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Golden Tornado Girls Basketball
Schedule
Tornado Girls rally
for narrow WPIAL playoff victory
Butler - 36 Hempfield - 32
The Golden Tornado trailed through most of the contest but rallied for a 36-32
win against Hempfield at Plum.
Olivia Bresnahan had 10 of her 12 points in
the second half for Butler (23-2), which allowed the Spartans (18-6) only
eight second-half points.
Butler - 57 North Hills - 28
Butler - 64 Knoch - 41
Butler - 71 Ambridge 37
Butler - 53 Pine
Richland - 45
Butler - 48 Seneca Valley - 45
Butler
67 Mojave (Nev.) 51
Olivia
Bresnahan dropped in 28 points
to power the Tornado in the first round of the Las Vegas Holiday Classic.
Casie Cygan added 13 points and Jenna Manuel 12 for the Tornado (10-1), who jumped
out to a 39-21 halftime lead.
Chelsea Hopkins, a Duke recruit, led Mojave with 24 points.
Las
Vegas Champions...
Butler - 54 Shady
Side - 36
Butler - 47 New
Castle -42
14 in a row
Butler - 59 NA
- 57
Tornado blows away North Hills
Butler - 54 North
Hills -19
Butler - 69 Woodland
Hills -57
Butler - 68 North
Allegheny -55
21-1 Golden Tornado Girls
Basketball
clinch Section Championship...#3 ranked in the West...#6 in the State.
Butler - 62 Pine
Richland -41
Butler - 53 Seneca
Valley -44
Butler - 50 Shaler
-48
Kayla Gilliand converted a rebound basket at the buzzer
to enable Class AAAA No. 3 Butler (19-1, 8-0) escape with a 50-48 Section 3 win
Butler - 56 Plum -42
Butler - 66 Allderdice
- 4
2006-2007
"I've got enough experience to lead the team,
and I know when to stay cool..."
Achesinski's
34-point performance
Butler
-58 NA - 56 2OT
• Has recorded 1,075 points and
608 rebounds in three-year varsity career.
• Averaged 16.6 points, 10 rebounds per game
last year
• Shot 75.2 percent from free throw line last
year
• Scored in double figures in 23 of 24 games
last season
Volleyball
• Four-year letterwinner
• Best Offensive Player Award, 2004-06
• First team all-section, 2006
• Second team, all-section, 2005
Track and Field
• Three-year letterwinner, shot put and discus
• Most Improved Field Award, 2005
Mercyhurst
bound...
Butler
- 44 Mercyhurst - 35
Butler
- 45 Gateway - 34
Butler
- 48 Knoch - 35
Butler
- 55 Shady Side - 30
Butler - 73 Brashear - 21
Forget the Titans...
Butler
- 68 Shaler - 39
Butler - 48
North Allegheny - 35
Triple
Yoi...
Butler -
46 North Hills - 25
Achesinski
Tournament
MVP...
Tornado
Girls Stun #2 ranked Bethel Park
Butler - 56
Bethel Park
- 36
Senior Julie
Ehrman had 12 pts including a pair of three
pointers to pace the Tornado (2-0)...Amy
Achesinski and Rachel
Barry each reached double figures with 10 points
respectively.
Butler - 47 Seneca Valley
- 37
Butler - 53 Shaler - 34
Butler -
53 Pine
Richland - 33
The Golden Tornado
Girls turned aside North Allegheny , 46-39, in the
opening night of WPIAL Class AAAA Section 3 play.
Amy Achesinski led Butler with 13 points.
Butler
ends Florida trip with 55-45 win
Amy Achesinski scored
20 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the Butler
girls basketball concluded their trip to Florida with
a 55-45 win over West Boca Wednesday night.
Rachel Barry scored nine
points for the Golden Tornado, who went 2-1 on their
trip.
Samantha Karns also had seven rebounds for the Golden
Tornado.
For Butler Tornado Girls...
Amy Achesinski 9 2-2 20, Rachel Barry 4 1-3 9, Ashley
Nocera 0 0-0 0, Maria Baroffio 2 2-4 6, Samantha Karns
2 2-4 6, Abby Herrit 2 0-0 5, Lyndsy Day 2 4-5 8,
Julie Ehrman 1 3-4 5. Totals: 21 12-18 55
Head Coach: Dorothea
Epps
Butler - 47
New Castle - 41
Butler
- 56 Hempfield - 44
Trailing 24-23 at halftime, Butler received
14 second-half points from Kelly
Miller and its defense forced 12 turnovers
in the last two quarters as the Golden Tornado girls
basketball team defeated Hempfield 56-44.
Sophomores Amy Achesinski
(12 points), Maria Baroffio
(seven points) and Rachel Barry
(three points) all started and contributed on both
ends of the floor.
Miller led Butler's effort
with 20 points
Kelly Miller 4 11-12 20, Kate DeGeorge 0 2-2 2, Kala
Schnur 1 0-0 3, Julie Erhman 1 0-0 2, Samantha Karns
2 1-2 5, Ashley Nocera 1 0-0 2, Maria Baroffio 0 7-8
7, Amy Achesinski 5 2-7 12, Rachel Barry 0 3-6 3
Butler
- 57 Kiski- 44
An early 7-0 lead evaporated but the Tornado
used a 6-0 spurt late in the second quarter to distance
itself from the Cavaliers as they went on to a 57-44
victory. In the second half,
Butler received three points apiece from Achesinski
and Karns to open up on a 6-2 run to increase
its advantage to eight points at 33-25.
Butler's lead never dipped below seven the remainder
of the game.
Samantha Karns 4 6-9 14, Maria Baroffio 7 3-8
18, Amy Achesinski 3 8-9 14, Rachel Barry 2 2-5 6,
Kala Schnur 0 0-0 0, Kate DeGeorge 1 0-0 2, Julie
Ehrman 1 1-2 3, Elizabeth Schultz 0 0-0 0, Ashley
Nocera 0 0-0 0, Michelle Ritchey 0 0-0 0, Abby Herrit
0 0-0 0
Butler
- 43 Shaler
- 38
Early
pre-season play of underclass players proves to be
the difference...
Rachel Barry netted 11 points
to lead a field of 10 Butler players who scored in
the Golden Tornado's 50-23 win over Silverado (Nev.)
in the Lady Wolves Tournament in Las Vegas.
The win came a night after Butler eked
out a 56-55 victory over Castlemont (Calif.).
Amy Achesinski led the way with
17 points
while Kelly Miller (14), Maria Baroffio (11)
and Elizabeth Schultz (seven rebounds) all
did their part.
Holiday Tournament 2004
"I have no problem
playing our younger girls. I have a lot of confidence
in them."
Butler
-50 Seneca
Valley - 42
Trailing Seneca Valley 22-15 at halftime, Butler used a tenacious defense
and a 19–of-25 performance from the free throw line
in the second half to hand the Raiders their first
section loss of the season with a 50-42 decision Monday.
"This says that we have a lot of character on
this basketball team," said Golden Tornado coach
Dorothea Epps. "Playing a good team with a lot
of height like Seneca, and coming back like we did,
it was really big for us.
"Even when we were down, the girls knew
we could still win," Epps added.
2003-2004
season
Out
Foxing the Foxes...
The Tornado Girls Past....
2002
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