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By Coach Larry Johnson

Jaseir Thompson scored 15 points as Chester picked up a quality nonleague win over Lancaster Mennonite, 70-52, on Saturday.

Dominic Toy added 11 points. Andrew Brown had nine points, and Calvin Williams and Jalen Harris added eight each for the Clippers (5-1).

In other nonleague action:

Episcopal Academy 80, Odyssey Charter 30 >> Timmy Dennis scored 20 points in the first half as the Churchmen rolled to a comfortable win.

Reggie King scored 13 points, Gage Cunningham added 11 and Tyler Beaulieu, Langston Foster and Murilo Pereira scored nine points apiece.

W.C. Henderson 50, Springfield 47 >> Colin Treude scored 13 points as the Cougars hung tough but couldn’t quite get the better of the Warriors.

Bailey Garrison poured in 22 points, Kat Harding scored 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds and Penncrest defeated Oxford, 73-70.

Garrison (four steals) netted 17 points in the second half for the Lions, who trailed 41-31 at halftime. Emily Huggins checked in with 14 points. Lila Curci was a spark off the bench with eight points.

In the Central League:

Haverford 47, Lower Merion 22 >> The Fords were on cruise control after jumping out to an 18-3 lead after one quarter. Rian Dotsey produced a game-high 15 points, Aniya Eberhart added 11 and Natalie Wright finished with 10.

Boys Basketball

Mikey Mita and Connor Cahill each recorded a double-double as Penncrest crushed Oxford, 55-23.

Mita had 11 points and 10 rebounds, while Cahill paired 10 points with 10 boards. Michael Maddox also scored 10 for the Lions.

Cardinal O’Hara 56, Haverford School 51 >> Aasim Burton led three Lions in double figures with 16 points in a victory late Thursday night. Noah McIntosh and Pearse McGuinn chipped in with 15 and 12 points, respectively.

O’Hara used a 20-7 run in the second quarter to take a nine-point lead into halftime and never looked back.

KJ Carson bucketed six 3-point field goals en route to a game-high 21 points for Haverford.

Chichester 74, Brandywine (Del.) 60 >> Jayon Harris accumulated 20 points and Carlton Gordy tallied 17 for the Eagles, who outscored their opponents, 64-46, in the final three quarters.

In the Central League:

Lower Merion 77, Haverford 39 >> Eleven players got in the scoring column for the Aces, who held a 29-7 advantage after the first period. Carson Kasmer drilled four treys and led all players with 19 points and Owen McCabe tossed in 18.

Greg Doemling paced the Fords with 17 points.

By Zak Wolf

When Conestoga’s leading scorer Ben Robinson went down with a knee injury at the end of the third quarter Thursday night, the Pioneers needed someone to step up. 

Robinson was running the offense to that point Conestoga, but with Garnet Valley attempting a comeback Rowan Miller took on the responsibility of being the go-to option.

A Grayson Godek 3-pointer tied the game at 29 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, erasing what was once a 13-point Conestoga lead. That’s when Miller responded with a triple of his own to put Conestoga back in front, holding the lead for the rest of the game in a 39-36 Central League victory over Garnet Valley.. 

“With our best scorer going down, I felt a little bit of pressure.” Miller said. “I felt like I needed to do a little bit more for the team but we came together and pulled it out.”

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By Matthew DeGeorge

You might not look at what Ridley’s boys basketball team had endured the last two years and expect them to come up with winning plays away from home.

But the underclassmen that toiled through a five-win season last year and a 2-18 campaign in 2021-22 are better for those tribulations. And with a change of voice, a program that won just one of its last 32 Central League games the last two years already has two this young season.

Behind Austin McCaughan’s shooting and Luke Showalter’s half-court headiness, Ridley outlasted Upper Darby, 66-61, Thursday in a battle of teams finding their footing early.

There’s still plenty on that to-do list for Ridley (2-4, 2-3 Central) under first-year head coach Allen Brydges. But the Green Raiders’ ability to navigate a fourth quarter in which neither team led by more than one possession and overtime without a turnover speaks volume to the value of experience.

Brydges, the long-time head coach at Academy Park and a former assistant of Upper Darby boss Bob Miller, only took over in the fall, with little time to install new concepts. Much of the early development owes to a refreshed mindset and strengthened bonds in a senior-laden huddle, in a league where most teams are building anew.

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Sheldon Viau and Alex Bruce’s 3-point shooting jumpstarted a fourth-quarter surge by Penncrest en route to the Lions’ 56-40 Central League victory over Marple Newtown.

Bruce, Kathryn Harding and Emily Huggins all scored 12 points as the Lions closed the game on a 14-4 run. Bailey Garrison tallied 11 points in the winning cause. Olivia Gicking paced the Tigers with 11 points.

In other Central League action:

Radnor 44, Springfield 34 >> Kate Gallagher’s 12-point effort helped the Raptors down the Cougars. Blayse Jenning finished with 11 points and Nyah Yao added 10. Cora Fattori scored 12 points for the Cougars.

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