The Tyrone junior high girls basketball team hosted Philipsburg-Osceola on Tuesday.
The Little Lady Eagles ninth grade team contrlled the game inside on the way to a 49-14 triumph over Philipsburg-Osceola.
Stefani Bryan led tghe way for the Tyrone ladies pumping 15 points and pulling down a dozen rebounds. Kayla Corle added 10 points, six boards and had nine steals in a big al-around contribution. Liz Tepsic also had 12 rebounds.
Tyrone won their first game of the year to improve to 1-2.
“We were strong with the ball inside,” said coach Kerry Naylor,” but we had to work hard for everything. We watched film of our game last week with Bald Eagle Area and the girls got to take a look at the way they were playing for the first time. They were able to see they had a long way to go. Tonight they responded and really played hard. We think we are a team that has a lot of scorers. we are starting to play with a lot of confidence. When Steph and Kayla play like they did tonight, we are going to score a lot of points and win games.”
The seventh and eighth grade squad defeated the Lady Mounties 32-11 to improve to 2-1 on the season.
Ashley Shultz fronted the Tyrone girls with six points and eight steals. Teanna Kobuck led the team in scoring with seven points.
“Look for Teanna Kobuck in the near future,” said Naylor. “Her’s is a name you will hear, not only in girls’ basketball, but in other sports as well. Our seventh and eighth grade team works hard and is playing with confidence right now.”
