The time for a high school basketball player to display
their athletic talents is when collage scouts are in the gym and
Tri-Valley's Katlynn Greffrath seized the moment as she lit up the scoreboard
for 22 points in the Bears 62-35 win last Friday night at
Chester.
The scout was reportedly from Oneonta State and was scouting both teams.
Eighteen of those 22 points came in the second half of play as
Tri-Valley put on an offensive and defensive display dominating the first three
quarter scores of 18-7, 28-17 and 44-30.
Greffrath, who holds her school's three-point scoring record and
is usually very prolific with the three-pointer missed several first half
attempts in the three-point range giving her only six first half
points.
In the second half of play one could easily see a very
determined ball player as Katlynn attacked the rim and backboard with drives
that continued to add two-pointers to her second half scoring
efforts.
Greffrath has become a Tri-Valley standout as she
worked extremely hard during the off season playing and practicing as much
basketball as she could.
Some referred to last Friday night's game as part of a growing
rivalry between the Hamiltonian's and the lady Bears with the lingering memory
of Chester's overtime win last season in the Section IX semifinal
game.
The sectional loss combined with two regular league losses last
season was definitely embedded in the minds of the Tri-Valley team as they took
to the Chester court.
Defensive and offensive pressure was immediately applied by
Tri-Valley and as Chester coach Pete Rickard noted about the Bears, "they're
good ... they are just that good."
Rickard added, "we punched and punched back and forth then after
they pulled away we just couldn't come back."
They are good that's the bottom line.... they are good at guard
and they go after every loose ball," Rickard added.
The Chester coach emphasized that his team should have
controlled the boards with their height advantage, "but they out hustled us to
grab the rebounds."
Tri-Valley coach Jason Closs emphasized his team, "has depth and
talent" and that he is pleased with the Bears defensive pressure that creates
mistakes and turnovers.
Closs had high praise for Chester's Simone Ayers saying, "I knew
she was good."
As to the question about his team's fouling Closs pointed out,
"we need to be a bit smarter and at times I think we're aggressive and at other
times that can be a detriment."
"We tried to make them work hard to get the ball up the floor,"
Closs emphasized
"but I would still like to see a little more pressure on the ball
so that when we're playing a team that has some size we can be effective," he
said.
Chester committed 28 turnovers while Tri-Valley had 21
Contributing to Tri-Valley's scoring was veteran guard Caroline
Martin with 11 points and Sabrena Smith with 10 points.
Simone Ayers led Chester with 20 points.
Chester is 5-2 and 1-1 in OCIAA league play.
Tri-Valley is 8-0 and 1-0 in OCIAA league play with two of the
wins coming against Class AA Middletown and Minisink Valley.
The New York State Sportswriters ranking in Class C has
Tri-Valley in 4th place.
Tri-Valley's Katlynn Greffrath (No. 11) drives to the basket
scoring two of her 22 points in the Bears 62-35 win over Chester Friday
night.
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