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Shareef Jones’ aim from deep was true Monday, hitting six 3-pointers as Upper Darby rallied for a 66-63 nonleague win over West Philadelphia at the MLK Ballin’ for Peace Showcase.

Jones finished with 24 points to earn the team’s MVP honors. AJ Tucker added 12 points, and Jamere Kosh and Mo Konte chipped in nine apiece for the Royals (10-6). Upper Darby made 11 3-pointers on the day.

In other nonleague action:

Archbishop Carroll 70, Simon Gratz 45 >> John Camden, Anquan Hill and Dean Coleman-Newsome each scored 13 points (including five apiece in the first quarter) as the Patriots leapt out to a 21-7 lead after eight minutes and never looked back.

Amiri Stewart led Carroll (11-4) with 14 points to snap a three-game slide. Tairi Ketner chipped in 10 points for Carroll.

Chester Charter Scholars Academy 58, Interboro 31 >> Davon White hit four 3-pointers to tally a game-high 14 points, the only player in double-figures on either side.

Damir Baez added seven points, and Malik Cook-Stephens and Davon Stovall had six each for the Sabers (11-4).

Mekhi Wormack-Fields led Interboro (1-12) with nine points.

In the Catholic League:

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Bishop Loughlin had no answer for Chester’s Karell Watkins.

The 6-4 junior forward tallied 28 points, 17 rebounds and two blocked shots to lead the Clippers to a 65-57 victory over the Lions in the Stand Against Violence Showcase at Woodland Hills High School.

Watkins scored eight points in the second quarter and eight in the final period to help Chester (12-3) bounce back from a 86-67 loss to Baltimore Poly, the #24 team in the ESPN. com rankings.

Akeem Taylor collected 13 points, seven rebounds, six assists and four blocked shots. Fareed Burton also had a big game with 11 points, seven rebounds and six assists. The Clippers had 19 helpers on 27 made baskets.

Jack D’Entremont tallied 15 points and three assists to lead Radnor to a 38-25 non-league victory over Hatboro- Horsham.

Eleven players scored at least two points for the Raiders, who scored 15 points off 15 Hatboro-Horsham turnovers. Josh Salvadore added five points and a pair of steals.

In other non-league action:

BALTIMORE POLY 86, CHESTER 67 >>The Clippers fell at the Stand Against Violence event at Woodland Hills High in Pittsburgh.

Poly is the 24th-ranked team in the country, according to ESPN.com.

Zahmir Carroll paced the Clippers with 19 points. Rahmee Gilbert added 18 points and Karell Watkins tossed in 13.

In the Bicentennial League:

CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 72, MORRISVILLE 51 >> Jordan Greene powered the Crusaders with a 19-point, 10-rebound performance. Isaiah Mitchell had a solid floor game with 13 points, five assists and five steals.

By Josh Verlin

There was precisely one moment where Archbishop Carroll’s height gave Bonner-Prendergast problems: the opening tip. Without a starter over 6-foot-2, it was Bonner’s Tyreese Watson who had to head to the circle against Carroll junior center Anquan Hill, who had about a half-foot height advantage on the Friars’ starting point guard. As expected, Hill had no problem out-jumping Watson, flicking the ball easily back to his teammates. 

Nothing else about the game came easy for Carroll. 

“We came into the game knowing we were going to be outsized, but that’s how it’s going to be all league,” Watson said. “We’ve just got to use our toughness.”

The undersized Friars were relentless on defense from that first possession until well after the game was in hand. Though Hill was one of four Carroll starters taller than anybody in the Bonner lineup, the Friars didn’t let the Patriots take advantage of their height, putting immense pressure on the visiting guards all night long in an 81-62 win.

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Bonner-Prendergast 81, Archbishop Carroll 62>>Three players eclipsed the 20-point mark for the Friars. Junior guard Malik Edwards was the high scorer with 25 points, followed by Donovan Rodriguez (23) and Tyreese Watson

In another Catholic League boys game:

West Catholic 58, Cardinal O’Hara 55 >> The Lions (12-2) allowed a six-point lead after three quarters fall by the wayside and lost for the second time in three games. No further information was reported to the Daily Times.

In nonleague action:

Garnet Valley 65, W.C. Rustin 61 >> Garnet Valley showed no signs of packing it in.

The Jaguars trailed by as many as 17 points in the third quarter, but stormed all the way back for the victory.

Carl Schaller scored 13 of his game-high 24 points in the second half for GV. Gannon McKee added 12 points, Valtanis Apostolopoulos had nine, and Max Jackowski finished with eight.

In the Inter-Ac League:

Episcopal Academy 65, Penn Charter 51 >> Andrew Alikakos powered the Churchmen with 27 points and Alex Capitano contributed 21. After falling behind 15-11 after the first quarter, the Churchmen outscored the Quakers 54-36 the rest of the way.

Will Delaney banked four treys and finished with 13 points in the winning effort.

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John Camden poured in 21 points and drilled five 3-point field goals for the Patriots.

By Matthew DeGeorge

Two weeks of rest might have been attractive to some people during the holidays. But for Penn Wood basketball, an unexpected 14-day sabbatical between games wasn’t what the team had anticipated at the beginning of the year.

Penn Wood had entered the Audenried TThe fruits of those labors remained uneven Thursday evening. But ultimately, Penn Wood found enough to hold off Chichester and notch a 57-51 win at the newly re-floored Shoebox.ournament, only to find out just before Christmas that the tournament was wiped out. Too late to make other arrangements, Penn Wood was left with a sizeable hole in its schedule and crossed into the New Year having played just five games, unable to recoup wins after losing its first two.

The restless monotony of practice aside, the additional time has, in retrospect, paid dividends for a lineup that starts three underclassmen.

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Webmaster’s note: This Tuesday, January 21st, Penn Wood visits Academy Park for our Game-of-the-Week broadcast.  Our broadcast begins at 6:45 PM.