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Freshman Silas Graham went off for 21 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, as The Haverford School built a strong fourth-quarter effort Saturday in defeating Samuel Fels High, 69-62, in nonleague boys basketball.

Jacob Becker scored 15 points for the Fords, and KJ Carson added 10 points.

For Fels, Modibo Kouyate scored 16 points and Naseem Colston added 15 points.

Girls Basketball

Moly Rullo scored 21 points to lead Cardinal O’Hara to a 57-37 win over Penn Charter Sunday.

Greta Miller added 11 points and Carly Coleman put in 10 for the Lions. For Penn Charter, Ryan Carter scored 13 points.

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Noah Griffin’s layup with 10 seconds left in regulation would stand up in Sun Valley’s 64-63 nonleague boys basketball win over Academy Park Saturday. Kaiden Robinson had hit a 3-pointer to tie the game with 1:05 left after the Vanguards had erased a 12-point deficit. Blaise Eldridge led the way with 24 points, while Griffin scored 11 and Dino Dimidio added seven for SV. Anthony Blue scored 20 points for the Knights, while Jason Lawson added 14 points.

In other nonleague games Saturday:

Pope John Paul II 66, Upper Darby 46 >> Jason Green scored 15 points to lead PJP II. Dom Demito added 13 points and Bradey Bass added 10. Upper Darby was led by Elijah Gunther’s 13 points, while TJ Jackson added nine points.

Downingtown East 73, Interboro 50 >> Chase Krupansky scored 30 points and Brendan Littlepage added 13 for the Cougars. Interboro was led by Zakhai Collins’ 14 points.

Penn Wood 61, Bartram 35 >> Lamaj Mapp scored 17 points while Kival Clarke knocked down 16 points as the Patriots won easily.

Delco Christian 63, MCCS 44 >> Brad Berwick scored a team-high 15 points while Khamai Orange, Caleb Jameson and Josiah Gaines all scored 11 points to help lead the Knights. Beau Lyren scored seven.

Episcopal Academy 72, Central Bucks South 48 >> Matt McCarthy registered 22 points and Reggie King added 12 for the Churchmen.

Church Farm 45, CCSA 40 >> Chester Charter was led by Ja’Bryl Bennett with 10 points in a tough loss. Standout freshman Chris Cook scored nine.

Ridley 45, Haverford 41 >> Jake Shaak scored 18 and Austin McCaughan added 12 points to lead the Green Raiders to a victory over the Fords late Friday night. Andrew Steigleman scored 12 and Jack Raech added 10 for the Fords.

Girls Basketball
Addie Adamski scored 14 points and Haylie Adamski added 13 to help boost Garnet Valley to a 61-28 rout of Avon Grove on Saturday. Kylie Mulholland scored 10 points and added six rebounds, four assists and four steals. Addie Adamski added four assists and two steals; Jordan Daubenberger scored nine points.

Cardinal O’Hara 54, Lancaster Catholic 41 >> Molly Rullo went off for 24 points and Joanie Quinn added 12 as the Lions won this game in the PAG Hoops Classic.

Upper Darby 45, Interboro 29 >> The Royals broke their three-game losing streak with this nonleague victory. Mia Wilson scored 12 points, while Sage Walters scored eight points with four steals and five rebounds. Madilyn Mea had 17 points for the Bucs.

By Joseph Santoliquito

James Brenner would like to pound the ball through the court if he could.

It’s part of his internal mantra of focusing on the little things. Brenner feels hard dribbles have made his handle tighter and allows him to be quicker to the basket. It’s helped the gangly 6-foot-5 Unionville boys basketball sophomore get offers from Bryant and Sacred Heart. It’s aided him in taking his game out more than it was a year ago.

The emphasis on minutia has also created career games like Brenner had Saturday night, when the Longhorns beat the Inter-Academic League’s Haverford School 55-49 in overtime in the last game of the City of Basketball Love Showcase at Harriton High School.

Brenner scored a career-best 17 points in the nightcap. The Longhorns (6-1) also got 12 points from senior guard Ryan Brown and 10 from senior forward Charlie Kammeier, who combined for 11 of Unionville’s 13 points in overtime.

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Rian Dotsey had the hot hand for Haverford High Friday night.

The junior totaled 24 points and went 10 of 14 from the free-throw line during the Fords’ 54-41 Central League victory over Ridley. Dotsey scored at least four points in every quarter.

Aniya Eberhardt was no slouch, either, as the senior guard finished with 16 points for the reigning Central League champs. Natalie Wright had 10 points.

Kailyn Bell paced the Green Raiders with 15 points and Kyla Carney added 11.

Elsewhere in the Central League:

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By Mike Livingston

When Matt McCarthy transferred into Episcopal Academy to begin the 2023-24 school year, there was one question he was being asked; ‘Are you related to Kevin?’

Matt, a 6-foot-3 junior guard, made the decision to reclassify and transfer to Episcopal this summer, leaving Archmere Academy (Del.). That meant teaming up in the backcourt with the Churchmen’s standout guard, Kevin McCarthy, which meant people were bound to ask the obvious.

“I heard that question all the time,” Matt McCarthy said. “People on Twitter, as soon as I said was going [to Episcopal], were like, ‘Are you related to Kevin?’ I get to school, ‘Are you related to Kevin?’ We started messing with people, telling them we were.”

While the two McCarthys aren’t related, they still bring a similar intensity and talent to the floor.

Kevin was Episcopal’s top option last season, averaging 18.3 points, 6.0 rebounds, and a steal per game, and continues to be an on-the-court favorite of head coach Taylor Wright. 

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Kevin McCarthy sank seven 3-point baskets and totaled 29 points in Episcopal Academy’s 63-48 win over La Salle.

Timmy Dennis added 13 points for the Churchmen

In other nonleague action:

Chichester 68, Conwell-Egan 62 >> The Eagles let Carlton Gordy cook Wednesday night.

The senior guard drilled nine 3-pointers on the way to a 32-point performance. Gordy exploded for 23 of Chi’s 29 points in the second quarter.

Chester Charter Scholars Academy 57, Roberto Clemente Academy 35 >> Alfonso “Trey” Caldwell poured in 13 points for the Sabers. Ja’Bryl Bennett, E’mohj Barrett and Chris Cook each finished with 10 points.

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Chester’s Ja’Mya Muhammad scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds during Wednesday’s 59-49 nonleague girls basketball victory over Central High.

Shyne Hall closed with 16 points, seven rebounds and three assists, while Imani Dorsey added 15 points, seven steals and six assists in the winning effort.

Jordan Dennis sank three 3-point baskets for nine points and snared five rebounds for the Clippers.

Jayda Wright led Central with 15 points.

In other nonleague action:

Agnes Irwin 38, Hill School 32 >> Gabrielle Seibert led a balanced scoring attack for the Owls with nine points. She added five rebounds and two steals.

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By Josh Verlin

As a sophomore, Adam Herrenkohl didn’t make the Lower Merion varsity basketball team. He was devastated.

“When I found out, I was just in shock,” he said. 

“[He] was really upset about that,” Aces coach Gregg Downer recalled.

A Wynnewood resident, Herrenkohl had grown up going to Lower Merion camps since his elementary school days, becoming good friends with current classmate and teammate Owen McCabe before they turned 10. Coming back to Montgomery Avenue every summer, he spent days being coached by the likes of Justin McFadden, Jack Forrest, Steve Pendleton and others who led the Aces to Central League and District 1 championships, dreaming of the day he’d be able to follow in their footsteps.

To find out he wasn’t yet good enough to even sit on the end of the varsity bench was a wake-up call.

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Rayne Edwards and Zanai Coleman led the charge as the Chichester girls basketball team snapped a 22-game losing streak Tuesday night with a 40-14 victory over Octorara.

Edwards scored 12 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Eagles, who jumped out to a 19-1 lead after one quarter. Coleman (10 points, 10 rebounds) also had a double-double.

In other nonleague action:

Cardinal O’Hara 50, Caravel Academy (Del.) 48 >> A 20-12 run in the fourth quarter was the difference for the Lions.

All-Delcos Joanie Quinn and Molly Rullo led the scoring with 18 and 13 points, respectively. Carly Coleman chipped in with 10 points.

Cardinal O’Hara 60, Baldwin (N.Y.) 36 >>  Rullo’s 24-point effort propelled the Lions to their third win over the weekend at the She Got Game Classic in Washington, D.C. Sunday.

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By Josh Verlin

CoBL’s first-ever in-season girls’ high school basketball event is no small affair. 

Twenty-eight teams will take the court at Jefferson University on Sunday, December 17, in the region’s biggest girls event of the first month of the season, with 14 games taking place on two courts going all day long. 

The field is stocked with not only some of the area’s top teams and players, but a few high-level squads from out-of-town. Westtown School, fresh off a GEICO National Semifinal appearance and boasting some of the best prospects in the country, headlines the event, but there’s talent about in Blair Academy (N.J.), South Shore Christian (Mass.), Perkiomen Valley, Cardinal O’Hara, Penn Charter, Friends’ Central and so, so much more.

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Here’s a look at all 14 games on Sunday; admission to the event is $10, and $5 for children under 14. 

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