St. Joe’s Phil Martelli and Temple’s Fran Dunphy. College coaching legends in the house Wednesday night at the Pete Nelson/Jameer Nelson boys basketball Classic at Widener University in Chester.
Check out who Dave saw ‘in the crowd’ at this week’s Scholastic Play-by-Play Tournament at Widener University this week!
Ridley’s Brett Foster looks for room to dribble against Cardinal O’Hara Wednesday night. Foster’s 13 points fueled a 47-25 win by the Green Raiders (Times Staff/Robert J. Gurecki)
By Matthew De George
Julian Wing scored a game-high 15 points and Brett Foster added 13 as the Green Raiders turned on the defense after halftime to score a 47-25 win over Cardinal O’Hara in championship game of the Ridley Holiday Tournament.
Jaye’Lyn Peebles led the way for O’Hara (4-5) with 14 points, but Ridley (9-0) limited the Lions to just 10 points after halftime.
Garnet Valley’s Carl Tienabeso, left, defends Springfield’s Kyle Sullivan in a game earlier this season. Tienabeso scored 13 points, including a perfect 7-for-7 from the free-throw line, to lead the Jaguars to a 60-56 victory over Lansdale Catholic in the final of the Garnet Valley Varsity Club Holiday Tournament Tuesday night. (Times Staff/Tom Kelly IV)
By Matthew De George
Carl Tienabeso didn’t have his usual shooting night, but when Garnet Valley needed him, he came through.
Tienabeso hit all five of his free-throw attempts in the fourth quarter en route to a 7-for-7 day at the stripe and 13 points to lead Garnet Valley to a 60-56 win over Lansdale Catholic in the Varsity Club Tournament championship game.
Andrew Louden scored 19 points to earn tournament MVP honors, and Brandon Starr’s 11 points landed him on the all-tournament team for the Jaguars (7-2).
By Stephen Pianovich
Imhotep coach Andre Noble was really concerned about one statistic when his team faced Chester on Tuesday night.
“They’re an athletic team, and we thought if we could win on rebounding, we’d win the game,” Noble said. “And if we lost that battle, we’d lose the game.”
The Panthers outrebounded Chester by 10, and just as Noble predicted, they also outscored them, 67-54 on Day 1 of the Jameer Nelson Classic at Widener University.
The leading rebounder in the game was Imhotep junior Koby Thomas, who had 11 boards as the Panthers held a 34-24 advantage on the glass. Thomas didn’t just rebound, however. The 6-foot-6 forward also recorded a double-double with a team-best 13 points – a handful of which came via putbacks on the offensive end.
Bonner-Prendergast’s John Hargraves, right, battles against Bishop Shanahan’s Doug Costin for a rebound Tuesday. Costin dominated in the post to lead Shanahan to a 62-39 win over Bonner at the Marple Newtown Holiday Tournament. (Times Staff/Robert J. Gurecki)
By Matthew De George
As Doug Costin shuffled to the bench with five minutes to play Tuesday night and a win securely in hand, the Bishop Shanahan center had plenty of time to ponder just how comprehensive a performance his Eagles had fashioned.
Shanahan throttled Bonner-Prendergast, 62-39, in the final of the Marple Newtown Holiday Tournament, thoroughly dominating every aspect of the affair from start to finish.
By the time Costin took his final walk to the sidelines, the damage was prolific: 13 points, 14 rebounds, a team-high four assists in orchestrating a devastating high-low offense and the kind of defensive post presence that completely unseated any plan of attack Bonner could’ve entered with.
Khalil White (above) had 16 of his 21 points after halftime in Cheltenham’s come-from-behind win over Penncrest. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
It’s not that Cheltenham head coach John Timms was happy about his team being down 15 at the half against Penncrest in the championship game of Penncrest’s holiday tournament.
After all, no head coach wants to see a team with high expectations thoroughly outplayed for an entire half like the Panthers were by the Lions over the opening 16 minutes.
But it was the exact kind of situation that Timms needed to see his team in, because he’s got the bigger picture–that is, a run in the District 1 tournament and beyond–on his mind.
“I’m preparing for districts, and if we get down 10 points in districts, which is very possible, how are we going to fight? Are we going to fold?” he’d been asking his assistants. “We got down 10 here, and I got exactly what I asked for.”
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