Here\u2019s the good and bad of playing from beyond the arc: when you\u2019re hitting shots, you can take a big lead quickly, but if you\u2019re a little bit off, it\u2019s pretty easy to shoot yourself out of a game in a hurry.
\nLuckily for the Tyrone girls basketball team, the shots were falling last night in Alexandria, allowing the Lady Eagles to distance themselves from Juniata Valley early. Tyrone drained nine three-point baskets, including four by senior Kayla Corle, in a 55-30 non-conference victory.
\n\u201cWe work a lot on shooting,\u201d said Tyrone coach Luke Rhoades. \u201cThe only problem with outside shooting is sometimes you\u2019re hot and sometimes you\u2019re cold. Tonight, we were hot.\u201d
\nThe Lady Eagles were especially hot in the first half, when they made six three-pointers in building a 35-16 lead. It wasn\u2019t easy, considering Valley was set up in a 3-2 zone designed to take away clean looks from Tyrone\u2019s outside shooters. But the Lady Eagles rotated the ball well most of the game, locating open shooters on ball reversal for uncontested jump shots.
\n\u201cWe shot well, but the reason we had so many good looks was that we made the extra pass to open girls,\u201d Rhoades said. \u201cI thought our girls saw the floor very well.\u201d
\nBut while the Lady Eagles shot as well as they had in weeks, their victory had as much to do with defense as it did with their ability to knock down an open shot.
\nTyrone forced 21 turnovers, controlled the defensive boards and limited the Lady Hornets to 19.6 percent shooting (11-for-56).
\nAnd they did it without the full services of two starters. Sophomores Rachel Emigh and Marah Hawes both came off the bench after battling illnesses.
\n\u201cOur defense played pretty well tonight,\u201d said Rhoades. \u201cWe still have to move our feet better and stay in our defensive stances, but we were solid.\u201d
\nCorle ignited the Lady Eagles early, hitting three treys in the first quarter as Tyrone built a 16-7 lead.
\nCorle, Brooke Garbinsky and Kassie Faretta each made threes in the second, and Hawes scored twice on put-backs to increase the lead to 19 by halftime.
\nIn the third, Tyrone held the Lady Hornets to just one field goal at the 4:22 mark. Corle\u2019s three-pointer with 4:09 left in the quarter made it 41-19, starting a 12-0 run to end the period that culminated in a Faretta trey with three seconds left. By then, the Lady Eagles led 50-19.
\n\u201cOur goal was to come out hard early and then get our girls some rest,\u201d said Rhoades, whose team improved to 6-11. \u201cSome of the normal point totals weren\u2019t there for a lot of the girls, but we were trying to get kids some rest.\u201d
\nTyrone will now travel to Martinsburg Wednesday for a game against Central that Rhoades said was important in h is teams aspirations of making the post-season.
\nJunior Varsity
\nTyrone lost the junior varsity game 39-21, despite seven points from Hawes.
\nTyrone 55 Juniata Valley30
\nTyrone \u2013 Corle 4 1-2 13; Christine 1 1-2 3; Faretta 4 0-0 11; Garbinsky 1 0-0 3; Emigh 4 1-4 9; Hawes 4 0-2 8; Harden 1 1-1 3; Ray 1 0-0 3; Romano 1 0-0 2; Zimmerman 0 0-0 0; Ford 0 0-0 0; Harpster 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 21 4-11 55.
\nJuniata Valley \u2013 McAllister 3 2-6 8; Morgan 1 2-2 4; Brennamen 2 0-2 4; Boyd 3 0-1 6; Taylor 2 1-4 5; Briggs 0 1-2 1; Serger 0 2-4 2. TOTALS: 11 8-21 30.
\nScore by Quarters
\nTyrone 16 19 15 5 \u2013 55
\nJuniata Valley 7 9 3 11 \u2013 30
\nThree-point goals: Tyrone 9 (Corle 4, Faretta 3, Garbinsky, Ray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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