Girls: Penncrest’s balance on scoring ledger leads to a victory

Emily Huggins led a balanced scoring effort with 11 points, and Bailey Garrison chipped in 10 points as Penncrest handled Sun Valley, 53-29, Saturday in the Media Tip-Off.

Kathryn Harding added eight points for the Lions (2-0), who had nine players score. Jaina Preuhs led Sun Valley with eight points.

Also at the Media Tip-Off: Strath Haven 38, Academy Park 29 >& gt; Rose Henry scored 16 points to go with 15 assists, and Laura Shea did a little of everything with seven points, five steals and five rebounds for the Panthers.

Jada Kinlaw and Alaysia Kinlaw scored seven points each for the Knights.

At the She Got Game Tournament:

NOTRE DAME 76, NORTH RALEIGH CHRISTIAN 47 » Maeve McErlane went off to the tune of 34 points, including six 3-pointers, as the Irish romped in Springfield, Va. Katie Halligan chipped in 16 points, and Julia Dever added three triples for nine points for the Irish.

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Boys: Coleman-Newsome’s long wait proved worthwhile for Carroll

Archbishop Carroll's Dean Coleman-Newsome is awarded a game MVP award for his 21 points in a win over Episcopal Academy Saturday in the Inter-Ac/Catholic League Challenge at West Chester University. (MediaNews Group staff photo).

Archbishop Carroll’s Dean Coleman-Newsome is awarded a game MVP award for his 21 points in a win over Episcopal Academy Saturday in the Inter-Ac/Catholic League Challenge at West Chester University. (MediaNews Group staff photo).

By Matthew DeGeorge

In one way, the waiting through 2020 was eased for Dean Coleman-Newsome. But that didn’t make his situation easy, by any means.

Knee surgery in October 2020 meant the Archbishop Carroll guard knew his sophomore season would likely be washed out, no matter what the COVID-19 pandemic did to schedules that winter. A second procedure on his other knee in January made it official.

So the combo guard who had such a revelatory freshman season pre-pandemic resolved to bide his time, recuperate and come back stronger. Two varsity games in, it seems clear that Coleman-Newsome made the most of his time away.

The junior scored 21 points Saturday, helping Carroll dominate Episcopal Academy, 66-38, in the Inter-Ac/Catholic League Challenge at West Chester University’s Hollinger Field House.

For someone who still considers himself rounding into shape, he would’ve fooled an unaware observer.

“It was rough, just the process of physical therapy and getting myself back into game shape,” he said. “I’m still getting acclimated to the game, but it’s been good.”

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Girls: Cassidy, Episcopal courteously off to a winning start

Episcopal's Gaeli Keffer-Scharpf, left, and Marple Newtown's Haley Levy mix it up on a pass to Keffer-Scharpf in the first quarter Friday. (Pete Bannan - MediaNews Group).

Episcopal’s Gaeli Keffer-Scharpf, left, and Marple Newtown’s Haley Levy mix it up on a pass to Keffer-Scharpf in the first quarter Friday. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group).

By Matt Smith

It was a simple gesture, but not something you see everyday from high school athletes.

Moments after Episcopal Academy’s Riley Cassidy led her team to a 49-22 victory over Marple Newtown Friday, the senior guard went over to every official and gave them a fist-bump.

Cassidy’s courteousness has been part of her basketball routine ever since she was a little kid.

“My CYO coach encouraged it,” she said. “You know, just to thank the refs and be respectful. They’re taking their time to come out and officiate, and it’s something I like to do.”

Cassidy likely made the officials’ jobs easier. Whenever she had the ball, it seemed, she swished baskets. In the fourth quarter alone, Cassidy drilled four 3-point field goals and scored 13 of Episcopal’s 18 points. Overall, Cassidy netted 24 points on 8-for-16 shooting from the field for the Churchwomen (2-0).

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Boys: O’Donnell, Hoey lead Springfield to terrific tip-off

By PAPrep LIVE

Guards Mike O’Donnell and Mike Hoey showed the way for Springfield in a 45-25 victory over Pottstown in the Pottsgrove Tip-Off Tournament Friday night.

O’Donnell hit three 3-pointers and finished with a game-high 13 points. Hoey chipped in with 11 and Jake Adams added eight, and the Cougars’ defense held the Trojans to single digits in each quarter.

Archbishop Carroll 84, Academy Park 43 >> Moses Hipps scored 11 of his game-high 26 points in the first quarter and eight more in the third period. Dean Coleman-Newsom and Shawnn Smith chipped in with 12 points each.

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GIRLS: Jones leads Chi to a happy return with win over Lower Merion

Chichester’s long-awaited return to the court was a success.

After not fielding a team last season, the Eagles delivered a season- opening win for first-year head coach Kimberly Wood at the Lower Merion Tip-Off Classic Friday.

Dujwana Jones produced 17 points, seven rebounds and five steals as Chi nipped the host Aces, 43-42. Damiyae Moyet made two 3-pointers in the third quarter and finished with 13 points for the Eagles, who stormed back from a 2116 deficit at halftime.

In other nonleague action:

STRATH HAVEN 51, SUN VALLEY 35 »

Rose Henry buried four 3-pointers and ended with 21 points as the Panthers won the first game of the Media Tip-Off at Penncrest.

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Welcome to the 2021/22 Basketball Season (finally)

Welcome back to, what we hope, is a full season of hoops for high school teams in Delaware County!

We’re a little late getting started as the football season for Strath Haven went for 15 weeks which cut into our prep time for Delcohoops.com.  

We have two new broadcasters (actually one is just returning) for our weekly broadcasts and we have some exciting news. After years of discussions and strategies we will be covering both the boys and girls games this year.  We plan on having two broadcast crews on the street and hope to be able to cover one boys and one girls game each week.  We will also link articles in local publications. It’s twice the amount of work but we always felt we should be covering both boys and girls but lacked the resources to do it.  Thanks to the generous support of Keystone Transport we have been able to complete our mission.

We are still working on the full Delco game schedules for both boys and girls and hope to post that this weekend.  The season officially starts in January for our Game-of-the-Week but we’ll see if we can squeeze in a game or two in December.

Welcome back high school basketball fans!