CURWENSVILLE – The Curwensville High School girls basketball team picked up its first win of the season Wednesday night, defeating the visiting Moshannon Valley Damsels 48-32 at Patton Hall in Curwensville.
The two Moshannon Valley League (MVL) teams went back and forth in the first half of action with the Lady Tide winning the first eight minutes 16-12 only to see the Damsels rally to take the second frame 10-4 and go into the halftime break up by two, 22-20.
A different story for sure in the second 16 minutes as Curwensville turned up the heat both on defense and offense to outscore Moshannon Valley 28-10 to secure the MVL victory.
Curwensville was paced with a monster night from junior Alyssa Bakaysa who had 20 points, 17 rebounds and nine blocked shots. Skylar Pentz also had double figures for the Lady Tide with 12 tallies.
Senior Sydney Bubb of the Damsels was the game’s high scorer with 25.
In junior varsity action Moshannon Valley came out on top, beating Curwensville 12-9.
MOSHANNON VALLEY – 32
Sydney Bubb 9 5-6 25, Abigail Wilson 2 0-0 4, Riley Wharton 1 1-2 3, Emily Davis 0 0-0 0 , Sophia Demko 0 0-0 0, Ella Berg 0 0-0 0, Kendra Lewis 0 0-0 0, Rebecca Kiner 0 0-0 0, Isabella Ferguson 0 0-0 0, Tessa Martin 0 0-0 0, Karleigh Sage 0 0-0 0, TOTALS – 12 6-8 32
CURWENSVILLE – 48
Alyssa Bakaysa 8 4-5 20, Skylar Pentz 5 2-2 12, Joslynne Freyer 3 0-0 6, Kyra Henry 3 2-3 8, Austyn Guiher 1 0-0 2, Desaray Cossar 0 0-0 0, Rachelle Anderson 0 0-0 0, Savannah Carfley 0 0-0 0, TOTALS – 20 8-10 48
SCORE BY QUARTERS:
MOSHANNON VALLEY 12 10 3 7 32
CURWENSVILLE 16 4 14 14 48
THREE-POINTERS: MOSHANNON VALLEY – 2 Bubb 2 CURWENSVILLE – NONE
