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Mount Union to play Newport in championship
FORT WAYNE, Indiana -- The University of Mount Union men's basketball team rallied from a 20-point deficit to beat Wisconsin-Whitewater, 69-66, in a Division III national semifinal on Thursday night.
The third-ranked Purple Raiders (30-2) will play second-ranked Christopher Newport (29-3) in the championship game at 4 p.m. Saturday at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. The game will be televised live on CBSSN.
Mount Union advanced to its first-ever basketball title game with its 14th straight win in front of 884 fans.
Christian Parker tied a career high with 29 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Purple Raiders. Jeffery Mansfield added 20 points, shooting 16-of-18 from the foul line, and Collegen Gurley had 15 points.
Mount Union graduate student and former McDonald High School All-Ohioan Braedon Poole went 5-of-8 from the field for 11 points, a game-high 12 rebounds, one assist, one steal and one block in 27 minutes.
The Purple Raiders trailed 37-17 with just more than three minutes remaining in the first half and 41-28 at halftime.
Parker scored 20 of his 29 points in the second half to lead the rally.
The Christopher Newport Captains, from Newport News, Virginia, also advanced to the school's first national championship game.
The Christopher Newport women's basketball team will be playing Rhode Island College in the national semifinals in Hartford, Connecticut, at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Oak Glen grad wrestles into day two with WVU
TULSA, Okla. -- Oak Glen High School graduate and West Virginia University junior Peyton Hall got into the second day of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Friday.
Hall lost in the 165-pound consolation second round to finish his season with a 24-6 record. He is a three-time NCAA qualifier.
Pittsburgh redshirt senior and 20th-seeded Holden Heller scored a 9-7 sudden victory over the 14th-seeded Hall at the BOK Center on Friday afternoon.
Heller -- a three-year starter at Hofstra before transferring to Pittsburgh -- then lost to 12th-seeded Izzak Olejnik of Northern Illinois in the next round by injury default at the 5:40 mark.
On Thursday night, Hall had to fend off 30th-seeded Evan Barczak of Drexel for a 4-3 win in the consolation first round. Hall went up 3-0 before Barczak tied it in the third period. An escape with 48 seconds left gave Hall the win.
Hall went 1-2 at the NCAA Championships.