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Moyin Ogbo scored all five of Ridley’s overtime points, leading the Green Raiders to a 43-40 win over Bishop Shanahan in their holiday tournament championship game last weekend.

Nadia Henkel tallied 15 points and hit the game-tying basket to force OT. Henkel and Ogbo both made all-tournament team.

At the Cardinal O’Hara Tournament:

Gloucester Catholic 57, O’Hara 51 >> Molly Rullo dropped 21 points, BrigidAnne Donohue added 14 and Leah Hudak contrbuted 11 for the Lions.

Jahzara Green led GC with 27 points.

Audenreid 60, Arch. Carroll 56 >> Kayla Eberz amassed 16 points and 16 rebounds, but the Patriots couldn’t come all the way back from a 13-point halftime deficit. Alexis Eberz tossed in 13 points and Olivia Nandi added 12.

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Matt Gardler posted his second triple-double of the season, and freshman Michael Rush scored a career-high 23 points as Marple Newtown defeated Episcopal Academy, 60-43, Monday at the Pete and Jameer Nelson Classic at Widener University.

Gardler produced 16 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. Ryan Keating added eight points and 10 rebounds for the Tigers.

Langston Foster tallied 20 points for Episcopal Academy.

In other action at the Nelson Classic:

Penncrest 54, John Bartram 33 >> Mikey Mita recorded 19 points and 13 rebounds for the undefeated Lions (9-0). Theo Gladue and Sean Benson had 10 points apiece.

Haverford School 80, Rocktop Academy 22 >> Silas Graham scored 19 points and Jacob Becker added 11 for the unbeaten Fords (13-0), who led 44-10 at halftime.

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By Owen McCue

In the middle of a shooting slump with his team coming off a loss, Garnet Valley senior Jake Sniras didn’t head into Monday thinking about making it a record-setting day.

The 6-4 wing just wanted him and his teammates to get back on track.

Sniras found his groove early in a 74-65 win over St. Georges (Del.) at the Pete and Jameer Nelson Play-By-Play Classic and managed to make a little Jaguars history in the process.

A free throw with 19 seconds left helped wrap up the victory and gave Sniras 29 points on the day and 1,481 career points in his career — one more than 2018 grad Austin Laughlin — making him the top scorer in Garnet Valley boys basketball history.

“My freshman and sophomore year, I was in a laidback role,” Sniras told CoBL after the win. “I didn’t believe I was the No. 1 scoring option, not even last year. It’s been hard adjusting when my shot isn’t falling. What am I doing to contribute? How am I affecting the game? How am I boosting my teammates’ confidence?”

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By Joseph Santoliquito

Jake Manigault had to find a way to cancel it out. Each second seemed to increase the volume that was throbbing through Widener’s Schwartz Athletic Center Monday night. Complicating matters more was Manigault, Abington’s 5-foot-11 senior guard, had to weave through the sticky web Chester’s press has put on opponents for decades.

As a sophomore and junior, Manigault had received sparse minutes off the bench. This time, his senior year, he wanted, no, demanded, the ball in his hands.

He literally put his head down and when the game reached its most crucial moments, it was Manigault who responded, scoring seven of his game-high 17 points in the fourth quarter, including three of the Ghosts’ final four points in Abington’s impressive 59-57 victory over Chester.

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By Joseph Santoliquito

As the web of twisted arms and legs began to unfold under the basket, it was the smallest girl on the bottom of the pile with the ball. It’s usually that way when Brigid MacGillivray is on the court.

It’s why the Cardinal O’Hara girls’ basketball team looks to her. It’s why her coaches look to her. It’s why her classmates look to her. It’s why her family looks to her.

The 5-foot-4 senior guard plays with a tenacity that belies her size. She hears the clock ticking on her basketball career. It may explain why she played with the ferocity she did Sunday night, in O’Hara’s hard-fought 57-51 loss to visiting Gloucester Catholic at the Cardinal O’Hara Holiday Showcase.

MacGillivray also plays with a heavy heart and a burning motivation. The third of eight children to La Salle women’s basketball coach Mountain MacGillivray and his wife, Grace, Brigid carries the constant thought of her baby 5-year-old sister Emily with her everywhere.

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By Joseph Santoliquito

It would gnaw at Roe Falcone. The Ridley coach would see so much in her team that they could not yet see in themselves. They would come together at moments in practices and in games. If only the moments would splice together in extended strands, if only her team full of athletes who play other sports would piece together basketball plays.

The 2024 Green Raiders, whose sum are better than their individual parts, were always scrappy and able to squeeze the last ounce of their talents in every game with little payback.  

On Friday, the moments were extended. On Friday, the payback arrived in the form of a 42-38 victory over a good North Penn team at Ridley High School.

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By Jeremy Goode + Josh Verlin

Game Two: Garnet Valley 71, Chichester 52

A few slow minutes to open the game were quickly forgotten, as the host Jaguars raced past the Eagles behind a well-balanced effort. 

Jake Sniras led Garnet Valley (6-1) with 15 points, followed closely behind by Grayson Golek (13), Brady Krautzel (12) and Cole Boruk (10). Golek, Garnet’s 6-foot-5 sophomore and second-year starter, stuffed the stat sheet with nine rebounds, five blocks, three steals and two assists. 

“He’s a great kid, he works hard. He’s moved his game outside, he didn’t hit a 3 tonight but he generally does,” Brown said. “We have him defending smaller players so he can grow his game that way, and inside he’s always had a knack for blocking shots. You either have it or you don’t, the shot blocking, and he’s good at it.”

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Khamai Orange caught fire in the second half, pouring in 28 points, including his 1,000th career, to lead Delco Christian to a 67-65 win over Nazareth in the Zephyr Holiday Tournament at Whitehall High Friday.

By Josh Verlin

The CoBL Girls’ Winter Classic returns on Sunday, Jan. 12 with a six-game affair at Ursinus College. A dozen of the area’s best girls’ basketball teams will be coming up to Collegeville, representing the Philadelphia Public League, Inter-Ac, Catholic League, Friends’ Schools League and multiple District 1 leagues — at least one participant from all five counties in our home base. 

It’s an event absolutely stacked with college-level talent, including more than a dozen committed seniors (and one junior) along with plenty of girls in all four classes who will be playing at the next level.

We’ll have a complete preview of the event the week of, with a closer look at each of the six games. For now, here’s the schedule and a list of both committed college basketball players and prospects to watch:

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By David Comer

This was the reward. The reward for spending all those hours shooting in an empty gym. The reward for deciding he wanted to excel in basketball and making it happen through hard work and dedication. The reward for never missing an open gym and then competing in those open gyms like he was playing for a state championship.

“It’s awesome,” Upper Dublin senior Ryan Mulroy said after scoring his 1,000th career point on Friday in a 58-44 win over Cardinal O’Hara in the opening round of the Cardinal Holiday Tournament. “Coming to Upper Dublin, it was never really a thought to score 1,000 points. I feel like, growing up, Upper Dublin wasn’t really big in basketball yet, so to be part of the changing of the culture is really special and to score 1,000 points, too, really means a lot.”

With his family and friends on hand — minus his brother and sister, who were at home sick watching the livestream of the game — Mulroy scored on a baseline layup with 3:39 left in the fourth quarter to give him 1,001 career points. 

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