Jan. 26 Girls’ Basketball Recaps

Cover photo of Forest Area’s Mikaela Bean

FOREST AREA 47, CRANBERRY 44

MARIENVILLE, Pa. – Behind a season-high 22 points from Mikaela Bean, Forest Area downed visiting Cranberry 47-44 in a KSAC North battle Monday night at East Forest high school.

Bean shot 8 of 21 from the field, hit five 3-pointers and added seven rebounds, five steals and four assists for the Fires (6-8 overall, 2-3 KSAC North), who became the first Forest Area School District girls’ team to beat Cranberry since West Forest downed the Berries Feb. 13, 2009, 55-43, in a KSAC Semifinal contest at Clarion High School. It marked the first loss by Cranberry in Marienville since Jan. 18, 2007, when East Forest beat the Berries 45-44.

Morgan Silvis added 11 points on 5 of 10 shooting for Forest Area, which led 23-18 at halftime and 35-30 at the end of three quarters.

Kendra Schreck led Cranberry (3-12, 2-4) with a career-high 15 points.

FOREST AREA 47, CRANBERRY 44

Score by Quarters

Cranberry 5 13 12 14 – 44

Forest 9 14 12 12 – 47

Cranberry – 44

(Points only)

Brannon 2, Whitling 0, Schreck 15, Flinspach 5, Swartzfager 4, Hutchinson 5, Reynolds 0, Altman 0, Duncan 11, Kahle 2.

Forest Area – 47

Bean 8 1-2 22, Silvis 5 1-3 11, Burker 3 0-0 6, Schwab 1 4-8 6, Dubrawka 1 0-0 2, Miller 0 0-0 0, Johnson 0 0-0 0, Cussin 0 0-0 0, Saxton 0 0-0 0. Totals 18 6-13 47

3-pointers – Cranberry (Not available). Forest Area 5 (Bean 5).

BROCKWAY 55, RIDGWAY 37

RIDGWAY, Pa. – Juli Esposito and Leah Lindemuth combined to score 33 points to lead Brockway to a 55-37 win at Ridgway Monday.

Esposito bucketed a game-high 20 points including going 10 of 12 from the free-throw line, while Lindemuth added 13 points.

Esposito added seven assists and five steals, while Lindemuth had eight rebounds and five steals. Ashley Moore had a game-high 17 rebounds and also scored seven points.

Emily Fullem led Ridgway with 13 tallies.

The Rovers led by just a point, 13-12, at the end of the first quarter but built the lead to eight (28-20) at halftime. The lead was still at eight, 36-28, at the end of three quarters before a 10-point fourth-quarter advantage allowed Brockway (8-8 overall, 4-4 AML South) to pull away for its fourth win in five tries.

Ridgway fell to 4-13 overall and 1-7 in league play.

BROCKWAY 55, RIDGWAY 37

Score by Quarters

Brockway 13 15 8 19 – 55

Ridgway 12 8 8 9 – 37

Brockway – 55

Adrianna Terwilliger 2 0-2 4, Katlyn Cappetta 3 2-3 8, Ashley Moore 3 1-2 7, Leah Lindemuth 4 5-8 13, Juli Esposito 5 10-12 20, Kaitlyn Morelli 1 1-2 3, Nichole Marchiori 0 0-0 0, Adriana Azzato 0 0-0 0, Lilly Larson 0 0-0 0, Leigha Pertz 0 0-0 0, Sabrina Bundy 0 0-0 0. Totals 18 19-29 55.

Ridgway – 37
Jill Mercer 1 0-2 2, Kiersten Hinton 1 0-0 2, Emily Fullem 6 1-4 13, Rachel Foringer 0 0-0, Hannah Park 4 0-0 10, Jessica Kiefer 2 6-8 10, Gabrielle Barclay 0 0-0 0. Totals 14 7-14 37.

Three-pointers: Brockway none. Ridgway 2 (Park 2).
KANE 49, JOHNSONBURG 29

JOHNSONBURG, Pa. – Camyrn Cummings scored 12 points and Alaina Barner added 11 to lead visiting Kne beat Johnsonburg 49-29 Monday night.

Kane built a 28-13 halftime lead and then withstood a third-quarter 10-7 surge by the Ramettes.

Taylor Morgan added 10 rebounds for the Lady Wolves (9-8 overall, 4-3 AML North), while Trinity Clark had 11 rebounds and eight points and Rachel Morgan eight rebounds in her first varsity start.

Nicole Myers had 17 points to lead Johnsonburg (5-12, 4-4).

KANE 49, JOHNSONBURG 29

Score by Quarters

Kane 16 12 7 14 – 49

Johnsonburg 5 8 10 6 – 29

Kane – 49

Taylor Morgan 0 0-0 0, Truden 1 6-8 8, Dyne 3 2-2 8, Hottel 1 0-0 2, Barner 4 1-2 11, Cummings 5 2-3 12, Clark 4 0-0 8, R. Morgan 0 0-0 0, O’Hara 0 0-0 0. 18 11-15 49.

Johnsonburg – 29

Cardoni 0 0-0 0, Rowles 3 0-2 6, Wolfe 0 0-2 0, Wilson 0 0-0 0, Perez-McGill 1 0-0 2, Dillinger 2 0-0 4, Myers 6 5-8 17, Quigle 0 0-0 0, Sallack 0 0-0 0. Totals 12 4-12 29.

Three-pointers: Kane 2 (Barner 2). Johnsonburg 1 (Myers).

ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC 70, SHEFFIELD 24

SHEFFIELD, Pa. – Erin Petrosky scored 17 points to help Elk County Catholic stay unbeaten with a 70-24 win at Sheffield Monday.

Macy Neureiter added 15 points for the Lady Crusaders (17-0 overall, 10-0 AML North), who finished AML play unbeaten for the second straight year while running their conference win streak to 29 games.

Sheffield fell to 1-17, 0-7 in conference play.