BROOKVILLE, Pa. (D9Sports) – Denying DuBois a chance at sharing the D9 League title with Elk County Catholic, Brookville played the spoiler’s role in a 52-30 rout of the visiting Beavers.
(Photo of Brookville’s Jace Miner. Photo by Jared Bakaysa of JB Graphics. See more of Bakaysa’s work here)
The Raiders led for good less than two minutes into the game and pulled away with the win, which also secured themselves the top seed in the three-team Class 3A playoffs with Moniteau and Kane. Jace Miner and Jack Krug scored 19 and 14 points respectively.
The Raiders led 15-12 after the first quarter, 25-16 at halftime, 39-24 after the third quarter and their largest lead came in the fourth quarter at 50-24 with 2:28 left after a Raiders 11-0 run to start the quarter. During that run, Miner turned a steal into a dunk at the 4:51 mark.
Brookville limited DuBois to its lowest point total in over seven years and limited the Beavers to just 34 percent (12-for-35) shooting. The Beavers were just 1-for-8 from the foul line and committed 16 turnovers.
Lennon Lindholm led the Beavers with nine points. Chooch Husted scored eight points off the bench and leading scorer Chase Husted was limited to a season-low five points on 2-for-6 shooting from the field and 1-for-5 from the line. He led all rebounders with 10.
The 30 points scored by the Beavers was the lowest since they lost 29-27 to Elk County Catholic in December of 2012.
BRADFORD 67, PUNXSUTAWNEY 60, 3 OTS
BRADFORD, Pa. – Evan Schmidt scored seven of Bradford’s 11 points in the third overtime, as the Owls beat visiting Punxsutawney, 67-60, in three overtimes in D9 League action.
Steven Knowlton hit a layup as time expired in regulation to tie the game at 45, and the teams each scored five points in the first extra session and six in the second one setting up a third four-minute overtime period.
That is when Schmitt took over scoring seven of his 9 points to lift Bradford to the win. In fact, Schmidt scored all his points after regulation.
Tyler Gigliotti added four points in the third overtime and eight in the three overtimes combined while finishing with a game-high 23 points for Bradford.
Knowlton also added 20 in the win for the Owls.
Micah Kriebel led Punxsutawney with 19 points with Daren Byers adding 16 and Nick Humble 10.
It was the second straight multiple overtime contest for the Chucks, who beat Homer-Center in double overtime earlier in the week. It was also the longest game in District 9 this season.
CURWENSVILLE 62, SHEFFIELD 61
SHEFFIELD, Pa. – Ty Terry scored a game-high 23 points to lead Curwensville to a 62-61 road win over Sheffield in AML action.
Adam Miller, who hit a free throw with 4.4 seconds left to put the Golden Tide up four at the time, and Trevor Lansberry each scored 14 points.
Tyler Hepinger led Sheffield with 21 points, Walker Kyler added 16.
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