Sentinel photograph by MIKE GOSS Juniata's Haley Mummah drives to the basket between JCS's Maddie Warner (10) and Jenna Glick (15).
PORT ROYAL — Juniata Christian College hosted Juniata on Tuesday night time and regardless of an enormous struggle from the Woman Lions, the Woman Indians gained 51-31.
Juniata Christian got here out of the bounce able to show herself. They bought it going within the first quarter as Erin Sheaffer scored 10 factors of her personal for the Lions, greater than Juniata scored as a staff within the quarter. Sheaffer was the one Lion to attain within the second quarter as she sank a 3-pointer from the nook.
Juniata scored 9 within the first quarter, a two-pointer by Regan Lowery, a free throw by Mariska Beward, two missed free throws and a two-pointer by Ava Shearer and two extra pointers by Mylee Landis. Within the second quarter, Landis added one other 3 factors, Shearer added two extra together with Beward. Haley Mummah hit a free throw for an additional level so as to add to the Juniata rating.
Juniata got here out of halftime a very new staff, with Beward, Landis and Grace Reinhold including two for the rising Indian rating. Lowery drained a 3-pointer from the arc within the fourth quarter, whereas Sarah Montoya and Landis additionally added two. And Shearer scored 11 factors within the third quarter and 7 within the fourth.
“It's an incredible feeling,” Shearer mentioned of her sport. “I tore my ACL final yr, so getting back from this feels actually good. I’ve an amazing staff round me, they're so supportive. They feed me and simply hold going. When you get the adrenaline going, I don't really feel an excessive amount of ache from the damage.”
“We modified the protection,” Juniata head coach Jim Fosselman defined his halftime interview with the staff. “We went from taking part in man to a 3-2 protection, which these youngsters can do. We switched it up, had been extra aggressive, regarded for the submit participant and sank it. We had mismatches there that we didn't capitalize on. We lastly began utilizing our submit, which is Ava, Miley and Mariska; they're all good youngsters there. We had them there, we simply had to make use of them.”
Juniata Christian began the second half slower than they needed. Sheaffer was solely in a position so as to add three factors to the scoreboard and Jenna Glick two. Juniata's protection was capable of hold Sheaffer from scoring like she did within the first quarter. However the Woman Lions would come again within the fourth quarter and end sturdy, including 13 factors between the 4 gamers.
“There are such a lot of instances the place I really feel like we're doing properly, we've bought it,” Juniata Christian head coach Maggie Shafferman defined. “It's consistency, it's our massive problem proper now. I believe if we will hold the psychological sport a little bit stronger, I believe we'll be tremendous. I've been attempting to emphasise that protection makes offense and you’ll see once we're good on protection it carries over to our offense so we've bought to maintain engaged on that.”
Juniata travels to Midd-West on Friday to tackle the Mustangs and JCS travels to Columbia-Montour on Thursday.
Juniata 51, Juniata Christian 31
Juniata 9-17-35-51
JCS 10-13-18-31
Juniata(51) Haley Mummah 1 1-2 1, Regan Lowery 2 0-0 5, Mariska Beward 3 1-2 5, Ava Shearer 15 6-7 24, Sarah Montoya 1 0-0 2, Mylee Landis 4 1-2 7, Grace Reinhold 2 1-2 3, Reagan Burd 1 0-0 2.
Juniata Christian (31) Jenna Glick 2 0-0 5, Annika Martin 1 0-2 2, Erin Sheaffer 10 1-2 22, Abby Warner 1 0-0 2, Maddie Warner 0 0-4 0.
