Only three boys' basketball players in the history of Mars High School have scored 1,000 career points.

Two of them sit together at the family dinner table.

Steve Cress, a 6-foot-5 senior forward, scored his 1,000th career point Tuesday. Almost 40 years ago, his father did the same thing.

Bill Cress is a 1970 Mars graduate who scored 1,098 points. His son has 1,002.

The only other Mars player to score 1,000 points is Tim Frye, a 2006 graduate, who had 1,161. He is a walk-on player at Pitt this season.

"Ever since I've been a little kid I've known my dad scored 1,000," Steve Cress said. "He used to tell me. I think he knows I'm going to pass him. We usually joke about it."

Bill Cress was a 6-5 forward who went on to play at Westminster.

"He usually tells me I'm a lot better player than he was, but he says he worked harder," Steve Cress said. "He said if I ever played against him, I wouldn't score."

North Hills senior wrestlers Alex Martinez, Corey Perrotte and Adam Harold won their 100th career match this season. It's unusual for three wrestlers in one class to have more than 100 wins.

But to put the feat in perspective at North Hills, consider this: Only two wrestlers in the history of the school had won 100 matches before this season.

Having a 1,000-point scorer has become almost a yearly thing for Ambridge girls' basketball.

Senior Kiki Brown recently scored her 1,000th career point. It is the seventh time in the past eight seasons an Ambridge player has reached 1,000, a run that is practically unheard of in WPIAL girls' basketball.

The other six who had 1,000 in the past eight years are Kelli Calderone, Jodi Calderone, Callie Iorfido, Jen Yaworski, Kara Hochevar and Amy Gottuso.

• How would you like to coach a basketball team with six players all headed to big-time Division I-A colleges? That's what Bob Hurley Sr. has at perennial power St. Anthony's in Jersey City, N.J.

Travon Woodall is a Pitt recruit, A.J. Rogers will play at Saint Joseph's, Mike Rosario at Rutgers, Al Estwick and Jio Fontan at Fordham, and Tyshawn Taylor at Marquette.

• The longest winning streak of any high school sport came to an end Saturday when the wrestling team from Brandon High in Florida lost to South Dade, 32-28. Brandon had won 459 matches in a row over 34 years.

Penn State football standout linebacker Sean Lee, an Upper St. Clair graduate, showed up at his alma mater's basketball game a week ago against Canon-McMillan. When Upper St. Clair coach Danny Holzer saw Lee about an hour before the game, he asked Lee if he would speak to the team. Lee also played basketball at the school.

"He was more than happy to do it, but then he asked me, 'Coach, can I get in the weight room? I haven't lifted for a day,' " Holzer said. "So he lifted some weights and we talked while he was lifting.

"That says a lot about him, doesn't it? What's funny is when he talked to our team he said, 'The big thing in big games like this is you have to defend people.' You'd figure he would talk about defense, right?"

The South Fayette boys' team is 10-3 and having success with a starting lineup that includes two freshmen, a sophomore and a junior. Mike Lamberti, a 6-4 freshman, leads the team in scoring at 14.5 points.

Meghan McLean, a 5-10 senior guard at Upper St. Clair, has accepted a scholarship to the University of Delaware, a Division I school.

Former Shenango basketball star Steve McNees is a redshirt freshman guard for the University of Akron (11-3). He scored 14 consecutive points in a recent game against Miami of Ohio. He finished with 20 points, including six 3-pointers.