Boys: Penn Wood, Washington hand Chester first home Del-Val loss since 2010

Penn Wood coach Matt Lindeman, left, and Nasir Washington pose after Thursday’s win over Chester. (Photo: Joseph Santoliquito/CoBL)

By Joseph Santoliquito

The scuffed-up dry erase whiteboard that hangs in the visiting locker room in the bowels of Chester High School read a date etched in a black box on Thursday night: 2010. That’s how long it’s been since a Del-Val League team won at Chester. It’s a span that ran 58-straight games, covering almost 12 years.

Nasir Washington, Penn Wood’s 6-foot-3 senior guard, was five the last time a Del-Val team beat Chester at Chester. It was before he even had a basketball in his hands. He wanted to be Tom Brady long before he wanted to be LeBron James.

Washington certainly knew what to do with the basketball in his hands Thursday night, dropping a game-high 33 points in leading Penn Wood to a historic 64-54 victory over the traditional powerhouse Clippers.   

The Patriots (6-2 overall, 1-0 Del-Val) became the first Del-Val team to beat Chester at Chester, since, ironically, Penn Wood beat the Clippers 57-40 on February 4, 2010. It snapped Chester’s 58-game, 12-year home winning streak against league opponents.

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