Ellwood Wolverines Lose to Beaver Falls; Lady Wolverines Lose to Blackhawk

The Ellwood City Wolverines and Lady Wolverines both lost conference games last week. The boys team lost to Beaver Falls on Friday and the girls to Blackhawk on Thursday.

Ellwood City v Beaver Falls
The Ellwood City Wolverines were close to an upset in their away game versus Beaver Falls but ultimately fell short by five points. The game ended 53-48 with the undefeated Beaver Falls maintaining their streak.

Despite outscoring the Tigers in three quarters, the Wolverines fell behind in the decisive third quarter and were unable to reclaim the lead.

Rick Roth led Ellwood City with 12 points. Nick Ioanilli and Anthony Roth each had 10 points. Beaver Falls’ Bryce Strati was the highest scorer with 23 points.

Ellwood City travels to Blackhawk for a conference game tomorrow.

Box Scores

Beaver Falls (53)
Donovan Jeter 2 2-2 6
Torian Leak 3 1-2 7
Syron Noyes 4 3-3 12
Malik Shepherd 0 3-4 3
Bryce Strati 7 6-9 23
Tomas Johnson 1 0-0 2
Totals: 17 15-20 53

Ellwood City (48)
Rick Roth 6 0-1 12
Nick Ioanilli 4 0-0 10
Anthony Roth 2 4-5 10
D.J. Barrett 1 0-0 3
Nino Greco 3 2-2 9
Dave DeLoia 1 0-0 2
Brady Kosior 1 0-0 3
Totals: 18 6-8 48

Beaver Falls 8 12 17 16 — 53
Ellwood City 8 13 7 20 — 48

3-point goals — Beaver Falls 4 (Noyes 1, Strati 3), Ellwood City 6 (Ioanilli 2, A. Roth 1, Barrett 1, Greco 1, Kosior 1).

JV score: Beaver Falls 44, Ellwood City 40. High scorer: EC — Luca Botti 14.

Ellwood City v Blackhawk
The Ellwood City Lady Wolverines lost to Blackhawk 88-50 in an away game on Thursday.

Ellwood City was consistently outscored in every quarter. Allie McKelvey led the Lady Wolverines with 16 points. Breonna Streit scored nine from three three-point shots.

Box Scores

JV: EC-33, Blackhawk-40 EC: Roth-12, Decaria-10 Blackhawk: Pyle-9, Potts-9