TROY \u2014 The Bethlehem girls\u2019 basketball team starts only one senior and while the Eagles may be a young team, lately they\u2019re playing like a group of skilled veterans.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m so proud of us,\u201d Bethlehem sophomore Elizabeth Kearney said. \u201cWe’ve been through so much this whole season. This was one of our main goals, to get here and win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bethlehem will face No. 2 Troy at 7:45 p.m. Monday at HVCC and hopes to capture its first sectional title since 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Troy) is going to press and they are scrappy and fast,\u201d Bethlehem coach Trish Piccini said. \u201cYou have to be ready for that. At this point, we’ve been through a lot together and they’ve responded, so we’re going to do the best we can against them and compete.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Bethlehem trailed 18-13 early in the second quarter, but grabbed a 19-18 lead with 4:45 remaining in the first half when junior Ella McCarthy converted a putback to provide the Eagles their first lead since 1:05 into the contest.<\/p>\n
Columbia faced a 26-24 deficit in the closing seconds of the first half but leveled the game as Sarah Rainville grabbed a defensive board and found a driving Madison Ficara for a layup.<\/p>\n
Bethlehem came out of halftime firing on all cylinders and led by as many as 19 points in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took great shots,\u201d Kearney said. \u201cWe did a good job of putting the ball in the middle and just taking the good open shots and taking our time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TROY \u2014 The Bethlehem girls\u2019 basketball team starts only one senior and while the Eagles may be a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,47172,296,28584,726],"class_list":["post-148784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-hs-basketball-girls","tag-local","tag-rensco","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}