The Tyrone Girls Junior High Basketball team traveled to Wingate on Tuesday afternoon for a basketball game against Bald Eagle Area.
\nThe Tyrone Lady Eagles defeated BEA improved their record to 3-8 with a 31-21 triumph over the BEA. Sharon Long led Tyrone with 11 points, six rebounds and five steals and Tiffany Bradford added eight points and six rebounds and Kayla Corle chipped in seven points.
\nThe Lady Golden Eagles controlled the boards, outrebounding BEA 32-6.
\n\u201cThe girls did a really good job getting rebounds,\u201d said Tyrone coach Kerry Naylor. \u201cSharon Long had a really big game and the other girls gave her lots of help.\u201d
\nThe Tyrone girls dropped the seventh\/eighth grade game to the Bald Eagle Area girls by the low-scoring total of 17-13.
\nStefani Bryan fronted the Lady Eagles with a triple-nickel showing-five points, five rebounds and five steals.
\nThe younger girls hurt themselves with a poor shooting night, both at the foul line and from the floor. Tyrone went 0-7 from the line, including 0-6 in the first two minutes of the game and shot just six-for-32 from the floor.
\nBEA led at halftime by a 6-4 score so the point drought hit both teams.
\n\u201cThe girls had a lot of trouble getting started for some reason,\u201d said coach Naylor. \u201cWe practice shooting for 35 minutes at every practice. I can\u2019t explain what happened today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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