It was opening night at the Tyrone Area High School Tuesday night, where Tyrone(1-3) dominated Indian Valley(2-5) throughout the game. From the beginning to the end, Tyrone never trailed, shutting down Indian Valley’s offense and forcing the ball down their throats.
Ultimately, Tyrone played their best ball last night in their home opener as well as picking up their first victory in the Mountain League defeating the Warriors 56-38.
Adam Corle, Josh Crabtree, and Tad Chamberlain scored the first 18 points of the game, running the clock to 2:06 before Indian Valley scored their first points.
Completely dominated, Indian Valley struggled to break Tyrone’s full-court zone press, turning the ball over 10 times in the first quarter. Josh Clark harrassed any Indian Valley guard that tested to break the press as they threw the ball up for prayers where Leonard Wilson managed to use his free safety skills to pick off several of Indian Valley’s sloppy passes.
Chamberlain completely shut down his defender as well as dominating him on the offensive side scoring 6 straight points within 20 seconds at one point. With Tyrone well in front, 18-0 with 2:06 remaining, Indian Valley needed some quick scoring to get themselves back into the game. Ben Yoder and Cody Hartzler stuffed six points in the end of the quarter to try and prevent a complete blowout in the first quarter making it 22-8.
However, Indian Valley had hope for a comeback with Leonard Wilson and Adam Corle both picking up 3 fouls in the beginning of the second quarter forcing Tyrone to go to their bench. Foul trouble took Wilson and Corle out of the game early which allowed the Warriors to make a run at the lead of Tyrone. This was Tyrone’s biggest problem during the game that could have been the difference if they didn’t obtain that major lead in the first quarter.
“One of our goals is to move our feet on defense,” Coach Mike Harris stated. “Our guys just stopped moving their feet and kept reaching instead of getting into the correct defensive position. They called 48 fouls tonight and we weren’t closing out good enough to avoid foul trouble.”
As the second quarter started out slow for Tyrone, Indian Valley was motivated and determined to make this a close game. Down 26-9, the Warriors went on a 10-2 run to make it 28-19 at the end of the first half forcing Tyrone to lose their cool. Tad Chamberlain shouted in frustration from the court to the locker room, trying to regroup the energized offense that came out so hot in the first quarter.
“Well we got that big lead, and guys started slacking by reaching and we got into foul trouble early,” coach Mike Harris said. “So we were looking at the second quarter with 3 starters on the bench with 2 or 3 fouls.”
Leonard Wilson started the 3rd quarter on the wrong foot picking up his fourth foul at 7:48, taking a quick seat on the bench to save himself. Cody Hartzler rubbed off some of Wilson’s anger as he scored six straight points making it 28-25 as Tyrone called a quick timeout to cool down the Warriors march with 6:50 remaining in the 3rd quarter.
“Leonard got into foul trouble and he wasn’t able to perform like he usually does for us,” Mike Harris quoted. “He got hot in the first quarter, but once he got into foul trouble his, game just wasn’t the same.”
With a few words from coach Mike Harris, Tyrone busted up a 6-0 run of Indian Valley and went on a run of their own scoring the next seven points and taking a 10 point lead with 2:47 remaining in the third. Tyrone wasn’t out of the foul trouble just yet. Adam Corle committed a charging penalty which gave him his fourth personal foul for the game late in the third quarter.
With Adam Corle and Leonard Wilson on the bench with four fouls a piece, Tyrone coach Mike Harris threw in Byron Kost, Shane Barr, and Steve Catich to patch the offense as best they could to withhold their 10 point lead.
After a series of plays, Tyrone took advantage of Indian Valley’s sloppy offensive play running an 11-4 string to end the third quarter. Tyrone led the Warriors 39-29 after three quarters and looked to shut down their offense once again in the fourth.
The fourth quarter would only belong to Tyrone as they would not let up at all, breaking off an 8-2 run at 5:33. After a couple of Tundel freethrows, it was all Tyrone from that point on.
The crowd went crazy and exploded after a costly three from Byron Kost put Tyrone in an offensive pandemonium outscoring Indian Valley 14-2 in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter. Chamberlain looked calm and cool tearing up eight straight points using his fading hook shot, invented by Wilt Chamberlain(no relation). With time running down on Indian Valley’s short-lived run at a comeback, Tyrone’s Josh Clark managed time by running down the clock with the flex offense, keeping Indian Valley away from the ball.
“This game was a good character builder,” Harris said. “We had some guys step it up in the second half. Adam Shaffer and Tad Chamberlain did a great job in the second half as well as Josh Crabtree keeping steady the whole entire game. This was definitely a good character builder. We have Central Mountain on Thursday, and they graduated a lot of guys, so they are really, really young. They have one kid back from last year, but we have to come out from the start and keep that intensity level going the whole entire game.
“We’re 1-1 in the league now, so that was a good win tonight to bounce back into the conference.”
Tyrone totaly dominated Indian Valley as they took away nine from Indian Valley as the Golden Eagles won the turnover ration 16-25, forcing Indian Valley to 17 turnovers in the first half.
Chamberlain stepped up his game pulling down double digits in rebounds as well as scoring 18 points in Tyrone’s victory Tuesday night, 56-38. Adam Corle also chipped in 12 points with a great performance on offense, lighting up the Warrior defense in the first half.
Tyrone shot just 13 of 25 from the free throw line. Overall Tyrone improves their record to 2-4 and 1-1 in the Mountain League as Indian Valley drops to 2-6 and 1-2 in the Mountain League.
Despite the loss, Indian Valley’s Cody Hartzler scored 15 points along with Ben Yoder’s 10 to lead all Warrior scorers in their loss at Tyrone. As a team they shot just 11-23, keeping their distance in the offensive performance against Tyrone.
Tyrone – L.Wilson 1 2-2 4, Crabtree 2 4-9 8, Corle 4 2-2 12, Clark 2 2-6 6, Chamberlain 9 0-0 18, Haney 0 0-0 0, Barr 0 0-0 0, Kost 1 2-2 5, Shaffer 1 1-2 3, Brockett 0 0-0 0, Catich 0 0-2 0, J. Wilson 0 0-0 0 Totals: 20 13-25 56
Indian Valley – Yoder 3 3-7 10, Hartzler 6 3-4 15, Tundel 1 2-2 4, Barger 1 0-0 2, Green 1 0-2 2, Hartman 1 0-0 2, Reigle 0 2-2 2, Thompson 0 1-2 1, Loht 0 0-2 0, Pannizzo 0 0-0 0, Deamer 0 0-0 0, Long 0 0-0 0. Totals: 13 11-23 38
3 point field goals: ndian Valley-1(Yoder).
Tyrone 3 (Corle-2, Kost)
Score by Quarters
Tyrone 22 6 11 17 56
Indian Valley 8 11 10 9 38
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An ugly performance of shooting from both teams created a long drawn-out game for Tyrone. Starting out, Tyrone had a 9-8 lead after the first quarter, and having a very hard time scoring. An Indian Valley run only put Tyrone in a state of panic as they found themselves down 23-15, and could not make a shot to save them. Tghe Warriors won 37-25.
After this, Indian Valley went on a 9-1 run blowing Tyrone out of the water and taking a 33-22 lead with just 3:00 to go in the third quarter.
Trailing 33-22 in the fourth, Tyrone went into a 1-2-2 press forcing Indian Valley into traps and turnovers, but they could not convert any of their attempted lay-ups. Scoring only three points in the fourth, and holding Indian Valley to just four points in the final frame was just not enough as they suffered a 12 point loss in the jayvee home opener for Tyrone.
Steve Catich and Byron Kost led all Tyrone scorers in their loss to Indian Valley Tuesday night. Kost slashed 11 in as Catich knocked down an even 10 for the night.
They just had a hard time shooting and missed a lot of lay-ups that could have changed the outcome of the game
