Thursday, January 10, 2008

CR-North 64, Pennsbury 55

CR-NORTH (64)
Fricke 5 4-4 16; Gold 4 0-0 10; Kiely 6 8-8 20; Peters 1 0-0 2; Sroba 5 3-5 14; Logan 1 0-1 2; Scull 0 0-0 0; Casper 0 0-0 0. Totals: 22 15-18 64.

PENNSBURY (55)
Thorn 6 2-2 16; Prine 3 2-2 9; Ponza 5 3-3 13; Kobal 1 1-2 3; Beri 2 0-0 4; Balascsak 2 1-2 5; Klock 0 2-2 2; DiVeglio 0 3-4 3. Totals: 19 14-17 55.

CRN 20-18-6-20—64
P 13-16-15-11—55

3-point goals: Fricke 2, Gold 2, Sroba (CRN); Thorn 2, Prine (P).

Link to Courier Times game story

Link to Friday's Courier Times girls basketball notebook

FIVE THINGS

1. Senior point guard Sarah Thorn scored 16 points, and senior forward Meghan Ponza added 13 points for Pennsbury (6-9).

2. CR-North (10-4) had four players in double figures. Sophomore center Sarah Kiely had 20 points and 14 rebounds. Junior point guard Juliann Fricke had 16 points, five steals and four assists. Senior guard Jen Sroba had 14 points, seven assists, six rebounds and two steals. Freshman guard Devin Gold scored 10 points.

3. The Indians led by as many as 14 in the first half. But Pennsbury opened up the third quarter with an 11-0 run to go ahead, 40-38. The game was tied, 44-44, after three quarters.

4. CR-North has won five straight.

5. College note: Pennsbury 2006 graduate Dana Mitchell is averaging 20.5 points and 6.5 rebounds a game for St. Bonaventure. Mitchell, a 6-foot-1 sophomore forward, scored 34 points in a win over Cornell on Jan. 4. The Bonnies (12-3) visit Temple at the Liacouras Center on Jan. 15.