The visiting Spring-Ford Rams used a dominant inside game and the devastating outside shooting of Ryan Corcoran to roll over the Upper Perk boys basketball team, 79-42, on Tuesday night.

                The Rams made quick work of a shorthanded Indian squad, blitzing to a 41-10 lead at one point in the second quarter, thanks largely to Corcoran's 20 first-half points that included four makes from beyond the three-point line.

                The Rams senior finished with 25 points.

                When Corcoran was not torching the Indians from the outside, Spring-Ford was meeting little opposition in the paint, pummeling the Indians (0-6, 1-10) on the boards and getting easy lay-ups.

                Jake Freedman did a lot of the inside damage with 12 of his 16 points in the first half.

                 It did not help that the Tribe was without forward Nate Weinstein, who was sitting out a suspension.

                More about that later.

                "Not having Nate inside really hurt us tonight," said acting head coach Todd Swenk after the game

                Then Tribe center Christian Zera picked up two fouls less than four minutes into the game and sat out the rest of the first quarter as the visitors built a 30-10 lead after the initial stanza.

                "They brought high intensity which we didn't match, not at all," Swenk said. "You can see they're a well-rounded team."

                Spring-Ford (3-3, 4-7), the defending PAC-10 champion and a state quarterfinalist, has been struggling to replace eight starters from last year. Coming into Tuesday's game the Rams were averaging just over 53 points a game, near the bottom of the league.

                To their credit, the Tribe did make a respectable run at the Rams late in the second quarter to shave ten points off the visitor's advantage by intermission.

                Junior Ryan Sitko and freshman Ryan Kendra hit threes and Kendra (team-high 14 points) added a traditional three-point play.

                "I thought that second quarter we played them about even, and a lot of it was due to the youth, a couple of ninth-graders that we had in there," Swenk pointed out.

                But the Rams scored 14 points on lay-ups in the third quarter as they rebuilt their lead to 64-30 by the end of the stanza.

                Kendra is one of 11  freshmen on the roster who portend better days for Tribe basketball.

                "They're used to winning. They haven't lost too much since they've been in seventh grade," Swenk noted.

                "There's a bright future when you have Kendra, Liam Boyle, the (Tyler) Whary kid. They've all played okay for their first time."

                It did not help that the Tribe was coming off a draining experience Monday night in a game at Brandywine Heights.

                Upper Perk led by nine early in the fourth quarter when all sorts of mayhem broke out. The Indians were hit with five technical fouls and gave up 35 fourth quarter points in what would turn out to be a 75-61 loss.

                Weinstein had a career night with 24 points and 19 rebounds before fouling out of the game. He later went on to the court to help break up an altercation and, as a result, was suspended for the Spring-Ford game.

                Head coach Jared Krupp also missed the game to serve a one game suspension which was why Swenk, the JV coach, was manning the varsity bench against the Rams.