Chester’s Akeem Taylor, left, is shut down by Methacton’s Jeff Woodward in the second half of the District 1 Class 6A semifinal at the Liacouras Center Tuesday. Methacton handled the Clippers, 81-54. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
By Owen McCue
The disparity between the accomplishments of the Methacton and Chester boys basketball programs entering Tuesday night’s District 1 Class 6A semifinal game was quite large.
On one side was a Chester program making its 48th trip to the District 1 Final Four, including 38 wins in the semifinal round. On the other was a Methacton program making its first trip to the District 1 semifinals.
As it has done to many others this high school basketball season, top-seeded Methacton showed that this year it appears to be the team in a class of its own in District 1.
From the middle of the third quarter on, the top-seeded Warriors rolled past the fourth-seeded Clippers for an 81-54 win, their third straight district victory by 20-or-more points, and earning a chance to play third-seeded Cheltenham (a 77-60-winner of seventh-seeded Bensalem) in Saturday’s District 1 championship back at Temple at 7 p.m.
“We talked about how they have a really, really long history as a program, but their guys are in the same situation as us,” said Methacton senior Jeff Woodward, who finished with 20 points and 20 rebounds. “None of their guys had been down here yet and none of us have been down here.
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