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PIAA Class A girls basketball playoff: Old Forge 40, Morrisville 27Morrisville season ends with loss

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Old Forge 40, Morrisville 27

Morrisville (23-3)

Lacey 4 2-6 10, Mena 0 0-0 0, Johnson 1 0-0 3, Brown 2 0-0 4, Martinez 2 0-0 4, N. Cisse 1 0-0 2, Gainey 2 0-0 4, Knott 0 0-0 0, D. Cisse 0 0-0 0, H. Cisse 0 0-0 0. Totals 12 2-6 27.

Old Forge (18-6)

Viera 0 2-2 2, Malia 3 1-2 7, Carey 6 5-6 17, Lee 0 0-0 0, Nemetz 2 0-0 5, Barnic 2 0-0 5, Tansley 0 0-0 0, Souryavong 2 0-0 4, Pascolini 0 0-0 0, Wolfe 0 0-0 0, Coval 0 0-0 0, Bieryla 0 0-0 0, Zambetti 0 0-0 0. Totals 15 8-10 40.

Morrisville 3 8 10 6-27

Old Forge 5 13 10 12-40

3-point goals: M-Johnson; OF-Nemetz, Barnic.

Posted: Sunday, March 11, 2012 12:00 am

By Tom Robinson Correspondent | 0 comments

SCRANTON — Old Forge pressured Morrisville into 29 turnovers Saturday afternoon.

In the process, the Devils pushed the Bulldogs right out of the PIAA Class A girls basketball playoffs.

Lauren Carey scored 17 points and made five steals to lead District Two champion Old Forge to a 40-27 victory in the first-round game at Marywood University.

“We practiced against it all week,” Morrisville coach Dave Howell said of Old Forge’s full-court pressure. “The execution just wasn’t very good.”

The Bulldogs managed just three points for the first nine minutes. They went more than eight minutes without scoring after Shalay Johnson hit a 3-pointer for the only lead, 3-1, 50 seconds into the game.

“We played good defense and hit a couple of outside shots at opportune times to get a lead on them,” Old Forge coach Tom Gatto said. “Defense has done it for us all year long.

“We have to hold teams in the 30s to have a shot.”

After holding Forest City without a field goal for the first 17 minutes and keeping it in the teens in the District Two championship game, Old Forge kept Morrisville in the 20s.

The Bulldogs missed the last seven 3-pointers they took and finished 12-for-38 (31.6 percent) from the floor.

Kievanna Lacey led Morrisville with 10 points, nine rebounds, nine steals and three assists.

“She gave us everything she’s got,” Howell said.

No other Bulldog managed to score more than four points.

Lacey took steals the length of the floor for baskets twice early in the second quarter, and Katherine Brown scored on an in-bounds play to complete a six-point run to the game’s last tie, 9-9, with 4:40 left in the half.

Old Forge scored the next seven points on the way to an 18-11 halftime lead.

The Bulldogs got as close as five just one time in the second half.

“We didn’t take advantage of our open shots,” Howell said. “We either missed badly or didn’t take them when they were there.

“They’re a good rebounding team. They took most of our second shots away.”