By Matthew DeGeorge
The last time Chester’s boys basketball team was made to wait this long for a game, it was late December and the team was in a COVID-19 pause. The remedy for all that down time was a stretch of five games in six days, a run of games that includes the last time the Clippers tasted defeat.
This time, Chester has cooled its heels since last Saturday’s District 1 Class 5A semifinal, withstanding a week-long pause in the normally hectic postseason for Saturday’s district final quadruple extravaganza.
Coach Keith Taylor hopes the reward is, again, similarly satisfying.
“It’s been tough,” Taylor said Thursday. “It feels like we’ve been waiting forever. Saturday to Saturday, that’s a long time.”
The Clippers hope the wait is worthwhile, for Saturday’s 2 p.m. tipoff in the District 1 Class 5A final at Temple University, the second-seeded Clippers taking on No. 1 Radnor.