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Trybus hits big shots in fourth

By Rick?Weaver

For The Mirror

EBENSBURG – Bishop Guilfoyle, one night removed from its first Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference Sectional loss, needed a bounce-back victory on Friday night. And got it.

Josh Trybus hit a 3-pointer with 51 seconds to play and then converted both ends of a 1-and-1 with 11.4 seconds left to give the Marauders a 48-46 victory against Bishop Carroll on Friday night at Bishop Carroll High School.

“We moved the ball around, and we knew whoever gets the open shot is going to make it,” said Trybus, who led Bishop Guilfoyle with 15 points. “We have confidence in everybody on the team.”

“All we talked about was player movement and ball rotation,” Marauders coach Chris Drenning said. “We rotated the ball perfectly and Josh Trybus is a really good shooter. [He] got a wide-open 3.”

Bishop Guilfoyle also benefitted from having only three team fouls entering the fourth quarter. The Marauders smartly fouled in non-shooting situations and limited the Huskies to nothing more than a 1-and-1 opportunity that came with 1.4 seconds to play.

“We didn’t come out strong (Thursday night),” Trybus said, “We knew that we had to play a lot harder (Friday).”

The Marauders, fresh off a loss against Forest Hills, scored the first nine points of the second half to grab a 31-20 lead three minutes in.

Evan Chadbourn, meanwhile, sat out nearly five minutes with a cut to the head that required medical attention.

“He might need stitches; I’m not sure,” Drenning said.

At that point, the Huskies staged a 15-2 rally that put the hosts in front, 35-33, with just over a minute to go. David Swatsworth scored eight of his game-high 18 points during that stretch, and Ben Eckenrode

capped it off with Bishop Carroll’s only 3-pointer of the night.

“The game was right where we wanted it. And then we took two quick shots that we didn’t need to take and turned it over twice,” Drenning said. “And they’re so good they that capitalize on those things.”

“When our press works, it works,” Bishop Carroll coach Cosie Aliquo. “When we were down, we started getting some steals and generating some easy points.”

Baskets by Mark Conrad and Luke Frederick, however, restored the two-point lead the Marauders had taken into halftime. Frederick contributed 14 points.

“We had our opportunities to spread the lead, and we couldn’t get it. They battled back, kept it and got it,” Aliquo said.

Conrad scored nine points in a stellar effort off the bench.

“He is really versatile. And he’s really good around the rim on the baseline,” Drenning said. “He’s really come into his own this year.”

Neither team led by more than two points in the final eight minutes. Bishop Carroll freshman Carson Ertter hit a basket with 1:05 left to give the Huskies a 45-43 lead.

Senior Raymond Watt added 11 points and five steals for the Huskies.

BISHOP GUILFOYLE (48): Trybus 5 3-3 15, Irwin 3 0-0 6, Chadbourn 1 2-5 4, Labriola 0 0-0 0, Frederick 6 2-4 14, Conrad 41-2 9, Totals 19 8-14 48.

BISHOP CARROLL (46): Persio 2 0-0 4, Watt 5 1-2 11, Eckenrode 1 0-0 3, Ratchford 1 2-4 4, Swatsworth 9 0-1 18, Ertter 3 0-1 6, Totals 21 3-8 46.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

Bishop Guilfoyle 11 11 15 11-48

Bishop Carroll 10 10 15 11-46

Three-point field goals: Bishop Guilfoyle 2 (Trybus 2), Bishop Carroll 1 (Eckenrode).

Team records: Bishop Guilfoyle (9-5, 6-1 LHAC Section I), Bishop Carroll (12-6, 4-3).

Officials: George Figura, Colin McGinnis, Chad Walsh.

JV: Bishop Guilfoyle, 41-38.

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