The Tyrone junior high girls basketball teams dropped decisions to Bellefonte on Tuesday.
\nPlaying at Tyrone, the Lady Eagles ninth grade squad fell to 1-4 on the season by absorbing a 41-18 loss to Bellefonte.
\n\u201cBoth games were really interesting,\u201d said Tyrone coach Kerry Naylor. \u201cWe did a good job against their defense, but couldn\u2019t put the ball in the basket.\u201d
\nMeg Turiano and Elizabeth Tepsic led the Lady Eagles with six points each. Turiano added four steal and Tepsic pulled down six rebounds.
\n\u201cWhat we have to do is keep the girls believing,\u201d said Naylor. \u201cWe did a really good job breaking their defense, but we just couldn\u2019t finish at our end of the court. We seemed to be playing tight. The girls were missing open lay-ups.\u201d
\nThe eighth graders fell to Bellefonte 33-16 to drop their record to 2-3.
\nSarah Halter led the Tyrone girls with nine points and nine rebounds. Sarah Cox added six boards.
\nCoach Naylor singled out the play of Ashley Shultz. \u201cAshley is playing very well right now. Her name doesn\u2019t appear on the stat sheets, but she is earning her way up to the A-team. She has been one player that we couldn\u2019t play without.\u201d
\n\u201cI told the team we won\u2019t win a game 10-7,\u201d continued Naylor. \u201cWe had the game plan and we worked it pretty well. We just missed the shots. Then we got down and started to press and it boomeranged on us.\u201d
\nThe Tyrone high girls are back in action on Thursday, hosting Penns Valley at 3:15 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Tyrone junior high girls basketball teams dropped decisions to Bellefonte on Tuesday. Playing at Tyrone, the Lady Eagles ninth grade squad fell to 1-4 on the season by absorbing a 41-18 loss to Bellefonte. \u201cBoth games were really interesting,\u201d said Tyrone coach Kerry Naylor. \u201cWe did a good job against their defense, but couldn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45682","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=45682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}