Coronavirus school closures in Pa. extended indefinitely, PIAA holds firm
By David Mekeel Schools across Pennsylvania will remain shut down indefinitely, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday. During a press conference Monday afternoon, Wolf said the ongoing coronavirus crisis and...
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Conestoga’s Matt Hamilton is Main Line Boys Athlete of the Week
Matt Hamilton The senior 182-pound wrestler posted a 33-8 record, finishing second at Sectionals, fourth at Regionals, and was the lone Pioneer to advance to the PIAA 3A state tournament. A three-sport...
View ArticleArchbishop Wood staying ready during uncertain times
Reaching the state quarterfinals during your senior year is a dream for any high school basketball player. Members are the Class of 2020 are putting those dreams on hold, or possibly even cancelling...
View ArticleDe George: Delco Madness ‘snubs’ only highlight county’s basketball tradition
I’m never one for sticking around on Selection Sunday to hear everybody weigh in. For me, it’s about the NCAA tournament brackets: Tell me who’s where and when, and I’m out, long before Jim Nantz or...
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Delco Madness: Line indicates some close games, potential upsets in boys...
Breaking down matchups, setting mythical lines for the first-round of the Delco Madness Sweet 16: • No. 1 Chester (2012) vs. No. 16 TCA (1992) It’s vital to realize that, unlike a typically imbalanced...
View ArticleDelco Madness: State-winning Penn Wood coach Clyde Jones driven by ‘Chester...
In his many successful years as a Delaware County basketball coach, Clyde Jones never had trouble calculating a basketball score. That was until he saw the Delco Madness Sweet 16 list of top high...
View ArticleDelco Madness: Disturbed by 14 seed, Prendie coach expects tourney success
With no doubt that he would enjoy a fulfilling Selection Monday and that his 1984-85 Archbishop Prendergast team would earn one of the 16 bids to the mythical Delco Madness girls basketball tournament,...
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Delco Madness: Lines set, matchups analyzed for Sweet 16 girls games
Breaking down the matchups and setting the mythical lines for the first-round games of the Delco Madness Sweet 16: • No. 1 Arch. Carroll (1979) vs. No. 16 Garnet Valley (2019) Hall of Fame coach Muffet...
View ArticleKyle Gregory caps decorated Valley Forge Baptist Academy career with ACCAC...
Kyle Gregory secured his place among the best basketball players in Valley Forge Baptist Academy history in 2020. The senior became the second player in program history to score 1,000 points and the...
View ArticleReporter/Times Herald/Montgomery Boys Basketball Team of the Decade Tournament
Basketball fans were robbed of Selection Sunday this spring when the NCAA Tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. To fill that void in your life, the Reporter/Times...
View ArticleDelco Madness: Sweet 16 Weekend arrives, schedules, ground rules set
The Sweet 16 weekend of Delco Madness is about to begin. By Monday, the mythical boys and girls tournaments to determine the best high school basketball teams in Delaware County history will be down to...
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Reporter/Times Herald/Montgomery Media Girls Basketball Team of the Decade...
In what felt like a flash, the basketball world came to a screeching halt. At the high school level, the PIAA tournaments remain in a state of limbo in the quarterfinal round. For the women’s college...
View ArticleDelco Madness: Chester’s 1983 team enjoys a double shot of history in Sweet...
A history to shed. A history to build. Such were the dual burdens Chester High faced as it hit double overtime in 1983 during an opening-round state-tournament basketball game against visiting...
View ArticleDelco Madness: John Waller’s 1992 TCA Crusaders were never out of place in a...
Maybe it was the first time his 1992 Christian Academy basketball team won a tournament, or the second, or the third. Might have been the fourth. By the sixth, which was for a national championship,...
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Delco Madness: Defensive Nether Providence girls back on a familiar path in...
The eternal truth about basketball-tournament brackets, the everlasting appeal, the lure that mesmerizes, the gravitational pull that makes them a world-wide addiction is simple. Somewhere in the...
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The Reporter/Times Herald/Montgomery Media Boys Basketball Team of the 2010s...
After hours of deliberation, the Reporter/Times Herald/Montgomery Media sports staff is ready to reveal the field for the best boys basketball team of the 2010s. These teams all have common...
View ArticleDaily Local News’ 2019/20 All-Area Wrestling Teams
Wrestler of the Year Dalton Harkins, Sr., Malvern Prep, 152 pounds First Team 106- Tommy Link, Fr., Malvern Prep Went 51-11 with a second-place finish at prep states and bronze at prep nationals. Won...
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Daily Local News’ 2019/20 Wrestler of the Year: Malvern’s Dalton Harkins
WEST CHESTER — Shortly after winning a prep state title in the middle of February, Malvern Prep’s Dalton Harkins expressed his goal of getting a picture of himself printed on a big poster in the...
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Field set in Reporter/Times Herald/Montgomery girls basketball team of the...
The field is set. It took much deliberation, conversation and input over the last week but the Reporter/Times Herald/Montgomery Media staff has settled on a bracket to determine the top girls’...
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Delco Madness: Chester girls give fans more reasons to cheer
A day earlier, in a tradition that began decades earlier, fans of Chester High basketball roared in approval as the 1983 Nether Providence Bulldogs reached the Elite Eight of the Delco Madness...
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