any of the Roman kids play but Parkland has a really good team. The Roman team should be a preview for PSU's next years team.
Parkland plays Roman today at 1. Could be interesting. I haven't seen
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Both teams are tall and experienced. Parkland has three starters who are 6-6, one at 6-4 and one at 6-3. They all are returning starters. Roman has two players at 6-7 and all others are 6+. Four are returning starters from last year's championship team. I have not seen Allderdice, but I believe these are the two best teams in the state.
Roman beat Parkland earlier but we had two starters and our first front court sub playing football.
31-27 at half Parkland leads. Refs are having a bad game. Both sides have had some bad calls against them.
Parkland up by 4 at the half but the Refs are really the story. calling so many ticky tack fouls. Neither team knows how to react. Shame both teams are REALLY GOOD.
50-48 at the end of 3Q. Parkland has three players in foul trouble. Roman has 2. Refs are terrible.
This could get ugly around here next weekend if Parkland and Reading play each other.
Reading into the Semi's 73-64. Lonnie Walker I believe had 30.
Red Knights!!!
PSU is getting some special players next year. These 3 from Roman are the real deal.
Roman wins by 13. Stevens and Carr were great. Bostick played well too. Chambers was in the crowd.
The officials were over matched. Not biased but incompetent.
Good luck to Roman.
Would be great to see Roman win back to back state championships.
These kids aren't just talented, they will bring a winning mentality to the program as well.
These kids aren't just talented, they will bring a winning mentality to the program as well.
Sounds like Parkland has a pretty darned good team too. Was Roman drawing fouls by taking it strong to the hoop?
Yes. Roman drew some fouls on drives. I believe the majority were on rebounds or follow-up shots. Don't forget that Carr and Bostick are 6-3 and 6-4 and can really elevate. They were a force under the boards. Stevens was exceptionally strong rebounding and very smooth with the dribble drive and dribble jump shot. Based on one game I would rate Carr superior to Muhammed Ali Abdur-Rakman the soph from Michigan who I saw many times when he played at Allentown Central Catholic.
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Looking at the box score, I love seeing that the trio headed to PSU went a combined 16-18 at the FT line today (Stevens 2-2, Bostick 4-4, and Carr 10-12). In a high pressure game like that, I'm impressed.
You're asking if "Roman Catholic" is a public school?
Reading fans better buy tickets early or get to the game pretty early on Tuesday because IIRC Chambersburg is not a very big gym. (I have no idea the size of crowd Allderdice brings but I assume it's similar to Reading).
I just looked on-line and see it sets 7000, just told my son we can go because cannot imagine a site that is such a distance for both fan bases filling it. Now see your post, so is wikepedia full of it, or are you wrong? Others please advise.....
Well, I was remembering their old gym that seated 1,400 from what I could find. However, they apparently did a large amount of renovations on their campus a few years ago and the pics I see show it to be expansive in size but if you look there aren't a lot of bleachers (11 rows on each side, then an upper deck track that has like 5 rows of bleachers on 1 side.) Maybe they have a lot of temporary seats to fill the gaps. Hopefully they put them all out.
The Chambersburg HS football stadium seats 7,000.
This is an article from 2008 that discusses the construction expanding seating at the Chambersburg Gym.
According to the article:
"Prior to construction beginning at the high school, seating in the existing gym was about 1,400 people. The new gym will seat about 2,400, said Kevin Weller, the district's construction projects manager."
Publicity at the site of the architects who did the work states, "The renovated facility will be expanded to accommodate 2,000 Students."
Crap you are correct, I was looking at FB stadium capacity. Now the question is how to get tics beforehand, and how the hell could they not find a larger venue......
Contact Reading HS. They should be preselling tickets tomorrow (at least most schools do). Problem is their allotment may only be 1,000 tickets or so.
I assume the PIAA in their wisdom thought Hershey would be too much of an advantage to Reading in the distance factor. After Hershey, they could have tried Cumberland Valley HS.
After that there's nothing until you hit Chambersburg (unless you head north to State College/ Altoona). After Chambersburg was here's not much until you hit Greensburg and then you start to get into the same argument with distance discrepancy as Hershey just for the western team.
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The Chambersburg selection is a joke. Reading is the winningest program in PA, the biggest HS in PA and the 9th biggest HS in the US and they're going to force us to play in a 2k seat gym!? We are more than a little upset here in Reading at the prospect of having to turn away a couple of thousand fans who just want to help our school win it's 1st state title. Pathetic on the PIAA's part!
The PIAA regularly screws up events like this. They are much like the NCAA at times in terms of no common sense or consistency. I'm sure they thought C-burg was roughly halfway between the 2 teams so 'done deal'. That's true but it's small. Hold it at CV or Hershey or the BJC. Yes, the Pittsburgh team may have to travel more than Reading but you won't have hundreds/ thousands of fans driving 3 hours or so and then being told it's sold out and immediately sent back on the road to drive home 3 hours.
They knew there were going to be issues with brackets when the population imbalance became so great in the state that sometimes much of the western bracket contains eastern schools.
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I never though the PIAA was fair with regard to distances traveled. Many times small south western PA schools traveled to Slippery Rock,, Clarion or Johnstown to play PIAA playoff games against schools traveling less than an hour. At this point in the year all playoff games should be at college facilities,.
My goodness it was a joke about Roman being public and not recruiting!Another joke is public schools having to play these recruiting machines! Just my opinion after being a head coach for 35 years in a public school.
They have ALWAYS recruited. In recent years Goretti-Neumann is doing the same. Imhotep Charter is doing the same in FB and BB.
True. Same in the east somewhat. I've seen many times where teams from Harrisburg/ Lancaster/ York/ Philly burbs are sent to Martz Hall in Pottsville to play some local teams from up there. That's hardly as big a distance problem as you're talking about but it's frustrating when you see the PIAA do that all the time .......and then turn around in a case like this and decide it has to do the opposite and make it relatively equidistant in a facility that they know won't handle the crowds.
Isn't Rec Hall available this time of year? Seems like a perfect venue for these games.
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