Chester’s Kyree Womack drives with the ball against Radnor’s Michael Savadore last March, as Womack and the Clippers were driving toward a 66-65 overtime win over the Raptors in the District 1 Class 5A title game at Temple. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)
By Jack McCaffery
For as long as Keith Taylor could remember, which is to say his whole life, the formula was solid, successful, bold and purposeful. So naturally, the sixth-year Chester High basketball coach would follow it again, confidently and without question.
The task was scheduling, and the attitude was unwavering, a bring-on-any-challenger crescendo of confidence.
You want to play?
OK.
Where, when … and what door do you want us to leave by after we win?
So it will be again this season, at Ninth and Barclay and in various stops around a handful of states, that the Clippers will endeavor to use a rough, out-of-conference schedule to toughen up for the postseason tournaments and the eternal, obsessive, single-minded goal of winning a state championship. That will begin Friday night at 7 against visiting West Philadelphia and eventually include encounters with Downingtown West, Lower Merion, Reading, Coatesville, Bartram, Chambersburg and Overbrook, classic Eastern Pennsylvania programs one and all.