TRI-VALLEY WINS WALTON TOURNEY
The Tri-Valley JV team also won the Tournament JV championship defeating the Walton JV.
Righting the ship at this time of the season could
prove to be important for the Tri-Valley boys varsity basketball team as they
posted an impressive win Saturday defeating the Warriors of Walton
77-56.
The win awarded them with the championship of this years Walton
Tip-Off Tournament.
The first round of the tournament was played December 4 with the
Bears defeating Oxford Central and Walton winning against Sullivan West. Weather
cancelled the championship round originally scheduled for December
8.
Tri-Valley's two early season wins against non-league opponents
Chapel Field and Livingston Manor were then met with two league losses to S.S.
Seward and Chester making this tournament appearance crucial to which direction
the Bears would be heading in.
Tri-Valley coach Brian Tingley appeared pleased with the win
saying, "we wanted to do what we usually do and play with a rotation of players
and getting a bunch of guys into the game."
Tingley stressed, "this allows us to speed up the game and not
let them set plays," As to his defense Brian said the players "were reaching in
and fouling too much."
"When asked about Tri-Valley's strength on the board Coach
Tingley poined out, "we lost a few games because we gave up rebounds so we have
been working on that in practice and we did a good job on boxing out
today."
The first quarter of play set the stage for Tri-Valley's fast
paced offense as the Bears posted a 23-14 lead after eight minutes of
play.
Second quarter play showed Tri-Valley getting stronger on the
backboards and offensive plays featuring driving layups through the lane and
under the boards and two three pointers by tourament MVP Sam
Tingley.
The Bears took a halftime lead of 45-31 and increased the lead
to 65-40 going into the final eight minutes of play.
Tingley freely subbed all of his bench in the fourth quarter
whic allowed Walton to outscore Tri-Valley 16-12.
Alex Brown led Tri-Valley with 12 points scoring 10 points in
and around the basket, Dion Lynch and Thomas Mungeer each had 10
points.
Jared Beach had 10 points for Walton.
Tri-Valley committed 19 turnovers to Walton's
16.
Walton coach David Gardepe in comments about his teams loss
said, "Tri-Valley came out and played aggressive man to man and they were over
us all the time which forced us into a hurried up pace which took us out of our
style of play." He added "they totally out rebounded us on the
boards."
The win puts the Bears record at 4-2 and 0-2 in OCIAA league
play.
In addition to the varsity winning the tournament the Tri-Valley
JV also won the JV tournament championship defeating Walton
66-50.
Tri-Valley players named to the tournament team included Donntae
Brock and MVP Sam Tingley.
Sullivan West player Jiron Kevii was also named to the
tournament team.
The Walton Tip-Off Tournament champions Tri-Valley Bears led by
Coach Brian Tingley display the winning trophy. Players pictured, not in any
specific order, include, Jarred James, Justin Swarthout, Zach Nilsen, Dion
Lynch, Alex Brown, Jesus Lozada, Kainan Justiniano, Stephen Carleton, Michael
Post, Donntae Brock, Thomas Mungeer, Sam Tingley and Devin Donnelley.
Named to the Walton Tip-Off Tournament team were, from the left,
Tri-Valley's Sam Tingley (MVP) and Donntae Brock, Walton's Colin Adam and Trevor
Zandt, Oxford's Kevin Davis and Sullivan West's Jiron Kevii.
Tri-Valley's Michael Post (No. 23) goes up for a two-pointer over
Walton's Wyatt Finn (No. 14) in the Bears tournament championship win
Saturday.
The Tri-Valley JV team also won the Tournament JV championship defeating the Walton JV.
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