Malcom Strand-Young didn’t take long to introduce himself to the Ridley basketball community. The senior, making his debut at the school, scored the game-winning bucket with two seconds left to lead the Green Raiders to a 41-40 win over Central…
Hamm right on time to lead Academy Park to win
Times Staff/ROBERT J. GURECKI. Academy Park’s Terran Hamm tries for the lay-up under pressure from Panther’s Mike Fisher By MATT CHANDIK Terran Hamm admitted that he and his bed got a little bit too well-acquainted last winter. Despite his alarm…
McCaffery: At Chester, a tougher act than ever to follow
By JACK MCCAFFERY As the Delaware County high school basketball season begins, there is one certainty: It will not end as suddenly and as shockingly as the last one. Larry Yarbray, the coach at Chester High, the sitting Delaware County…
Upper Darby will face a battle in a deep Central League
By MATT CHANDIK With the way some pundits talked about the Central League last year, you could have sworn it was the redheaded stepchild of District One. People were quick to bury the league for having its teams beat up…
Tilghman, Carroll ready to play role of favorites
By MATT CHANDIK Austin Tilghman has heard all the buzz making its way around the halls at Archbishop Carroll. If those walls could talk, they’d probably chime in on the conversation as to how the Patriots are considered one of…
Chester hoping to continue roll with new faces
By MATT CHANDIK The faces have changed so much in the Clip Joint. Sporting his usual ear-to-ear smile and a few drops of sweat on his forehead, Conrad Chambers knocked down free throw after free throw some 20 minutes before…