Matthew De George

Boys Basketball Notebook: Checking in on the first two weeks of an unusual season

02/02/2021

The basketball season is, in most corners of Delaware County, under way. It’s usually a helter-skelter run through the winter months, between Christmas tournaments,...

De George: Empty Chester gym shows just what we’re missing during pandemic

02/02/2021

CHESTER – There’s quiet in an empty high school gym, in the era of COVID-19. And then there’s the deafening silence of the Fred...

Boys Basketball: Watkins shrugs off the cold, pushes Chester past Penn Wood

01/29/2021

CHESTER — It isn’t often that a player can miss seven straight shots in the middle of a game and still end up with...

Radnor’s Hicke, fellow sophs slow down Springfield

01/27/2021

SPRINGFIELD — When you start three sophomores, as Radnor’s boys basketball team does, the question of who gets the ball in crunch time doesn’t...

Langan helps Garnet Valley enact an old script against Fords

01/20/2021

HAVERFORD — Through the Mike Brown era of Garnet Valley basketball, the blueprint has been simple. Usually, and fortunately, there has been a standout...

Penn Wood’s Lindeman welcomes ‘huge challenge’ of pulling off a basketball season

01/10/2021

For most of the sports world, the final normal day of 2020 before the onset of COVID-19 closures was March 13, the second Friday...

Chester lands three on All-Del Val boys basketball team

05/08/2020

Chester’s third straight boys basketball season without a loss in the Del Val League was duly rewarded in all-league voting, with the Clippers earning...

Chester’s Watkins, Taylor named to Class 6A All-State teams

05/02/2020

By most metrics, it was a special season for the Chester Clippers. A Del Val League championship, a semifinal berth in the District 1...

Watson, Camden earn spots on Class 4A All-State squad

04/30/2020

Tyreese Watson inherited a tremendous mantle in 2019. Gone from Bonner-Prendergast’s recent hoops ascent was Isaiah Wong, a 2,000-point high school scorer off to...

Delco Christian’s Jackson Piotrowski named third team all-state in Class 2A

04/28/2020

Jackson Piotrowski has become a perennial pick in the Class 2A All-State selections. Before he heads off for a prep year, the senior added...