Chester’s Dominic Toy lays up and in for two against Abington on Friday afternoon. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)
By Matthew DeGeorge
Chester’s boys basketball team doesn’t need a reminder of what transpired last year. If only because the Clippers are constantly reminding themselves.
A 12-10 season that left the Clippers unthinkably outside the field of not just states but the District 1 Class 6A tournament did not meet the standards of a perennial, write-it-in-ink states qualifiers.
So this year’s mission is simple.
“Get back time,” guard Dante Atkinson explained Friday. “It’s time to get back.”
That effort will venture into 2024 with a 6-1 record as its platform to launch, after Friday’s 67-51 nonleague win over Abington.
It was not always pretty. It was at clutch moments gritty. But while Chester didn’t always sustain much offensive flow, the game ended with them threatening 70 points and keeping a quality Ghosts side to nine in the fourth quarter.
In much the same way, Keith Taylor’s team has completed the first chunk of its schedule with room to grow, yet already at half of its 2022-23 win total.
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