Hoops for Hope on tap for Lower Merion
Archbishop Wood, The Inquirer's top-ranked girls' basketball team in Southeastern Pennsylvania, will play St. Anthony's of New York in the featured game Sunday at the fifth annual Hoops for Hope Classic at Lower Merion.
Archbishop Wood, The Inquirer's top-ranked girls' basketball team in Southeastern Pennsylvania, will play St. Anthony's of New York in the featured game Sunday at the fifth annual Hoops for Hope Classic at Lower Merion.
The 10-1 Vikings will face a Long Island team that is a defending state champion. The Friars are ranked in the top 10 by two New York City newspapers. Wood, whose only loss was to Oakton (Va.) in the Naples (Fla.) Shootout in December, is averaging 55 points a game a and giving up only 30. Game time will be 2:30 p.m.
In the opening game of the classic, at 10 a.m., unbeaten Mount St. Joseph (16-0) will face Archbishop Prendergast. The Magic are ranked No. 3 by The Inquirer. Host Lower Merion will play Spring-Ford in the second game at 11:30 a.m.
Archbishop Ryan and Episcopal Academy will square off at 1 p.m., before Wood and St. Anthony's tangle.
Cardinal O'Hara, ranked No. 7 by The Inquirer, is scheduled to play at 4 p.m. against Sanford (Del.) followed by a game between Archbishop Carroll and Notre Dame.