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By CoBL Staff
With the state playoffs starting this weekend, we wanted to take a look at some of the area stars who could be in for a couple big weeks ahead. 

Here are some local standouts in the boys’ 5A and 6A brackets who folks around the state might be reading about en route to Hershey:

Dominic Toy (Sr. | F | Chester)
Chester’s multi-sport standout is in his last run of hoops, headed to UConn to play football this fall. A 6-5 hyper-athletic post, Toy is something of a combo ‘3’ and ‘4,’ though he gets most of his production done around the bucket, crashing the glass or using his combination of power and athleticism to get to the rim and finish.

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By Owen McCue

Tension and anxiety filled even the neutral observer during the Philadelphia Catholic League girls championship last week.

As the game continued into one overtime and then another, the knuckles were a little whiter gripping two seats in the Archbishop Carroll cheering section.

Matt and Maureen McFillin had their nerves tripled with not just one, not just two but sometimes three daughters — Felicity, Maddie and Abbie — out on the floor at the Palestra at the same time of what ended up being a double overtime loss in the Catholic League title game for the Patriots. 

It’s a moment they’ll never forget though, Matt ensuring even in the most stressful seconds of the thriller to appreciate it.

“I said look up, look at this,” Matt recounted. “It’s packed in here. This will never happen again for these girls, all three of them on the same court in front of a sold out Palestra. I said enjoy this.”

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By CoBL Staff

With the state playoffs starting this weekend, we wanted to take a look at some of the area stars who could be in for a couple big weeks ahead. 

Here are just a few of the local standouts in the girls’ 5A and 6A brackets who folks around the state might be reading about en route to Hershey:

Molly Rullo (Jr. | F | Cardinal O’Hara)
Rullo, a 1,000-point scorer, was a first team All-PCL selection for the second straight year. The 5-10 wing/forward was also a second team all-state selection last season. Rulllo has a versatile game but she has to play big for a Lions team that doesn’t have much size.

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By CoBL Staff

 

By CoBL Staff

The PIAA girls basketball brackets, times and pairings were officially unveiled on Sunday. The 6A, 3A and 2A tournaments begin Friday followed by the 5A, 4A and 1A tournaments on Saturday. 

Here are links to the six brackets followed by the times and pairings of the 36 local games on the schedule. All games at top seed unless otherwise noted:

6A

Fri., March 8
12-3 Dobbins Tech vs. 1-5 Haverford, 5:30 PM @ Archbishop Ryan HS
12-2 Cardinal O’Hara vs. 1-8 Upper Dublin,  6 PM
12-1 Archbishop Carroll vs. 1-11 West Chester Henderson, 6 PM
1-1 Perkiomen Valley vs. 3-6 Manheim Twp., 7 PM
2-1 Hazleton Area vs. 1-9 Pennsbury, 7 PM
11-1 Parkland vs. 1-10 Downingtown East, 7 PM
3-2 Dallastown vs. 1-7 Central Bucks East, 7 PM
1-3 Conestoga vs. 3-4 Wilson, 7 PM
3-1 Central Dauphin vs. 1-12 Kennett, 7 PM
11-2 Easton vs. 1-6 Garnet Valley, 7 PM
1-4 North Penn vs. 11-3 Emmaus, 7 PM
1-2 Spring-Ford vs. 3-5 Northeastern, 7 PM

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By Joseph Santoliquito

Gregg Downer came out damp from being doused by his team celebrating Lower Merion’s third PIAA District 1 Class 6A championship in four years Saturday evening in the bowels of Temple’s Liacouras Center.

Back in November, the Aces’ legendary coach was not supposed to be here. Lower Merion was not supposed to get out of the Central League, let alone win the championship of one of the state’s toughest districts. But there he was again, doing what Downer has done for the previous 33 years—win.

Only this season comes with a caveat: The 2023-24 Aces are 27-1 and not one college coach has inquired about one player on his team.

The Aces continue to prove they have talent by their 57-49 victory over Garnet Valley in the District 1 championship on Saturday, the fourth district crown for Downer, who guided the Aces to District 1 titles in 1996 (Kobe Bryant’s senior year), 2021, 2022 and now 2024. He has three PIAA state championship crowns, 1996, 2006 and 2013, being the last PIAA District 1 team to win a state title.

But this season may be Downer’s greatest coaching job yet.

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