For most of the 32 minutes in last night\u2019s Mountain League girls basketball game between Tyrone and Bald Eagle Area, the tempo was similar to rush hour traffic in mid-town Manhattan.
\nThe teams combined on 34 turnovers, 41 foul shots and enough jump balls to break the swith on the possession arrow at Tyrone Area High School gymnasium.
\nBut there was a five minute spurt in the second quarter when the tempo belonged to Tyrone – when the Lady Eagles were able to force turnovers, get into the open court, and run BEA off the floor. It resulted in an 18-0 run that put Tyrone ahead 33-11 at halftime.
\nTyrone went on to win the game 65-39 and improve to 4-3 overall heading into the Souderton Holiday Tournament next Friday.
\nIronically, Tyrone\u2019s second quarter run began following a tenuous moment when starting point guard Amber DelBaggio twisted her ankle after stepping on the foot of a BEA player after whistle had blown. The injury came just one minute after Marie DelBaggio had gone to the bench with three presonal fouls.
\nThat forced freshman Emily McKenna to assume full-time point guard duties and it brought junior Kylie Wallace off the bench in place of Marie DelBaggio.
\nMcKenna responded by scoring four of her career-high eight in the last five minutes of the first half, while Wallace recorded two steals, one assist and two points.
\nBut at the center of Tyrone\u2019s run was senior post Joanna Turner, who started it with a 3-point field goal and scored eight of the Lady Eagles 18 unanswered. She finished with a game-high 26 points and 12 rebounds.
\n\u201cMcKenna and Turner gave us a real lift in the second quarter,\u201d said Tyrone coach Jim Swaney. \u201cWhen Amber went down, it was a nervous moment, but it gave McKenna a chance and she\u2019s been getting better and better each week. There\u2019s nobody better than Joanna Turner when she comes to play and Kylie did a nice job coming off the bench to give us a spark. She\u2019s an athlete but with our schedule it\u2019s been hard to find her the minutes she needs. Hopefully she\u2019ll start to get them over the next couple of weeks.\u201d
\nThe Lady Eagles harassed Bald Eagle into 11 turnovers in the second quarter with half- and full-court pressure and scored 13 points off of BEA miscues.
\nMarie DelBaggio rebounded from a foul-ridden first half to score 13 points – 11 of which came in the third and fourth quarters – and grab nine rebounds.
\nHilary McNelis chipped in seven points and eight boards and Amber DelBaggio finished with nine assists.
\nBut despite some nice individual and team numbers – Tyrone\u2019s defense registered its season-low in points surrendered – they at times were impatient in their offense and slow in getting to the glass.
\nIt allowed BEA, an 0-9 team playing without star Angela Hoover who\u2019s out for the season with a torn ACL, to hang around for most of the first half and even lead in the second quarter 10-9.
\n\u201cAre we a good team yet? No,\u201d Swaney said. \u201cWe turn the ball over way too many times, we don\u2019t rebound with consistency and we don\u2019t play with intensity all the time.\u201d
\nBut following a stretch of four games in seven days headlined by a tough loss to Lewistown Tuesday, the effort Tyrone mustered against winless BEA was enough.
\n\u201cI would have liked to be 5-2 right now,\u201d Swaney said. \u201cI really thought we should have beat BG at home, had it not been for a really poor first half. I knew we had a good shot at beating Indian Valley after seeing them play.\u201d
\nHOOP NOTES: Tyrone turned the ball over 15 times … Marie DelBaggio fouled out for the sixth time in seven games … Vickie DeFrate led BEA, which fell to 0-5 in the Mountain League, with 15 points … Turner is averaging 14.5 points and 8.7 rebounds per game … Tyrone returns home on Saturday, January 4, for a boys-girls double-header against Central. The game is scheduled as Tyrone Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Night with Craig Fleming, Sarah Grazier and Meagan DelBaggio slated for induction.
\nJUNIOR VARSITY
\nThe Tyrone jayvees led Bald Eagle 20-17 in the fourth quarter but couldn\u2019t hold their edge as BEA battled back to outscore the Lady Eagles 16-7 in the frame and win 33-25.
\nKylie Wallace led Tyrone with six points and Marissa Hoover added five points and seven rebounds.
\nVARSITY
\nBALD EAGLE AREA – Koshko 3 1-2 7; Shaw 0 0-2 0; DeFrate 4 7-14 15; Lyle 3 1-2 7; Robison 1 1-2 3; Reese 0 0-0 0; Kader 2 1-2 5; Miller 1 0-0 2; Garner 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 13 11-24 39
\n3-POINT FIELD GOALS: DeFrate (1)
\nTYRONE – M. DelBaggio 5 0-2 13; Turner 9 7-8 26; A. DelBaggio 0 0-0 0; Haag 4 0-0 9; McNelis 3 1-2 7; McKenna 4 0-0 8; Wallace 0 2-2 2; Stanton 0 0-3 0; Bryan 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 25 10-17 65
\n3-POINT GOAL: Turner (1), M. DelBaggio (2), Haag (1)
\nBALD EAGLE – 8 3 14 12 – 39
\nTYRONE\t – 9 24 13 19 – 65
\nJUNIOR VARSITY
\nBALD EAGLE AREA – Garner 5 3-5 14; Penland 1 1-2 3; Garner 1 7-10 9; Rees 0 2-2 2; Fisher 1 0-0 2; Kilmer 1 0-0 2; Emigh 0 1-3 1. TOTALS: 9 14-22 33
\nTYRONE – McKenna 1 0-0 2; Wallace 1 4-6 6; Stanton 1 0-2 2; Roth 1 0-2 2; Ingle 1 1-2 3; Hoover 2 1-2 5; Lewis 1 0-0 2; Russell 1 1-2 3; Taylor 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 9 6-16 25
\nBALD EAGLE – 6 5 6 16 – 33
\nTYRONE – 7 6 5 7 – 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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