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From the Standard-Speaker:
Jim Thorpe 66, Weatherly 40 – Jim Thorpe went into the half with a commanding 46-18 lead and wouldn’t look back, downing the Lady Wreckers for the second time this season.
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From the Times-News:
Blue Mountain and Jim Thorpe both started slow offensively last night, but in the end, it was the Eagles taking advantage of their inside presence and outscoring the Olympians 23-9 in the fourth quarter for a 61-47 Schuylkill League Division I win.
It took about two minutes for a basket to fall, but things started to click for the Olympians, as they turned a 5-5 tie into a 13-5 lead off an 8-0 run as J.T. Otto scored five. The Olympians held a 14-7 lead after one period. Otto finished with eight points, while the Eagles’ Tyler Hartranft hit a three to keep the visitors close.
In the second period, Blue Mountain began chipping away and eventually tied the game up 22-22 at the intermission. Matt LaScala came alive for eight of his game-high 20 points for the Eagles in the period, while Jim Thorpe’s Dean DiBonifazio had four points in the quarter.
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From the Republican-Herald:
Blue Mountain 61 Jim Thorpe 39
ORWIGSBURG – Ashley Davies scored 14 points and ripped down 16 rebounds to lead the Eagles to a Division I victory over Jim Thorpe.
Jillian Grapsy added 13, and Shanelle Koch chipped in with 12 for the balanced Blue Mountain offense.
Celeste Robinson had a game-high 24 points for the Olympians.
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From the Times-News:
It’ll be Jim Thorpe and Northern Lehigh in the championship of the 29th Annual Slatington Rotary Boys Basketball Tournament once again.
The Olympians used two big quarters to hand Palmerton a 74-66 setback in the first semifinal and the Bulldogs rolled to an easy 69-50 triumph over the Indians in the nightcap.
The two will battle for the title at 8 p.m. after Palmerton and Lehighton meet in the 6:30 consolation Dec. 28, 2010. JTS note: Jim Thorpe lost the championship game. Palmerton beat Lehighton.
Jim Thorpe-Palmerton
The Olympians scored 22 points in the first and third quarters and kept the Blue Bombers from getting any closer than three points after jumping out to a 13-4 lead.
Dean DeBonifazio scored nine of his game-high 24 points in the first quarter and Darius Clark added eight of his 13 lifting Jim Thorpe out to a 22-15 advantage.
Tyler Svetik had six in the first period for the Bombers and Cody Geist added four.
Jim Thorpe head coach Brian Carroll said afterwards his game plan was to play a triangle-and-two on Palmerton’s deadly outside shooters Brett Snyder and Ben Andrews.
“That was the bottom line,” Carroll said. “To shut those two guys down. After seeing them on film and reading about them they’ve been lights out. You want someone else to do some damage. I thought we did a pretty good job overall.”
Andrews did manage to hit double figures with 10 points and a pair of treys, while Snyder was held to two points.
It was in the second quarter when Andrews hit his treys and Geist and Jourdan Reinhart added four apiece to cut the Olympians lead to 36-33 at the half.
Jim Thorpe outscored the Bombers 9-2 to start the third quarter and still held on to a 58-51 edge, but Geist fired in 10 of his 19 points to keep Palmerton within striking distance.
In the final stanza, DiBonifazio scored 10 more and the Olympians were able to make enough free throws to counter a 10-point quarter by Svetik.
“The guys were active tonight,” said Carroll. “Darius (Clark) and JT (Otto) did a good job inside which we haven’t been doing in our earlier games since we’ve been undersized all year. they know they have to stay out of foul trouble and be active on the glass, keep the ball alive and get it to our guards and P.J. (Johnson) in the open floor.”
The Olympians got 19 from Otto to back of DiBonifazio, 13 from Clark and 10 from Dave Ciavarella. Svetik finished with 23 on the night for the Bombers to join Geist and Andrews in double figures.
“We had open shots, we had layups and you have to make those,” said Palmerton head coach Mike Snyder. “But their athleticism was a big factor. This was definitely one of our worst games. We were flat-footed and you can’t be that against a team like this.
“They took it to us in all aspects. We got outplayed, I got out-coached. It was a whole miserable effort tonight. We hope to make this a learning experience that this doesn’t happen again.”
JIM THORPE
DiBonifazio 10-3-3-24, Prontnicki 0-0-0-0, Moranta 0-1-4-1, Ciavarella 4-2-2-10, Otto 7-3-3-19, Brown 0-0-0-0, Clark 4-3-4-13, Johnson 3-1-7-7. TOTALS: 28-13-23-74.
PALMERTON
Andrews 4-0-0-10, Svetik 10-0-0-23, Snyder 1-0-0-2, Leaver 2-0-0-4, Saylor 0-0-0-0, Geist 8-3-4-19, Reinhart 3-2-4-8. TOTALS: 28-5-8-66.
Jim Thorpe 22 14 22 16 – 74
Palmerton 15 18 18 15 – 66
Three-pointers; JT – Otto 2, Clark 2, DiBonifazio 1; Palmerton – Svetik 3, Andrews 2.
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In what was a close game, the JT girls just couldn’t pull it off in the first round of games at Lehighton’s Christmas Tournament. They lost to Palmerton, 51-50.
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From the Republican-Herald:
North Schuylkill 71 Jim Thorpe 59
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS – Jake Rakowsky netted 19 of his game-high 23 points in the second half, going 7-for-9 from the foul line, as the Spartans beat the Olympians in a Division I contest.
Brandon McCloskey scored 10 of his 13 points in the first quarter. Tyler Skinner also tallied 13 points for the Spartans.
Darius Clark topped Jim Thorpe with 13 points, and P.J. Johnson dropped in 12.
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From the Standard-Speaker:
Panther Valley dropped a 54-45 verdict to Jim Thorpe in Division I play, and Nativity held off Weatherly 51-35 in Schuylkill League Division III boys basketball action Tuesday evening, Dec. 21, 2010.
Jim Thorpe 54, Panther Valley 45- J.T. Otto scored 18 points, 11 of which came in the final quarter, to lead Jim Thorpe past Panther Valley.
The Olympians had three players in double digits. Dean BiBonifazio netted 17 while Dane Ciazarella scored 11, to go along with Otto’s 18.
Trailing by seven after the first quater, the Panthers were able to close the gap to three at the half but that was as close as they would get.
Panther Valley (2-3 overall, 0-1 league) was led by Zack Stanko’s game-high 19 points. Nate Mathewson scored 14 points.
PANTHER VALLEY (45)
Stanko 7 3-6 19, Mathewson 5 4-5 14, Kirschner 1 1-2 3, Ogozalek 1 2-2 4, Hadesty 1 0-0 2, Revell 1 1-2 3, McArdle 0 1-2 1 Totals: 16 11-19 45.
JIM THORPE (54)
Otto 6 4-10 18, DiBonifazio 5 5-6 17, Ciazarella 5 1-2 11, Clark 3 2-3 8, Johnson 0 0-1 0, Prontnicki 0 0-0 0, Moronta 0 0-0 0, Moore 0 0-0 0, Munoz 0 0-0 0 Totals: 19 12-22 54.
PVHS………………6 15 7 17 – 45
JTHS……………13 11 10 20 – 54
3-FG: Otto 2, DiBonifazio 2, Stanko 2.
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From the Republican-Herald:
JIM THORPE – Here come the Olympians.
After routing six opponents to open the season, Jim Thorpe picked up a marquee victory Wednesday night, Dec. 22.
Celeste Robinson scored 10 of her game-high 26 points in the fourth quarter, helping Jim Thorpe fend off charging North Schuylkill for a 63-60 win in a Schuylkill League Division I girls’ basketball game Wednesday night.
Chelsea Smelas tallied six of her 16 points in the final frame, and Chasity Mosteller finished with 11 points for the Olympians.
Shelby Weikel led the Spartans’ comeback effort with 13 of her team-high 21 points in the second half, while Kelsie Kramer added 19 points.
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From the Times-News:
When reflecting back upon the past four years of Ellyn Tomko’s high school tennis career, Jim Thorpe head tennis Coach Norb Lienhard had plenty of compliments to pay his senior number one singles player.
All of the typical lauds were there, but so was some very special praise.
Lienhard said Tomko brought a little more to the table for the Lady Olympians’ tennis team over the course of the past four years. The progression of her talents and development of her skills over her years at Jim Thorpe showed plenty of character, drive, ambition and a desire to improve upon her game, in order to better the program.
Upon her arrival at the tennis courts her freshman year, things weren’t as defined for Tomko.
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From the Times-News:
Celeste Robinson continued her early season scoring binge by completing an impressive hat trick Monday night.
For the third straight game, the Jim Thorpe 5-8 junior guard racked up 30 points.
Against Panther Valley, Robinson’s most remarkable feat may have been hanging around long enough to seal the deal.
Saddled with her third foul with 10.5 seconds left in the first quarter, Robinson sat out all but 22 seconds of the second and had just two points as the Lady Olympians held a slim 15-11 edge at half.
The second half was a different matter, however.
Robinson poured in 22 points to key a 28-2 third quarter explosion as Thorpe ran away from the Lady Panthers for a 54-18 win in the Schuylkill League Division I opener for both teams.
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