READING, Pa. – Overtime basketball in the BCIAA boys final between Berks Catholic and Reading – it doesn’t get much better than this.<\/p>\n
This one would go back-and-forth as the Saints led 19-16 after the first eight minutes only to see the Red Knights take a 26-24 advantage into halftime.<\/p>\n
In the fourth, Kingston McKoy knocks down the three he had a game high 29 – including five from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
This instant classic would go to overtime with the score tied at 54-all. Senior Brady Altimar with the big three-point field goal from the corner and Berks Catholic goes on to win, 62-57.<\/p>\n
“”My shot was feeling good Wednesday night,” Altimar said. “I missed the first two here, but my teammates kept telling me to shoot it. Shoot it with confidence, so I got in the corner. I knew I was open. I put it up and it was all net, it feels so great. I said it before that. We lost in the semis, three years in a row. So to overcome that, finally get to the finals. Against a really tough Reading team. It just means a lot to beat them. We played our best all year – it feels so great.”<\/p>\n
The Saints win their first county title since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Overtime basketball in the BCIAA boys final between Berks Catholic and Reading – it doesn’t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54430,54100,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-114008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-brady-altimar","tag-kingston-mckoy","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114008","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=114008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}