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By Delcohoops.com Staff

It has been nothing short of an amazing run for these past six years!  What started out as a simple idea to bring Delaware County Boy’s high school basketball into one, concise web site has become a key source for everything boy’s high school basketball.  Adding to our web site the popular Game-of-the-Week Internet audio broadcast and students, players, parents, friends, family and fans have embraced us as THE source for boy’s high school basketball in Delco!

We couldn’t have done it without the tremendous support of our sponsors shown on the right side of this page.  We don’t charge for our web site or our LIVE and archived game broadcasts but it does cost thousands of dollars each year to be able to make it all happen.  Our sponsors pick up the all the bills so we hope you will consider their services when needed!

Mike Mayer, Dave Burman, Pete Fulginiti and Andrew Kaufman (our broadcast and web site team) thank all of you for your support! 

By PAPrepLive

Shermik Lofton and Naseim Harley’s dominance in the second half was too much for host Central Bucks West to overcome Saturday.

Lofton and Harley accounted for 23 of Academy Park’s 25 points in the final two quarters of a 55-40 nonleague boys basketball victory.

Lofton led the way with 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Harley finished with 18 points and five assists. Derrick Northern put forth a solid effort with 10 points and five assists.

Also aiding the Knights (12-5) was their effectiveness at the free-throw line (16-for-17).

In other nonleague action:

(click on this link for more game stories and scores)

By Delcohoops.com Staff

Hard to believe but the 2018/19 regular season high school boy’s basketball season is ending in just two weeks and that means that PIAA District One playoffs are just around the corner.  Playoffs begin February 15th and to help you keep track of who’s in, who’s probably out and who’s got a chance, we created a quick reference link to all six classification rankings.  Simple go to the right side of our home page and look for the PIAA District One logo and click on it.

We’ll try to keep these pages current as we finish up the last two weeks of the regular season.  Keep coming back as we decide which playoff games we’ll be broadcasting!

By Matthew DeGeorge

The shift change queuing on the Ridley bench didn’t seem to make sense at first glance.

Midway through a stop-start second quarter, with Ridley leading Upper Darby by one, Ridley coach Kevin Kelly opted for a hockey-style line change — four up from the bench, four starters to the pine. With offensive execution in desperately short supply, a change of pace might do the trick.

In came undersized big Jalen Hudson, along with reserve guards Samir Neal and Aaron Tillery. And the momentum of the game changed with them.

Ridley scored 12 of the final 13 points of the half and stretched the lead as wide as 13 in the fourth before holding on to topple Upper Darby, 57-54, and earn their seventh straight win.

(click on this link for more game stories and scores)

By Kev Hunter

Unbeaten all season, Haverford School was uncatchable Friday night, staying firmly in front all evening long and withstanding a 35-point effort by Germantown Academy’s Jordan Longino to win 74-56 and climb to 19-0.

“I thought we were really, really good in spots,” Fords coach Bernie Rogers said, after his team improved to a perfect 7-0 in the Inter-Ac. “Longino’s pretty good. I thought we lost him a couple times, and he’s gonna burn ya.’ Other times, I thought we did a good job on him and he made some pretty tough shots.

“We had a spurt in the second and third quarters where we got three or four stops in a row and were able to break the game open a little bit.”

Haverford took an eight-point lead into the half and widened the gap to 17 in the third quarter. Christian Ray led the way for the Fords with a game-high 36 points and Jameel Brown and Jameer Nelson each had 14.

“I thought we made some good extra passes,” said Rogers, whose team created space to hit eight 3-pointers.

(click on this link for the full story)

By Matthew DeGeorge

Aziz Khammassi’s junior-year basketball journey wasn’t the one he had originally expected.Two games into the season in December 2017, the forward let Marple Newtown coach Sean Spratt know that he would be away for most of the next month. He returned to Tunisia, the country of his father’s birth, to visit his sick grandmother. And while there, he got his fill of hoops by trying out for the Tunisian Under-17 team.

“When I went down there, I didn’t think it was going to be anything like here,” Khammassi said this week. “But they had like a 6-10 guy, a lot of good guards, lots of guys getting offers from schools here.”

The disruption to the high school season was a setback last year, but the exposure to a higher level of talent has paid long-term dividends. Khammassi spent two weeks trying out with the Tunisian Basketball Federation (FTBB), and while he didn’t make the final squad for a game, per the FTBB, the experience was important to Khammassi.

(click on this link for the full story)

By Mike Cabrey

A comeback does not start with the first points. It begins with the belief it can happen.And despite down 14 points at halftime to Bonner & Prendergast Thursday night, Allen Powell said the La Salle boys basketball’s confidence they could erase the deficit never wavered.

 “We were talking as a team before the coaches came in, telling us that we can fight back,” the Explorers senior guard said. “We had a slow half. Come out the second half and just play better.”

With better defensive play and an offensive ignited by Powell, the Explorers sliced the Friars’ lead down to three by the end of the third quarter. A 9-0 run to begin the fourth put La Salle up six and the Explorers held off Bonner’s late rally try to stay perfect on the season with a 64-59 Philadelphia Catholic League victory.

“No matter what you’re doing you got to believe you can comeback,” La Salle coach Mike McKee said. “Our guys showed a lot of character and demonstrated that. Got to give them a lot of credit, you kind of say words but for them to back it up means a lot more.”

(click on this link for the full story)

By PAPrepLive

Keivon Stevens made his first start a memorable one, posting a double-double of 10 points and 10 rebounds to guide Penn Wood past Glen Mills, 76-52, in Del Val League boys basketball action Thursday.

Davanta Smith led the Patriots with 16 points, and Antonio Campbell chipped in 15 points. Ahmir Jackson added 10 for the Patriots (10-6, 4-2 Del Val).

Jabriel Guinyard led Glen Mills with 14 points.

Also in the Del Val League:

(click on this link for more game stories and scores)

By Matthew DeGeorge

Within four seconds Wednesday afternoon, Penncrest guard Marquis Tomlin took the tap from forward Malcolm Williams, charged the lane and earned a trip to the line. That’s four seconds for Penncrest, coming off three straight losses, to get two points and define one goal for the day: Bust a slump and nudge ahead of Garnet Valley, the team it entered one game behind in the Central League standings.

From that first sortie to the basket, the Lions did just that, and ruthlessly so. Near perfect days from Williams and Matt Arbogast helped Penncrest ends its slide with a 59-42 win over the Jags.

Though just one trip up the court, the Lions wasted no time in establishing what they wanted to do. They led 11-4 some 3½ minutes in, with all five starters scoring points. They were up 21-8 after a quarter, led by 11 at the break and never saw their lead trimmed to fewer than nine points the rest of the way.

(click on this link for more game stories and scores)

By Dave Burman

The Chester High Clipper boys high school basketball team holds off a tough Academy Park squad, 67-61 in Sharon Hill. Clippers have won 8 straight and are now 12-4 on the season and 5-0 in the Del-Val.

Academy Park falls to 10-5 overall and 2-3 in the Del-Val League.

Chester now leads the all-time series between the teams 58-3.

Super sophomore Karell Watkins led the Clippers with 18 points and 10 rebounds and was our Player-of-the Game and did an outstanding interview after the contest with yours truly and broadcast partner Andrew Kauffman.

5-11 senior guard Michael Smith had 16 for Chester. 6-3 senior Maddy DeJearnette with 14 for the Clippers.

Academy Park 6-0 senior Naseim Harley scored 24 points.

With Academy Park 3rd-year head boys basketball coach and fellow York College grad Frank Wolf (left), who is doing a tremendous job with the the program

By PAPrepLive

Karell Watkins posted another double-double of 16 points and 13 rebounds as the Clippers led by as many as 15 points and withstood the Knights’ late run to cut the spread to within one.Michael Smith added 16 points, Rahmaad DeJarnette tossed in 14 points and Akeem Taylor added 10 for the Clippers (12-4, 5-0) in their eighth consecutive win.

Naseim Harley led all scorers with 22 points, and Derrick Northern added 17 points for AP (10-5, 2-3).

(Webmaster’s note: The Chester vs. Academy Park game was our Game-of-the-Week and can be heard in its entirety below or on our Archived Broadcasts link listed in the menu at the top of our page.)

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