Mercury Roundup: Overtime wins for Spring-Ford, Pope John Paul II boys

Boys Basketball

Spring-Ford 66, Freedom 63

HIGHLIGHTS: In a wild triple overtime game Wednesday, the Rams outscored Freedom 13-10 to come away with the non-league win.
Jake Kressley, Spring-Ford’s scoring leader with 25 points, got four in OT while E.J. Campbell (10 points) added three off 3-for-5 shooting from the foul line. Cole Turner kicked in with another 14 points.

Spring-Ford: Nguyen 1 0-0 3, Turner 6 0-0 14, Campbell 3 3-5 10, Kresley 9 7-8 25, M. Zollers 2 0-0 5, Little 0 1-2 1, Lewis 4 0-0 8, Huntington 0 0-0 0, McKenna 0 0-0 0, Zollers 0 0-0 0, Totals 25 11-15 66.
Bethlehem Freedom: Levy 1 1-2 3, Mangroo 3 1-2 9, Ellis 10 5-8 28, Washington 8 2-4 18, Brown 0 0-0 0, MacIlroy 1 0-0 2, Tillett 0 0-0 0, Dew 1 0-0 3, Totals 24 9-14 63.
Spring-Ford 13 6 18 16 13-66
Freedom 11 12 20 10 10-63
3-point goals: Turner 2, Nguyen, Campbell, M. Zollers, Ellis 3, Mangroo 2, Dew.

Pope John Paul II 59, Church Farm School 58 (OT)

HIGHLIGHTS: JP Baron and Kevin Green kept it coming in the extended period as Baron scored five of his game-high 24 points in OT and Green came on late and scored 7 of his 19 points in overtime as PJP won its home opener.

CHURCH FARM: Henriquez 2 6-8 12, Shivers 4 5-6 16, Hernandez 4 5-6 13, Sow 0 0-0 0, Egu 0 0-0 0, Larue 0 0-0 0, Sullivan 6 0-0 15, Amankwah 0 3-4 3. Totals 16 19-22 58
POPE JOHN PAUL II: Green 6 7-8 19, Rogers 0 0-0 0, Workman 3 0-0 7, Sykes 2 0-0 5, Baron 8 3-5 24, Russ 2 0-0 4. Totals 21 10-13 59.
Church Farm 10 9 14 12 13-58
Pope John Paul II 9 12 10 14 14-59
3-point goals: CF-Shivers 3, Sullivan 3; PJP-Baron 5, Sykes, Workman

Fleetwood 71, Daniel Boone 18

HIGHLIGHTS: Jake Karnish scored 22 points to help the Tigers (3-0) defeat the Blazers in a game between Berks League member schools.
Aiden Soumas scored 12 points and A.J. Knoll scored 10 for Fleetwood. Brendan Gaines led Daniel Boone with eight points.

Daniel Boone: Delissaint 1 0-1 2, Pinchok 0 0-0 0, Gaines 2 2-2 8, DiGiacomo 0 2-2 2, Saccarello 2 0-0 4, Kedis 0 0-0 0, Sherman 1 0-0 2, Hallman 0 0-0 0, Rodriguez-Guzman 0 0-0 0, Bulafka 0 0-0 0, Totals 6 4-5 18.
Fleetwood: Hilbert 1 1-2 4, Knoll 4 1-2 10, Soumas 6 0-0 12, Karnish 9 3-3 22, Gorman 0 1-2 1, Ryan 4 1-2 9, Fickes 2 1-1 5, Svoboda 2 2-4 6, Williams 1 0-0 2, Totals 29 10-16 71.
Daniel Boone 5 6 5 2-18
Fleetwood 20 29 5 17-71
3-point goals: Gaines 2, Hilbert, Knoll, Karnish.

Girls Basketball

Souderton 53, Perkiomen Valley 37

HIGHLIGHTS: Souderton’s Casey Harter had 22 points and Brooke Fenchel and Teya McConnaha both scored nine as the Big Red handled the Vikings Wednesday.
The Miley sisters scored a total of 22 points for the Lady Vikings (2-1) – Grace with 13 points and Emma with nine – but it was not enough to overcome the Souderton effort.

Perkiomen Valley: Beattie 2 0-0 5, Smith 2 0-0 6, E. Stein 0 0-0 0, L. Stein 1 0-0 2, E. Miley 3 3-3 9, G. Miley 3 4-6 13, Boettinger 1 0-0 2, Totals 12 7-9 37.
Souderton: Fenchel 4 0-0 9, Bohmueller 3 0-0 6, McGillian 3 1-2 7, Harter 9 4-4 22, Stefanowicz 0 0-0 0, McDonough 0 0-0 0, McConnaha 3 2-4 9, Totals 22 7-10 53.
Perk Valley 13 8 11 5-37
Souderton 11 14 13 15-53
3-point goals: G. Miley 3, Smith 2, Beattie, Fenchel, McConnaha.

Springfield-Montco 86, Pottstown 67

HIGHLIGHTS: Pottstown senior Trinell Watson opened the season with a 36-point effort but it wasn’t enough to top Springfield, which was led by 28 from Jalya Daniels.
Tamya Jarrett added 24 points and seven rebounds for Pottstown.

Perkiomen School 57, Cristo Rey 17

HIGHLIGHTS: Lauren Patnode scored 21 points in the first three quarters to lead Perkiomen to its sixth straight win (6-1). Rachel Dunn, Brigid Scanlon and Jade Marquez added 12 apiece.

CRISTO REY: Minor 6 3-5 15, Boone 0 0-0 0, Holmes 0 0-0 0, Roberts 1 0-0 2, Curry 0 0-0 0.
PERKIOMEN SCHOOL: Sokolova 0 0-0 0, Dunn 6 0-0 12, Scanlon 6 0-0 12, Marquez 5 1-4 12, Vassallo 0 0-0 0, Patnode 9 2-3 21.
Cristo Rey 2 4 9 2-17
Perkiomen School 16 22 13 6-57
3-point goals: Marquez, Patnode.

Wrestling

Central Bucks East 37, Spring-Ford 26

HIGHLIGHTS: A comeback in the lower weights pulled the Rams ahead of the Patriots Wednesday, but the visitors from Buckingham used their own run to go back in front and win this non-league match.
Spring-Ford got a pin from Quinn Smith (126) and a technical fall by Dominic Ortlip (120) to go up 26-19 on East. But the Pats responded with a pair of pins among the night’s last four bouts which they won.

160 – Mason Stein (CBE) dec. Anthony Attilio, 11-3 (4-0)
172 – Ryan Horvath (SF) dec. Maximus Gordon , 9-4 (4-3)
189 – Nils Updale (CBE) dec. Kyle Huston, 8-4 (7-3)
215 – Quinn Collins (CBE) won by forfeit (13-3)
285 – Joe Collins (CBE) won by forfeit (19-3)
106 – Brady Seislove (SF) won by forfeit (19-9)
113 – Gus Smith (SF) won by forfeit (19-15)
120 – Dominic Ortlip (SF) won by technical fall over Max Bean, 4:25 (19-20)
126 – Quinn Smith (SF) pinned Max Bean, 4:00 (19-26)
132 – Andrew Oram (CBE) pinned Brennan McGrann, 3:02 (25-26)
138 – Luke Wilson (CBE) dec. Steven DeAngelo, 12-10 SV-1 (28-26)
145 – Tyler Tanner (CBE) pinned Matthew Offner, 3:59 (34-26)
152 – Joeseph Mignon (CBE) dec. Ryan Lepore, 7-2 (37-26)

Methacton 54, Wissahickon 10

HIGHLIGHTS: The Warriors pinned their way past the Trojans in their non-league match.
Methacton strung together falls by Axaviar Damavandi, Joey Simko, Ryan Bove and Joseph Gregory between 120 and 138 to build a 27-3 lead, then got additional pins from Matty Shumaker (152), Brody Borkowski (172) and Joshua Cancro (215) to finish up strong. The Warriors came away boasting a 3-1 record for the early part of their season.

106 – Ryan Hayes (Me) dec. Matthew Labroli, 6-2 (3-0)
113 – Julian Memis (Wi) dec. Joshua Retzlaff, 5-1 (3-3)
120 – Axaviar Damavandi (Me) pinned Martin Vandegrift, 1:00 (9-3)
126 – Joey Simko (Me) pinned Justin Miller, 3:24 (15-3)
132 – Ryan Bove (Me) pinned Ethan Terrenzio, 2:20 (21-3)
138 – Joseph Gregory (Me) pinned Michael Ross, 2:58 (27-3)
145 – D.J. Adriaanse (Wi) dec. Grant Baker, 13-3 (27-7)
152 – Matty Shumaker (Me) pinned Charles Jones, 3:44 (33-7)
160 – Levi Borkowski (Me) won by forfeit (39-7)
172 – Brody Borkowski (Me) pinned Nathanael Chez, 3:28 (45-7)
189 – Isaiah Peoples (Me) dec. Evan Prestipino, 6-5 (48-7)
215 – Joshua Cancro (Me) pinned Tyler Prince, 1:29 (54-7)
285 – Ryan Lee (Wi) dec. Damian Moser, 2-1 (54-10)