnellsburg 9 9 13 9 — 40

Northern Bedford 12 12 10 17 — 51

3-point goals: McConnellsburg 4 (Rengifo 4), NBC 3 (Baker, Smith, Reasy).

Records: McConnellsburg (1-1), NBC (2-1)

JV: NBC, 34-10. High scorers–Verbit, NBC, 13; Hendershot, Washenbaugh, M, 4 each.

Wrestling

Bedford beats Tyrone

TYRONE — Bedford won seven matches, all by fall, to top Tyrone, 42-29, in high school wrestling action on Tuesday.

Ben Schrock, Zeke Brambley, Tucker Boone, Carter Kozielec, Tyler Barton, Cuyler Hall and Jonny Ingraham prevailed by fall for the Bisons.

Mason Van Allmen won by fall for Tyrone, Jonah Wicker and Kyle Scott won by technical fall, Coltyn Frye logged a major decision, and John Eaken won by regular decision.

107–Walk, T, won by forfeit. 114–Wicker, T, tech. fall Emerick, 17-2, 4:27. 121–Schrock, B, pinned Veloz, 3:30. 127–Brambley, B, pinned Gwinn, 1:15. 133–Boone, B, pinned Parks, 1:23. 139–Frye, T, major dec. Oldham, 19-11. 145–Kozielec, B, pinned Sain, 1:20.

152–Barton, B, pinned Rawlings, 5:25. 160–Hale, B, pinned I. Suhoney, 3:36. 172–VanAllman, T, pinned Koontz, 1:37. 189–Scott, T, tech. fall Fisher, 19-2, 1:52. 215–Ingraham, B, pinned K. Suhoney, 5:00. 285–Eaken, T, dec. Rose, 6-4.

Records: Bedford (1-0); Tyrone (0-1).

PIAA radio

MECHANICSBURG — The PIAA announced on Tuesday the launching of the PIAA Radio Network.

The network will start up Thursday by putting on the air on all six high school football championship games, starting with the Class 1A game between Clairton and Bishop Guilfoyle Academy.

To access these games, which will be aired live, please visit the PIAA website.