Monday, February 25, 2013
No. 16 Collingswood hung with No. 1 Haddonfield for a half, but couldn't keep pace in the second half.
With less than 30 seconds left and his team down double digits, first-year Collingswood High School boys basketball head coach Patrick Dorney had his players pressing on defense, asking them to exert maximum effort even when it was clear the game was lost. Dorney knew that with the type of performance his Panthers gave against a heavily favored Haddonfield squad, their last moments on the court this season deserved to be hard-fought. No. 16 Collingswood went toe-to-toe with No. 1 Haddonfield for more than two quarters before sliding late in a 63-45 loss in the first round of the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 2 playoffs Monday night. Collingswood trailed just 22-19 at halftime, but the Bulldawgs pulled away, winning the third quarter, 23-12. …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Sophomore Jeffrey Valentine scored 15 points in his first game since switching from guard to forward, and plans to make the most of his opportunity.
Sophomore Jeffery Valentine played well enough at the guard position to earn extended playing time on the floor for the Collingswood High School boysbasketball team. But with two seniors and sophomore standout Jordan Wallace entrenched as the starting guards, there was little room for Valentine to stay in his natural position. So first-year head coach Patrick Dorney got creative, and moved Valentine—who is listed at 6 feet, 1 inch—to the power forward position. Valentine may not look like a prototypical power forward, but he played like one Tuesday night, scoring a team-high 15 points in the Panthers’ 48-43 loss to Haddon Township. Valentine was most productive in the first quarter, calling for the ball often while posting up. He scored …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
After shelving its winningest basketball coach, Joe McLoughlin, Collingswood pins its hopes on former assistant Patrick Dorney, who joins the team after nine years at Arcadia University.
After an ugly and public falling-out with the winningest coach in team history, the Collingswood High School boys basketball team is hoping to turn the page with new coach, Patrick Dorney. To do that, Dorney—a one-time CHS assistant coach (1995-2000) who's spent the past nine years coaching the Arcadia University men's basketball team—will have to return to his roots. Coaching college is coaching the game; coaching high school is coaching fundamentals, and that's going to take some time to get used to. “The biggest difference is with my 15-man roster at Arcadia University [is] 11 or 12 of the kids were the best player on their high school team,” Dorney said. “You don’t have to work on things like footwork, off-the-ball movement and screens…
Monday, July 30, 2012
Under new coach Patrick Dorney, the Collingswood High School boys' basketball team goes 2-1 at the St. Augustine Prep open invitational this weekend.
At the St. Augustine Open Invitational this weekend, the 2012-13 Collingswood High School boys' basketball team got its first crack at this year’s action, and emerged from pool play with a 2-1 record. According to assistant coach Michael McKeown, the Panthers gave a good accounting of themselves. They blew out an inferior Cumberland team 71-42, dropped a narrow decision to Clearview Regional, 47-42, and slid past Wildwood Catholic 44-43 on a last-second layup. For their efforts, the boys earned camaraderie, pizza and a chance to reorganize under newly appointed coach Patrick Dorney. Dorney replaced Joseph McLoughlin, the long-serving special education teacher whose public fallout with the Collingswood Board of Education has been a focal …
CollsFan
12:04 am on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Running into the ground? Wow let West Deptford know that....they would have been happy for the "heads up" ha! GREAT WIN BOYS!!! more ›