Phoenixville boys basketball wins title at Boardwalk Classic in Wildwood
Boys Basketball
Phoenixville defeated McKee/Staten Island Tech in the championship game of the Jack Buchanan Bracket at the Boardwalk Basketball Classic in Wildwood, N.J., on Dec. 31.
Shyheim Abernathy led the Phantoms (7-2), leading all scorers with 30 points. Abernathy’s 13 field goals are tied for the sixth most in Boardwalk Classic history
Avery Close had 22 points, while PhilMeszaros (8 points), Colton Brown (6 points), Hunter Herschell (5 points) and Nasir Green (4 points) rounded out the scoring for Phoenixville, which raced out to leads of 17-12 after one quarter and 37-27 by halftime.
The Boardwalk Basketball Classic is a six day tournament held to raise college scholarship money for graduating seniors for the two high schools that host the tournament, Wildwood andWildwood Catholic.
The Boardwalk Basketball Classic is the largest co-ed high school basketball tournament in the country. Since its inception in 1998, the Boardwalk Basketball Classic has raised over $295,000 in scholarship money.
Shyheim Abernathy and Avery Close combined for 34 points as the Phantoms rode a big second-quarter surge to victory in the Wildwood Classic’s Jack Buchanan Bracket on Dec. 30.
Abernathy had 19 points while Close contributed 15 points and eight rebounds. They led Phoenixville into the bracket’s championship game by using a 21-10 edge in second-quarter scoring to reverse OC’s initial 16-10 advantage.
Perkiomen Valley’s Justin Jaworski accomplished one of his goals The Phoenixville boys basketball team was the champion of the Jack Buchanan Bracket at the Boardwalk Basketball Classic in Wildwood, N.J., on Dec. 31.
since he was little during a win on Jan. 3 over Norristown — become a 1,000 point scorer.
Jaworski, eight points shy of the thousand-point mark, needed only sixminutes to achieve the feat, netting his milestonebucket with 2:08 left in the first quarter in what would become a 69-58 victory over Norristown in a Liberty Division clash.
Jaworski finished with a game-best 26 points with two 3-pointers as the Vikings built a 35-23 lead entering the half before fending off the Eagles in the final 16 minutes. Hogan Millheim finished with 18 points while Sean Owens added 12 points, also with two 3-pointers.
DariusMcGowan scored a team-best 18 points for the Eagles, which saw their two-game winning streak end.
Two Rams figured with 20-plus points as Spring-Ford outscored the Bears 44-19 in the second half to pull away with the victory in a divisional contest on Jan. 3.
Chucky Drummond’s 22-point night was complemented by a 20-point
showing from Ryan Fitzpatrick as the duo finished with four 3-pointers apiece in the win. Austin Hokanson also finished in doublefigures, finishing with 14.
Jerry Kapp was the leading scorer for the Bears, finishing with 26 points including five 3-pointers.
The Falcons overcame a 26-point effort from Phoenixville’s Shyheim Abernathy to come away with a victory in a Frontier Division contest on Jan. 3.
Nik Curnew finished with a team-best 18 points while Alex Salara added 14 points and Steve Hein 13 for a Falcons squad that led after every quarter.
Ryan Fitzpatrick scored 16 points, and Robert Bobeck added another 10, to lead the Rams in their non-league victory over Hempfield on Friday night.
Wrestling
The Eagles forfeited away eight weights during a PAC loss to the Rams on Wednesday, January 4.
Jack Files posted Spring-
Ford’s lone pin in the opening bout at 170 before Jake Pajovich posted a technical fall over Gabe Stribny at 132. Jonathan Westlake had a 10-2 major decision over Tim Cheng at 145 before Ben D’Arcangelo posted a 2-1 decision in the final bout at 152. Zachary DeSanto (126) and Matt Koresko (138) both posted pins for UM.
The Vikings scored 30 unanswered points at the outset, then cruised to victory over the Falcons in a nondivisional matchup of PAC schools on Wednesday.
PV got pins from Cody Jefferies (138), Kevin Lovett (152) and Hunter Ricci (160) to help build its early lead, then got another fall from Jahir Holmes (285). Pottsgrove, which forfeited three weights, got a pin fromRyan Finn (195) along with decisions by Skylar McLeod (220), Josh Cerrito (120) and Chase Banyai (126).
The Bears claimed all 14 bouts en route to a PAC win over the visiting Phantoms on Wednesday night.