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By Delcohoops.com Staff

The football season is almost over and that means only one thing!  High school basketball is just around the corner!

We are busy gathering all the team schedules so we can present every Delaware County high school schedule in a week-by-week format so you can easily figure out who’s playing who and which game you want to attend.  You can also spot our Game-of-the-Week broadcast and make sure you tune in for some great basketball action.

Dave Burman, our terrific play-by-play announcer will be back bringing you every heart-pounding moment and Mike Mayer will be back to add a little color (and his unique humor) to every broadcast.

Last year we took you all the way through the season and into the PIAA playoffs.  Over 11,000 people listened to our games and over 150,000 people checked in to our web site!

Check back soon to catch the full schedule keep this date open: December 20th as Reading comes into the Clip Joint to take on the Chester Clippers.  We’ll be bringing you ALL the action on our Game-of-the-Week LIVE broadcast.  Don’t miss it!

By Delcohoops.com Staff

Congrats on Nova’s great victory this week and a particular kudo to the way the game was played and that very dramatic “buzzer beater” ending. High school basketball can be just as thrilling and we remember a game broadcast we did back in 2009 which ended in a similar fashion.

Back before we created Delcohoops.com we were asked to broadcast a strong Strath Haven run for the 2008/09 basketball season.  The Panthers had made it to the playoffs and were playing Holy Ghost Prep in this District One semi-final.  We pick up the broadcast with six seconds to go and Prep at the free throw line.

Here’s the call (audio only) by Brian Carroll.

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By Mike Mayer. Webmaster

Another great season of high school boy’s basketball has concluded and all of us at Delcohoops.com were proud to bring you all the local articles and stories from around the county.  Our web site has enjoyed over 75,000 hits this year and we were able to bring you 22 game broadcasts (with over 10,000 listeners) featuring the best high school basketball athletes our county offers!

None of this could have been done without the generosity of our sponsors.  It is their contributions that allow us to bring you these web pages and broadcasts at no cost to you and without any tax payer dollars.  If you ever have a need for any of their services please give them a call and tell them you appreciate their support of Delaware County high school basketball!

A word of thanks to all the Athletic Directors in the County which made their facilities available to us and whose cooperation was essential.

To our sensational play-by-play announcer, Dave Burman, who spends hours going over numbers (stats) and players and who manages to give insight and history of the game in Delaware County.  His enthusiasm for high school sports and the kids who play them is contagious. You only need to hear his calls to share in his excitement of the game.

To our late entry, Mark Jordan, who joined our broadcast for color commentary as the playoffs started. As the long-time girl’s basketball coach for Radnor, Mark brought a basketball ability to see the game as coaches see them and managed to share those thoughts during our broadcasts. We believe he was a great addition to the quality of our games.

Our overwhelming appreciation to Brenda Jean Burman (Dave’s wife) who attending every game with us and volunteered to hand-out rosters to the fans, check the starting line-ups, put up signs, help clean up after every game. She also took photos and videos and was our “go-to” person during the game when the rest of us were tethered to head-sets and mics. We couldn’t have done it as well without her!

Finally, to the young men and women we covered, who played their hearts out, win or lose, for the last four months.  These young athletes and their family and friends are the reasons we spend the time and effort on these pages and our broadcast.  We want their athletic endeavors to feel special and we hope we have achieved our goal.

See you in November!

 

 

By Pete Schnatz

In her storied high school career up until Friday, Kelly Jekot had garnered two state Player of the Year honors, hoisted two PIAA Class AAAA state championships and secured a scholarship to Villanova.
On a basketball court, Jekot usually gets what she wants. Against Cardinal O’Hara, the Cumberland Valley senior wanted a third state crown, and no one was going to deny her.
Jekot was simply dominant, powering the District 3 champion Eagles to a 57-34 manhandling of District 12 champion O’Hara. The senior guard scored 28 points on a ludicrous 11-for-15 shooting, plus seven rebounds and four assists. She had a direct hand in 15 of the Eagles’ 22 baskets.
“When she’s making shots like that, she’s unguardable,” said O’Hara’s Kenzie Gardler.
“I don’t know what the stats were, but it was pretty close to perfection,” added Mary Sheehan, who drew the short straw of shadowing Jekot in the first of several plans of attack devised by coach Linus McGinty. “They came out from the get-go, and they were dominant. …
“If they’re making shots, I don’t know how you’re going to stop them. I don’t know if anyone’s cracked that one yet.”
It wasn’t until early in the fourth quarter that O’Hara started outscoring the Villanova-bound Jekot, much less the rest of an Eagles roster riddled with Division I talent.
O’Hara threw everything it had defensively at the 6-foot guard. They went big and small. They pressed, face-guarded and tried to deny possession.
But try as it might, O’Hara (26-4) had no answers. The Lions denied Jekot in the post in the first half, so she hit four 3-pointers without a miss. When they closed out on open looks on the perimeter, she put the ball on the deck, driving to the hoop and kicking to available shooters. Couple that with O’Hara’s lack of height requiring constant help defense on 6-foot-1 forward Addie Kirkpatrick (12 points, 10 rebounds), and there were just too many problems for the Lions to solve.
Even the familiarity from AAU — Jekot and her younger sister, Katelyn, play for the Comets, the same squad that O’Hara’s star-studded core has brought to national acclaim — didn’t help.
“I had a height advantage, so I tried my best to work it in the post and shoot it from the outside as much as I could, even though they were limiting my shots,” Kelly Jekot said.

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By Matthew De George

Mary Sheehan gazed down the court with a look of steely determination Friday night.

There were no tears, no sobbing, as you’d expect from a Cardinal O’Hara group that had marched to the PIAA Class AAAA final with a roster devoid of seniors, then ran up against the three-time champion buzzsaw that is Cumberland Valley.

But the intensity radiating from Sheehan’s visage was neither devastated nor angry. It was merely confident, as she and fellow junior Hannah Nihill shifted under the weight of the PIAA runner-up trophy they’d just been presented.

“I said to Hannah, ‘That’s going to be us. I want that to be us,’” Sheehan said after O’Hara’s 57-34 setback at the hands of a dominant Cumberland Valley squad. “And she agreed that’s what we want.”

If Sheehan needed a mirror to reflect her feelings, it stood 60 feet down the court, having a third gold medal in as many years draped around her neck. For the three seniors on Cumberland Valley’s squad — including two-time state player of the year and Friday’s MVP Kelly Jekot — the championship journeys began with loss.

Jekot, who scored 28 points to go with seven rebounds and four assists in a phenomenal performance, reminisced to a formative juncture in the Eagles’ coalescence into a state champion: Losing to Spring-Ford on the Giant Center court three years before.

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