Tyrone battled it out with Lewistown on Monday night for three solid quarters, even cutting the Panthers\u2019 lead to seven points with about seven minutes left. Then, Lewistown exploded to outscore the Golden Eagles 22-5 over the last quarter to carve out a 78-50 victory at Lewistown. Although the end result sounds like a route, the game was much closer than it seemed by the final score.
\nIn the key final eight minutes, Lewistown\u2019s Joe Stewart, the Panthers\u2019 best offensive player scored 10 points to turn the game around, after being held to just 14 over the first three quarters.
\nThe Eagles had been according to coach Mike Harris fundamentally sound to that point.
\n\u201cThen we made some mistakes, missed some shots,\u201d explained Harris. \u201cYou can\u2019t do that against a team like Lewistown. They made us pay.\u201d
\nThe two squads had battled back and forth over the first three quarters with the Panthers fashioning scoring margins in the first and third periods and the Eagles battling the hosts even in the second quarter. Lewistown was able to take a 22-17 lead with a hot hand in the first quarter and maintained the five-point lead at the half 37-32 after a 15-15 second quarter in which neither school was able to get an advantage.
\n\u201cOur problem all year, has been needing to play a solid 32 minutes in each game,\u201d said Harris. \u201cWe haven\u2019t been able to put it together for an entire game. In last night\u2019s game, the score doesn\u2019t indicate how close the game was for three quarters.\u201d
\nNick Cushion pumped in 17 points, including five three-pointers to lead Tyrone and Leonard Wilson continued his hot streak with 13 points, hitting nine of 11 from the foul line.
\nJoe Stewart led Lewistown with a game-high 24 points and Chris Tressler contributed 17 points.
\n\u201cTyrone has never played well at Lewistown,\u201d said Harris. \u201cWe don\u2019t play well after the long trip. The kids haven\u2019t quit on us. They keep working hard and improving. Leonard Wilson has really elevated his performance over the past five games. Sometimes the toughest thing for young players to learn is to play hard every game for 32 minutes without taking any off. We are not asking our kids to do anything they are not capable of doing. We have to get them to the point where their teammates can trust them to do the same complete job every single game. Younger teams can get down on their game. We have been teaching them it is important for them to be there for their team. We aren\u2019t giving up. We have three more games left and we want to maintain good attitudes and continue to work hard. We want to get something going for our three seniors (Nick Cushion, Adam Hoover, Shane Gherrity) to finish strong and for the underclassmen to find some momentum for next year.\u201d
\nLewistown 78 Tyrone 50
\nTYRONE – Crabtree 2 0-1 4, Wilson 2 9-11 13, Cushion 6 0-0 17, Hershberger 1 1-2 3, Chamberlain 2 0-0 4, Clark 1 0-0 3, Corle 1 0-0 2, Hoover 1 2-2 4, Haney 0 0-0 0, Gherrity 0 0-0 0, Kost 0 0-0 0. TOTALS 16 12-16 50
\nLEWISTOWN – Hilton 3 1-3 9, Stewart 8 8-10 24, Powell 1 0-0 2, Hook 2 1-2 5, Baker 3 0-0 7, Tressler 7 2-4 17, Heider 2 0-0 4, Kosman 2 0-0 4. TOTALS 29 13-21 78.
\nScore by Quarters
\nTyrone 17 15 13 5 – 50
\nLewistown 22 15 17 22 – 78
\nThree point goals: Tyrone 6 (Cushion 5, Clark 1).
\nLewistown 4 (Hilton 2, Baker 1, Tressler 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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