Chester Charter Scholars Academy poses with the trophy after winning a second straight District 1 Class A title Saturday, 62-51 over Phil-Mont Christian at Bensalem High. (MediaNews Group staff photo)
By Matthew DeGeorge
Brean Rudd-Cook’s assignment coming into Saturday’s District 1 Class A final was clear. By the end of the first quarter, he would add another layer to it.
The athletic Chester Charter Scholars Academy wing was tasked on the defensive end with making sure that
Peter Haviland, Phil-Mont Christian’s most dangerous perimeter scorer, couldn’t get going. When Emohj Barrett was the first of several Sabers felled by foul trouble, Rudd-Cook knew he’d have to redouble his efforts on the glass, too.
Add in a few clutch 3-pointers, and Rudd-Cook ended up executing it all about as well as possible.
Rudd-Cook scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds, as Chester Charter’s defense stifled Haviland and company on the way to a 62-51 victory at Bensalem High and a second straight district title.
Haviland scored 15 points. But it was a quiet outing from him. He went just 3-for-9 from the field, and he had the only two makes for Phil-Mont Christian from 3-point range in a frustrating 2-for-17 afternoon.
Without Haviland hitting jumpers, the Falcons were short on offensive solutions, as a second quarter in which they didn’t score from the field showed.
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