The Tyrone Golden Eagle basketball team upped their record to 7-5 Friday evening with a 76-53 pummeling of Phillipsburg-Osceola.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s always tough winning on the road,\u201d commented Tyrone Head Coach Mike Harris after the victory. \u201cTonight we looked pretty good.\u201d
\nThe Golden Eagles didn\u2019t wait long to start piling on the points, starting off the game with a 23 point outing in the first quarter. Freshman Leonard Wilson was fouled only ten seconds into the game and converted both free throws to kick off a big night for both himself and his team.
\n\u201cLeonard Wilson had 14 points tonight, he had a really big game for us,\u201d said Harris of his freshman, who was one of four Golden Eagles who reached double digits in scoring against the Mounties. \u201cHe\u2019s playing really well for us.\u201d
\nAnother of those players was Junior Brady Hoover, who rolled over the Mounties to lead all scorers with 22 points. Hoover scored 10 of his points in the first quarter, and added 12 rebounds on the night.
\n\u201cI told our guys we needed to put this team away early,\u201d stated Harris on Hoover and the rest of the Eagles\u2019 first quarter dominance. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t let them hang around, they\u2019re scrappy and they can shoot the ball. We had to punish them early and thats what we did, we outscored them 23-9 right off the bat.\u201d
\nThe Mounties displayed those characteristics in the second quarter, narrowing the Tyrone lead to 8 heading into the locker room. After Tyrone opened the quarter with 5 straight points the Mounties went on a 14-4 run, which was aided by two three pointers by junior Mike LaFuria. Wilson was able to add four points in the last 20 seconds of the half for Tyrone, but the Mounties had found their way back into the game.
\n\u201cThey got some good shots,\u201d Harris said of the Mounties in the second quarter. \u201cThey drove the ball at times, and we didn\u2019t rotate back and gave up some easy rebounds.\u201d
\nUnfortunatly for Phillipsburg, the Golden Eagles came out of the locker room ready to put the Mounties away. Junior Dan Domenick contributed four points to a 6-0 Tyrone run to start the second half, and after consecutive Mountie buckets the Golden Eagles opened their lead back up with an 8-2 run.
\nDespite the 19 point third quarter that put the Eagles ahead by 17, Tyrone was able to do even better in the final period. Senior standout Tyler Mertiff scored the first four points of the quarter for Tyrone before exiting the game early due to his team\u2019s big lead. Mertiff tallied 14 points in the contest, including 8 in the first quarter.
\nThe Golden Eagle jayvees worked their way into the game throughout the final quarter, gaining valuable experience against varisty opponants until Phillipsburg inserted their jayvees. Kevin Hershberger scored 6 points in the game, all of them coming in a 1:20 span late in the final quarter.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s huge,\u201d commented Harris on getting younger players experience in varsity games. \u201cI never want to have a team where I dont have guys with experience. We need these guys to play in big games.\u201d
\n\u201cThis was a very easy game to overlook,\u201d continued Harris. \u201cWe rebounded the ball well, it was a concerted effort to box out, and we did well boxing out tonight. We did a nice job.\u201d
\nThe junior varsity Golden Eagles also came away with a win, putting the jayvee Mounties away 65-42 prior to the Varisty contest. Jason Haney and Nick Cushion led the way for the Eagles with 12 points each, while Barry Gummo chipped in 11 and Josh Crabtree added 10.
\n\u201cThe kids played hard tonight,\u201d said coach Luke Rhoades after his junior varsity Eagles upped their record to 9-1. \u201cThey played good defense, and we have a big game Monday against Penn Cambria.\u201d
\nThe Varsity Golden Eagles also face Penn Cambria at home on Monday, with Penn Cambria posting a 10-1 record.
\nTyrone 76 Philipsburg-Osceola 53
\nScore by Quarter
\nTYRONE\t\t\t23 13 19 21 – 76
\nPHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA\t 9 15 14 15 – 53
\nndividual Scoring
\nTyrone- Mertiff 4 3-4 14, Hoover 8 5-6 21, Ben Gummo 1 0-0 2, Ashcroft 2 0-0 10, Hershberger 2 2-2 6, Wilson 4 6-8 14, Barry Gummo 1 1-1 3. TOTALS 18 17-21 76.
\nPhillipsburg-Osceola- Blake 4 2-2 10, Watson 3 4-4 10, Musser 1 0-0 2, Bunyak 3 0-0 6, LaFuria 2 2-2 15, Potter 2 4-8 8, Lugin 1 0-0 2. TOTALS 16 12-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Tyrone Golden Eagle basketball team upped their record to 7-5 Friday evening with a 76-53 pummeling of Phillipsburg-Osceola. \u201cIt\u2019s always tough winning on the road,\u201d commented Tyrone Head Coach Mike Harris after the victory. \u201cTonight we looked pretty good.\u201d The Golden Eagles didn\u2019t wait long to start piling on the points, starting off the […]<\/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-47446","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\/47446","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=47446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}