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By Todd Orodenker

The Archbishop Carroll Patriots don’t have Derrick Jones or Ernest Aflakpui anymore, but that really wasn’t all that noticeable Tuesday.

In their home opener, Carroll dominated a very good, and very young Abington team, 77-56, in nonleague play. The Patriots are now 2-0 in the young season, and they got there in style. They scored the first eight points of the game and led 17-2 midway through the first quarter.

By the end of the period, they had dropped 30 on Abington. By halftime, they were doubling the Ghosts (2-1) up. It wasn’t supposed to be this easy, but it certainly was.

“You’re not looking to jump on teams like that every game,” Carroll coach Paul Romanczuk said. “We prepared like it was going to be a tough basketball game. … We made some shots early and we made it look easier than it generally is, sometimes.”

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By Matthew DeGeorge

There were close to 30 boys basketball games in the first weekend of the season, which provided plenty of interesting looks at a variety of teams. Considering that only four of those affairs featured Delco teams playing each other, the slate allowed plenty of comparisons to other teams and provides and interesting barometer by which to evaluate the Delco teams moving forward.

For now, let’s stick to the numbers. Here is a handful that stuck out to me.

2 – Haverford players who appeared Germantown Academy and also played more than 10 games last season. The lucky duo was Connor Guilfoil and Jack Farrell. Some of that is unfixable given the graduation defections. Getting Matt Corbett and Jack Donaghy back after their football layover will be a help, but the youth of the side that played GA should minimize concern over that performance.

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By Matthew DeGeorge

Louden pours in 22 as Garnet Valley cruises to victory>>Andrew Louden authored a memorable start to his season Tuesday night.

The Garnet Valley guard flirted with a triple-double, pouring in 22 points (including four 3-pointers), 10 rebounds and seven assists as the Jaguars scored a 75-40 win over Marple Newtown in the Central League opener for both teams.

Carl Tienabeso led all scorers with 23 points, and Austin Laughlin added 13 for the Jags.
Marcus Weathers led Marple (1-2, 0-1) with 16 points.

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By Matthew DeGeorge

 First-time head coaches Dave McFadden and Billy Rowe stood on opposite benches Saturday afternoon at Strath Haven High School. What transpired over 32 minutes illustrated the differing challenges each rookie skipper faces.

McFadden’s Panthers waltzed to a 56-26 win over Rowe’s Interboro squad in a nonleague game, moving them to 2-0, a record that looks more impressive given the 3-19 campaign the program endured last year. Rowe is still in search of that first win, evidence that all rebuilds don’t exactly come with the same standard pieces.

McFadden inherited an underachieving group from Tom Dougherty last year, and he’s molded them into a high-energy attack. The Panthers multiple avenues for offense, which they only had to brandish to a limited degree to dismiss the Bucs after accruing an 18-1 edge in the second quarter that sent them into half up, 29-8.

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By Matthew DeGeorge

Hall, Sabree team up to power Sun Valley to win>>You’d be hard-pressed to find a more productive duo than Sun Valley’s Ryan Hall and Wali Sabree Saturday.

Hall poured in a game-high 27 points to go with 15 rebounds as the Vanguards claimed a 71-60 win over Collegium Charter in a nonleague game.

Sabree was no slouch either: Just 13 points, 16 rebounds, five assists and two blocks. Kyle Ryan chipped in 17 points for Sun Valley (1-1).

At the Play-by-Play Tipoff Classic:

Chester 60, Martin Luther King 56 >> Being down 18 points after one quarter didn’t faze Khaleeq Campbell, who scored 10 of his 19 points in the fourth as the Clippers launched an epic comeback at Widener.

Jamar Sudan scored 10 points, including a 3-point play that tied the game at 53 before one of Campbell’s three triples put Chester ahead for good at 56-53.

Marquis Collins added 11 points for the Clippers (1-1).

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By Matthew DeGeorge

Long, Ryan help Springfield rally in opener >> It was all about the Kyles for Springfield Friday night, as the Cougars launched a major comeback to top Unionville, 45-36, at the Unionville Tipoff Tournament.

Springfield outscored the hosts, 24-5 in the fourth quarter. Kyle Long had 12 points and five assists. Kyle Ryan scored a team-high 13 points. Kyle Sullivan provided a clutch steal late to lead the Cougars into the title game.

At the Fred Pickett Classic:

Penn Wood 61, Math, Civics & Science 60 >> Vincent Smalls scored a game-high 15 points, and Jordan Johnson and Kairi Jones added 10 points apiece as the Patriots rallied late to win.

Sanford 59, Chester 57 >> Stanley Davis scored a team-high 13 points and Marquis Collins added 12 as one of 10 scorers for the Clippers, but poor free-throw shooting down the stretch led the Chester squandering a seven-point lead entering the fourth quarter. (Webmasters: note – The Sanford vs Chester game broadcast is available on our Game-of-the-Week Archives) 

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Matthew DeGeorge

Keith Heinerichs knew that he was signing up for a challenge in scheduling Germantown Academy as the opener for his Haverford team.

What he might not have expected was to head into that encounter without his starting backcourt. Or with a starting lineup consisting of a freshman, a sophomore and a grand total of 71 varsity points scored last year. Or with the idea that he’d hand varsity debuts to five players and the most significant minutes of their high school careers to nearer a dozen Fords.

Understandably, Heinerichs and company were sanguine walking out with a 61-44 loss that contained more positives than the score may indicate.

For one, the Fords started their season by spotting the Patriots the game’s first 16 points and coming within 37 seconds of letting the hosts pitch a first-quarter shutout. The easy view is to observe that 16-point concession as being the difference Friday night, and while that’s overly simplistic, there’s no denying that the team that bumbled through the first quarter stuck around for the next three.

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By Delcohoops.com Staff

Tonight’s game broadcast was going well with Chester trailing by two-points with 12 seconds left to play.  Our monitor flickered and froze during a timeout commercial.  After trying numerous times to bring the program back on line we finally had to shut the computer down.  Our listeners never new what happened.  Suffice it to say Chester failed to get the two points and lost a very good game.  We apologize to our listeners.  We also apologize to all the computers that took abuse from their owners cursing them for losing the game broadcast.  We are so sorry!

By Matthew DeGeorge

In so many ways, the Delco Christian boys basketball team has moved light years away from that Jan. 16 night last season against Holy Ghost Prep. But when the timeline is reconstructed for senior guard Wyatt Harkins this week at practice, the memory still seems fresh.

“Just terrible,” he recalls of the 3-10 record the Knights were saddled with.

Since that turning point, the Knights rose to the challenge put before them, winning an improbable District One Class A title and venturing to the second round of the PIAA tournament. And nearly a year later, whatever switch flipped that night still holds true as the veteran Knights try to pen a second action.

“I think once it clicked at that time, it did carry over to the summer,” said Harkins, the team’s leading scorer at 13.7 points per game last year. “…We have guys buying in, not playing selfishly. And the way these first few practices have looked, I think it really has carried over.”

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