Chester Charter Scholars Academy’s Davon Stovall goes up for a jumper Monday in the team’s game against Faith Christian. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
By Matthew DeGeorge
By the fourth quarter of Monday’s boys basketball game with Faith Christian, the problem that needed solving for Chester Charter Scholars Academy became clear.
The Lions had effectively bunkered in a 1-3-1 zone the entire afternoon. With leading shooter Davon Stovall missing his first seven looks, the chances of shooting out of the zone looked slim. So how could the Sabers, who trailed by as many as five in the fourth quarter, diagram their way out?
Chester Charter Scholars Academy’s Sean Deshields starts a drive to the basket Monday during a game against Faith Christian. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
The answer involved a heady and mature fourth-quarter performance, the kind increasingly produced by a program growing into itself, on the way to a 44-38 nonleague win for CCSA against the team directly ahead of it in the District 1 Class A standings.
After going down 29-24 on the first possession of the fourth, Chester Charter (6-5) rattled off a 10-0 run. It was punctuated by a Stovall 3-pointer, his second in shaking the slow start. But the key that turned the lock was back-to-back buckets by Jaquan Fisher on the baseline, fed by Zach Martin exploiting the zone’s soft spot at the free-throw line.
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