By Matthew DeGeorge
Based on games reported to the Daily Times through Jan. 15
Scoring
(Minimum half of team games played)
Carl Schaller, Garnet Valley 20.2
Grant Sareyka, Christian Academy 20.1
Josh Hankins, Chichester 19.1
Tahriq Marrero, Academy Park 18.7
Alex Capitano, Episcopal Academy 18.5
Tre Dinkins, Cardinal O’Hara 18.4
John Seidman, Haverford 18.2
Shamir Baunes, Penn Wood 17.9
Tyreese Watson, Bonner & Prendergast 17.8
Christian Clover, Haverford School 17.2
James Simples (above) and Lower Merion soared past Penncrest on Tuesday night. (Photo: Mark Jordan/CoBL)
By Mitchell Gladstone
In the middle of the fourth quarter, with his team well on its way to an 11th straight victory, Gregg Downer told his whole team to come in close.
They expected to do this.
There would be no celebrating — they’d finish out the last few minutes, shake hands and head back to the locker room.
But if he was being completely honest, even Downer didn’t think it would go quite like this.
“That was probably our best half,” the longtime coach said afterward. “37-13 is not what you expect against a [high]-caliber opponent like Penncrest. But we were clicking on all cylinders.”
Certainly, that would be one way to describe Lower Merion’s 64-40 rout of the Lions Tuesday night in a clash between two of the Central League’s top teams. What many expected to be a tight-fought battle for 32 minutes quickly became a rout, and even with a young team, it’s clear that the Aces are right up with the area’s best right now.
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Episcopal Academy’s Alex Capitano hits a jump shot against Haverford School Tuesday night. The Churchmen went on to a 46-34 victory. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
By Matthew DeGeorge
By the time Alex Capitano looked down the court on an inbounds play under the Episcopal Academy basket, the game was pretty well decided. The 40 points the Churchmen had on the board at that point, with three minutes to play, would prove to be more than rival Haverford School would get to, so what transpired next was more for emphasis.
Capitano spied Andrew Alikakos breaking free from the other eight players on the court and aimed a one-handed, 80-foot dart in his direction. Alikakos moved toward the basket, used two hands to control the laser of an outlet pass, and after one-dribble went up for an uncontested layup.
“It’s usually the other way around,” Alikakos said. “I’m usually the inbounder. There’s been 4-5 times that I’ve thrown one to him this year. He’ll dunk it, though. I didn’t dunk it.”
Dunk or not, it applied the exclamation point on a 46-34 Inter-Ac League win for EA, underscoring the main point of the rivals’ encounter: Where Capitano and Alikakos put together big-time performances, no one on the host Fords managed to do the same.
Capitano led all scorers with 20 points. At halftime, he held a 14-13 edge over the entire Haverford team, which at that point included nine players hustled into the game to try and stanch the bleeding.
Iyan Joshuasville hit a pair of clutch fourth-quarter 3-pointers as Upper Darby surged in the final stanza to top Radnor, 56-51, in the Central League Tuesday night.
Shareef Jones hit three 3-pointers for 17 points for Upper Darby in a game that was tied after one quarter and at the half. AJ Tucker added 11 points, and Joshuasville had 10 for the Royals (9-5, 5-4).
LewRobinson led Radnor with 20 points. Jack D’Entremont added 18 for the Raiders (9-5, 5-4).
Also in the Central League:
HARRITON54,HAVERFORD51>> Marcus Bradley- Lowry hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Harriton the win.
John Seidman led all scorers with 21 points. Hunter Krazia added 15 points for the Fords (6-8, 2-7), who’ve lost six straight (none by more than four points).
A tad tough going up against 6’9″ Andrew Carr, a University of Delaware recruit
By Stefan Roots
DelcoHoops.com game of the week was in Chester Monday night but not at the Clip Joint. The Internet broadcast game took place up on Highland Avenue at the Chester Charter Scholars Academy Sabers’ home court with a contest against West Chester East.
Chester’s other high school has a 1A basketball team which allows more Chester talent to show their stuff on the court. Tonight the Sabers were over matched by the 5A team coming to the city with their 11-2 record.
The Sabers JV team came away with a win overcoming an early 12-0 deficit before tying it up in the 3rd quarter at 25 and running away with a large win.
WC East’s Andrew Carr interviewing with Pete Fulginiti. Photo by Delcohoops.com
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By Kevin Cooney
The District One Class 6A playoff standings are out there for anyone to see. And as Sunday morning dawned, it had two old familiar names –– Lower Merion and Chester –– standing at the first and second spots.
The name in that third position –– Bensalem –– perhaps could catch you by surprise.
After all, the Bensalem program hasn’t been this much at the forefront of District One basketball since winning its last Suburban One League National Conference championship in 2002-03.
And when a team hasn’t been around for a long time, the most important thing you can do is keep the focus on the immediate tasks at hand
“We set goals at the beginning of the season,” Bensalem coach Ron Morris said. “But we’ve also stressed that we’ve got 22 one-game seasons. No game is more important than the rest. If we keep working hard and stay hungry, we can meet those goals. But we’re nowhere close to where we need to be.
