When the season\u2019s done, Tyrone\u2019s 47-36 win over Bellwood-Antis Saturday will go down as just a win for the Lady Eagles and a loss for the Lady Blue Devils \u2013 no more, no less.
\nAnd that will be a good thing for both teams.
\nThe fact is, if either squad read anything more into the game than that, they could easily develop a complex. In a contest marred by a combined 26 for 115 shooting and 42 turnovers, it was a spurt by Tyrone during the last three minutes of the third quarter that was the difference.
\nMore precisely, the difference was the hot hand of Lady Eagle guard Kassie Faretta. The 5-foot-7 junior scored 14 of her team-high 15 points in the third quarter to lift Tyrone to a 35-23 lead, breaking open what had been a one-point game at halftime. The Lady Devils would never again come within fewer than seven as Tyrone snapped a two-game losing streak.
\nTyrone improved to 6-12, while B-A dipped to 5-11.
\n\u201cFaretta hit some big shots coming out in the third quarter,\u201d said B-A coach Ali Stodart. \u201cShe came out looking to shoot and was confident with her shot, and we just didn\u2019t do a good job of denying her the ball.\u201d
\nThe Lady Eagles led 26-21 midway through the third when Faretta took a steal at mid-court a raced for a lay up that made it 28-21. It was a sequence that ignited Faretta, who went on to make three of her next four three-point attempts to lift her team to a 12-point lead.
\n\u201cKassie is a player who was coming off the bench at the beginning of the season, and she\u2019s played herself into a starting role because she\u2019s worked hard at practice, and more importantly, she\u2019s listened to everything the coaches have said and tried to get better,\u201d said Tyrone coach Luke Rhoades.
\nB-A cut into the lead twice in the fourth quarter, pulling within 35-27 on a basket by Brittany Webb at the 6:00 mark, and 41-34 two-and-a-half minutes later when Liz Erickson banked one in from the key.
\nBut when Faretta cooled off, her teammates picked up the slack. Tyrone made four of its seven field goal attempts in the fourth quarter, including a lay in off a back-door cut by Kayla Corle after the Lady Devils had climbed within seven.
\n\u201cWe really didn\u2019t come out prepared to play the way you have to play to beat a team that plays as hard as Bellwood\u201d said Rhoades, whose team trailed by five at the end of the first quarter. \u201cWe weren\u2019t focused, and what we have to realize is that teams that compete for District championships play hard every night.\u201d
\nTyrone turned the ball over six times and shot just 2-for-17 in the first quarter when B-A, behind nine points from Erickson, took a 12-7 lead.
\nIt wasn\u2019t much better for the Lady Eagles in the second quarter, when they made just 1 of 18 field goal attempts, but Tyrone took an 18-17 lead at halftime after making 9 of 11 foul shots.
\nAt the same time, the Lady Eagles were able to slow Erickson, who finished with a game-high 18, when they switched freshman Paris Harden to the 5-foot-10 sophomore after Liz Tepsic was sidelined with foul trouble. B-A shot just 2-of-16 in the second and finished the game 14-for-58.
\n\u201cWe need to get better taking care of the ball and knowing the difference between a good shot and a not-so-good shot,\u201d said Stodart. \u201cSometimes we\u2019re not sure and that comes back to youth a little bit, but we\u2019re making progress since the beginning of the year.\u201d
\nBrooke Garbinsky added nine points for Tyrone, while Tepsic finished with seven.
\nJUNIOR VARSITY
\nB-A won the junior varsity game 30-18 behind a game-high 15 points from Lauren Lender. Carly Ray led the Lady Eagles with eight.
\nB-A held Tyrone scoreless in the first quarter and led 19-5 at halftime.
\nVARSITY
\nTYRONE \u2013 Emigh 0 4-4 4; Faretta 5 1-3 15; Corle 2 1-2 5; Turiano 2 2-2 7; Tepsic 2 3-7 7; Garbinsky 1 7-9 9; Waite 0 0-0 0; Harden 0 0-0 0. 12 18-27 47.
\nBELLWOOD-ANTIS \u2013 Webb 1 0-0 2; Lombardo 1 0-0 2; Lechner 2 0-0 6; Hunter 4 0-2 8; Erickson 6 6-12 18; Lender 0 0-0 0; Ingram 0 0-0 0; Hippo 0 0-0 0; er. Derr 0 0-0 0; Jones 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 14 6-14 36.
\n3-POINT GOALS: Tyrone 5 (Faretta 4, Turiano), Bellwood-Antis 2 (Lechner 2)
\nTYRONE 7 11 17 12 \u2013 47
\nBELLWOOD-ANTIS 12 5 6 13 \u2013 36
\nJUNIOR VARSITY
\nTYRONE \u2013 Waite 0 2-4 2; Harden 1 1-5 3; Ray 3 0-0 8; Zimmerman 1 0-1 2; Hunter 1 0-0 3; Dutrow 0 0-2 0. TOTALS: 6 3-12 18.
\nBELLWOOD-ANTIS – Nevling 0 2-2 2; Ingram 2 0-0 5; A. Derr 0 0-0 0; Lender 6 3-3 15; E. Derr 0 0-0 0; Jones 4 0-0 9; Cherry 0 1-3 1; Hippo 0 0-2 0. TOTALS: 12 6-10 30.
\n3-POINT GOALS: Tyrone 3 (Ray 2, Hunter), Bellwood-Antis 2 (Ingram, Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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