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Chester’s Ja’Mya Muhammad scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds during Wednesday’s 59-49 nonleague girls basketball victory over Central High.

Shyne Hall closed with 16 points, seven rebounds and three assists, while Imani Dorsey added 15 points, seven steals and six assists in the winning effort.

Jordan Dennis sank three 3-point baskets for nine points and snared five rebounds for the Clippers.

Jayda Wright led Central with 15 points.

In other nonleague action:

Agnes Irwin 38, Hill School 32 >> Gabrielle Seibert led a balanced scoring attack for the Owls with nine points. She added five rebounds and two steals.

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By Josh Verlin

As a sophomore, Adam Herrenkohl didn’t make the Lower Merion varsity basketball team. He was devastated.

“When I found out, I was just in shock,” he said. 

“[He] was really upset about that,” Aces coach Gregg Downer recalled.

A Wynnewood resident, Herrenkohl had grown up going to Lower Merion camps since his elementary school days, becoming good friends with current classmate and teammate Owen McCabe before they turned 10. Coming back to Montgomery Avenue every summer, he spent days being coached by the likes of Justin McFadden, Jack Forrest, Steve Pendleton and others who led the Aces to Central League and District 1 championships, dreaming of the day he’d be able to follow in their footsteps.

To find out he wasn’t yet good enough to even sit on the end of the varsity bench was a wake-up call.

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Rayne Edwards and Zanai Coleman led the charge as the Chichester girls basketball team snapped a 22-game losing streak Tuesday night with a 40-14 victory over Octorara.

Edwards scored 12 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Eagles, who jumped out to a 19-1 lead after one quarter. Coleman (10 points, 10 rebounds) also had a double-double.

In other nonleague action:

Cardinal O’Hara 50, Caravel Academy (Del.) 48 >> A 20-12 run in the fourth quarter was the difference for the Lions.

All-Delcos Joanie Quinn and Molly Rullo led the scoring with 18 and 13 points, respectively. Carly Coleman chipped in with 10 points.

Cardinal O’Hara 60, Baldwin (N.Y.) 36 >>  Rullo’s 24-point effort propelled the Lions to their third win over the weekend at the She Got Game Classic in Washington, D.C. Sunday.

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By Josh Verlin

CoBL’s first-ever in-season girls’ high school basketball event is no small affair. 

Twenty-eight teams will take the court at Jefferson University on Sunday, December 17, in the region’s biggest girls event of the first month of the season, with 14 games taking place on two courts going all day long. 

The field is stocked with not only some of the area’s top teams and players, but a few high-level squads from out-of-town. Westtown School, fresh off a GEICO National Semifinal appearance and boasting some of the best prospects in the country, headlines the event, but there’s talent about in Blair Academy (N.J.), South Shore Christian (Mass.), Perkiomen Valley, Cardinal O’Hara, Penn Charter, Friends’ Central and so, so much more.

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Here’s a look at all 14 games on Sunday; admission to the event is $10, and $5 for children under 14. 

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By Matt Smith

Cardinal O’Hara junior Molly Rullo showed she has a great deal of game Saturday at the She Got Got Game Classic in Washington, D.C..

Rullo scored 19 points and was selected MVP of the Lions’ 60-36 victory over Cardinal O’Hara of New York.

Molly’s sophomore sister Meg Rullo netted 10 points, Joanie Quinn tallied nine and Carly Coleman had six. The Lions return to the national showcase event Sunday to take on Baldwin (N.Y.).

In other nonleague games:

Downingtown East 45, Radnor 36 >> Kate Gallagher paced the Raptors (1-1) with 15 points and Caroline Monaghan added seven.

Chloe Hunold led the way for East with 15 points.

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By Sean McBryan

Archbishop Carroll traveled nearly an hour and over 40 miles to face an Exeter team coming off a state championship appearance on its home court with a packed gymnasium, rowdy student section, and late tipoff. 

“We’ve done a lot of traveling,” Carroll head coach Francis Bowe said of the early season. “I just wanted to challenge these guys with different locations, different environments, and see if they can handle those long drives and different things happening to our mental and our psyche.

“They’ve just been answering the bell.”

The young Patriots played composed, silenced the crowd, and ultimately defeated the Eagles 91-58 in the Friday night finale of the City of Basketball Love Winter Showcase in Reiffton.

Sophomore point guard Ian Williams scored 18 points in the opening quarter as Carroll built a 17-point lead it would never relinquish; Williams finished with a game-high 28 to lead the Patriots (4-0), a team composed of talented freshmen and sophomores that play like anything but.

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