12/30/25 Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / Tyrone's Owen Oakes is pressured by Claysburg-Kimmel's Brayden Haney.

TYRONE — The third time was indeed a charm for the Tyrone Area High School boys basketball team Tuesday night.

Tyrone reeled off its third straight championship in the Judge Fred B. Miller Memorial Tournament sponsored by Reliance Bank and hosted by the Northern Kiwanis Club of Blair County, and the Golden Eagles accomplished the feat in impressive fashion.

Tyrone used a 14-point run that started in the final minute of the second quarter and extended through the middle of the third period as a springboard to a 67-39 victory over Claysburg-Kimmel in the tournament’s boys championship game at the Tyrone Area High School gymnasium.

Junior forward Ben Walk led the Golden Eagles (5-3) with a game-high 25 points, and two seniors, tournament Most Valuable Player Ashton Emigh and guard Eli Woomer, chipped in 14 points apiece, while junior Mason Emigh added 12, as Tyrone dominated the second half, 40-18.

“It’s good to see the players come in here and execute, and get the job done,” Tyrone coach Luke Rhoades said. “A lot of different guys stepped up for us tonight. Ashton Emigh had a great tournament, Ben Walk played very well tonight, and (junior) Carter Gwinn and (senior) Brayden Parsons both put forth a great defensive effort.”

Claysburg (5-3) had whittled a 22-14 second-quarter deficit down to three points, 24-21, before Woomer was fouled while taking a 3-point shot in the final seconds of the half.

He made all three free throws, hiking the Tyrone lead to 27-21 at intermission, and the Golden Eagles seemed to feed off that momentum, reeling off the first 11 points of the third quarter to grab a 38-21 lead.

Woomer started the third-quarter surge with a 3-pointer from the left side, Walk scored from the paint off a feed from Woomer, Walk followed that with a fast-break layup, and Ashton Emigh hit two consecutive short-range buckets off an inside feed and an inbounds pass, to complete the Tyrone rally that gave the Golden Eagles some insurmountable separation.

“This was a tough tournament with a lot of good athletes,” said Ashton Emigh, a husky guard who followed up his 26-point, 13-rebound effort in Tyrone’s opening-round victory over Penn Cambria Monday by grabbing a game-high 19 rebounds to go with his 14 points in Tuesday’s championship game.

“Our defense really excelled, our offense made a lot of shots when we needed to make them, and we came out with a win tonight,” Emigh added.

Claysburg was led by senior guard Brayden Haney’s 18 points, but the Bulldogs couldn’t keep up with Tyrone in the second half.

“They’re bigger than we are, and they played it that way,” Claysburg coach Mike Harris said of the Golden Eagles. “We held them in check in the first half, but they’re bigger and more physical than us, and we couldn’t handle their physicality in the second half.

“This was a good experience for us playing in this tournament,” Harris added. “We just want to keep getting better with each game that we play.”

Walk and Woomer joined Ashton Emigh as boys all-tournament selections for Tyrone, while Heaney, Penn Cambria’s Cade Gibbons, and Quinn Leeper of Bellwood-Antis rounded out the boys all-tourney team.

Tyrone outrebounded Claysburg, 48-32, and the Golden Eagles converted 28 of 55 floor shots for 51 percent. Claysburg, which was led in rebounding by Haney’s 10, converted 15 of 52 floor shots for 28.8 percent.

Claysburg hosts Northern Bedford in an Inter-County Conference game Saturday. Tyrone hosts Hollidaysburg in a Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference matchup next Monday night, as Rhoades will be looking for continued growth and development from his team.

“I thought that we passed the ball and ran well in transition tonight, and that we rebounded the ball well and attacked the rim to get finishes,” Rhoades said. “That was big.”

Penn Cambria rallied past Bellwood-Antis in the second half of the consolation game to beat the Blue Devils, 48-43.

Caden Gibbons and Landon Semelsberger each scored 12 points for the Panthers, and Blake Lilly added 10 points.

Jackson Dorminy and Quinn Leeper each scored 10 points for B-A.

CHAMPIONSHIP

CLAYSBURG-KIMMEL (39): Haney 6 5-8 18, C. Treon 1 0-0 2, Cole Walter 0 2-2 2, Kulick 3 0-3 6, Cory Walter 1 0-0 2, G. Treon 4 1-2 9, Knisely 0 0-0 0, Mock 0 0-0 0, Bass 0 0-0 0. Totals – 15 8-15 39.

TYRONE (67): A. Emigh 7 0-0 14, Woomer 4 3-5 14, M. Emigh 6 0-1 12, Gwinn 0 0-0 0, Walk 11 1-1 25, Parsons 0 0-0 0, Oakes 0 0-0 0, Stroup 0 0-0 0, Rudden 0 2-2 2, Zupon 0 0-0 0, Wilson 0 0-0 0, Stanton 0 0-0 0, Sloss 0 0-0 0. Totals -28 6-9 67.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

Claysburg-Kimmel 6 15 10 8–39

Tyrone 15 12 20 20–67

3-point goals: Claysburg-Kimmel 1 (Heaney); Tyrone 5 (Woomer 3, Walk 2).

Records: Claysburg-Kimmel (5-3); Tyrone (5-3).

Officials: Randy Burkett, Rich Gergley, Ethan Vipond.

CONSOLATION

BELLWOOD-ANTIS (43): Dorminy 4 1-2 10, Gibbons 0 0-0 2, Shedlock 4 0-0 8 Mayes 3 0-0 7, Fatzinger 1 0-0 2, McClellan 1 2-2 4 Leeper 4 1-1 10, McConnell 0 0-0 0, Worthing 0 0-0 0, Shanafelt 0 0-0 0. Totals — 18 4-5 43.

PENN CAMBRIA (48): Gibbons 5 1-2 12, Semelberger 4 3-4 12, Lilly 4 1-2 10, B. Jones 1 0-0 3, Marshall 0 2-4 2, Nadolsky 1 4-4 7, Mallory 1 0-0 2. Totals — 16 11-16 48.

SCORE BY QUARTERS

Bellwood-Antis 11 18 9 5 — 43

Penn Cambria 12 11 16 9 — 48

3-point goals: Bellwood-Antis 3 (Dorminy, Mayes, Leeper); Penn Cambria 5 (Gibbons, Semelsberger, Lilly, B. Jones, Nadolsky).

Records: Bellwood-Antis (3-6); Penn Cambria (5-3).