BY JAMIE PERETZMAN-Allentown High is typically in the lower tier of the Colonial Valley Conference. In a game PHS expected to win, the Little Tigers, perhaps overconfident, got off to a slow start. As the first quarter unfolded things were a little too close for comfort.
After going up 12-0 with 3:51 left in the first quarter, PHS allowed Allentown to climb back into the game ending the quarter on an 8-2 run to cut the Princeton lead to four, 12-8.
PHS continued its bad habit of starting out slowly allowing Allentown to have a little hope as the second quarter played out. After the Little Tigers took a 25-9 with 4:31 left in the half, Allentown scored 9 more points in the quarter to PHS's 5 sending the Little Tigers into the locker room with a 30-18 halftime lead.
Obviously disappointed by its first half performance, PHS knew it had to play its kind of basketball--fast breaks, hard-nosed defense and immense ball pressure It is the third quarter that exemplified the type of team that PHS has the potential to be.
After Allentown scored a basket in the first 17 seconds of the third quarter to cut the PHS lead to ten, PHS went on to score the next 35 consecutive points to extend its lead to 65-20. Shortly thereafter head coach, Jason Carter, emptied his bench. In garbage time, Allentown finished out the game with on a 15-2 run making the final score a little more respectable.
Skye Ettin led the scoring with 26 points, followed by Brian Dunlap's 14 points and 5 assists and DeQuan Holman's 11 points and 6 rebounds.
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