CLEARFIELD-After losing by just three points in mid-December to Brookville, the Clearfield Lady Bisons figured the rematch at their house would be much different. And it was. Only this time the Lady Raiders used a 23-5 second period blowout to win going away, 52-30. Clearfield dropped to 5-13 on the season and have now lost nine of their last ten. Brookville improved their overall record to 11-9. The Lady Raiders won the first game with Clearfield 33-30 on December 14 at Brookville.
Clearfield was just fine after the first eight minutes and only trailed 6 to 5. Then Brynna Hetrick took over for the Lady Raiders in the second eight minutes. The sophomore guard hit 3 treys and poured in 11 second quarter points to give the visitors a 29-10 margin at the half. Hetrick led all scorers with 13 and was the only player on either squad to hit double figures. Jessica Byerly and Kate Reinsel each had 9 to help Brookville gain the victory. In all, ten of the twelve Lady Raiders put points on the board.
Brookville won a close second half scoring battle 23 to 20 but the damage was already done. The Lady Bisons, who never got close in the final two periods, were paced by Elizabeth Peters and Amber Byerly with seven points each. The Lady Raiders hit eight threes while Clearfield had just two. In fact the Brookville squad had more three pointers than two’s, 8-7. From the free throw line the Raiders were a sizzling 14 for 18 and Clearfield was 4 for 7.
Brookville also won the JV game by a 27-25 count to give the Lady Raiders a clean sweep on the night.
The Clearfield Lady Bisons will entertain state ranked Central Mountain Monday evening with the JV game starting at 6 pm and the varsity to immediately follow.
BROOKVILLE – Brynna Hetrick 4 2-2 13, Morgan Castle 2 0-0 6, Jessica Byerly 2 3-4 9, Kate Reinsel 3 3-4 9, Janelle Mescall 1 2-2 4, Alyssa Byerly 1 1-2 3, Lauren Shields 1 0-0 3, Megan Ion 0 0-0 0, Amanda Liebman 0 0-0 0, Bailey Reinard 0 2-2 2, Courtney Newsome 1 0-0 2, Leah Dougherty 0 1-2 1. TOTALS 15 14-18 52
CLEARFIELD – Jayme Ryan 1 0-0 2, Gwen Porter 1 0-0 2, Annie Janocko 2 1-2 5, Sarah Kovalick 1 1-2 4, Elizabeth Peters 3 1-1 7, Alanna Luzier 1 0-0 3, Angela Moore 0 0-0 0, Amber Byerly 3 1-2 7, Lori Zalno 0 0-0 0. TOTALS – 12 4-7 30
THREE-POINTERS: BROOKVILLE – 8 —Hetrick 3, Castle 2, Jessica Byerly 2, Shields 1. CLEARFIELD- 2 — Kovalick 1, Luzier 1.
SCORE BY QUARTERS:
BROOKVILLE 6 23 14 9 52
CLEARFIELD 5 5 6 14 30