In a hard fought backyard battle between two strong junior high basketball teams, the Bellwood-Antis Blue Devils came away with a 37-30 overtime victory over the visiting Golden Eagles Monday. The win stopped Tyrone’s winning streak at 12 games, and dropped their record to 13-3 on the season.
There was no scoring in the first quarter until a free throw by Josh Bradley at 1:25 gave Tyrone a 1-0 lead. But an errant pass was intercepted for a Bellwood layup. And with six seconds left, Jon Hampton hit Brandon Gehret with a pass down the middle to score a layup and give Tyrone a 3-2 lead.
The game stayed tight in the second quarter with Tyrone having a 10-9 edge behind 4 points from Ethan Etters. And the Eagles went into the locker room up only 13-11.
Following intermission, the Eagles worked hard to build a 22-16 lead behind a three-pointer by Jon Hampton and baskets from McCaulley, Brooks, and Gehret. But those were the last field goals they would get in regulation, as the Blue Devils hustled to outplay Tyrone in the 4th quarter, making three steals for layups and outscoring Tyrone 10-4 to force an overtime tied at 26-26.
At 2:25 left in the three minute overtime, Bellwood struck first with a turn-around jumper down low to go up 28-26. Jon Hampton had an opportunity to tie after being fouled on a layup attempt, but missed both free throws. Then at 1:46, the Blue Devils hit a three-pointer from the top of the circle to take a commanding 33-26 lead. With a minute to go, Josh Bradley hit an underhand putback to get within five at 33-28. But the Eagles couldn’t get any closer as they were forced to foul the Blue Devils, who calmly hit almost all of their remaining free throws to put the game out of reach 37-30.
Brandon Gehret led the Eagles with nine points.
Ben Hatch led Bellwood-Antis with 18 points and Allen Wertz added 10 for the Blue Devils, who raised their record to 18-2.
Tyrone and Bellwood-Antis will play again Thursday, Feb. 10, on the Eagles home court. And then the Eagles will take on Hollidaysburg Junior High at home on Friday Feb. 11.
Score by quarters:
Tyrone 3 10 9 4 4 – 30
Bellwood-Antis 2 9 5 10 11 – 37
Tyrone – Gehret 9, McCaulley 6, Etters 4, Bradley 4, Hampton 3, Brooks 2, Dane 2.
B-A – DeGol 2, Hatch 18, Miller 3, Wertz 10, Manning 4.
In the eighth-grade contest, which was played in a two period format, the Tyrone Golden Eagles stayed undefeated at 15-0 by dominating the Blue Devils 29-7 in the first period, and winning 29-10. John Shaffer had six points to lead the way.
Score by quarters:
Tyrone 29 0 – 29
Bellwood-Antis 7 3 – 10
Scorers: Shaffer 6, Updyke 5, Etters 4, Dane 4, Black 4, Peterman 3, Lynn 3
Tyrone junior high defeats Philipsburg
Fresh off a tough overtime loss to Bellwood-Antis a day earlier, the Tyrone junior high boys basketball team rebounded quickly with a decisive 41-11 win over visiting Philipsburg-Osceola on Tuesday to raise their record to 14-3.
The Eagles shut out P-O in the first quarter 13-0 on their way to building a 27-2 halftime lead. From that point on, the reserves got the major portion of time with several cracking the scoring column.
Chris McCaulley collected 18 points to lead the way.
Tyrone’s next game will be Thursday the 10th versus the visiting Bellwood-Antis Blue Devils, in a rematch of Monday’s game. It will be followed Friday by a home game against Hollidaysburg Junior High.
Score by quarters:
Philipsburg-Osceola 0 2 2 7 – 11
Tyrone 13 14 4 10 – 41
Scorers: McCaulley 18, Tuskovich 4, Harris 3, Moore 3, Rudasill 3, Bradley 2, Gehret 2, Brooks 2, Dane 2, Ray 2.
In the earlier eighth-grade contest, the Eagles extended their record to 16-0 as they ran by Philipsburg 40-4.
Ben Ingle had seven points to lead the way, followed closely by Ethan Etters and Travis Peterman with six apiece.
Score by quarters:
Philipsburg-Osceola 0 2 2 0 – 4
Tyrone 19 4 10 7 – 40
Scorers: Ingle 7, Etters 6, Peterman 6, Dane 5, Updyke 4, Black 4, Shaffer 2, Hennaman 2, Lynn 2, Young 2
Tyrone 8th Grade Boys Basketball Team Advances to St. Mary’s Final
The Tyrone eighth grade boys basketball team continued it’s unbeaten run this season to 18 games with wins over both the Keith seventh grade team and Hollidaysburg eighth grade team, as part of the 30th Annual St. Mary’s Basketball Tournament.
In the opening contest Wednesday evening, February 2, the Eagles used a 31-7 edge in the first half of the Keith game to coast to a 49-29 victory.
And then on Friday evening, February 4, they won a tough semifinal match 33-24 over the Tigers. They will play in the final Friday evening, 8:30 p.m., at the St. Mary’s School versus the Keith eighth graders.
Game 1: Tyrone 49 Keith Seventh Grade 29
Score by halves:
Tyrone 31 18 – 49
Keith 7th 7 22 – 29
Scorers: Etters 11, Peterman 10, Dane 8, Shaffer 7, Lynn 4, Updyke 3, Ingle 2, Hennaman 2, Miller 2.
Game 2: Tyrone 33 Hollidaysburg Eighth Grade 24
Score by halves:
Tyrone 20 13 – 33
Hollidaysburg 10 14 – 24
Scorers: Dane 10, Peterman 7, Shaffer 6, Updyke 6, Ingle 2, Black 2.
