Girls Basketball: Predicting the District-1 4A Playoffs

By Andrew Marcus
Sportswriter for The Lansdale Reporter

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(1) Mount St. Joe's
(32) Great Valley
                           Mount St. Joe's 
                           Souderton
(16) Boyertown
(17) Souderton
                                          Mount St. Joe's
                                          Bishop Shanahan
(8) Bishop Shanahan
(25) Haverford
                          Bishop Shanahan
                          Conestoga
(9) Ridley
(24) Conestoga
                                                          Mount St. Joe's
                                                          Spring-Ford
(4) Spring-Ford
(29) Chester
                         Spring-Ford
                         DTown West
(13) Pennwood
(20) DTown West
                                           Spring-Ford
                                           Methacton
(5) Central Bucks West
(28) Norristown
                        Central Bucks West
                        Methacton
(12) Methacton
(21) Cheltenham
                                                                                  Spring-Ford over North Penn

(2) Garnet Valley 
(31) Council Rock North
                       Garnet Valley
                       Abington
(15) DTown East
(18) Abington
                                              Garnet Valley                                  
                                              Neshaminy
(7) West Chester Rustin
(26) West Chester East
                     W C Rustin
                     Neshaminy
(10) Neshaminy
(23) Strath Haven
                                                                   Neshaminy
                                                                   North Penn
(3) North Penn
(30) Council Rock South
                      North Penn
                      Plymouth-Whitemarsh
(14) Central Bucks South
(19) Plymouth-Whitemarsh
                                                  North Penn
                                                  Harriton
(6) Upper Dublin
(27) Upper Merion
                      Upper Merion
                      Harriton
(11) Harriton
(22) Central Bucks East


PIAA Qualifiers: (1) Spring-Ford (2) North Penn, (3) Mount St. Joe's, (4) Neshaminy, (5) Garnet Valley, (6) Methacton, (7) Bishop Shanahan, (8) Harriton, (9) Central Bucks West, (10) Plymouth-Whitemarsh

Breakin' down the First Round Match-Ups

Great Vallet at Mount St. Joe's - Coach John Miller does a great job of preparing his girls to play smothering defense on a daily basis. And defense wins championships. The only question here is will the Patriots score 30 points? Congrats on making the playoffs G.V. Win - Magic.

Souderton at Boyertown - A great out of conference record of 9-0 has the Bears a home. But this out of conference clash comes against the Indians, who play in one of the toughest conferences in the area. Look for the Indians to out run the Bears behind the guard play of Allison Gallagher and Bianca Picard. Win - Indians.



Chester at Spring-Ford - The defending state champs await the Clippers, but they do not bring the same pedigree as the boys program in Chester. The Lady Rams are familiar with this moment and should storm away from La'Naysia Dixon and Camry Adams, a duo that averages a double-double. That's not enough here. Win - Rams.

Norristown at Central Bucks West - At times the Lady Bucks has looked like of state playoff caliber and other times they slip and lose a winnable game. While the Eagles could pull off the biggest shocker of the first round, I still lean toward Michigan-bound Nicole Munger and fellow junior Mackenzie Carroll to control the game, start to finish. Win - Bucks.

Cheltenham at Methacton - Freshman phenom Ashley Jones could carry the Panthers to the promise land, but they landed a tough match-up with the Warriors. The PAC-10 squad has a prolific scorer of their own in Kelly Glatthorn. The Lady Panthers have promise, but they ran into a tough first round god fight. Win - Warriors.

Abington at Downingtown East - With a 19-4 record all the Cougars know is winning. But have they been challenged by an inside-out duo like guard Deja Rawls and center Michael Harris? If the Galloping Ghosts can get any type of production out of the role players they should be able to roll to a win. Win - Ghosts.

Council Rock South at North Penn - A match-up in the regular season the Golden Hawks got blown-out by Vicky Tumasz and the Maidens. Look for Allison Taub and crew to be more challenging than the first time, but in the end the Maidens move into the next round rather easily. Win - Maidens.

Plymouth-Whitemarsh at Central Bucks South - The Titans have their good and bad days, but they did enough in the SOL Continental to grab a home game. Crushing Pennwood and beating Central Bucks West helped that cause. The Colonials were in contention for a conference championship and Asia Baker and Alynna Williams are a challenging couple to slow down on the offensive end. Win - Colonials.

Upper Dublin at Upper Merion - The Flying Cardinals rallied to a league title after losing senior Kayla McAneny to an injury. They lost to the Vikings right after the awful news and came back to crush the a week ago. I could see the third go-around going either way. Win - Vikings.,

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