PARKERSBURG — Purple was the color of choice here Friday night inside the Rod Oldham Athletic Center for the Anna’s Army game and host Parkersburg South got off to a fiery start from long range during the No. 1 Patriots’ 77-60 victory against No. 10 Wheeling Park. Anna Gordon, who has Friedreich’s ataxia (FA), a rare degenerative neuromuscular disorder that affects one in 50,000 people in the United States, made an emotional speech prior to the tip and thanked everyone for giving her “hope” to find a cure. South’s Cole Plants and Brayden Mooney made their first two 3s apiece and head coach Mike Fallon’s club drained 6 of 9 from downtown in the opening stanza en route to a huge 26-point opening period and a double figure lead. “Tonight was special,” said coach Fallon, who watched Plants finish with game-highs of 25 points and 13 rebounds. “We’ve done this for five years now and Anna is such a special kid. Our kids take it to heart for her and tonight, it wasn’t about our game or anything, it was all about her. “Our kids, we talked after the game and they understand that. Tonight, from a basketball standpoint, I think we used some legs early, but we kind of in the second half played some zone and did some things to try and save some legs.” PSHS, which improved to 13-1, has little time to celebrate the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference victory as Ohio power Logan comes to the ROAC tonight. “Logan, on film, may be the best team we’ve played all year,” added Fallon, who also got double figures in scoring from Mooney (12), Shane Snider (12) and son Seth Fallon (11). “They are number eight in Ohio Division I and we’ll have our hands full. They got a center and he’s pretty tough. It will be a good game for us against a good opponent.” Alex Vargo, who led the losing Patriots with 18 points and seven rebounds, canned a trifecta from one of Jake Stakem’s game-high six assists to beat the first quarter horn and make it 26-15 after one. Park head coach Michael Jebbia pleaded with his now 9-4 squad, which plays host to Preston this evening, to “keep fighting” after Vargo’s big hoop. A Travis Zimmerman bucket was followed by De’Vaughn McWhorter’s trey as Park quickly cut it to 26-20. However, Todd Burner found Plants open for a 3, Snider had a reverse lay-in and then Fallon had a step-through lay-in with 5:35 left in the half to push the lead back out to a baker’s dozen at 33-20. Alex Dunlevy’s putback as well as another Vargo basket kept Park within striking distance down 39-29 at the 2:03 mark, but the hosts ended the half on a 7-0 spurt. Plants had a lay-in and then made two foul shots. That was followed by a Mooney free throw and then an offensive rebound and putback by Malaki Sylvia just before the horn sounded. South stretched its lead to 19 twice in the third quarter, but Park closed it to 55-42 entering the fourth thanks to a Vargo 3. However, the host Patriots tallied the first 11 points of the fourth to salt away the triumph. Stakem finished with 10 points, Keondre’ King had nine and Dunlevy eight for Park.