PIAA Tournament: Boys State Quarterfinal Previews (Friday, March 15)

By CoBL Staff

Boys 4A: 12-3 Archbishop Carroll vs. 12-2 Eng. & Sciences (6:00 PM, Pottstown)

The two District 12 schools met up by back on Dec. 11 when the Catholic League’s Archbishop Carroll took down the Public League’s Engineering & Sciences, 61-27. The Engineers, who wone the Public League ‘B’ Division and reached the league quarterfinals before falling to Neumann-Goretti in the District 12 title game, will hope to change that result.

This is the deepest run in program history for E&S, which had just one state playoff win in 2006 heading into this season. Senior 6-4 forward Tali Simpkins and classmates like Lut Young have been waiting for season like this. Sophomore 5-7 point guard Fareed Brown was a second team All-Public League selection and classmate and backcourt Matthew McField is another promising guard. However, it’s been others like sophomore Sahin Rodriguez, junior Aaron Williams and most recently junior reserve Teon Smith also stepping up during the state run.

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