Tinora Rams Live

The Tinora Rams welcomed in their county neighbor, the Napoleon Wildcats, for a Saturday night non-conference contest.

The Rams entered after a frustrating Friday loss at Delta, while the ‘Cats had Friday off, and entered tonight at 1-1.
The only Tinora win in the 11 game series came back in the old Alan Moore gymnasium back in 2017.

The first quarter was a tight battle, Owen Ackerman drove to the bucket multiple times, bucketing nine first quarter points. Napoleon’s Caden Kruse dominated inside and out, giving the Wildcats an 18-13 lead after the initial quarter.

The second quarter was not kind to Tinora. Kruse and Trey Rubinstein would lead the Wildcat attack as Napoleon and would score 18 points in the quarter, while holding the Rams offense to just 6 points. The Wildcats would take a 36-19 lead to the half.

Kruse with two thundering dunks led the way with 13 first half points, while Rubinstein nailed 10. The Wildcats defense held Tinora leading scorer Aiden Rittenhouse to just two first half points.
Ackerman led the Rams at the half with 9 points.

The third quarter didn’t get any better for the Tinora basketball club as Napoleon outscored Tinora 22-8 and grabbed a 58-27 lead after three, leading to, at the time, a running clock.

The fourth quarter showed the Rams still had fight in them, even though the deficit at one time was 35, the Rams eventually fought their way back, getting the Wildcat lead to 13, outscoring Napoleon 20-4 in the final quarter.

Napoleon would come away with a 62-47 victory, but the Tinora Rams showed heart, hustle, and fight over the final eight minutes.

DELTA – Delta used a suffocating zone, trapping defense over 48 minutes as the Panthers came away with a hard-fought home win over the Tinora Rams, 45-36.

The host Panthers jumped out to an early 8-3 lead, never looked back, and never trailed on their way to win number two this early season.

The first half saw a very physical game that witnessed Delta’s Luke Reinhard erupt for 8 points as Delta grabbed a 17-8 lead over the Rams.

The second quarter saw the Panthers lead balloon to 12 points at the 7-minute mark, trailing 20-8. The Rams would start to sneak back into the game, courtesy of Aiden Rittenhouse and Owen Ackerman.

Ackerman’s three would cut the Delta lead to 22-17 with just over a minute remaining in the half, that would be the score as the teams headed to the half.

Rittenhouse would bucket nine first-half points, and Ackerman followed with six.
Delta was paced by Luke Reinhard’s 10 points at the break.

After seeing Delta grab an early third-quarter lead that ballooned to 12 points, 29-17, the Rams chipped away at the Panther lead, eventually tying the game at 29-29 with Adam Spychalla’s right corner three-pointer at the 2:05 mark of the third quarter.

Delta would answer right back with a basket and a foul shot by Luke Reinhard at the 1:30 mark of the quarter, giving the Panthers a 32-29 lead, a lead that Delta would never relinquish.
The Panthers would exit the quarter with a 33-29 lead.

Unfortunately for the Rams, the shots would not fall over the final eight minutes, Delta would outscore the Rams 12-7 in the final period, staking claim with a 45-36 home victory.

Delta’s Justin Ruple would bucket 10 points, his driving, and slashing to the basket in the second half keyed the Panthers win.

Tinora’s Aiden Rittenhouse would exit the game midway through the fourth quarter, fouling out, limiting the struggling Tinora ice-cold offense even more. Rittenhouse would lead all scorers with a game high 17 points.

The Rams fall to 0-2 to start the 2023-’24 season. Tinora will host Napoleon on Saturday night, 12/9.

Delta improves to 2-0 and will travel to Montpelier to take on the Locos Saturday night, 12/9

Junior varsity game was won by Delta, 40-21.
The leading scorer for Tinora was Alden Friedricksen with 12, and for Delta, Derek Sargent with 10.

TINORA 8-9-12-7=36
DELTA 17-5-11-12=45

TINORA – Ackerman 8, Welling 2, Rittenhouse 17, Leib 3, Spychala 3, Shetton 3
DELTA – J Ruple 10, Gibbons 10, Reindard 14, York 2, Brasher 5

The Bryan Golden Bears improved to 2-0 for the first time since the 2019-’20 season in a thrilling, come from behind win over the Tinora Rams.

The Rams led all but the final 27 seconds as the Golden Bears rallied from 11 points down in the very physical fourth, outscoring the Rams 17-12 in the final quarter to come away with a 56-54 win,

Tinora held a 54-46 lead with just under three minutes to go, but we outscored by Bryan down the stretch, 10-0.

The key play down the stretch for Bryan was a steal by senior guard Jase Kepler with 27 seconds remaining, Kepler scored and was fouled. The Kepler basket tied the game at 54-54, and his free throw gave Bryan a 55-54 lead.

Tinora had a chance to answer, but a short baseline jumper with 9 seconds would not fall, Bryan’s Sam Herold would grab the rebound and be fouled.
Herold, already with a game high 20 points, split the pair of free throws, increasing the Bryan lead to 56-54.

After a timeout, the Rams inbounded the ball with advanced it to midcourt with six seconds remaining.
Each team would then burn a timeout, the Golden Bears would foul with 4 seconds remaining, but were not over the limit.
A second attempt at the inbounds pass was successful, however a 30-foot shot by the Rams was wide right at the buzzer, the Bryan Golden Bears capped the com from behind win over Tinora.

The first half was an up and down, fast-paced game that saw Tinora’s Aiden Rittenhouse and Bryan’s Same Herold go toe to toe with each other in the scoring book.

Rittenhouse would lead the Rams at the half with 11 points, while Herold led the Golden Bears with 16, including a left corner three at the buzzer to end the first half.

Tinora held a 17-11 lead after one, and despite the Herold buzzer beater, still lead Bryan 29-26 at the half.
The Rams lead after three, 42-39.

Rams freshman Josh Leib had 14 points in his varsity debut.

TINORA 17-8-13-12=54
BRYAN 11-15-13-17=56

TINORA Scoring: C Ferrell 3, Ackerman 13, Welling 2, Homier 4, Rittenhouse 14, Leib 14, Spychala 3
BRYAN Scoring: Langenderfer 7, Kepler 8, Jaessing 6, Herold 21, Dominique 14

Tinora fell to 0-1 and will travel to Delta next Friday before hosting Napoleon on Saturday

Bryan improves to 2-0 and will travel to Wayne Trace next Friday and will host Hicksville next Saturday.

The Junior varsity a game was won by Bryan, 47-31.
Bryan’s Jack Kennedy with 19, Tucker Watson with 14
Tinora’s Kasen Joost with 10, Dylan Schaufele 9