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Matthew DeGeorge

Keith Heinerichs knew that he was signing up for a challenge in scheduling Germantown Academy as the opener for his Haverford team.

What he might not have expected was to head into that encounter without his starting backcourt. Or with a starting lineup consisting of a freshman, a sophomore and a grand total of 71 varsity points scored last year. Or with the idea that he’d hand varsity debuts to five players and the most significant minutes of their high school careers to nearer a dozen Fords.

Understandably, Heinerichs and company were sanguine walking out with a 61-44 loss that contained more positives than the score may indicate.

For one, the Fords started their season by spotting the Patriots the game’s first 16 points and coming within 37 seconds of letting the hosts pitch a first-quarter shutout. The easy view is to observe that 16-point concession as being the difference Friday night, and while that’s overly simplistic, there’s no denying that the team that bumbled through the first quarter stuck around for the next three.

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By Delcohoops.com Staff

Tonight’s game broadcast was going well with Chester trailing by two-points with 12 seconds left to play.  Our monitor flickered and froze during a timeout commercial.  After trying numerous times to bring the program back on line we finally had to shut the computer down.  Our listeners never new what happened.  Suffice it to say Chester failed to get the two points and lost a very good game.  We apologize to our listeners.  We also apologize to all the computers that took abuse from their owners cursing them for losing the game broadcast.  We are so sorry!

By Matthew DeGeorge

In so many ways, the Delco Christian boys basketball team has moved light years away from that Jan. 16 night last season against Holy Ghost Prep. But when the timeline is reconstructed for senior guard Wyatt Harkins this week at practice, the memory still seems fresh.

“Just terrible,” he recalls of the 3-10 record the Knights were saddled with.

Since that turning point, the Knights rose to the challenge put before them, winning an improbable District One Class A title and venturing to the second round of the PIAA tournament. And nearly a year later, whatever switch flipped that night still holds true as the veteran Knights try to pen a second action.

“I think once it clicked at that time, it did carry over to the summer,” said Harkins, the team’s leading scorer at 13.7 points per game last year. “…We have guys buying in, not playing selfishly. And the way these first few practices have looked, I think it really has carried over.”

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By Matthew DeGeorge

By the time the whirlwind that landed Ridley in the semifinals of last season’s District One Class AAAA tournament and the first round of the PIAA tournament subsided, Brett Foster knew it was time to move on to the next one.

Something in the program had changed irrevocably during that run, somewhere in the 20 wins in 23 games, in the clobbering of Lower Merion and Conestoga, the latter previously unbeaten in the league, en route to a Central League title.

The torrid streak and the return of three starters come accompanied by the weight of increased expectations, which Foster and company are ready to shoulder.

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Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 1, CoBL we will be running dozens of previews of teams from the greater Philadelphia region, from the Catholic League to the Inter-Ac to District 1, as well as a few select teams from Harrisburg, Allentown, South Jersey and Delaware.

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Welcome to the third year of Delcohoops.com!  We are pleased to begin our Game-of-the-Week 2015/16 season with a Chester Clippers game at the Fred Pickett Classic.

Tune in at 7:15 to listen to Dave Burman and Mike Mayer broadcast the game.  Click on the Game-of-the-Week logo on the left side of this page to be taken directly to the broadcast.

If you miss the LIVE broadcast you can listen to the archive anytime 24/7.

By Delcohoops.com Staff

Dave Burman, a fixture of high school sports in the central Pennsylvania area, has moved to Delaware County and has joined the broadcast team of Delcohoops.com for our Game-of-the-Week broadast.  Dave has been broadcasting high school sports of all kinds for decades and brings his knowledge of the game and ability to announce play-by-play to Delcohoops.com.  Dave will give us more flexibility to do games mid-week and, as a third broadcaster, can bring more depth and analysis to the game of high school basketball. We are looking forward to working with Dave and “watching” the game through Dave’s play-by-play.

By Jerry Shenk

Time to close the books on another great season. This was a long time coming, but I managed to finish it. If you didn’t know why final ratings were not done before, there is a brief note at the top of the District 3 ratings and I’ll send a link to that here. Hope it works. It should be noted that the top 20 is top heavy with Philadelphia teams which should be no surprise to anyone and that’s why I went to a top 40 to include more teams who had fine seasons. Plus when they were done this late I had no pressure to finish on a decent time and I have all the schedules with all the scores, so it was not that hard to finish. Here is the District 3 final link. If it does not work, just go to LLHoops and you will find them there. Have a good summer what’s left of it.

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