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Sun Valley remains undefeated

  

Sun Valley 67, Chester Charter for the Arts 39.

Vinny Deangelo led the way for the Vanguards with 22 points, bombing four 3-pointers.

Issac Kennon also hit four treys on this way to 19 points as the Vanguards (8-0) led by a dozen points at the half. Davon Stoval and Damir Baez scored nine points each for Chester Charter (5-3).

(Webmaster’s note: The Chester Charter vs. Sun Valley 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.)

Chester High School basketball star Warren Sutton finds redemption 60 years later

Chester High School basketball star Warren Sutton finds redemption 60 years later

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by Frank Fitzpatrick

Sometime after Christmas, Warren Sutton, 79, will board a bus in Kitchener, Ontario, and, perhaps for the final time, make the 350-mile journey back to his old hometown of Chester.

There are nieces, nephews, and old basketball buddies he hopes to see. His real destination, though, will be Haven Memorial Cemetery. That’s where his parents and siblings are buried and where he’ll attend a headstone dedication for Emerson Baynard, the Chester High basketball legend who died penniless in 1993.

Basketball is Chester’s signature sport. And when the game was taking root there in the 1950s, Sutton picked it up quickly. A co-captain on the 1956-57 Chester High team that lost in the state championship game, he’d go on to become the best player in Alfred University’s history, a Canadian collegiate star, a draft pick of the NBA’s St. Louis Hawks.

But America’s links to racism were older and deeper than Chester’s to basketball. And that was something that, until he fell in love with a white Alfred coed, the young African American hadn’t grasped.

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Sun Valley boys get stingy, streak hits seven

By Matthew DeGeorge

Sun Valley has gotten it done in a lot of ways in its season-opening winning streak. Add “via the defensive end” to the list Thursday.

Vinny DeAngelo scored 15 points and Marvin Freeman added 12, but the defense that limited Oxford to just two points after halftime fueled a 53-14 victory for the Vanguards.

Jarad Owens and Isaac Kennon tallied eight points each for the Vanguards (7-0, 3-0).

In the Central League:

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Evans goes off to help streaking Chester Charter School for the Arts

 

By Matthew DeGeorge

Jamihy Evans scored 27 points, including a pair of key dunks in the third quarter, to lead Chester Charter School for the Arts to a 74-42 nonleague win at Bristol.

Tyler Howard added 11 points, 12 rebounds and five blocks, and Sean DeShields tossed in nine points for CCSA (4-2), which blew the game open with a 15-4 edge in the third period.

Mastery Charter North 72, Delco Christian 52 >> Tyler Rossini and Obinna Nwobodo scored 11 points each, and Jamal Hairston paired 10 points with four helpers for DC.

In the Bicentennial League:

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Game-of-the-Week – Watkins double-double powers Chester past Reading

Reading’s #22 Jahsire Sheriff takes a shot in last night’s game against Chester. Photo by Red Knights Athletics

By Matthew DeGeorge

In a meeting of two of Pennsylvania’s traditional hoops juggernauts, Karell Watkins continued to make a name for himself.

The sophomore forward scored 27 points to go with 15 rebounds as Chester topped Reading, 77-72, Tuesday night at the Rondae Hollis-Jefferson Classic.

Michael Smith added 21 points, and Akeem Taylor paired 14 points with six assists as the Clippers (3-2) dished 20 assists on 30 baskets to win their third straight. Rahmaad Dejarnette added 13 points.

Watkins scored nine points and Taylor added six in the third quarter where the Clippers turned up the defense for a 21-9 advantage in the frame, an edge they wouldn’t relinquish.

In other nonleague action:

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Reading High comes up short against Chester

By Mike Drago

Rick Perez said his young Reading High team showed a lot more resilience Tuesday at Chester than it did in its season-opening loss to Williamsport.The Red Knights showed more than that.

They showed an explosive side and that good things are on the way during a furious fourth-quarter rally that came up short in a 77-72 loss.

A ragged start to the second half put the Knights (3-2) in big hole, one they nearly dug all the way out of with a 26-point fourth quarter.

Senior guard Wesley Butler jammed 14 of his team-high 27 points into the final quarter, helping Reading pull within 69-68 at one point.

Twice they turned it into a one-possession game, the last time after freshman Joey Chapman banked in a free throw to make it 71-70 with 54 seconds left.

The Clippers (3-2) extended their lead with one of many transition buckets by sophomore standout Karrell Watkins, who finished with 27 points, 11 boards and five assists.

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Defense powers Episcopal Academy to second straight win

By PAPrepLive

Episcopal Academy turned up the defensive pressure to erase a two-point, first-quarter deficit and defeat Western Reserve Academy from Ohio, 66-39, in the fifth-place game in the Mercer Invitational at the Hill School.

The Churchmen held the Pioneers to 27 points in the final three quarters and outscored WRA, 35-20, in the second half to climb out of a 12-10 hole and win going away. Alex Capitano poured in 19 points and was named to the all-tournament team. Matt Dade added 16 to pace EA to its second straight win.

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Sun Valley on point early in win over Marple Newtown

By Matthew DeGeorge

For all the senior talent on the Sun Valley roster, there’s one commodity missing from last year’s squad that earned a berth in the PIAA Class 5A tournament. It just happens to be one of the hardest-to-fake entities in high school hoops.Six of the top seven scorers are back for the Vanguards, but the missing piece is a point guard, after the graduation of floor general Shair Brown-Morris. It’s a void rarely filled by committee – either you have an adept and stable ball-handler, or you don’t.

Turns out that Sun Valley has one, just not always the same one. And more than anything, years of experience built between a veteran corps seems to be steadying that role, as in Saturday’s 63-47 nonleague handling of Marple Newtown.

Vinny DeAngelo and Isaac Kennon rotated having the ball in their hands. Kennon held it down in the first half, DeAngelo sitting with two fouls. DeAngelo, who excelled as an off-ball player to tally 1,000 career points by the end of his junior campaign, took the reins in the second to jumpstart his offensive game.

With Sun Valley off a 5-0 start, the early returns of the time-sharing are certainly encouraging.

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Norristown’s balanced attack too much for Lower Merion

Nazir Kinney (right) of Norristown battles for rebound position with Theo Henry of Lower Merion in the fourth quarter.

Nazir Kinney (right) of Norristown battles for rebound position with Theo Henry of Lower Merion in the fourth quarter. LOU RABITO / Staff

By Rick O’Brien

Xavier Edwards and his Norristown High teammates thrived against Lower Merion with their ball movement and unselfishness.

“We played like we always do, as a team,” the 6-foot, 190-pund senior guard said. “There are no individuals on this team. We’re a brotherhood.”

Edwards was one of five double-digit scorers for the Eagles as they topped Lower Merion, 71-61, Saturday afternoon in the second annual Diane Mosco Foundation Shootout at Archbishop Wood.

Edwards (17 points), Aaron Reddish (13), Tyler Lyons (11), Nazir Kinney (11), and Mickeel Allen (10) led the way for Dana “Binky” Johnson’s squad.

Game-of-the-Week – Haven tops Marple

By Matthew DeGeorge

Strath Haven 59, Marple Newtown 54 >> The Panthers spread the scoring evenly, with Luke Edwards netting 16 points, Ibo Pio tossing in 13 and Brady Mutz adding 11. Justin Morris chipped in eight for the Panthers (1-3, 1-1).

Tommy Gardler led Marple (0-3, 0-2) with 23 points, and Aziz Khammassi chipped in 13.

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(Webmaster’s note: The Marple Newtown vs. Strath Haven game was our Game-of-the-Week and can be heard in its entirety below or on our Archives link listed in the menu at the top of our page.)