By: Michael Love<\/a><\/span> <\/strong>
\t\t\t\t\t\tTuesday, February 18, 2025 | 9:03 PM
Rochester’s Tia Yellock (11) hauls in a rebound over Riverview’s Lily Bauer (25) on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at Kiski Space Excessive Faculty.
Rochester’s Kamryn Newman (again) and Marque Taylor (entrance) share a hug after Rochester’s comeback victory over Riverview on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at Kiski Space Excessive Faculty.
Riverview senior Katerina Tsambis takes a tearful second to herself on the bench following Riverview’s loss to Rochester on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at Kiski Space Excessive Faculty.
Riverview’s Lily Bauer has her shot rejected by Rochester’s Marque Taylor on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at Kiski Space Excessive Faculty.
Rochester’s Marque Taylor (2) reacts with teammate Kamryn Newman following an and-one on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at Kiski Space Excessive Faculty.
The Rochester women basketball staff trailed Riverview by 15 factors with 4 minutes, 6 seconds left within the third quarter of Tuesday’s WPIAL Class 2A first-round playoff recreation at Kiski Space Excessive Faculty.
However the Tenth-seeded Rams roared again.
They managed the boards, compelled turnovers and made photographs within the fourth quarter, and so they transformed free throws right down to stretch to return away with a 57-53 victory over the No. 7 Raiders.
“We simply didn’t need this to be our final recreation of the 12 months,” Rams coach Ron Moncrief stated. “We didn’t wish to ship the seniors out that approach. We knew Riverview was an awesome staff and was actually well-coached. We knew we needed to play so much higher than we did within the first half. We had been capable of flip it round and make performs and play our recreation down the stretch.”
Rochester, which completed tied with No. 8 Laurel for third place in Part 1 behind No. 1 Neshannock and No. 2 Aliquippa, improved to 10-12 general and superior to the WPIAL quarterfinals Friday the place it would meet the Quips for the third time this season.
Aliquippa defeated Carmichaels, 79-6, in a first-round recreation Tuesday. <\/ins>
“Aliquippa is so robust in so many areas,” Moncrief stated. “They’re very bodily. We all know them effectively from enjoying them twice already. The ladies shall be prepared. However I need the women to have fun this win tonight, after which we’ll put together the subsequent couple of days.” <\/ins>
Riverview, a WPIAL-playoff participant for the eighth 12 months in a row, capped its season at 14-5. It was the ultimate varsity recreation for seniors Kat Tsambis and Lily Bauer.
Tsambis and Bauer fouled out within the recreation’s ultimate minute.
“From the start to the tip of this entire season, the 2 seniors knew what they wanted to do to guide this staff,” Riverview coach Jill Catanzaro stated with tears welling up in her eyes. “They hung in there and gave all of it they might. They helped lots of the youthful gamers alongside and helped increase their potential to the place we had a very profitable season.
“As a staff collectively, these women gave a lot of themselves. It actually hurts for it to finish this fashion, and it’s fairly emotional for them proper now. However they don’t have anything to hold their heads about.”
Junior guard Isabel Chaparro led the Raiders with 25 factors, however she was restricted to 2 factors within the fourth.
Chaparro hit a 3-pointer after which nailed a jumper on the halfway level of the third to provide Riverview a 41-26 lead.
Rochester’s main scorer throughout the common season, junior guard Tia Yellock, adopted with a jumper on the 3:54 mark that began a 13-6 run to shut out the quarter.
Then got here the fourth quarter.
Juliette Brun, a junior, hit a layup with 6:34 left to place Riverview forward 51-43. The Raiders went chilly from the sector after that. They missed 9 straight photographs, together with a number of layups.
In addition they turned the ball over six occasions within the fourth, and Rochester pulled down a majority of the rebound probabilities at each ends of the court docket.
“We had our probabilities to maintain the lead,” Catanzaro stated. “It was shot choice at occasions, after which we had some conditions with foul hassle the place they had been capable of do some issues offensively, get some second probabilities, and convert photographs. The ladies battled, however we simply weren’t capable of maintain on.”
Junior Kamryn Newman sank two free throws with 56 seconds left to provide the Rams a 54-53 lead. It was their first benefit since they had been up 8-7 with 2:07 to play within the first quarter.
Newman hit 1 of two from the road 17 seconds later, and Yellock linked on 2 of 4 from the free-throw line within the waning seconds to assist seal it for Rochester.
Riverview had the ball down three with 9 seconds to go, however a turnover led to Tsambis fouling Yellock to arrange Yellock’s ultimate journey to the road with 4 seconds on the clock.
“The ladies performed arduous it doesn’t matter what the rating was,” Moncrief stated. “I give them lots of credit score for overcoming a lot adversity. They confirmed lots of toughness the best way they had been capable of get the lead after which end it out.” <\/ins>
Yellock led all scorers with 27 factors, 11 within the fourth quarter.
“I although Tia performed very well,” Moncrief stated. “She calls for lots of consideration. She maintained her composure and likewise did what she might to assist maintain her teammates concerned, and so they produced. It was only a complete staff effort, and that’s what we would have liked with the intention to beat Riverview.” <\/ins>
Newman completed with 14 factors, and senior Marque Taylor chipped in 12 for the Rams.
Tsambis scored 14 factors in her finale, and Bauer added 9 factors, 4 blocks and eight rebounds for the Raiders, who got here in winners of eight of their ultimate 9 regular-season video games.
Michael Love is a TribLive reporter protecting sports activities within the Alle-Kiski Valley and the japanese suburbs of Pittsburgh. A Clearfield native and a graduate of Westminster (Pa.), he joined the Trib in 2002 after spending 5 years on the Clearfield Progress. He could be reached at mlove@triblive.com<\/a>.
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