WESt GOSHEN >> On a night when West Chester East senior Jack Kushner went over the 1,000-point mark early in the third period, the night clearly belonged to the West Chester Rustin boys basketball team. as they held the dangerous Kushner to just six points for the game. The 12th-seeded Golden Knights got a…
ROYERSFORD >> Eli Vivian runs a tight ship. The 17-year-old Spring-Ford junior always looks for three things, and he reminds his players of them often. Threes, defense and dunks. On the day before the Spring-Ford boys basketball team’s second-round matchup in districts, Vivian, the team’s manager, is looking for those things in practice. Sitting back…
WESTTOWN >> The West Chester Rustin girls basketball team is pretty proud of the fact that they know they have enough depth in scoring they can win even if star guard Laine McGurk is having an off night. Tuesday was not one of those nights. McGurk was locked in from the beginning as she poured…
The District 1 playoffs are in full swing and the Philadelphia Catholic League tournament is down to the semifinals. The Reporter/Times Herald/Montgomery Media area is well-represented with teams still competing for championships. On the boys side, Plymouth Whitemarsh, Central Bucks East, North Penn and Dock Mennonite Academy are among teams starting their district runs this…
EAST ROCKHILL >> Connor Fleet was not worried about going scoreless in the opening eight minutes of Friday night’s District 1-6A first-round matchup with Pennridge. “I was just trying to find my teammates first quarter,” the West Chester Henderson boys basketball junior said. “I don’t know if they watch film and knew what I’ve done…
EAST NOTTINGHAM >> It happened more than two months earlier, but it might as well have been years. The West Chester East girls’ basketball squad fell by 11 points at Oxford during the regular season. But on the same court 71 days later, during a playoff rematch, the Vikings got off to an excellent start…
LOWER MERION — Danny Rosenblum and Charlie Thornton walked off the court at Unionville three years ago, not needing the reminder that better days lay ahead. It was Feb. 26, 2020, and Radnor had just lost a District 1 Class 5A playback game to end its season. For a group that played two freshmen heavily,…
WEST CHESTER >> Almost a year ago to the day, the Downingtown West boys basketball team walked off the floor of Hollinger Fieldhouse losers of the Ches-Mont League championship game to West Chester East. That defeat left a scar on all the Whippets and drove them since that day to claim a league championship they…
WEST CHESTER >> For a squad that’s struggled with slow starts all season, the Unionville boys were nearly perfect in the first half of Saturday’s Ches-Mont Basketball Semifinal against West Chester East at Hollinger Field House. Locked in from tipoff, if Longhorns weren’t outrageously accurate from long distance, they were working for a bunch of…
WEST CHESTER >> Experience counts in a lot of endeavors, but maybe none more than the last two minutes of a basketball game. Downingtown West senior point guard Dylan Blair took control of the Ches-Mont League Final Four semifinal against West Chester Rustin on Saturday afternoon at Hollinger Fieldhouse when his team desperately needed him….