Chester’s Jameel Burton puts up a shot last week in a game against Penn Wood. Photo by Pete Bannon MediaNews Group
By Matthew DeGeorge
The basketball season is, in most corners of Delaware County, under way. It’s usually a helter-skelter run through the winter months, between Christmas tournaments, snow days (ahem) and then the regimented order of weekly league schedules.
The COVID-19 pandemic simplifies that scheme. Lost was the hectic holiday calendar. Gone are, for the most part, nonleague games. Instead, with games mostly confined to the league, the equation is relatively simple.
The Central League and some of the Del Val schools have been playing for the last two weeks. The Catholic League’s start was just last week, while the Inter-Acs begin this week, weather permitting. The oddity of the high school season, its length and the demand of three-game weeks, always leads to some perplexing results. From the early sample, it looks like COVID-19 schedule disruptions will only accentuate that.