Warren Harding takes care of business on home court
By Joe Scalzo
WARREN — With a fan dressed like Nintendo’s Super Mario in the front row of the Warren Harding student section, and the school’s real Super Mario (aka Giants receiver Mario Manningham) elsewhere in the crowd, the Raiders boys basketball team on Saturday took on the only team to beat them in last year’s regular season, Mansfield Senior.
“We didn’t even talk about revenge,” said Raiders coach Steve Arnold. “The only thing we said was, this is a very good basketball team, we’re at our place and we haven’t lost here in a year and a half.
“We want to defend our home court.”
Harding, the state’s fourth-ranked team in Division I, played with passion and energy from the start and used a crucial run at the end of the second quarter to take control en route to a 87-69 victory.
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