MONONGAH TRIO ON AWESOME NORTH MARION LADY HUSKIES BASKETBALL TEAM

 

Monongah girls on the 21-2 North Marion Lady Huskies Sectional Champions, who have lost only to Fairmont West and Nitro and put as much as a 50-point margin on their losing opponents, are sophomore Meya Kotsko, senior Sidney Megna and sophomore Cierra Parker.

In the sectional title game North Marion destroyed Wheeling Central Catholic, 82-45, with Olivia Toland leading the Lady Huskies scoring with 19 points. Addie Elliott had 17, Katlyn Carson 13.

North Marion against Hampshire County at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the regionals. Hampshire is in Augusta near Romney in the Eastern Panhandle.

#55 on uniform Cierra’s parents are Shawn and Colleen Parker. Her grandmother is Colette Stanley Melton. Shawn is a North Marion graduate living in Monongah and worked in Marion County Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Postal Service. Retired.

#15 on uniform Sidney is Nick and Heather Megna’s daughter and Joe and June Megna’s granddaughter. She already has a scholarship waiting for her at Davis & Elkins College and plans to become a lawyer.

Sidney’s busy resume: West Virginia Girls State Governor, North Marion student body president, class president every year at NM, National Honor Society vice president, volunteer peer tutor, Student Leader Club member, Page Turners book club founder, Husky Helpers community service club volunteer for Marion County Special Olympics, Salvation Army Angel Tree and Haught’s Chapel Church Youth Group, lettered 3 years on North Marion varsity basketball. When does she find time to sleep?

 

Meya Kotsko, a guard who wears #24, is the daughter of Frankie and Stephanie Vandetta and the granddaughter of Frank and Brenda Vandetta of Monongah.

Meya works at the Rusty Crab when she isn’t playing basketball. Meya and Cierra hang out together a lot.

Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class of 1974, added:

Anisa Pavich from Hutchinson is on that team, too. She went through Monongah Middle and is the daughter of the late Luke Pavich and Lisa Pavich. I had Anisa in Kindergarten at Monongah Elementary. Sidney Megna, too.