"Fort LeBoeuf  is obviously tough, they took second in the state last year. So we'll have our hands full," Stearns admitted. "Anything can happen, you wrestle hard, you go out there and get a couple pins and who knows? Our conditioning is where it needs to be right now, I'm happy with our conditioning."

​Titusville swimmers are experiencing another strong season, especially on the girls side of the pool. Today they head to Slippery Rock for THE match of the season.

"What I can tell you about this one? Setting up the line up is going to be a giant chess match," said girls head coach Seth Come. His undefeated girls have, on paper, their toughest team matchup of the year. It is a meet that could likely determine the region title.

"They have some strong swimmers. Mollie Massella is one of their top competitors and I wouldn’t be surprised if she ended as the Region 1 Girls Swimmer of the year. She can swim anything very well and that is where the chess game comes into play," Come said as he tries to work out a strategy to maximize overall point totals. "When planning a line up, I have to predict  what events I think their girls will be swimming and tailor our line up to best combat. For example, in the past they have had strong butterfliers. One strategy we can take is try to stick one of our girls in that race to split the points up or we could let them have the points in that event and we could stack another event to try and even the score that direction."

Last year Slippery Rock had the advantage, but this is a new year. "I’m hoping we can compete better against them than we did last year. They did lose a couple studs, so I hope that is a concern for them," he said. "I’d love to get that region title this year and the girls are definitely hungry for it." 

​The boys are also in action hoping to improve on their 2-2 record. They have lost to Oil City and Grove City by small margins.

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A couple weeks back Titusville boys basketball coach Craig Mehlenbacher admitted the team was on a bit of a roller coaster ride. One game they would be firing on all cylinders and the next, struggling to put the ball in the basket.
Against Eisenhower they knew it would be a battle having already losing to them 81-52 earlier in the season. "We knew it was going to be tough," Mehlenbacher said.

Going into the game they needed to play well, but a bit of sloppy passing and dribbling early on set the tone. Eisenhower controlled the paint with very few second chances coming the Rocket's way and they seemed to have solid fundamentals, ball control and scoring many points early on with give and go layups.

Despite the lopsided loss, Mehlenbacher chose to focus on the positives. "We kept battling, when some teams would just quit, they kept going," The coach said at halftime he wanted his kids to come out and play hard. "We did some really good things, especially in the second half as far as kicking the ball up the floor," he added. "We had really good ball movement, we got some really good shots and getting to the hoop. We had some steals and layups out of it too."
In the end they lost 71-59 which was a step up from their previous performance against the Knights..

Mehlenbacher said his team played hard and as a coach that is really all he can ask for.

Titusville was led by Colon with 26 points, seven of which came in the last few minutes of the game. Hudson Fratus had a solid game shooting knocking down 18 points. David Leonard had nine and Devon Kurschinske and Cameron Kerr combined for six

Eisenhower who are now 8-1 overall had solid outing from Kyler Black and Kris Bunk who combined for 37 of Ike's points. Austin Hanson added 11, Derek Guiher nine, Maysen Wonderling dropped seven. Four other Eisenhower players scored in the win.

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