By CoBL Staff
Some great high school basketball through-out the greater Philly area. City of Basketball Love has previews of many of the games. Pick one and go to the game. High school basketball is one of the great entertainment values available. Tickets are usually around $5 each, parking is usually free and concession prices are very reasonable. Two people can usually go to a high school basketball game for less than what it would cost you to park your car at a college or pro game!
By Matthew De George
The proximal goal for Haverford School Thursday afternoon obviously involved a higher scoreboard total than visiting Phelps School.But on the macro scale, the encounter represented one of 13 prep sessions before the 10-game examination that is the Inter-Ac schedule, a rigorous set of problems that the Fords haven’t solved with distinction since 1999.
So being down four points after a woeful shooting first half … or stagnating against a 2-3 zone defense … or merely the banal challenge of bringing the intensity for an afternoon game (the likes of which dot the league slate) in a mostly empty gym, all those challenges assumed a dual meaning, with ramifications that extended well beyond 32 minutes.
The Fords used a steady second half, highlighted by a 17-for-18 fourth quarter at the free throw line, to outlast Phelps, 71-66. In the process, they further armed themselves for the Inter-Ac challenge ahead.
“That’s what they all are,” senior guard Kharon Randolph said. “All nonleague games are tests to prepare us for all those things that can happen and will happen in the Inter-Ac.”
By PAPrepLIVE
Justin Anderson flirted with a triple-double in Archbishop Carroll’s 76-62 nonleague victory against Cheltenham Wednesday.
Anderson scored a game-high 21 points, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out five assists for the Patriots (3-0). Keyon Butler added 16 points and seven rebounds, while Devon Ferrero had 13 points and seven boards. Luke House chipped in with 12 points and eight rebounds.
In other nonleague action:
By Matthew DeGeorge
The scouting report on Chichester, coming into a game and certainly in a do-or-die out-of-bounds play with 4.2 seconds left, usually has DaQuan Granberry’s name circled in bold ink, and for good reason.
But the evolving identity to which Chichester aspires, in Clyde Jones’ first season in charge, is to be much more than just one highpowered scorer. It showed when Granberry sat for a breather late in the third quarter against Sun Valley Tuesday night, only to watch the Eagles nudge their way back ahead.
And with Granberry marooned in the corner by Sun Valley’s defensive design late in regulation, someone had to step up. Amiri Stewart gladly obliged.
Stewart canned the gametying triple to send the game to overtime, then the Eagles outlasted Sun Valley in a sloppy extra session, 7271, for a nonleague win between two teams dreaming of inclusion in the District 1 Class 5A playoffs.
Granberry provided three of the Eagles’ four points in overtime from the line, two on offsetting technical fouls, befitting the contentiousness of the night. He finished with 20 points — leaving him three shy of 1,000 for his career — and 12 rebounds. While he hit a pair of fourth-quarter 3s to reply to Sun Valley’s bids to capture momentum, he wasn’t the default option in isolation situations as he was last year.
By Matt De George
It took all of two games for Chester Charter School for the Arts to notch the program’s first win, with a big help from Akeem Taylor.
Taylor scored 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds, hitting a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left to send CCSA to a 50-47 win over Springside Chestnut Hill Tuesday in the first game at the campus gym and the program’s second as high school program.
Devante Morris added 12 points and 10 rebounds, and freshman Tim Evans contributed nine points and five rebounds for the Sabers (1-1).
In other nonleague action:
By PAPrepLIVE
Brian Randolph had 15 points, seven rebounds, six steals and three assists and Chester notched its first win of the season with a 78-56 rout of J.P. McCaskey.
Michael Smith also scored a game-high 15 points for the Clippers (1-1), who pulled away from the Red Tornado (0-1) with a 27-12 run in the third quarter.
Timothy Johnston added 13 points, eight boards, two blocks, one steal and one assist. Rahmaad Dejarnette finished with nine points and Zahmir Carroll had eight for the Clippers.
