A last-ditch effort by West Chester Rustin fell by the wayside as Sun Valley pulled off a thrilling, 75-72 Ches-Mont League win in overtime Thursday night. Grant Miller (10 points, nine rebounds) had a pair of clutch free throws in…
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Haverford stuns Lower Merion, ends league winning streak
The streak is over. Ryan Clancy scored 15 points, Jack Donaghy added 11 and Haverford ended Lower Merion’s in-league winning streak with a 60-57 victory Wednesday night in a Central League game. Lower Merion (0-2, 0-1), the reigning PIAA Class…
Saturday Basketball Tournaments and Games
Upper Darby wasn’t a very gracious host in the Royal Classic. Despite playing with five JV players due to an incident in Friday’s opener, the Royals got a whopping 34 points from Torey Green en route to knocking off Simon…
Hanna celebrates return to hoops with win for Penncrest
Drew Hanna’s summer wasn’t nearly as eventful as he would have liked. This was supposed to be the summer he was going to use to get fully acclimated to running the Penncrest offense as the heir apparent to Eddie Baxter…
Strand-Young delivers in the clutch for Ridley
Malcom Strand-Young didn’t take long to introduce himself to the Ridley basketball community. The senior, making his debut at the school, scored the game-winning bucket with two seconds left to lead the Green Raiders to a 41-40 win over Central…
Hamm right on time to lead Academy Park to win
Times Staff/ROBERT J. GURECKI. Academy Park’s Terran Hamm tries for the lay-up under pressure from Panther’s Mike Fisher By MATT CHANDIK Terran Hamm admitted that he and his bed got a little bit too well-acquainted last winter. Despite his alarm…
McCaffery: At Chester, a tougher act than ever to follow
By JACK MCCAFFERY As the Delaware County high school basketball season begins, there is one certainty: It will not end as suddenly and as shockingly as the last one. Larry Yarbray, the coach at Chester High, the sitting Delaware County…
Upper Darby will face a battle in a deep Central League
By MATT CHANDIK With the way some pundits talked about the Central League last year, you could have sworn it was the redheaded stepchild of District One. People were quick to bury the league for having its teams beat up…
Tilghman, Carroll ready to play role of favorites
By MATT CHANDIK Austin Tilghman has heard all the buzz making its way around the halls at Archbishop Carroll. If those walls could talk, they’d probably chime in on the conversation as to how the Patriots are considered one of…
Chester hoping to continue roll with new faces
By MATT CHANDIK The faces have changed so much in the Clip Joint. Sporting his usual ear-to-ear smile and a few drops of sweat on his forehead, Conrad Chambers knocked down free throw after free throw some 20 minutes before…