Delcohoops.com

By Mike Mayer – Web Master

We are so excited to be getting ready for another great season of Delaware County High School basketball!

The first week starts right after the Thanksgiving Holiday and our first Game-of-the-Week is schedules for December 19th when the Upper Darby Royals battle the Garnet Valley Jaguars!  We can’t wait!

If you’re new to these pages please take a look around.  We keep a complete schedule of ALL high school boy’s varsity games on our Schedule page (usually three weeks at a time) as well as the complete Win/Loss record for all Delco boy’s teams.  

We will be reprinting articles from the Daily Times and Philly.com as well as other publications that we find have interesting information.  

If you’re trying to get to a game but aren’t sure how to get to a Delco school we have all the schools listed in our Delaware County School page which, if you click on the school name, will show you the map location.

There are about 400 games to be played in the regular season between now and the first week in February.  We strongly encourage you to go out and catch as many games as you can.  Delaware County offers some of the best high school basketball in the state!  Tickets are usually $5 and parking is close and free!  Snacks, hot dogs and pizza are usually available at the concession at very reasonable prices and we guarantee you your seat will be close to the action!  You won’t find a better entertainment value than a high school basketball game!

Check back as often as you like and tune in to our Game-of-the-Week every week.  There is never any charge to view our web pages or listen to our LIVE (or archived) game broadcast.  Our generous sponsors give us the ability to bring all this information and entertainment for free!  Please patronize them if you are in need of the services they offer!

Delcohoops.com is pleased to announce that Keystone Quality Transport will be a primary sponsor for the 2019/20 web page and audio game broadcasts for the high school basketball season.

“We are delighted to encourage and promote high school basketball through the Delcohoops.com web site and broadcast operation.” said owner, Todd Strine. “We operate the largest, privately owned, locally operated ambulance company in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Sponsoring Delcohoops.com is a great way to ”give back” to our community and support all the fun and excitement of high school basketball. We’re very proud to be a part of it!”

“It is a is a source of great pride for us at Delcohoops.com to have the support and association of Keystone Quality Transport and their 400+ employees.”, commented Mike Mayer, owner of Delcohoops.com.  “As a large employer in Delaware County, Keystone Quality Transport is a company that has stepped up to join Delcohoops.com in promoting and encouraging youth sports through-out the county.

Keystone Quality Transport is based in Springfield, PA and operates 130 vehicles in Pennsylvania and Maryland providing emergency and non-emergency transport for hospitals, nursing homes, adult day care and behavorial health programs.

Contact info – Justin Misner, Chief Operating Officer, Keystone Quality Transport, (610) 960-9171.

Delcohoops.com is operating their 7^th year bringing boy’s high school basketball in Delaware County to their web pages and on their weekly “Game-of-the-Week” audio broadcasts.  The web site operates with no tax dollars and charges no fees for web site access or to listen live or on archive to the broadcasted games.

By Matt DeGeorge

It started with a fall.On a normal day last October, a stumble at home brought Mike Doyle to the hospital for stitches … and a conversation that the Penncrest boys basketball coach would never have anticipated.

Something was off in his blood levels, his doctor said. The concern in her voice went far beyond the cut on his skull, and Doyle knew something was very wrong.

Five days later, he had a succinct and scary answer: Chronic myeloid (or myelogenous) leukemia.

“It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced,” Doyle said last week. “It’s a freight train.”

In one conversation, Doyle’s world turned upside down. He had a rare form of cancer that occurs in fewer than two in 100,000 individuals in the United States each year, a population that skews white, male and over age 50. The disease that floods the bloodstream with immature white blood cells after runaway cell division in the bone marrow has no cure but can be brought into remission with chemotherapeutic maintenance. Though he’d dodged the more serious, acute forms of the disease, it still required aggressive treatment, a wholesale overhaul of his rebelling immune system with a powerful daily pill he’ll take for the rest of his life. Though a ravaging dose of chemicals, it didn’t require what once would’ve been a lengthy hospital stay.

He had hope. But soon the question turned to one almost as important. Would he have basketball?

(click on this link for the full story)

By Matthew DeGeorge

On each wrist, Christian Ray carries a reminder of Dec. 29. On his right wrist is a tattoo of the date, the birthday of his mother, Sharon. His left wrist sports the remnants of a game on that date — against Cherokee High School in a holiday tourney at Widener, when the Haverford School forward went up for a dunk and came down awkwardly on his arm.

He hoped the injury was merely a sprain, to be treated with rest and tight taping. Only after the season did Ray find out his wrist was broken, requiring surgery to insert a screw.

“I knew it hurt at first, and the next day I wasn’t able to dribble using the left hand, but I figured it was just a sprain,” he said last week. “It hurt, sometimes more than others, especially when I re-aggravated it. But I kind of just put tape around it because for the most part that worked throughout the year.”

It’s not easy to make Ray’s 2018-19 season seem any more impressive, but the injury does the trick. That Ray averaged 23.3 points, 11.1 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, shooting 61 percent from the field and leading the Fords to a second straight Inter-Ac title, the PAISAA championship and a perfect 28-0 season … those numbers speak for themselves. But Ray did it with his wrist braced, for a team carrying a target on its back as the reigning Inter-Ac champs and the kind of unbeaten run that makes opponents salivate at the prospect of being the first to beat them.

(click on this link for the full story)

 

By Matt Smith

There were high expectations for Emily McAteer from the beginning.

That’s what happens when you’re a freshman power forward who can shoot, dribble, defend and make everything look easy.

She was penciled into coach Joe Woods’ starting lineup in her first high school game, a key member of the 2019 class that would go on to set records and make history.

McAteer and her good friend Brianne Borcky were starters from day one. Together they were a fearsome one-two punch that won 103 games in four seasons.

McAteer will graduate in June as one of the most prolific scorers in county history, which is but one reason why she is the 2019 Daily Times Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

“She’s just a great person who comes from a great family, a great teammate and a great leader,” Woods said. “You can’t say enough good things about her. She really is the complete player and person you want on your team. Between her and Brianne, they were great. That whole senior class was awesome. Their leadership and the example they set for the underclassmen was tremendous. They set the bar.”

(click on this link for the full story)

By Bob Grotz

Somewhere between the horses and buggies dotting Rte. 30 and the Giant Center, where the Garnet Valley girls were playing for a state title, it occurred to us what a fascinating basketball season it was for Delaware County teams.

In addition to the Jaguars, the Catholic League champion Archbishop Carroll girls and Bonner & Prendergast boys also played for state titles.

Runners-up, all, but that doesn’t diminish their journeys or those of the other Delco teams leaving us with poignant memories of hard work, relentless play and sheer emotion.

• With all due respect to Chester High and its prolific postseason history, it was impossible to ignore what a 5-foot-6 guard did to them in the Class 6A state quarterfinals.

Coatesville guard Jhamir Brickus dropped 52 points on the Clippers from almost every conceivable angle. No one, not even Lower Merion’s Kobe Bryant, scored so many on the Clippers in the postseason.

After the game, coach Keith Taylor and the Clippers made no excuses for the loss while Brickus disappeared into the crowd. Hours later the scoring machine appeared in a video interview aired on Twitter that since has been deleted. The following week Coatesville was eliminated in the semis by eventual state champion Kennedy Catholic.

Taylor promised that Chester High would be back. He’s not the kind of man to break a promise.

(click on this link for the full story)