Tuesday at the Tyrone Area High School gym, the Little Golden Eagles junior high school basketball squad hosted an afternoon game against the Bellefonte junior high. The result was a tooth-and-nail struggle that ended with the Eagles oulling out a 43-42 victory.
\nTyrone led at the half 22-16, but the Little Raiders never quit, even taking a 42-39 lead late in the fourth quarter. From there, the Tyrone defense stiffened and the Little Eagles scored on a Doug Morrow layup with :58 left to play to take a 43-42 lead. Bellefonte had a couple more opportunities, but a steal by tyrone\u2019s Adam Shaffer with :08 sealed the Eagles\u2019 sixth straight win.
\nDoug Morrow led the scoring attack for Tyrone with 16 points and Jim Gillam added 10.
\nDenny Glunt fronted Bellefonte with 17 points, including five treys.
\n\u201cWith the Holidaysand the bad weather, we\u2019ve only been able to practice twice in the last nine days, and it showed today,\u201d exdplained Tyrone coach Jim Domenick. \u201cWe have to get back on track, as today\u2019e game started a streak of four games in a seven day stretch for us.\u201d
\nTyrone is back in action on Thursday with a trip to Lewistown, Game time has been moved up to 3:30 p.m.
\nEditor\u2019s Note: Please take note. The game Lewistown was not on the original schedule or on the weekly sports calendar in Monday\u2019s Daily Herald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tuesday at the Tyrone Area High School gym, the Little Golden Eagles junior high school basketball squad hosted an afternoon game against the Bellefonte junior high. The result was a tooth-and-nail struggle that ended with the Eagles oulling out a 43-42 victory. Tyrone led at the half 22-16, but the Little Raiders never quit, even […]<\/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-47456","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\/47456","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=47456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}