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 …
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Former Collingswood star Lauren Gregg eventually found the collegiate basketball success she'd sought as a high school standout, but the way she achieved it wasn't the way she'd planned.
Every young athlete feeds off the belief that someday his or her ability will be enough to sustain the dream of a professional career. In the NCAA, however, basketball standout Lauren Gregg learned that some dreams feed themselves—and sometimes you wake up hungry. At Collingswood High School, Gregg established multiple milestones. She is one of only eight Panthers to enjoy a 1,000-point career; her 1,228 points rank fifth in school history. In her senior year, Gregg tallied 477 of her 1,228 points for the third-best single-season total in the athletic history of the school. That year (2007-08), the team delivered head coach Nancy O'Neill the best season in her 20-year tenure: a 25-5 record capped by a Colonial Conference championship and a…
Sunday, March 6, 2011
This year's basketball season may be over, but highlights remain.
For the past four months, I’ve been a reporter for the Collingswood branch of Patch.com. For the past four years, though, I’ve been a student at Rowan University in Glassboro. Fortunately for me, an aspiring sports journalist, the college formerly known as Glassboro State offers two courses related to the field I one day hope to be a part of. Both classes are taught by an experienced Philadelphia journalist who has worked in the sports world. Both classes open with the same golden rule: “Do not be a fan.” This rule isn’t as strict as you might think. Obviously, if you were born and raised to cheer on Philadelphia-based professional teams, that won’t just leave you overnight. Rather, what you’re taught to keep in mind is that, as a sports …
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Collingswood beats Overbrook in rout despite several changes along the way.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That was the case for the Collingswood Panthers in their Monday night game against the Overbrook Rams, anyway. The Panthers saw alterations they hadn’t yet encountered this season, yet still produced a result similar to several other games they’ve played this season: a landslide victory. The first two changes came very early in the evening. In a show of sportsmanship, it was decided that the two teams would line up and shake hands, usually a postgame ritual, before the opening tip was even delivered. The second change came in the form of Derek Wormley. The senior guard replaced the usual starter, senior Jermaine Feaster, in the starting lineup. “Derrick’s been working really hard,” said …
Friday, February 25, 2011
Gloucester City forward Gabrielle Cooper filled the box score as the Panthers dropped their final home game before senior night.
The Panthers girls' basketball team had seen bigger teams before Thursday night. They’d matched up against talented players before, too. Few things, though, could have prepared them for Thursday's performance from Gloucester City senior Gabrielle Cooper. Cooper, who stands at 5-feet-11-inches, put on one of her best performances this season against Collingswood, and her Lady Lions teammates clinched a 51-26 win—as she watched the entire fourth quarter from her seat on the sideline. In the first three quarters of play, Cooper recorded a game-high 19 points, her final field goal coming from roughly 21 feet away from the basket. It was a fitting way to conclude her minutes—terrorizing the Panthers not only with her size, but also with her …
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Boys' basketball wins its fourth-consecutive Liberty Division championship, thanks to a last-chance free throw by Julian Welsh-White.
When you’re young, you think you know it all. You go out to your driveway or the local park—not to practice fundamentals, but to just dribble the ball between your legs. You don’t practice mid-range jump-shots. You practice reverse layups. No matter the advice of your coaches and parents, you never think their words will produce results in the long run. But Tuesday night, when Julian Welsh-White remembered advice his father gave him years ago, the memory produced quite a miracle. During his youth, current Collingswood senior center Julian Welsh-White put a piece of his father's advice into storage. But years later, it led to the Panthers’ 54-53 victory over the Haddon Township Hawks Tuesday night—and, more importantly, led to the team’s …
Friday, February 11, 2011
Senior center Erin Brogan scores 13 points as Haddonfield blows by the Panthers Thursday night.
Whoever first spoke the words “size doesn’t matter” clearly didn’t have Collingswood’s matchup against Haddonfield High School in mind. On Thursday night, in their second meeting of the season, the Panthers girls' basketball team fell victim yet again to the Bulldawgs, this time by a score of 38-21. Senior center Erin Brogan, who stands at 6-foot-2-inches, nearly a foot taller than any member of Collingswood's own roster, led all scorers with 13 points. “It’s still only her first year of varsity experience,” said Haddonfield head coach Dave Kosa. “We know she’s one of the taller girls that other teams will see, so we try to work a lot of our offense through her. She makes really good decisions with the ball and she’s a very good passer.” …
Thursday, February 3, 2011
West Deptford used a 21-0 third quarter run to pull away from Collingswood in a 61-36 win.
For nine minutes and nine seconds, everything the West Deptford High School girls' basketball team did worked. Over that same span, nothing Collingswood did went right. Trailing by three with 7:12 left in the third quarter, the Eagles locked down the defense, igniting a surge of 21-straight points to break open an 18-point lead, and cruised to a 61-36 victory in Colonial Conference action Tuesday. West Deptford forced 12 turnovers during the span, using the press to stifle Collingswood and generate easy buckets of its own. It also had success against a zone defense, something that had given it problems in the past. “We were able to talk on defense and push the ball a lot more instead of just forcing things,” said West Deptford senior Kelly…
Monday, January 24, 2011
Witherbee connects of three of four three-point field goal attempts.
For the Panthers girls' basketball team, the same story continues to be retold throughout the season—they’re undersized, inexperienced and simply don’t catch many breaks. But tides do appear to be turning for the team, as several silver linings have appeared over the course of the past few games—with a prime example in Saturday night's game. Sophomore point guard Ellie O’Neill has started to embrace her leadership role, sophomore forward Morgan Worthington is seeing a sudden burst of confidence, and on Saturday—though the Panthers lost to the Red Raiders of Ocean City 52-27—guard Erica Witherbee may have discovered her stroke. Witherbee, a junior, took four shots from behind the three-point line on Saturday, connecting on three of them and…
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Eileen Boyle
12:41 pm on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
It's really comforting to hear that advice we parents give our children not only makes a difference in their lives, but that kids like Welsh-White KNOW and ACKNOWLEDGE it, even many years later! "Free throws win ball games." Seemingly simple words of advice, but it's often the LITTLE things we teach that can help them do BIG things...like sink game-winning shots! Fantastic story and so well … more ›