WESTOVER – A Friday night trip to Westover to battle the Harmony Lady Owls was all the Lady Tide of Curwensville needed to break a six game losing streak and pick up its first victory of the new year.
Curwensville dumped the Lady Owls on the home team’s floor 52-36 in Moshannon Valley League (MVL) action in a game where the Lady Tide played a complete game.
The Lady Tide are now overall 3-7 on the year with a 2-3 MVL record while the Lady Owls dropped to 1-8 on the season and 0-4 in the Moshannon Valley League.
Lady Tide head coach Bob Desmett said after the game, “We surely needed a win for a confidence booster tonight. We are a little happier tonight than we have been for awhile.”
Curwensville took command of the game right from the beginning thanks to a quick six points from sophomore Alyssa Bakaysa to jump in front 6-2 at the 4:45 point of the opening period.
In all, Bakaysa had nine tallies in the first eight minutes as the Lady Tide took a 17-6 edge into the second period.
Curwensville then won the second stanza 13-7 and at the intermission were now up 30-13.
The Lady Owls didn’t exactly just roll over to start the second half, as balanced team scoring helped them come out in front in the third 14-10 to cut Curwensville’s margin to 40-27 heading into the final eight minutes.
When Lady Owl Marissa Brothers hit a fourth quarter free throw with 5:17 to play, the Owls cut the Lady Tide lead to 30-21.
And that would be the closest Harmony would get in the attempt for a comeback win.
Desmett then added, “I really liked the fact that we had a balanced scoring effort this evening, and the fact that we closed out when we needed was big for us.”
Bakaysa led all scorers on the night with a game high 19 points while teammate Tarah Jacobson added 13.
On offense for Harmony, Tori Hauser dumped in 11 points.
In JV action the Lady Owls won a close one over the Lady Tide 28-24.
The Lady Tide are home on Tuesday to play visiting Elk County Catholic with the junior varsity to tip-off at 6 pm and the varsity to immediately follow.
CURWENSVILLE – 52
Hannah Condon 1 1-3 3, Tarah Jacobson 5 3-4 13, Alyssa Bakaysa 9 1-1 19, Briana Swindell 2 1-2 6, Austyn Guiher 0 0-2 0, Skylar Pentz 2 1-1 5, Kyra Henry 3 0-0 6
TOTALS – 22 7-13 52
HARMONY – 36
Tori Hauser 5 0-0 11, Traci Hauser 3 1-1 9, Dorey Westover 1 1-3 3, Emmalee Neff 0 0-0 0, Marissa Brothers 2 1-2 5, Sherri Kephart 3 0-0 6, Jessalyn Schneider 1 0-0 2
TOTALS – 15 3-6 36
SCORE BY QUARTERS:
CURWENSVILLE 17 13 10 12 52
HARMONY 6 7 14 9 36
THREE-POINTERS: CURWENSVILLE – 1 Swindell HARMONY – 3 Traci Hauser 2, Tori Hauser
OFFICIALS: Mike McDermott, Bill Zamboni, Mike Felus
Lady Tide Scoreboard:
| Date | Opponent | Score | Record |
| 12/09 | WEST BRANCH | 34 – 37 | 0 – 1 |
| 12/11 | @ Mo Valley | 49 – 35 | 1 – 1 |
| 12/16 | PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA | 47 – 24 | 2 – 1 |
| 12/18 | RIDGWAY | 18 – 30 | 2 – 2 |
| 12/27 | CLEARFIELD | 16 – 49 | 2 – 3 |
| 01/02 | @ DuBois Central | 32 – 73 | 2 – 4 |
| 01/03 | @ Brockway | 21 – 63 | 2 – 5 |
| 01/06 | @ West Branch | 31 – 32 | 2 – 6 |
| 01/08 | GLENDALE | 17 – 58 | 2 – 7 |
| 01/10 | @ Harmony | 52 – 36 | 3 – 7 |
| 01/14 | ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC | ||
| 01/17 | @ Kane | ||
| 01/21 | @ Ridgway | ||
| 01/24 | BROCKWAY | ||
| 01/27 | @ Clearfield | ||
| 01/30 | @ Philipsburg-Osceola | ||
| 01/31 | @ Johnsonburg | ||
| 02/04 | DUBOIS CENTRAL | ||
| 02/05 | @ Glendale | ||
| 02/07 | SHEFFIELD | ||
| 02/10 | HARMONY | ||
| 02/12 | MO VALLEY |