SLIPPERY ROCK — The run toward a state championship is over for the New Castle High boys basketball team.

The start time for tonight’s New Castle-Hickory PIAA Class 4A boys basketball game has been changed.

WEXFORD — It’s off to the Sweet 16 for the New Castle High boys basketball team.

Lawrence County basketball fans in attendance Saturday afternoon turned the Petersen Events Center red — first for the Neshannock High girls and then for the New Castle High boys. 

Saturday’s WPIAL Class 4A championship was New Castle’s sixth under head coach Ralph Blundo in his nine years. It may have been the most unique, too.

PITTSBURGH — Western Pennsylvania high school basketball fans got a treat Saturday.

Hampton tried three times and failed.

Add Quaker Valley to that list.

The Quakers became New Castle’s latest three-time victim in a WPIAL boys basketball championship game Saturday when the Red Hurricane rallied for a 60-54 triumph in the Class 4A title game at the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center.

PITTSBURGH — Move over Farrell, make room for the New Castle High boys basketball program.