Gallagher goes deep to carry Sacred Heart to win
Kathryn Gallagher connected on six
3-pointers for a career-high 22 points Tuesday as Sacred Heart topped Calvary Christian, 44-30, in nonleague action Tuesday.
Gallagher scored 16 of those points in the second half to go with six rebounds and four steals.
Mary Lauren Franz paired 10 points with seven assists and four rebounds for Sacred Heart.
In the Catholic League:
WEST CATHOLIC 56, ARCHBISHOP CARROLL
54 » Taylor Wilson scored a career-high 25 points, but West Catholic forced overtime in the dying seconds and prevailed in OT.
Brooke Wilson and Grace O’Neill scored eight points apiece for Carroll. CARDINAL O’HARA 63, LANSDALE CATHOLIC 32 » Sydni Scott scored 15 points to go with five assists and three steals, and Maggie Doogan paired 10 points with six boards and four assists as the Lions rolled.
Annie Welde added nine points, and Siobhan Boylan had eight.
In the Del Val League:
CHESTER 37, INTERBORO 35 »
Quashania
Hagwood dominated the paint with 18 points and 21 rebounds for the Clippers. Natinya Taylor paired nine points with four steals.
Sierra Diawara’s 18 points paced Interboro. Aniya Boland chipped in nine points.
In nonleague action:
PENN WOOD 72, IMHOTEP CHARTER 58 » LaShanda Smith went off for 31 points as Penn Wood scored 26 points in the fourth quarter to turn a four-point game after three quarters into a comfortable win. Ashley Cyrus scored 22 points, and Raquel
Curry added nine for the Patriots.
In the Inter-Ac League:
NOTRE DAME 51, BALDWIN 50 » Maeve McErlane scored 18 points and Julia Dever added 11 as the Irish overcame a fourpoint halftime deficit to win.
In the Ches-Mont League:
OXFORD 49, SUN VALLEY 43 » Melana Timmes scored 13 points in the Vanguards’ first game in 14 days, but they fell in overtime. Rory Tiedeman added 11 points and Savannah Lewis 10, as Sun Valley fought back from a 13-1 deficit after one quarter.
The shots continued to fall for Marple Newtown Tuesday night. A fourth straight win came with them.
Mike Tansey hit four first-quarter 3-pointers on the way to a gamehigh 24 points as Marple Newtown topped Upper Darby, 56-47.
The Tigers (8-5, 8-5 Central) led by 12 after one quarter and held off a game Upper Darby effort. Owen Mathes posted a double-double of
10 points and 13 rebounds. Eric McKee added seven points and eight boards.
CJ Dabbs led Upper Darby (2-4,
2-4) with 16 points. Shareef Jones chipped in 11 points.
Also in the Central League: HAVERFORD 47, RADNOR 44 » John
Seidman scored 14 points as the Fords prevailed. Haverford (8-4, 8-4) led by eight after one quarter only to see Radnor tie it at halftime. Radnor led by two after three frames.
Hunter Kraiza added 11 points for Haverford. He and Will Higson (seven points) accounted for 14 points in the final frame. Danny Rosenblum led all scorers with 21 points for Radnor. Lew Robinson added 11. RIDLEY 38, SPRINGFIELD 33 » Josh Hagan scored six of his game-high 16 points in the fourth quarter as the Green Raiders used a 14-6 edge in the final eight minutes to rally.
Khali Henson scored eight points, and Austin McCaughan scored all five of his points in the fourth for Ridley (2-7, 2-7). AJ
Grande led Springfield (4-10, 4-10) with 11 points.
CONESTOGA 55, PENNCREST 45 » Saahir Lee (16 points) and Ben Stanton (13 points) hit three 3-pointers each, but the Lions were outscored 18-5 in the final quarter. Jordan Bochanski added nine points.
In the Inter-Ac League: HAVERFORD SCHOOL 63, PENN CHARTER 46 » Jameel Brown hit five 3-pointers for a game-high 25 points as the Fords (4-2, 4-2) led by 16 points after one quarter and never looked back. Christian Clover scored nine points. SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL 67, EPISCOPAL ACADEMY 58 » Will Delaney scored 22 points and Kevin McCarthy added 17, but the Blue Devils
went 17-for-20 at the free throw line to win a battle of winless teams.
McCarthy hit five 3-pointers, and Delaney hit four for EA (0-7, 0-7). Will Lange chipped in two triples.
Girls Swimming
Payton Conaway showed off her speed by winning the 50 and 100 freestyle events and taking part in two winning relays as Upper Darby topped Bonner-Prendergast, 77-62, in a nonleague meet.
Kiera Hunt won the 100 butterfly and anchored winning 200 and 400 free relays. Julia Shetzline won the 100 breaststroke and joined Conaway and Elise Olmstead (winner of the 200 free) on the victorious 200 medley relay.
Bonner-Prendergast’s two wins were supplied by Grace McBlain, who captured the 200 individual medley and 100 backstroke.
Boys Swimming
Connor Hunt and Luke Olmstead bookended the meet by taking part in winning 200 medley and 400 free relay squads to lead Upper Darby to an 80-63 nonleague win over Bonner-Prendergast.
Olmstead won the 200 free and
100 fly. Hunt was quickest in the
200 IM and 100 back. Alfonsus Rahardjo, who swam breaststroke on the winning medley relay, also took home the 50 free and 100 breast title.
Bonner-Prendie’s Jeffrey Travers won the 100 free.
After a checkered start, yet as a reward for his recent strong play, Ben Simmons Tuesday was voted by the coaches into the NBA All-Star Game.
As for Tobias Harris, his year-long consistency was not proven to be as valued, and his career-long vigil for his first All-Star spot continued.
“It’s a blessing,” Simmons told NBC Sports Philadelphia before a 109-102 victory over the Toronto Raptors in Tampa. “But our goal is still to win a championship.”
Simmons will join Joel Embiid, who’d previously been elected as a starter in a vote of the fans, players and media, in the game, with the Sixers being rewarded for having jumped to the front of the Eastern Conference.
Consistently producing offense, and at critical times, Harris was averaging 20.6 points and was considered to be high among the most snubbed All-Star candidates. Rivers is confident it will not diminish Harris’ production.
“I don’t think anybody gets deterred for the rest of the season,” Rivers said. “They get disappointed for one night, and then they prove for the rest of the year that they should have made the All-Star team. We are playing for something bigger, honestly.”
Simmons, who scored 15 Tuesday, was averaging 15.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 7.9 assists and 1.7 steals.
LeBron James and Kevin Durant, the top vote-getters among the fan balloting in each conference, will fill out the rosters in a “draft” of the players selected as reserves.
Rivers will coach Team Durant in the March 7 game in Atlanta.
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Seth Curry shot 4-for-12 in 29 minutes of the 110-103 loss Sunday. But shortly before the game Tuesday, he was scratched with left ankle soreness.
Furkan Korkmaz replaced Curry in the starting lineup and scored 19 points in 28 minutes, breaking out of a slump.
“With the starters, he has to do less,” Rivers said, “which allows him to do more.”
Said Korkmaz: “I needed one of these games. The last four or five, I was struggling.”
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After missing five games with a sprained left ankle, Shake Milton played 29 minutes Sunday and scored nine points.
After a shoot-around Tuesday morning, he claimed no lingering effects.
“It was tough to be out,” he said. “You are doing rehab, trying to get in the best shape possible.”
As the sixth man and the backup point guard, Milton realizes the Sixers have needed more recently from the backup unit. Tuesday, he played 30 minutes, shot 3-for-6 from distance and scored 11 points.
“I just have to be aggressive, look for other guys and continue to encourage them,” Milton said. “With guys like Isaiah Joe and Furk, it doesn’t really take much for them to get going.”
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The Sixers are 13-2 at home, yet are 8-9 on the road. There are two ways to view that. Rivers prefers the positive.
“Well, first of all, that means we are better than last year already,” he said. “So we are improving. It’s slow and steady. Some of these road games we have not been at full strength. Jo and Ben have missed several games on the road. That has hurt.”
The Sixers were 29-2 at home last season, 10-24 on the road.
“I think we are playing much better basketball, at least what I can see,” Rivers said. “I wasn’t here last year. But when I look at our record last year, I would say we’re playing better on the road right now.”
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The Sixers responded to a postseason-like challenge by splitting the two-game road series.
“You have to make adjustments either way, if you win or you lose,” Rivers said. “But there definitely seems like there should be more of a sense of urgency if you lose. I like them. First of all, I just like less travel. But I like them.”
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NOTES » Raptor Kyle Lowry missed his fourth consecutive game with a sprained left thumb. … The Sixers will host Dallas Wednesday night at 7.