By Ed Morrone
The seeding numbers will call it an upset, but good luck convincing Jack Krautzel and Jake Sniras that their Garnet Valley basketball team is an underdog against any team in District 1 or the state of Pennsylvania.
While the Jaguars entered Tuesday night’s second-round district playoff game at Spring-Ford as the tournament’s 14th seed, the duo combined for 39 of Garnet Valley’s 63 points and Garnet Valley left bound for the quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive season after outscoring the third-seeded Rams by a dozen in the second half en route to an impressive 63-49 win.
Garnet Valley has made it this far the last four seasons as a 14-seed, an 8-seed, a 4-seed and even once as the 24th and final seed, so they care very little about the number next to their name in the bracket.
“The seed only means something to everybody outside of Garnet Valley,” Krautzel said after pouring in a team-high 20 points on 8 of 11 shooting. “We know how good we are, so we don’t care about the seed. It just shows how well-coached we are every single year, because I don’t know how many teams can say they’ve made it to the district quarterfinals four years in a row.”
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