Thursday night scoreboard: Colonial League goes 6-5 in tourneys, LVC 5-6.

http://blogs.mcall.com/groller/ FROM KEITH GROLLER Big night of holiday tournament basketball and lots of results to absorb. What sticks out immediately is how many of the top LVC teams fell. Now, of course, this is all about matchups, and the LVC teams that won may have simply had easier opponents than those who lost. But the big three in the LVC to me is Liberty, Freedom and Easton and all three lost tonight. So did Emmaus, Whitehall and Northampton. The big winner in the LVC may be Dieruff, which already has its backs to the wall in terms of qualifying for districts. I don't know much about the team from New York that the Huskies beat on Thursday night. All I know is that they needed that one and need to beat Stroudsburg in the Mounties' own tournament tonight. The same goes for Becahi which got a win in York on Thursday. The Golden Hawks need as many nonleague wins as they can get because wins in the LVC, particularly in their own division, are tough to come by. However, the biggest winner overall tonight was undoubtedly Wilson. The Warriors' overtime win over Easton validates them as one of the area's best teams. Notre Dame and Wilson will meet for the tournament title tonight at Easton and then will meet again at Wilson when the Colonial League resumes next Thursday. Here's a look at the scoreboard: LVC Rancocas Valley 53, Liberty 50 ... Double overtime, Greg Noack scores 17 in 'Canes first loss of the season. Parkland 72, Quakertown 31 ... Big three of Beidelman, Rindock and Zajko combined for 40. Trojans play Salisbury in tournament title game. McKeesport 62, Emmaus 50 ... Tannous, Feiertag and Shankweiler combine for 42 in Penn Hills tournament. Dieruff 71, Francis Lewis of New York 58 ... Huskies snap 4-game skid behind Tyshaun Harmon's 25. Play Stroudsburg for tournament title. Allen 49, Neshaminy 35 ... Kobe Texter's 14 leads balanced attack for the Canaries who play GAR of Wilkes-Barre for tournament title. North Hunterdon 73, Whitehall 51 .. Sophomore Brett Radocha 14 for Zephs in defeat. Nice night for Rehrig family. Denny Rehrig, an assistant at Northern Lehigh, gets a win. And so does his son Kyle with this one. Wilson 50, Easton 49 ... Poor foul shooting (6-for-18) doomed the Rovers in this one. Blue Mountain 79, Northampton 60 ... Konkrete Kids found themselves in a 23-7 hole after one quarter and never recovered. Central Catholic 78, Columbia 50 ... Muhammad Ali Abdur-Rahkman scored 23 points and went over 1,000 in his CCHS career with a year and two-thirds to go. Becahi 62, Southwestern 53 ... Made 11 of 12 foul shots and held Southwestern to 12 points in the first half in building an 18-point halftime lead. Will play York Catholic for the tournament title. St. Vincent Pallotti 65, Freedom 58 ... Pates led 31-27 at halftime but couldn't sustain momentum in second half and dropped second in a row. COLONIAL LEAGUE Fleetwood 57, Palisades 49 ... Pirates led by seven entering the fourth quarter, but were outscored 20-5 in the final period. Stroudsburg 68, Bangor 63 ... Alex Colton's 27 is not enough in an overtime loss. Notre Dame 44, Phillipsburg 42 ... Tanner Reed had 17 and the Crusaders used a big fourth quarter (18 points) to overcome the Stateliners and earn way into Easton Rotary finals. Northwestern 56, Panther Valley 49 ... Tyler Richardson scored 23 and the Tigers earned fourth win of the season after getting just three all of last year. Jim Thorpe 74, Palmerton 62 ... Saw this game and the Bombers are better than I expected. Thorpe just had too much quickness. Freshman Spencer Hay had 17 and is a player to watch. Northern Lehigh 61, Lehighton 38 ... Also saw this one and the Bulldogs, at least for one night, lived up to expectations. If guards Tyler Dibilio and Matt Egan can play as well as they did on Thursday night, Northern Lehigh is still as good as anyone in the Colonial League. Salisbury 65, Perk Valley 37 ... Falcons scored 45 of their 65 in the second half. Boyertown 53, Southern Lehigh 48 ... The Spartans stayed in this one with nine 3-pointers. Saucon Valley 50, Faith Christian 36 ... Panthers break through for first win of the season in the Whitehall tournament and will now face North Hunterdon in the title game. Keith Mosher poured in 32 points, getting six treys, for SV. Delaware Valley (NJ) 60, Pen Argyl 34 ... Tough draw for the Knights who should fare much better against Pocono Charter tonight in the consolation game of the first Pius X tournament. MVC Hatboro 60, Pleasant Valley 34 ... Bears now get Pocono East in the consolation of the Hazleton tournament. Hazleton 84, PM East 17 ... The less said about this one, the better, from a Cardinals perspective. This kind of result was unthinkable two, three years ago. OTHERS Moravian Academy 60, South Hunterdon 42 ... Luke Gutekunst scores 20 and John Donmoyer picks up career win No. 604.