An upset minded Roscoe Blue Devils team put a scare
into Tri-Valley last Friday night before the Bears turned the game around during
the second half of play to record a 63-54 non-league win.
Coach Fred Ahart's seven-member team came out firing on all
cylinders and took a 22-18 lead in the first quarter and a half-time lead of
33-31.
The opening minutes of the first quarter saw the Bears go up
6-0 and it wasn't until 5:23 of the quarter when Roscoe's Brad Dreher scored to
make it a 6-2 game. Dreher added a trey at 3:31 but Tri-Valley's Rodney T.
Jester also popped a three-pointer followed by Roscoe's Rob Taurino's
three-pointer to knot the score at 11-11.
Taurino provided Roscoe's scoring punch the remainder
of the quarter to put the Blue Devils up 22-18 at the buzzer. He had three treys and a two
pointer for 11 of Roscoe's 22 points.
Tri-Valley's Shatik Smith scored six
points, Jester 5 and Alex Brown four in the first eight minutes of
play.
A lower scoring second quarter saw
Roscoe outscore Tri-Valley 13-11 with Taurino scoring six
points.
Spectator buzz heard at halftime
gave indications that Roscoe was looking for a win after losing a close game by
two points the previous night to Eldred which also eliminated the Blue Devils
from sectional play.
An inspired Tri-Valley team came out
a lot stronger in the third quarter outscoring the Blue Devils 19-12 with Smith
leading the scoring with six points , four by Cody Exner, four by Jesus Lozada,
three by Jester and two by Brown. Taurino continued the hot hand for Roscoe with
seven points and Marc Rosario added four points for a 50-45 Tri-Valley
lead.
Scoring for both teams slowed down
in the fourth quarter with the Bears outscoring Roscoe 13-9 off four points by
Jester, five for Smith and two each for Brown and Lazada. Rosario added four for
Roscoe, three by Dreher and two for Taurino.
Tri-Valley Coach Brian Tingley at
the end of close game expressed the fact that "we expected a tough game and with
20 turnovers and missing a lot of free throws that's what we
got."
Coach Ahart said, "we played tough
and stayed in the game and I wish good luck to Tri-Valley in the sectional
playoffs." Ahart is also Section IX Boys Baseketball
Co-chairperson.
Roscoe committed 29
turnovers.
Leading scorer for Tri-Valley was
Smith with 23 points and Jester added 14 for a victory which pushed the Bears
overall record to 10-3.
Roscoe's Taurino led both teams in
scoring 27 points and had four assists. Rosario and Dreher each had 11 points
for the Blue Devils who's record fell to 5-12.
Additional story details and photos
are available at http://bght.blogspot.com
Roscoe's Rob Taurino ( No. 21) goes up for three of his 27
points in the Blue Devils 63-54 loss to Tri-Valley Friday night at Roscoe.
Guarding him is the Bears Cody Exner (No. 5).
Tri-Valley's Shatik Smith scores two of his 23 points.
Roscoe's Brad Dreher scores past Tri-Valley's Alex Brown.
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