Pa. Boys: Washington springs upset of Frankford
It happens every winter. Just as surely as the weather will turn frigid, one basketball team will get hot and pick up an unexpected win.
It happens every winter. Just as surely as the weather will turn frigid, one basketball team will get hot and pick up an unexpected win.
The last time Washington and Frankford met Dec. 19, the Pioneers cruised to a 74-59 victory. That wasn't the case this time.
In a District 12 Class AAAA first-round game yesterday, the seventh-seeded Eagles got a pair of free throws from Will McFillin late in overtime and iced a 64-60 upset of No. 2 seed Frankford.
Washington (12-8) trailed the host Pioneers (17-4) by 11 points in the fourth quarter, but Donte Williams and Dom Conner each scored 8 points and McFillin added 6 points down the stretch to send the game into overtime.
McFillin finished with 14 points, Conner collected 15 points and Williams picked up 20 points.
In other first-round games:
Jesse Morgan drained a three-pointer with 15 seconds left in overtime and handed top-seeded Olney a 61-60 win over visiting No. 8 seed Fels.
Morgan scored 12 of his 27 points during the fourth quarter and overtime.
No. 4 seed Bartram fell behind visiting University City, 41-26, in the first half, but rallied to beat the fifth-seeded Jaguars, 76-73.
Tyrone Garland collected 33 of his 38 points in the second half for the Maroon Wave.
No. 3 seed Southern closed out its game with visiting No. 6 seed Edison with a 21-10 scoring run and beat the Owls, 64-42.
Deshon Minnis paced the Rams with 19 points.
District 12 Class AAA. Tyrell Johnson scored 25 points and grabbed 17 rebounds for No. 4 seed FitzSimons in an 82-73 first-round win over visiting No. 5 seed Roxborough.
In other opening-round games:
Antoine Bland struck for 19 points as No. 2 seed Gratz downed visiting No. 7 seed Bok, 65-50.
Top seed Franklin Learning Center got 25 points from Denzel Yard and beat visiting No. 8 seed West Philadelphia, 74-52.
No. 3 seed Engineering and Science closed out its game with visiting No. 6 seed Philadelphia Electrical with a 21-4 scoring run to rout the Chargers, 64-32.
Marcus Brown scored 15 points, and Andre Howard added 14 points and 25 rebounds.
District 12 Class AA. Ferg Myrick struck for 26 points and Ameen Tanksley dropped in a pair of free throws with 53 seconds left to give No. 3 seed Prep Charter a 65-61 win over visiting No. 6 seed Ben Franklin in a first-round game.
In other first-round action:
No. 4 seed Communications Tech scored 32 points in the final quarter and beat visiting No. 5 seed Del-Val Charter, 76-69.
Shaquille Shannon scored 19 points for the Phoenix.
Top-seed Imhotep Charter raced to a 23-8 lead in the first quarter and eased past visiting No. 8 seed Freire Charter, 73-53.
Will Adams scored 16 points for the Panthers.
No. 2 seed Strawberry Mansion used a balanced scoring attack to trip visiting No. 7 seed Bodine, 75-49.
Darren Lawrence scored 11 of his 16 points in the first half for the Knights.
District 12 Class A. Jay Harris picked up 11 of his 29 points over the fourth quarter and overtime and led No. 2 seed Paul Robeson past visiting No. 7 seed World Communications, 76-73, in a first-round game.
Maurice Watson scored 25 points and boosted No. 3 seed Boys' Latin to a 69-57 win over visiting No. 6 seed Palumbo.
Isiah Clark poured in 35 points to lead No. 4 seed New Media Charter past visiting No. 5 seed High School of the Future, 84-67.
Jose Ortiz scored 25 points, including the 1,000th point of his career, to lead top-seeded Math, Civics and Sciences past visiting No. 8 seed GAMP, 85-41. Ortiz reached the milestone with a 17-foot jumper with 3 minutes, 49 seconds left in the game.
Pioneer Athletic. Seth McNaughton scored 23 points, and David Vining chipped in with 20 points as Owen J. Roberts beat Methacton, 61-50, for the league championship at Spring-Ford.
Bicentennial. John Glenn and Nate Lorance each scored 12 points as Holy Ghost Prep clinched a share of the league title with a 51-38 win over visiting Lower Moreland.
Friends Schools. Devin Coleman, Amile Jefferson, Malique Killing and Mark Margulies each scored nine points for Friends' Central in a 62-31 win over visiting Germantown Friends in a semifinal playoff game.
In the other semifinal, Academy of the New Church got 20 points from Warren Gillis to beat host Westtown, 58-51.
Penn-Jersey. Joshua Conner dropped in 17 points to lift International Christian past De La Salle, 60-40, in a semifinal playoff game.
Bowling
Matt Wolff rolled games of 232, 231 and 195 for a 658 series to lead Father Judge past Monsignor Bonner, 3,199-2,808, in a Catholic League semifinal match at Thunderbird Lanes, Holme Circle.
In the other semifinal, Kevin Salinis rolled a 247 game and Brian Karakaedos turned in a 678 series to lead Roman Catholic past Conwell-Egan, 3,163-2.667.