After scoring just 13 points in the first half and trailing by five, Bonner-Prendergast girls basketball coach Tom Stewart decided to make a little change.
He put Regan Dolan in the high post and Alexis Gleason in the low post and the move paid off for the Pandas.
Bonner-Prendie put 39 points on the board in the second half, 24 of them in the fourth quarter, to rally for a 52-44 victory over Jim Thorpe in the opening round of the PIAA Class 4A tournament.
The win sends Bonner-Prendie (9-16) into Wednesday’s second round against Eastern York, the No. 2 team out of District 3. The Golden Knights (19-8) knocked off Villa Joseph Marie, the second seed out of District 1, 72-66. The site and time of that game has not been determined.
“Their zone defense gave us trouble in the first half,” Stewart said. “They kept switching from a 2-3 to a 1-3-1 and they had us rushing our shots. We weren’t making the extra pass. After we made the change we started passing the ball better and Gleason got two quick baskets.”