{"id":49100,"date":"2008-11-08T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T14:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=49100"},"modified":"2008-11-11T11:02:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:02:47","slug":"same-end-result-different-road-to-get-there-for-golden-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=49100","title":{"rendered":"Same end result, different road to get there for Golden Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nDefense
\nThe Tyrone defense with Larry Glace (4), Ben Ingle (24), John Shaffer (85), Sharrod Hankerson (25), Dustin Weaver (63), Jerrod Good (66) and others limited Bald Eagle Area to no points, 24 yards rushing and less than 100 yards total offense in a 34-0 Golden Eagle win. (The Daily Herald\/Mary Michaels)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Luckily for the Tyrone Golden Eagles, the playoffs are all about the bottom line. Luckily, it\u2019s about \u2018Did you do it,\u2019 instead of \u2018How did you do it.”
\nBecause there were times last night in Tyrone\u2019s first round District 6-AA playoff game against Bald Eagle Area when the Eagles looked out of sorts.
\nMaybe it was because they were playing a team they pasted 41-0 little more than a month ago, and gearing up for a game you should probably win by four or more touchdowns isn\u2019t the easiest thing for adolescents to do. Maybe it was because Bald Eagle Area played with a different intensity than they showed when the teams met in September.
\nMaybe it was because it seemed that every time Tyrone was able to spring a big play, the turf at Gray-Veterans Memorial Field looked like a teenager\u2019s messy bedroom, with enough laundry on the ground to frustrate even the most seasoned parent.
\nWhatever it was, Tyrone\u2019s 34-0 shutout, which sent Tyrone into the District 6 semifinals for the eighth straight season, didn\u2019t have the same feel of similar first-round blowouts.
\nCoach John Franco, rarely one to gripe about officiating but always one to call a spade a spade, had his own view on why the Eagles seemed to sputter at times when they normally break a game open.
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t do anything about some of the penalties that were called,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t see them. They were all judgment calls, and that was their judgment. I thought our kids played with tremendous poise after (we had) a big play get called back, and then a big play get called back. We really showed our experience, because our kids didn\u2019t let it get to them.\u201d
\nOn Bald Eagles\u2019 second series, Eric Desch picked off BEA quarterback Derek Noll and returned it 72 yards for a touchdown only to have it called back on a penalty for a block in the back. Tyrone\u2019s ensuing series flat-lined after a 10-yard run by Larry Glace was called back for holding.
\nLater in the second quarter, after a first-down run by Glace was brought back on another holding penalty, Franco called a timeout, rounded up the wagons, and went to old reliable.
\n\u201cEvery time we went back to pass, we got a call, so we just said let\u2019s go to our base blocking, let\u2019s go right at them,\u201d said Franco. \u201cWe said let\u2019s just get our poise here and go out and block.\u201d
\nThat they did. Leading 7-0, the Golden Eagles went on a 16-play, 75-yard drive that consumed just under eight minutes. They passed only once, when Levi Reihart connected with Ben Ingle for a 9-yard gain 11 plays in. The rest was strictly hat-on-hat, man-on-man, in-your-face, ball-control running game.
\nIt started with Glace and Mark Mingle splitting carries, and ended with Mingle toting the rock the last five plays covering 18 yards. Mingle took it in from the 3-yard line on fourth-and-1, and John Shaffer\u2019s second PAT kick made it 14-0 with 32 seconds left until halftime.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re a team. We\u2019re one unit,\u201d said senior offensive lineman Matt Murray. \u201cWe play to the whistle. We play hard every play. And what the refs call, they call.\u201d
\nIt was the kind of drive Tyrone has used to close the books on many playoff opponents, but according to Bald Eagle coach Jack Tobias, it energized his Eagles.
\n\u201cIt actually pumped our kids up,\u201d Tobias said. \u201cThe first time there were no 16-play drives. It was five, six plays and they were going 50, 60 yards. We went into halftime, and our guys were jacked up. If we could have stopped them down there, it would have been interesting to see what would have happened.\u201d
\nUnfortunately for Tobias, the second half kick went to Tyrone, and Franco\u2019s game plan hadn\u2019t changed during the 15-minute break. The Golden Eagles ran the ball eight straight times on their opening possession of the third quarter and scored after four minutes to take a 21-0 lead.
\nGlace, who finished with 96 yards on 18 carries despite battling the flu, hauled it the first four plays, totaling 27 yards, including 13 yards on a sweep that ended with BEA picking up a personal foul penalty.
\nThat moved the ball to the Bald Eagle 17, and Mingle took over from there. He carried the ball the next four plays, and scored from the 1 at the 7:56 mark.
\n\u201cI was happy we could drive the ball right down the field and score. That was big,\u201d said Franco. \u201cWe got the momentum after the first first down and the second first down, and you could see that building.”
\nAfter BEA got the ball back, Tobias had his team go for the first down with a fake punt on fourth-and-three from the 37. But AJ Robinson slipped in the backfield, and Tyrone took over at the BEA 35.
\nOn fourth-and-10, Reihart hit Desch for a 10-yard gain to keep the ensuing drive alive, and on the next play Glace went up the middle on a counter, spun out of a tackle, and sprinted 25 yards for touchdown that made it 28-0.
\nBald Eagles\u2019 next drive ended when Shaffer, from his defensive end position, went to the flat on a corner blitz. Noll never saw him, and Shaffer was able to snatch his first interception of the season, and return it 29 yards to the 1.
\nMingle scored his third touchdown three plays later to set the final score.
\nThe Golden Eagles limited BEA to 94 yards of total offense, 40 of which came on a pass from Noll to Robinson in the third quarter. That drive ended when Sharrod Hankerson picked off Noll for the third time, returning it to the BEA 37.
\nTyrone now faces the winner of today\u2019s quarterfinal between No. 4 seeded Huntingdon and No. 5 Central Cambria, which ended the Eagles\u2019 season a year ago with a 21-10 upset win in the District semifinals.
\nGRID TIDBITS: Glace moved up to 11th on Tyrone\u2019s single-season rushing list. He now stands at 1,314 yards, 92 behind No. 10 Chet Wolford … Mingle, with 86 yards on 18 carries, now has 845 yards on the season … Reihart finished 7-for-10 for 67 yards … Tyrone was penalized 5 times for 45 yards … Tyrone outgained BEA 311-94 … Tyrone had five tackles for loss, including sacks by Shaffer and Dustin Weaver.
\nTyrone 34 Bald Eagle Area 0
\nBald Eagle Area 0 0 0 0 – 0
\nTyrone 7 7 20 0 – 34
\n First Quarter
\nT – Glace 3 run. (Shaffer kick). 7:47.
\nSecond Quarter
\nT – Mingle 4 run. (Shaffer kick). 0:32.
\nThird Quarter
\nT – Mingle 1 run. (Shaffer kick). 7:56.
\nT – Glace 25 run. (Shaffer kick). 4:12.
\nT – Mingle 1 run. (kick blocked). 2:29.
\nTeam
\n\t T BEA
\nFirst Downs 17 3
\nYards Rushing 53-256 19-24
\nPass Att.-Comp. 7-10 5-15
\nPass Yards 67 69
\nTotal Yards 311 94
\nFumbles\/Lost 1-1 0-0
\nInterceptions Thrown 0 3
\nPenalties\/Yards 5-45 4-35
\nPunts\/Avg. 3-29 5-34.2
\nRushing
\nTyrone – Mingle 16-86 (3 TDs), Glace 18-96 (2 TDs), Reihart 4-1, Ripka 5-26, Patton 4-24, Franco 2-13, Clark 1-4, Burke 2-4, Team 1- (-1).
\nBald Eagle Area – Gingrich 3-9, Hoffman 2-8, Robinson 7-5, Hicks 2-5, Decker 1-3, Noll 4- (-6).
\nPassing
\nTyrone – Reihart 7-10, 67 Yds., 0 Int. 0 TD.
\nBald Eagle Area – Noll 5-14, 69 Yds., 3 Int., 0 TD, Leskovansky 0-1, 0 Yds., 0 Int., 0 TD.
\nReceiving
\nTyrone – Mingle 3-9, Ingle 2-14, Desch 1-10, Shaffer 1-29.
\nBald Eagle Area- Burns 2-9, Robinson 1-40, Gingrich 1-14, Decker 1-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defense The Tyrone defense with Larry Glace (4), Ben Ingle (24), John Shaffer (85), Sharrod Hankerson (25), Dustin Weaver (63), Jerrod Good (66) and others limited Bald Eagle Area to no points, 24 yards rushing and less than 100 yards total offense in a 34-0 Golden Eagle win. (The Daily Herald\/Mary Michaels) Luckily for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49100","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=49100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}