Saturday, February 08, 2014

Dieruff stuns Allen and changes LVC tournament matchups

http://blogs.mcall.com/groller/

FROM KEITH GROLLER


Dieruff, a disappointment through much of the second half of the season, rose up and stun Allen 51-50 on Saturday afternoon at Dick Schmidt Gym to end the Canaries bid to qualify for the Lehigh Valley Confernece.
LVC basketball chairman Fred Harris has confirmed the matchups for Tuesday night and they are different from what was first thought.
Central Catholic is still the top seed, but will now play Bethlehem Catholic, which slides down to the No. 4 seed, in the second game of Tuesday's semifinal doubleheader at Liberty.
Emmaus not only gets in the tournament by virtue of Allen's loss, but moves up to the third seed no matter what happens with the Golden Hawks (11-10, 8-5) game against Easton on Saturday night. Even if Becahi wins, Emmaus would get the higher seed because it won the head-to-head matchup.
So, it will be Emmaus (15-6, 9-5) and Parkland (17-4, 10-4) meeting at 6 in the LVC semifinal doubleheader on Tuesday at Liberty.
Tyshyn Harmon led Dieruff's upset bid with 16 points, including four 3-pointers. And two of those treys came in the fourth period when the Huskies came all the way back from a 41-35 deficit.
Harmon's final trey of the day gave Dieruff a 49-47 lead with 2:15 left. Allen's Hamp Smith made one of two at the line with 1:44 to cut the Huskies lead to one. 
But a Dayvon Winslow layup made it 51-48 with 1:20 to go.
Allen (13-9, 8-6) got back within one on a Daiyon Barnett jumper with 51 seconds left, but that's as close as the Canaries would get as Isaiah's long jumper at the buzzer missed and Dieruff celebrated a huge Senior Day victory.
Here's the boxscore:
ALLEN (50)
Smith 2-5 1-2 5, Kostic 1-1 0-0 3, Palmer 5-11 4-7 14, Myers 1-2 0-0 2, Shepherd 1-4 0-2 2, Davis 3-5 0-0 7, Texter 1-3 0-0 2, Barnett 6-8 0-0 13, Gray 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 21-41 5-14 50.
DIERUFF (51)
Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Harmon 5-9 2-2 16, Wauchope 5-8 1-1 13, Dryden 2-4 2-3 6, Burtes 4-8 2-4 10, Winslow 2-3 0-0 4, Golden-McCants 0-0 0-0 0, Roberts 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 19-33 7-10 51.
Allen   (13-9, 8-6)      13 - 16 - 8 - 13 --50
Dieruff  (9-12, 4-9)     13 - 11 - 9 - 18 -- 51
Officials: Jim Barker, Tim Miller. JV: Dieruff 68-62 (Huskies 14-6).
3-pointers: Allen (3-13) Davis, Barnett, Kostic. Dieruff (6-7): Harmon 4, Wauchope 2.
Rebounds: Allen 22 (Palmer 9). Dieruff 15 (Dryden 6).
Assists: Allen 8 (Barnett 4). Dieruff 6 (Burtes 5).
Turnovers: Allen 7, Dieruff 8.
 

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