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Ridley hosts Lower Merion in Central League showdown

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Julian Wing (above) and Ridley are the defending Central League champions, a spot Lower Merion is familiar with. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)

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By Aron Minkoff  & Josh Verlin

Historically, Lower Merion has been the team with the target on their back, the first place squad that everyone is pursuing in the Central League standings.

That is not the case this year: rather than Lower Merion sitting atop the Central League standings, it is their Friday opponent, Ridley.

“This is the first time that we have been ahead of them in the standings since I have been the head coach now,” said Ridley coach Mike Snyder, who’s in his fifth year as head coach. “It is different this year from where we usually are, we are usually trying to chase them from the top spot so we just gotta be ready to play.”

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Academy Park hits 100 in win over Glen Mills

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By Matthew De George

Jawan Collins scored 30 points to go with seven steals and six assists as the Knights cracked the century mark.

Nakim Stokes scored 20 points, Nick Simmons added 15 and Teddy Wright marked his first start with a double-double of 11 points and 10 rebounds as AP (6-4, 1-0) put six players in double figures.

Myron Sanders scored 16 points, and Anthony Thompson added 12 for Glen Mills (2-7, 0-1), which has lost six straight.

Springfield’s Kyle Sullivan, right, drives the past Haverford’s Jack Donaghy Tuesday night. Sullivan helped Springfield to a 48-38 Central League win.

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Penn Wood comes on strong to top Chichester>> Penn Wood scored 41 points in the second half and capitalized on 17 Chichester turnovers to open Del Val League play with a 73-67 victory over the Eagles Tuesday afternoon.

The 41-point eruption in the second half helped the Patriots erase a 39-32 halftime deficit.

Vincent Smalls paced four Penn Wood players in double figures with 19 points. Calvin Melton added 13, Javon Lindsey-Terrell 12 and Kairi Jones 10 for Penn Wood (6-3, 1-0).

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Ridley’s Foster picks a winning program in East Stroudsburg

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By Teddy Bailey

Throughout his time at Ridley High School, senior point guard Brett Foster has grown accustomed to winning basketball games. In his time donning the green and white, the 5-foot-11 guard has a 63-28 career record, including the Green Raiders’ 9-0 start to his senior season.

In three full seasons, Foster has led his school to a pair of PIAA Class AAAA State Tournament appearances, three District 1 Class AAAA Tournament appearances, and one appearance in the District 1 semifinals.

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Archbishop Carroll guard John Rigsby is Main Line Boys Athlete of the Week

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By Bruce Adams

The senior guard and tri-captain is averaging 13.6 ppg and 4.9 rpg for the Patriots, who won their first seven games of the season, and leads the team in charges taken. In Carroll’s recent big win against Malvern Prep, he tallied 27 points and pulled down eight rebounds. One of seven siblings, he wears No. 14, as did his father, Whitey Rigsby, during his playing days as a guard at Villanova in the late 1970s.

Q: You scored 27 points and pulled down eight rebounds in the Patriots’ win against Malvern Prep Dec. 23. What is your most vivid memory of that game – can you share it with us?

A: This game was really cool for me, being from Malvern, and being friends with most players on the other team. The coolest part of it for me was having one of my best friends, Murphy Rogers,  on the  opposing coaching staff. His dad Joe Rogers played with my dad at Villanova and he and I have been very close our whole lives.

Q: You come from a basketball family. Your father, Whitey Rigsby, was a guard for the good Villanova squads of the mid-to-late 1970s, the dawning of the Rollie Massimino era. Who have been your biggest basketball mentors, and what was the important thing each of them taught you?

A: My Dad has been my biggest mentor from the time I was born, he’s taught me everything I know about the game. Two other significant basketball mentors I’ve had in my life are two of my current coaches, Coach Paul [Romanczuk], and Coach Fran Lynam. Coach Lynam coached me through grade school and now coaches at Carroll now. All three have had huge impacts on me.

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City of Basketball Love State Basketball Rankings

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By Michael Bullock

CLASS AAAA

No.  School                             Rec    Pvs
1.   Roman Catholic (12)           8-1        1
2.   Allderdice (8)                      7-1        2
3.   Archbishop Wood (12)         7-2        3
4.   Plymouth-Whitemarsh (1)    9-0        4
5.   Coatesville (1)                    9-0        5
6.   Downingtown West (1)       10-1        7
7.   Reading (3)                        8-3        9
8.   Parkland (11)                      7-3      10
9.   La Salle College (12)          9-1        6
10. Harrisburg (3)                     7-0        8

Checked in: No one.
Checked out: No one.

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PIAA State Ratings – Top 20

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Welcome to the beginning of our 39th season of doing ratings. To get this out as close to the beginning of the year, we won’t have much more info than the teams records.

  1. Philadelphia Roman Catholic (8-1) (PCL/District 12 AAAA)

WINS: Parkland 70-38, Washington Coolidge, DC 90-41, Wheaton Good Council, Maryland 72-60, Washington Gonzaga, DC 77-72 (OT), Greensboro Day, North Carolina 54-37, Arlington Country Day, Florida 49-45, Washington Maret, DC 67-51, Philadelphia Conwell-Egan 49-39.

LOSSES: Oldsmar Christian, Florida 51-58.

  1. Philadelphia Neumann-Goretti (5-2) (PCL/District 12 AAA)

WINS: Dover, Delaware 73-52, Philadelphia Math, Civics & Sciences 90-43, Philadelphia Bishop McDevitt 92-44, Laurel St. Vincent Pallotti, Maryland 76-57, Hudson Catholic, NJ 82-73.

LOSSES: Fairfax Paul VI. Virginia 55-77, Washington Gonzaga, DC 70-71.

  1. Radnor Archbishop Carroll (9-1) (PCL/District 12 AAA)

WINS: Academy of New Church 66-56, Abington 77-56, Parkland 66-59, Cheltenham 77-51, Penn Wood 80-39, Philadelphia Bonner/Prendergast 79-56, Malvern Prep 76-56, Solebury School 72-62, Allentown, New Jersey 80-34.

LOSSES: Newark St. Benedicts’, NJ 49-50.

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Rondae honored as best Clipper ever

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Rondae Hollis-Jefferson checks out the locker he used at Chester. Despite being assigned to a new player, the stall still has the faint trace of the Clipper great’s name in black marker.

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By Chris Vito

The sound of a referee’s whistle echoed through the locker room, signaling that tipoff was only a few moments away. Three years ago, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson would’ve already been on the court. Today, he was taking a stroll down memory lane.

A slow stroll.

With the help of his crutches, Hollis-Jefferson ambled around Chester High’s locker room and over to his former stall, which now belongs to junior forward Jamar Sudan. But if you were to look closely, you can still see ‘RONDAE’ written across the locker, the result of a Sharpie’s permanent ink having bled through a piece of athletic tape and onto the orange paint.

“See,” Hollis-Jefferson said, “I’m still here.”

It’ll be a while before people in Chester erase their memories of Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. At Pickett Gymnasium, he’s everywhere you look — from the banner acknowledging their 1,000-point scorers to the trophy case, where his teams’ two PIAA Class AAAA championship trophies reside.

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Delco boys basketball scoring leaders, Dec. 31

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By Matthew De George

Scoring Average (Top 20)

Nick Alikakos, Episcopal Academy 25.5
Jawan Collins, Academy Park 22.8
Ryan Daly, Archbishop Carroll 20.8
Brett Foster, Ridley 20.2
Wyatt Harkins, Delco Christian 18.6
Eric Montanez, Chichester 17.8
Derrick Welles, Chichester 17.7
Jaye’Lyn Peebles, Cardinal O’Hara 16.7
Ryan Hall, Sun Valley 15.7
Andrew Louden, Garnet Valley 15.6
Kharon Randolph, Haverford School 15.6
Kyle Ryan, Sun Valley 15.1
Grant Fischer, Delco Christian 14.8
Tyler Norwood, Penncrest 14.8
Julian Wing, Ridley 14.3
Jamai Womack, Chichester 14.1
Josh Sharkey, Archbishop Carroll 13.9
Jack Donaghy, Haverford 13.6
Devin Hill, Delco Christian 13.4
A.J. Taylor, Penncrest 13.4

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Interim coach Houck hunting for Tiger turnaround at Marple

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Marple Newtown forward Marcus Weathers, left, tries to defend Penncrest’s A.J. Taylor during a Dec. 11 game. Weathers is one of the senior leaders helping the Tigers transition from the change of leadership of the program, with Eric Houck coaching the team on an interim basis after coach Brian Shane took a leave of absence for health reasons. (Special to the Times/Rob Dudley)

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By Matthew De George

Three weeks into the season, Marple Newtown’s basketball team was still searching for answers to a bevy of questions spawned by an offseason rebuild.

Then it was hit with another conundrum: How would that laborious process proceed without the coach who led them to the District One Tournament last season?

Illness kept coach Brian Shane away from the Dec. 18 game against Radnor. By Christmas Eve, the Tigers were informed that Shane would take an indefinite leave of absence due to health-related issues.

Eric Houck, the JV coach and an assistant athletic director, would be installed as the head man on an interim basis. And the situation hasn’t been ideal, Houck and his players are coping as best as possible.

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