Thursday, February 7, 2013
The Panthers will open at home against No. 11 Buena.
Fans of the Collingswood High School girls basketball team will have at least one chance to get to see the Panthers in a home playoff game. The NJSIAA released its girls basketball playoff brackets today, and the Panthers were slotted as the No. 6 seed in South Jersey Group 2. Collingswood (14-6) will host No. 11 Buena in the first round. An official date has not been selected but first-round games must be completed by Feb. 25. Playing out of the Cape-Atlantic League, Buena has grinded out a 10-8 record, which included victories in three of its last four. The two teams did not meet during the regular season but share three common opponents: West Deptford, Woodbury and GCIT. Buena defeated West Deptford (38-24), Woodbury (32-24) and GCIT (…
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The senior point guard scored points 1,000 and 1,001 just 33 seconds into Tuesday's contest against Sterling. Despite her milestone, the Panthers lost the tilt, 46-31.
With two sisters on the team and a mother who is the head coach, seeing a bunch of family members at a Collingswood High School girls basketball team is nothing new for senior Ellie O’Neill. But O’Neill became suspicious when she looked on the crowd Tuesday night and saw a bunch of other extended family members ready to cheer her on. “I was asking why my family was here and was wondering what the big deal was,” O’Neil said. She wouldn’t have to wait long to find out. O’Neill collected a lose ball on the defensive end, raced all the way down the court, and laid it in just 33 seconds into the Panthers’ contest with Sterling for her 1,000th and 1,001st career points. As soon as the ball went through the hoop, play was stopped, and her …
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Correspondence between the Collingswood superintendent and his estranged high school basketball coach glimpse a relationship that was turning rocky in early 2012.
Even if an independent investigation confirms that former Collingswood High School boys' basketball coach Joseph McLoughlin was ordered to field a team along racial lines, those findings would be insufficient to overturn his dismissal, Superintendent Scott Oswald told Patch today. The Collingswood superintendent was steadfast in his insistence that McLoughlin had been informed of the reasons for his nonrenewal prior to the June Board of Education meeting, and that none of them was related to any suspicion of administrative or racial bias. “The decision about the coaching position is a separate issue,” Oswald said. “I’m the guy who knows all the reasons the decisions were made. There was not one notion that has anything to do with the …
Saturday, December 17, 2011
The Panthers get blown out by rival Bulldawgs on opening night.
It was a potential recipe for disaster: a young and inexpericened team met an aggressive, trapping defense. And unfortunately for the Collingswood Panthers boys' basketball team, the underdogs couldn't pull off a come-from-behind victory. The Panthers fell to rival Haddonfield, 93-37, in the team's season opener Friday night. The Bulldawgs' aggressive half-court trap was executed nearly perfectly as the squad translated turnover after Panther turnover into fast-break points. “That’s our focus this season,” said Haddonfield head coach Paul Wiedeman. “We’re running a new type of defense that is predicated on ball pressure the entire game. We want to focus on forcing opponents into quick, bad shots, which will then open up our fast-break …
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 …
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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3:11 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Congratulations, Ellie!! more ›