{"id":3634,"date":"2007-09-01T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2008-09-11T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:53:21","slug":"defense-second-half-offensive-effort-spells-victory-for-golden-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=3634","title":{"rendered":"Defense, second half offensive effort spells victory for Golden Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Looking for daylight<\/p>\n

Tailbacks who led their respective teams against each other in the annual Backyard Brawl, Tyrone senior Shane Tate (#24 in the photo on the right) rushed for a game-high 120 yards on 19 carries and scored once in the Golden Eagles 19-0 triumph over Bellwood-Antis on Friday evening at Bellwood Memorial Stadium. B-A senior tailback Brandon Humphreys (#28 in the photo on the left) led the Blue Devils with 64 yards on 15 carries. (The Daily Herald\/Steve Michaels)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It was an absolutely beautiful night for a football game-the weather was sunny at the start and cool with a breeze blowing that wasn\u2019t enough to ruin any pass attempts. Both sides of the stands were full to the brimming with the faithful for the annual Backyard Brawl, and the players on both sides were doing their best to maintain the pride of their schools. Tyrone and Bellwood-Antis have each established a program whose reputation is second to none in their size classifications over the many years. Having said that, when these two small school powers battle on this first weekend of the high school season, something has to give.
\nThis time, in the opener for both teams, it was the Blue Devils, who gave in points scored-Tyrone turned a defensive gem into a touchdown for the only score of the opening half and then ground out a TD in each of the final two quarters for a 19-0 victory. The Blue Devils also gave in turnovers, contributing five, as the alert Golden Eagles defense came up with three pass interceptions and two fumble recoveries.
\n\u201cThere was no doubt, our defense really played well, and that was the main reason we won the game,\u201d explained Tyrone coach John Franco. \u201cIt was a defensive struggle the whole game. It was just old-fashioned football. Both teams were slugging it out and we were able to make some plays and bank on a really good defensive effort to get a win against a great program.\u201d
\nThe Tyrone defense kept Bellwood-Antis out of the end zone for the entire ballgame, and limited the B-A offense to just 48 yards total offense in the first half and then combining a ball-control offense with that defensive effort allowed the Blue Devils to run just four plays in the fourth quarter to thwart any attempt at a comeback.
\nTyrone took the opening kick and drove to the BA-26, before a holding penalty and a quarterback sack by B-A defensive end Justin Miller stalled the Eagles.
\nFollowing the Eagles punt, Bellwood-Antis was backed up to their own 20. On a third-down-and-seven, Justin Manning was stripped of the football by Shane Emigh, who raced 23 yards for the Tyrone touchdown and a 6-0 lead that would be the only tally of the first half. Bellwood-Antis had six first-half possessions-and had two fumbles, counting Emigh\u2019s TD, two interceptions and one punt. Tyrone also had the ball six times on offense with three punts, one fumble and lost the ball on downs at the BA-31 after tailback Mark Mingle carried twice for four yards and sophomore quarterback Levi Reihart lost a total of six yards on two carries.
\nThe Tyrone defense made a shambles of the inexperienced Bellwood-Antis line for most of the game, resulting in the Blue Devils spent only four plays in Tyrone territory during the opening half, and two of those plays came after Justin Manning recovered a Tyrone fumble at the Eagles-36. Two plays later, Bellwood-Antis returned the favor with Nick Wilson recovering a B-A fumble to give the pigskin right back to the Orange and Black.
\n\u201cWe really felt good in the first half, not the fact that we were down 6-0, after that giveaway score, our kids played pretty good defense and we played better, even though we didn\u2019t score any points,\u201d said Bellwood-Antis coach John Hayes. \u201cWe hurt ourselves with turnovers and penalties that we made and turnover opportunities that we didn\u2019t make. The opportunity for a pick, a fumble recovery that we didn\u2019t get, all that accumulates and builds momentum.\u201d
\nBellwood-Antis received to start the second half and immediately started to move the ball, unlike the first half when a 26-yard scamper over the right side by Brandon Humphreys for 26 yards accounted for nearly half the Blue Devils offensive total.
\nJunior quarterback Nate Gray tucked the ball away on a designated running play around the right end for a gain of 20 yards and two plays later found Justin Manning for a 12-yard pass completion, after completing just one of four for one yard with two interceptions in the first half. After reaching the 50-yard line, however, Bellwood-Antis was hit with a five-yard penalty and never advanced the ball another yards on that series.
\nTyrone then turned around and turned the game around, marching 74 yards for a score that according to Hayes \u201ctook the wind out of the Blue Devils\u2019 sails\u201d for the rest of the game.
\nShayne Tate and Mark Mingle took turns pushing the ball downfield. Tate carried five times for 40 yards, Reihart completed his only pas of the series for 20 yards to Shane Emigh and Mingle had his number called three times for 11 yards, including the one-yard TD plunge with four and a half minutes left in the third quarter.
\n\u201cOur offensive line in the second half played really well, and they didn\u2019t play well in the first half,\u201d said Coach Franco. \u201cThey (Tyrone\u2019s offense) didn\u2019t play very well the first half, but I Bellwood\u2019s defense was just really tough.\u201d
\nBellwood-Antis took the following kick and marched from their own 40 following a 35-yards return by B-A junior Randy Pfahler, who ran four kickoffs back for a total of 88 yards. Gray completed passes of 18 yards to Tyler Geis and 11 to Manning and Humphreys ran three times for 14 yards to push the ball to the Tyrone-5.
\nThe Eagles defense rose up to throw Humphreys for a four-yard loss and then Mingle added the third Tyrone interception to save the shutout.
\nThe Golden Eagles then used up all the rest of the third quarter and most of the fourth with a pair of time-consuming drives, that included an insurance score to set the final tally at 19-0.
\nTate, who rushed for a game-best 120 yards on 19 totes, took over the offense on the ground running six times for 52 yards and Reihart again completed his only pass of the march for a pickup of 25 yards to Brandon Gehret. Tate covered the final 19 yards for the touchdown. John Shaffer booted the extra point.
\n\u201cComing out for the third quarter, I really thought we had a good shot from the way things were going,\u201d said Hayes. \u201cWe got the football and we got off to a good start-everything seemed to be in our favor. We made some plays, got some yardage, a couple first downs. Things were looking good. Suddenly a penalty, the drive is killed and we have to punt the ball to them. That\u2019s when you have to give them credit. They moved down the field and punched that second score in. I think pretty much at that point, the air had pretty much left the sails. We were reeling on defense, we made mistakes on offense, focus and concentration were gone. We started to drive, got the ball down close, and shot ourselves in the foot again.\u201d
\nGame Notes: Tyrone senior tailback\/D-Back Johnny Franco, who rushed for 185 yards in last year\u2019s Backyard Brawl, did not play. Franco was on the side lines walking around with crutches and will be out several weeks….The Eagle defense has now turned in back-to-back shutouts, following last year\u2019s 16-0 win over Bellwood-Antis….Emigh and Tate had the other Tyrone interceptions….In the second half, Reihart completed a pass, that was tipped through Tate\u2019s hands and caught by Emigh for a 20-yard gain and a first down. Reihart\u2019s only other pass in the second half was tipped by Gehret, who then grabbed his own tip, while lying on the ground for a 25-yard pick-up….Tyrone ran 19 plays in the fourth quarter to four plays for Bellwood-Antis….Tyrone hosts Huntingdon next Friday, while Bellwood-Antis travels to Lewistown on the same night.
\nTyrone 19, Bellwood-Antis 0
\nTyrone 6 0 6 7 – 19
\nBellwood-Antis 0 0 0 0 – 0
\nFirst Quarter
\nT- Emigh 22 fumble recovery. (kick failed). 4:15.
\nThird Quarter
\nT – Mingle 1 run. (kick failed). 4:29.
\nFourth Quarter
\nT – Tate 19 run. (Shaffer kick). 7:15.
\nTeam
\nBA T
\nFirst Downs 8 18
\nYards Rushing 30-92 45-202
\nPass Att.-Comp. 4-10 7-12
\nPass Yards 42 93
\nTotal Yards 134 295
\nFumbles\/Lost 2-2 2-1
\nInterceptions \t \t0 3
\nPenalties\/Yards 6-40 8-58
\nPunts\/Avg. 4-38.8 3-39.7
\nRushing
\nTyrone – Tate 19-120 (1 TD), Mingle 17-77 (1 TD), Barlett 2-10, Reihart 5- (-1), Team 2-(-4) .
\nBellwood-Antis – Humphreys 15-64, DeGol 6-14, Gray 5-19, Pfahler 1-1, Plummer 1-0, Manning 3-(-6).
\nPassing
\nTyrone – Reihart 7-12, 93 Yds., 0 Int. 0 TD.
\nBellwood-Antis – Gray 4-10, 42 Yds., 3 Int., 0 TD.
\nReceiving
\nTyrone – Emigh 3-43, Gehret 1-25, Ingle 1-10, Tate 1-10, Walk 1-(-5).
\nBellwood-Antis – Manning 2-23, Geis 1-18, Humphreys 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for daylight Tailbacks who led their respective teams against each other in the annual Backyard Brawl, Tyrone senior Shane Tate (#24 in the photo on the right) rushed for a game-high 120 yards on 19 carries and scored once in the Golden Eagles 19-0 triumph over Bellwood-Antis on Friday evening at Bellwood Memorial Stadium. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}