The Wildcats led 54-52 on a basket by Darryl Perry with 1:40 left, but Northmont scored the final three points. Perry led the Wildcats with a career-high 23 points.
Springfield fell to 4-5 and 2-3 in the GWOC Central Division with its fourth straight loss, while Northmont improved to 8-2 and 4-1 in the GWOC.
Urbana 66, Indian Lake 46: The Hillclimbers stayed on top of the Central Buckeye Conference Mad River Division, improving to 7-1 and 5-0 in the conference with their fifth straight win.
Sophomore Alex Niswonger, who had scored 12 points all season, tallied a career-high 24 points. He was 6-for-6 from behind the 3-point line.
Benjamin Logan 68, Greenon 62: The Knights trailed by two points with 2 minutes to play, but the Raiders pulled out the victory.
Josh Pilcher led Greenon with 19 points. He was one of four players in double figures.
The Knights fell to 5-5 and 2-3 in the CBC Mad River Division. Ben Logan (5-6, 3-2 CBC) has won four of its last five games.
Graham 56, Northwestern 29: Austin Hicks hit six 3-pointers and scored 19 points for the Falcons, who improved to 4-4 and 3-2 in the CBC Mad River.
Northwestern (3-7, 2-3 CBC) lost for the fourth time in five games with its lowest scoring output of the season.
Northeastern 71, Cedarville 58: The Jets went up 41-24 at the half, then held off the Indians to go over .500 on the season.
Daniel Lenk had a game-high 24 points for Northeastern (7-6, 5-3 OHC), while teammate Sterling Shoemaker added 16.
Jaden Smith had 11 points for Cedarville (1-11, 0-8 OHC).
Mechanicsburg 51, West Liberty-Salem 46: The Indians dominated the fourth quarter, outscoring the Tigers 11-4. West Liberty led 42-40 after three quarters.
Cody and Nick Callicoat each had 12 points with near identical lines. Nick made 5-of-10 field goals, and Cody made 5-of-12. They each hit a 3-pointer and made 1-of-3 free throws.
Ross Hickenbottom scored 17 for the Tigers (3-7, 3-5 OHC)
Mechanicsburg (7-4, 6-2 OHC) has won three in a row.
Bethel 68, Emmanuel Christian 30: The Lions (2-8) couldn’t recover after falling behind 17-2 after the first quarter.
Middletown Christian 93, Yellow Springs 89, OT: Rowland Newsome scored a career-high 46 points and 21 rebounds as the Bulldogs lost their fifth straight game.
Yellow Springs (2-6) squandered a 48-22 halftime lead to fall to 1-4 in the Metro Buckeye Conference.
Wrestling
Graham is in first place with 152 points after the first day of action at the Top Gun Invitational in Alliance.
Eight Falcons went undefeated on Friday and advanced to the semifinals — Eli Seipel (113), Ryan Taylor (120), Micah Jordan (126), Blake Kastl (145), Bo Jordan (152), Isaac Jordan (160), Huston Evans (182) and Darin Bovey (285).
Also alive in the consolations for Graham are Eli Stickley (106), Nathan Henkle (132) and Lane Thomas (170).