Fallsburg Shows Experience With Win

   FALLSBURG--Fallsburg's veteran-loaded girls varsity team used a strong defense and an explosive offense  last Wednesday night to defeat Tri-Valley 57-37.
  Fallsburg's experience with four returning players from last year proved to be a key factor in the Comet's win with Tri-Valley coach Jason Closs admitting in post game comments  "that our Tri-Valley girls have not played a lot together throughout our whole program."
  This lack of not playing together showed up quickly in the first eight minutes of play as Fallsburg raced out to a 10-0 lead before the Bears scored their first two points at the 2:38 mark of the first quarter.
  Fallsburg went on to outscore Tri-Valley 12-5 in the first quarter and 14-4 in the second quarter for a commanding halftime lead of 26-9.
  Leading the scoring efforts by the Comet's in the first half of play was Brooks Sapolsky with nine points and Diamond Weeks with seven points.
  Sapolsky and Weeks added to their scoring efforts in the second half of play with Weeks pouring in nine for her total of 16 points and Sapolsky adding 11 for her top-scoring effort of 20 points.
  Tri-Valley outscored Fallsburg 13-12 in the third quarter but the Comet's outscored the Bears in the fourth quarter 19-15. 
  A strong three-point shooting effort by Fallsburg showed the Comet's with six trays for the night.
  Coach Closs noted "the three point shooting for Fallsburg was the key tonight and we talked today prior to the game about getting to their shooters especially in transition because Fallsburg's guards can throw them up and tonight they shot very well."
  Turnovers for both teams pretty much evened out with Tri-Valley committing 26 and Fallsburg 24.
  "We need to work to continue to mesh as we have girls who have not played together a lot and we're trying to figure each other out and that's going to come from practicing and playing games,"  Coach Closs added.
  Tri-Valley's offense was led by Liz Hannold and Morgan Shamro with nine points each. Freshman Samantha Raymond added six points.
  Fallsburg coach Dan Redmond in commenting about his teams victory, said, "we played a phenomenal defensive game, rotated well and had some great spurts on offense."
  "We have a very solid shooting team this year and will be playing league games in Class B Division IV against Burke, O'Neill and Liberty."
  "I have four returning starters and Tri Valley is a team that has beat me the last seven years so it's finally nice to get a win because he (Closs) has a great program over there and Jason does a great job with them so it's nice to get this win," Redmond added.
  Both teams entered Wednesday's game at 1-1. Fallsburg now goes to 2-1 while Tri-Valley is 1-2.
  Fallsburg played its first league game against Burke last Friday while Tri-Valley played its first league game against S.S. Seward last night.
                                                                    

                                                          

Fallsburg point guard Diamond Weeks (4) drives to the hoop past Tri-Valley defender Ashley Lawrence (25) in the Comet's 57-37 non-league game last week in Fallsburg. Weeks scored 16 points for her winning team.                                      
                                                            

Tri-Valley's Morgan Shamro (34) scores two of her nine points as Fallsburg's Diavian Smith (15) attemps the block. Fallsburg won 57-37.

ADDITIONAL PHOTOS FROM THE TRI-VALLEY-FALLSBURG GAME