BY HEIDI ZENEFSKI
Sports Correspondent

The Susquehanna Sabers arrived in Montrose Friday night to face the Meteors for the second time this season.

Under the basket there was a first quarter battle between the big men with Montrose’s Jack Fruehan scoring six points, grabbing two rebounds, and blocking the shot attempts by the Sabers while Susquehanna’s Luke Falletta kept pace with seven points, two rebounds, and one steal.

Both players got some help from their teammates. Brendan Buck scored four points, and Troy Ely and Austin Smith each scored two for the Meteors. Tyler Williams scored four points for the Sabers. The quarter ended with the score Montrose 14, Susquehanna 11.

Things changed in the second quarter when the Meteors took control of the game. Fruehan added four more points to his total. Ely scored six more. Hunter Traver and Smith each added in eight.

Susquehanna was unable to add significant points to the scoreboard. Williams and Falletta were, again, the only Sabers to score in the quarter. They scored two and five points, respectively.

Montrose outscored Susquehanna 26 to 7 and at half time the Meteors were up 40 – 18.

The third quarter had more of the Sabers players taking and making scoring opportunities. Garrett Grausgruber and Brady Towner each made 3-pointers and Williams scored two points from the foul line. They were also able to play better defense and stop Montrose from running away with the quarter as they had in the previous eight minutes. They held the Meteors to 14 points. Mason Peck, Andrew Bickford, and Smith each scored two. Fruehan and Chris Guyette put up four points each to end the third quarter with a score of 54-26 in favor of the Meteors.

In the final quarter, Grausgruber and Williams each made a basket and a foul shot for the Sabers. Montrose baskets were score by Harley Mullins and Guyette. Peck score two foul shots and Mullins added one more when Susquehanna’s Kasey Burdick was charged with an intentional foul on a layup attempt by Mullins and received a technical with 50 seconds left in the game.

The final score of the game was Montrose 61, Susquehanna 32.

Fruehan was the high scorer for Montrose with 14 points followed by Smith with 12. The Susquehanna points leader was Falletta with 12 followed by Williams with 11.

In other boys basketball play-action last week:
At Mountain View, Ryan Lavin scored 17 points and Chris White had 15 to lead the Eagles to a Division IV win over Forest City, 65-62, on Tuesday (Feb. 3).

Deon Faramelli and Matt Lavin each added 10 points for the winners.

Noah Fedak scored 19 for No. 10 Forest City, Adam Kowalewski had 17 and Matt Nevins scored 13.

The Meteors fell, 46-38, to the fifth-ranked Dunmore Bucks in a Division III-IV crossover game.

Hunter Traver hit five 3-pointers for 15 points for No. 8 Montrose and Jack Fruehan scored 13.

Austin Darrow scored 32 points for Blue Ridge in a 68-60 home court loss to Lackawanna Trail.

At Forest City, the ninth-ranked Riverside Vikings took a 65-45 Division III-IV crossover win on Friday night. Noah Yates led No. 10 Forest City with 13 points.

At Elk Lake, Bailey Newhart led the Warriors with 14 points and Ben Woolcock scored 12 in a 58-49 Division IV loss to Lackawanna Trail.

At Blue Ridge, Austin Darrow scored 22 points to lead the Raiders in a 61-50 win over the Eagles.

Ty Herbert had 13 points for Blue Ridge and Jeff Morris added 10.

Deon Faramelli led Mountain View with 16 points, Ryan Lavin had 12 and Chris White scored 10.

On Saturday, Hunter Watkins scored 20 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead Elk Lake to a 58-42 win over Susquehanna in a Lackawanna League Division IV boys basketball game.

Bailey Newhart scored 13 points and Dalton Sherman added 12 for the Warriors, which connected on nine 3-pointers.

Tyler Williams and Christian Miller each scored 11 points to pace Susquehanna.