Chester senior Dante Atkinson scored 19 points. (Photo: Owen McCue/CoBL)
By Owen McCue
After having its dominant run at the top of the Del-Val League cut short last winter, the Chester boys basketball team entered 2023-24 on a “Payback Tour”.
The first stop was Penn Wood High School on Thursday night.
Chester climbed out an early hole to come away with a 59-50 win to open league play.
.“It’s time for our get back,” senior Dante Atkinson said. “It’s get back time now. It’s payback time. We call it the Payback Tour. All of the rest of these league games, it’s time for our getback. Last year, we missed out. This year it’s go time.”
Atkinson is in the driver’s seat of the tour bus.
He was around two District 1 championship teams in his first two years with the program and remembers sitting on the bench during the team’s run in 2021-22.