Bearcats Claw Clearfield, 62-41

HUNTINGDON – The Clearfield Bison boys basketball team simply ran out of gas in the second half on Thursday night, resulting in a 62-41 loss to Huntingdon on the home court of the Bearcats.

As Clearfield Head Coach Forrest Campman said after the game, “We just ran out of gas in the second half, and probably due to the fact that we played three games in four nights.”

The Bison played the Bearcats as close as possible in the first 16 minutes and actually had a 22-20 lead late in the second quarter before Huntingdon scored the last seven points to lead at the break, 27-22.

Huntingdon then came out from intermission to score the first 10 points of the second half and started to pull away from the visiting Bison. The fast start for the Bearcats gave them a 17-0 run from the end of the second frame into the third.

Huntingdon’s Devon Claar led all scorers with 29 points, 20 in the first two quarters.  Nat Gearhart also hit for double figures for the Bearcats with 12.

For Clearfield, it was junior Christian Lezzer dumping in 13 points and sophomore Erik Sellers adding 10 tallies.

Campman also added, “We were definitely undersized tonight, but I thought the kids gave a great effort in spite of that.  I was happy to see the younger guys get some minutes, and it was nice to see Erik (Sellers), who is a sophomore, score 10 points for us.”

Back in December the Bearcats also prevailed on the Bison home floor, 61-55.

Huntingdon also won the junior varsity contest with a win over the Bison, 38-22.  Derek Hryn lead Clearfield with points.

Clearfield, now 6-15, plays its final game of the season at home Friday night, against visiting Penns Valley, a team that knocked off the Bison 44-23 earlier in the season.

CLEARFIELD —  41

Christian Lezzer 6 0-0 13,  Seth Beardsley 2 0-2 5,  Wyatt Westen 4 0-0 8,  Seth Ford 1 1-2 4, Erik Sellers 5 0-0 10,  Andy Brown 0 1-2 1,  Derek Hryn 0 0-0 0,  Spencer Herrington 0 0-0 0,  Devin Jones 0 0-0 0,  Kaleb Taylor 0 0-0 0,  Kenton Climie 0 0-0 0, TOTALS  -   18   2-6   41.

HUNTINGDON —  62

Devon Claar 12 2-5 29,  Josh Foster 3 2-2 8,  Nate Gearhart 5 0-0 12,  Greg Kurtz 4 0-2 8,  Kobren Frederick 2 0-0 5,  Matt Speck 0 0-0 0, Tanner Cook 0 0-0 0, Yogi Lovett 0 0-0 0,  Kyle Robinson 0 0-0 0, Keith Krause 0 0-0 0,  Josh Neyman 0 0-0 0, TOTALS  -   26   4-9   62.

SCORE BY QUARTERS:

CLEARFIELD 10 12 8 11 41

HUNTINGDON 12 15 19 16 62

THREE-POINTERS:   CLEARFIELD  -  3   Lezzer,  Beardsley, Ford    HUNTINGDON  -  6   Claar 3,  Gearhart 2,  Frederick

Bison Scoreboard:

Date	Opponent	Score	Record
12/07	CURWENSVILLE	ppd.	0 – 0
12/10	CURWENSVILLE	42 – 37	1 – 0
12/12	@ Central	29 – 50	1 – 1
12/14	HUNTINGDON	55 – 61	1 – 2
12/18	@ Bald Eagle Area	50 – 79	1 – 3
12/21	@ Bellefonte	51-50 2ot	2 – 3
	@ PL Lions Club Tourney
12/27	vs. Harmony	41 – 48	2 – 4
12/28	vs. Purchase Line	85 – 63	3 – 4
01/04	PUNXSUTAWNEY	31 – 69	3 – 5
01/07	BROOKVILLE	42 – 43	3 – 6
01/08	TYRONE	52 – 61	3 – 7
01/11	@ Penns Valley	23 – 44	3 – 8
01/15	PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA	47 – 49	3 – 9
01/18	@ St. Marys	53 – 49	4 – 9
01/21	@ DuBois	21 – 49	4 – 10
01/23	CENTRAL	56 – 43	5 – 10
01/25	@ Huntingdon	ppd.	5 – 10
01/28	@ Huntingdon	ppd.	5 – 10
01/30	BALD EAGLE AREA	26 – 68	5 – 11
02/01	BELLEFONTE	41 – 49	5 – 12
02/06	@ Tyrone	38 – 61	5 – 13
02/08	PENNS VALLEY	ppd.	5 – 13
02/11	@ Curwensville	48 – 52	5 – 14
02/12	@ Philipsburg-Osceola	56 – 53	6 – 14
02/14	@ Huntingdon	41 – 62	6 – 15
02/15	PENNS VALLEY

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