Kyree Womack (above) had 20 points in Chester’s district championship win on Saturday. (Photo: Dan Hilferty/CoBL)
By Joseph Santoliquito
Everyone was jumping up and down, and jumping on each other in a black-and-orange mosh pit. Chester’s Kyree Womack wanted to do the same. The problem was his body wasn’t too willing. He had his sneakers off and was walking gingerly in socks limping on both legs at Temple’s Liacouras Center on Saturday.
His Chester teammates refer to Womack as “Benjamin Button,” since he can have the tendency to walk around like an old man. The Clippers’ sophomore guard has battled bad feet and knees all season. Sometimes, he’ll get held out of practice to ease the stress on his sore limbs.
When the pressure is on, however, Womack certainly doesn’t move like a geriatric. There’s an easy alacrity to his game, especially in tense moments, like in the PIAA District 1 5A championship against Radnor.
Womack’s three-point bank shot sent the game into overtime with 4.7 seconds left in regulation and his driving layup with 7.1 seconds left in overtime won it for Chester, 66-65.
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