Sunday, February 17, 2013

Roscoe Fails In Upset Bid

ROSCOE ALMOST PULLS OFF UPSET OF TRI-VALLEY
                                                     
  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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