{"id":113258,"date":"2026-02-13T18:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:07:13","slug":"berks-catholic-reading-advance-to-bciaa-championship-game-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113258\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks Catholic, Reading advance to BCIAA championship game | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A pair of boys matchups in the BCIAA semifinals at Santander Arena on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Exeter boys, fresh off a huge win over Wilson, looking to take down another giant in top-seeded Berks Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>Opening quarter, Carmelo Harper drives and hits a fadeaway in the paint. He would have 16 as the Saints open the game on an 8-0 run.<\/p>\n<p>To the surprise of no one, Kingston McKoy showing out with a game-high 24 points as Berks Catholic cruises past the Eagles, 57-40.<\/p>\n<p>The second game features the rubber match between Muhlenberg and Reading after the rivals split a pair of regular season contests.<\/p>\n<p>The Muhls Eli Hemmings find Monday&#8217;s hero Nelson Malave in the first quarter for three. Hemmings would finish with 22 points and Malave 15 but Muhlenberg is down 19-10 after one.<\/p>\n<p>Second quarter, the Red Knights&#8217; Weshly Rosario in transition when he finds Jostin DeCastro who finishes for two of his 17 and Reading leads 35-25 at the half.<\/p>\n<p>The Muhls rallied all the way back and pulled in front in the fourth quarter, but DeCastro with a big bucket late to give Reading a 60-57 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Knights will face Berks Catholic for BCIAA gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A pair of boys matchups in the BCIAA semifinals at Santander Arena on Wednesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54101,32475,54100,32474,128,130,129,53284],"class_list":{"0":"post-113258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-carmelo-harper","9":"tag-eli-hemmings","10":"tag-kingston-mckoy","11":"tag-nelson-malave","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-weshly-rosario"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}