Boys Basketball: Pre-New Year Area Top 10 Teams & Top Scorers

By Andrew Marcus
Sportswriter for The Lansdale Reporter
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Amir Hinton (ABI)

We are two weeks into the basketball season and the preseason picture has been turned upside down. My
number one team heading into the year Perkiomen Valley has played a difficult schedule and is 1-4 overall. While they could still turn it on by season's end, they have completely left the Top 10.

Others team that have fallen out of my Top 10 include North Penn, Cheltenham, and Academy of the New Church.

Nick Stanek (SF)

Five of the teams I considered "Others to Watch" have made it into my Top 10, with coach Jimmy Donofrio getting his new look Colonials back in the mix for a American Conference championship. Andre Mitchell and Jimmy Murray have become a solid 1-2 punch.

The number one team is now Abington, as they have moved on from Anthony Durham and the class of 2013, yet still are winning games. There have been breakout performances from Amir Hinton and just an overall great team effort so far this year. The real test for this group is in their own conference with Pennsbury.

First year head coach at Spring-Ford Chris Talley has his club playing lights out ball and they are the only team to crack the Top 10 after not even being on the "OTW" radar before the season began. Nick Stanek and Drew Kakareka are carrying this group to a PAC-10 title.

10. Bishop McDevitt Royal Lancers (4-3) (preseason rank: otw)
9. Abington Friends Roos (4-2) (preseason rank: 7)
8. Methacton Warriors (4-1) (preseason rank: otw)
7. Hatboro-Horsham Hatters (4-1) (preseason rank: otw)
6. Wissahickon Trojans (3-2) (preseason rank: 4)
5. Spring-Ford Rams (6-0) (preseason rank: nr)
4. LaSalle Explorers (4-1) (preseason rank: 9)
3. Plymouth-Whitemarsh Colonials (4-1) (preseason rank: otw) 
2. Archbishop Wood Vikings (2-1) (preseason rank: 2)
1. Abington Galloping Ghosts (5-0) (preseason rank: 5)

Others to watch: Central Bucks West (4-2), Pope John Paul II (4-2), Germantown Academy (3-4), Lansdale Catholic (2-1), Pennridge (4-2), Perkiomen Valley (1-4), PhilMont Christian (6-0), Upper Dublin (2-3)

BIG SCORING NIGHTS (25+ points)

Tyrell Long (B McD)

Tyrell Long (Bishop McDevitt) 41 pts vs New Foundations
Andre Mitchell (Plymouth-Whitemarsh) 35 pts vs Dobbins
James Bleming (Pope John Paul II) 33 pts vs Bishop McDevitt
Jordan Greene (Abington Friends) 32 pts vs Moses Brown
Joe Robinson (Abington Friends) 30 pts vs Friends Central
Tim Guers (Germantown Academy) 28 pts vs Pennington
Zach Dolton (PhilMont Christian) 28 pts vs Bishop McDevitt
Tyrell Long (Bishop McDevitt) 28 pts vs PhilMont Christian
Jimmy Murray (Plymouth-Whitemarsh) 27 pts vs Wissahickon
Zach Quattro (Hatboro-Horsham) 27 pts vs Upper Moreland
Matt Alden (William Tennent) 27 pts vs Council Rock North
Tim Guers (Germantown Academy) 27 pts vs St. Albans
Sam Lindgren (Germantown Academy) 27 pts vs Blue Ridge
Pat Smit (Archbishop Wood) 27 pts vs William Tennent
Carnell Harley (Academy New Church) 27 pts vs Haverford School
Amir Hinton (Abington) 27 pts vs Frakford
Andrew Riviello (Lansdale Catholic) 26 pts vs Pottsgrove
Joe Robinson (Abington Friends) 26 pts vs Barrack Hebrew
Jordan Greene (Abington Friends) 25 pts vs Barrack Hebrew
Amin Taylor (Bishop McDevitt) 25 pts vs Chichester
Matt Alden (William Tennent) 25 pts vs MLK