Butler boys wrestling finished ninth with 96 points and had two wrestlers reach the podium in the Mid-Winter Mayhem wrestling meet Friday and Saturday at IUP.

Pitt verbal commit Santino Sloboda won his second straight gold at the tournament, beating Altoona’s Braiden Weaver 4-2 for the 121-pound championship to cap a 6-0 weekend. Slobado is now 18-0 this season and four wins away from 100 for his career. He beat Pennsylvania’s No. 4 (Weaver) and No. 5 (Bald Eagle’s Tanner Guenot) wrestlers in Class 2A.

Kase Chopp followed up last year’s silver with third Saturday at 145, beating General McLane’s Clay Kimmy 4-2 for bronze. Chopp went 6-1 with wins over ranked wrestlers in the state; his lone loss came against the nation’s top wrestler, Bishop McCort’s Bo Bassett, in the semifinals.

Nicholas Savannah finished 4-2 for Butler, losing in the consolation semifinals. McCort won the tournament team title with 299 points.

Mars 25th, North Catholic 28th at Burgettstown Invitational — Liam Hein (145) won bronze with an 8-6 decision victory over Meadville’s Jacoby Thompson to take home Mars’ lone medal Saturday.

Michael Pierro (107) and Victor Wagner (114) both lost in the third-place bout to settle for fourth for North Catholic, the Trojans’ highest finishers.

Butler girls wrestling came in seventh with 77 points out of 24 teams Saturday at Mt. Lebanon’s Blue Devil Winter Classic, led by four third-place finishes.

Seneca Valley finished sixth (64) and Knoch came in 18th (30) Connellsville won the meet with 148 points.

Brin Zehmisch (118 pounds), Anastasia Manchester (136), Olivia Hageman (190) and Monica Osborne (235) all came home with bronze medals, and Mylee Toner (148) finished sixth.

All four Golden Tornado bronze medalists won their final bouts by pin: Zehmisch in 2:11 against Hickory’s Marissa Tanner; Manchester over Fox Chapel’s Evelyn Owens in 47 seconds; Hageman in 1:20 of Connellsville’s Ravyn Cameron-Botti; and Osborne over Woodland Hills’ Brooklyn Pearson in 2:11.

The Raiders’ Maddee Fischer went 4-0 with four pin falls, winning gold at 130 pounds with a 3:56 pin of Beaver’s Emma Cunningham, the top finisher in Butler County. Teammate Hannah Hornick (170) also won bronze with a pin of Connellsville’s Olivia Shultz in 2:41.

Braylee Ireland settled for silver at 124, bringing Knoch it’s lone medal of the evening, after a forfeit to Pine-Richland’s Aariona Strader.

Other local medalists included: SV’s Kenley Alexander (155) and Carlyn Sedar (190) finished sixth.

Madison Romanovich almost recorded a triple-double with 19 points, 19 rebounds and seven steals in Slippery Rock’s 52-31 win Saturday over Laurel.

CJ Sabo recorded 18 points and five rebounds, and freshman Gia Kovacik filled the stat sheet with eight points, 11 rebounds and six steals.

Neshannock 49, Mars 33 — Cecilia Christy led the Planets in the Ron Galbreath Classic at Westminster High School with 10 points.

New Castle stifled a Mars team that entered with a six-game win streak 66-43 Saturday, holding Austen Wroblewski and Drew Navetta to Mars-high nine points each.

A trio of Butler girls runners ran top-10 times in program history at the indoor season-opening Kevin Dare Invitational at Penn State.

Madi McGarrah finished eighth in the 800-meter run in 2:24.47, the program’s fifth best time. Jocie Slesinski ran a 1:01.41 in the 400 for 15th in the meet and fifth all-time in Butler history. And freshman Zari Golojuh’s 3,000 time of 11:35.79 put her eighth in program history.

Slesinski also medaled in the high jump, finishing seventh with 4 feet, 11.75 inches.

Butler’s Logan Rogers and Ethan Thomas led the boys’ effort, finishing second (4:31.89) and fourth (4:33) in the mile. Eli Campbell (triple jump), Chris Rubsic (60-meter) and the 4x200 relay all finished just off the podium.

Mars, Moniteau, North Catholic, Slippery Rock, Freeport at Youngstown State meet — Dustin Joyce finished third in the boys triple jump with 42-9.5, and the girls 4x800 relay team of Ashley Ragan, London Galino, Leah Perez and Kasey Yeager took bronze in 11:02.73 for Slippery Rock at a Youngstown State high school meet.

Also making the podium for SRHS were triple-jumpers Ashley Ragan and Morgan Huntington who finished sixth (31-3.75) and seventh (31-0), respectively, and Dustin Joyce, who finished seventh in the boys long jump (20-7.5).

Mars’ 4x200 boys relay team finished fourth in 1:36.34. Moniteau’s Ashton Grossman pole vaulted 12-4 for sixth.

On the girls’ side, North Catholic’s 4x200 relay finished second in 1:49.90, Flerl Daphne finished fourth in the triple in 33-1 and eighth in the long jump (16-0.5), and Seava Cresta came in eighth in the 200-meter dash (26.18).