Chester’s Ramee Davis moves the ball ahead of Penn Wood’s Maurion Miller in the first half of their Tuesday night game at Penn Wood. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)
By Matthew DeGeorge
The 2024-25 season will go down as the seventh Del Val League championship in eight seasons for coach Keith Taylor at Chester.
But the margin in that banner addition to Chester High will have come down to, by and large, two quarters of dominant basketball from the Clippers.
In a game tied after three quarters Tuesday, Chester’s defense set the tone in pulling away from Penn Wood for a 54-46 victory, sealing an 8-0 run through the Del Val. The result also goes a long way toward helping Chester (15-7) seal a first-round home game in the District 1 Class 6A tournament.
While the direction of the league title owed to plenty of factors – among them Chester’s steadiness in six other games and a Penn Wood loss to Interboro – head-to-head, it came down to 16 minutes of basketball. In two fourth quarters, Chester outscored Penn Wood, 43-16, this year. That included recouping a six-point deficit Jan. 16 for a 65-52 win at the Fred Pickett Gymnasium.
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