Garnet Valley’s Carl Schaller, right, puts a shot up in the third quarter against Downingtown East Friday. (Pete Bannan/Digital First Media)
By Bob Grotz
The snapshot Garnet Valley can hold onto until next year is of point guard Carl Schaller.
He scored a game-high 22 points Friday night while wearing a mask protecting the nose he cracked a few weeks ago playing defense, not taking the ball to the rack or slamming on the brakes before knocking down pull-up jumpers. The 5-foot-7 penetrator is a big part of the team’s future.
Entertaining as it was, it still wasn’t nearly enough for the 14th seeded Jaguars, who were outmuscled 61-48 by a Downingtown East squad that also will have a height advantage over second-seeded Coatesville when they meet in the second round of the District 1 Class 6A tournament.
What would be interesting, if we may play devil’s advocate, is a guy with Schaller’s skills getting the ball to Downingtown East bigs Andrew King (6-6), Dylan Rowe (6-5) and Tariq Kalim (6-4) say, next Tuesday at Coatesville.