{"id":123503,"date":"2026-02-25T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123503\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:58:11","slug":"berks-catholic-and-schuylkill-valley-played-in-the-district-3-class-4a-semifinals-in-boys-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123503\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks Catholic and Schuylkill Valley played in the District 3 Class 4A semifinals in boys basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kingston McKoy scored 18 points and Carmelo Harper added 16 as defending district champion Berks Catholic rolled to a 62-35 win over Schuylkill Valley in the semifinals of the District 3 Class 4A boys basketball tournament at Berks Catholic on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The top-seeded Saints (24-2) will play second-seeded Bishop McDevitt (21-3) on Friday at 7 p.m. at Garden Spot High School for the district title.<\/p>\n

The Panthers (15-10) will play Big Spring for third place at 7 p.m. Thursday at Schuylkill Valley. In the fifth place game on Thursday, Wyomissing hosts Oley Valley with the winner of that game advancing to the state playoffs.<\/p>\n

Both Berks Catholic and Schuylkill Valley qualified for the PIAA tournament by making the district semifinals. District 3 advances five teams to the state tourney in 4A.<\/p>\n

\"BerksBerks Catholic\u2019s Kingston McKoy gets two of his game-high 18 points in a 62-35 District 3 Class 4A victory on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, at Lloyd Wolf Gymnasium. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n

The Saints jumped to an 18-6 lead after the first quarter as Harper had 7 points, including a 3-pointer.<\/p>\n

The Panthers clawed back into the game, cutting it to 3 at one point, and trailed 30-22 at halftime.<\/p>\n

They only scored 4 points in the third quarter, as Berks Catholic had a 20-4 edge in the quarter with McKoy getting 8 points.<\/p>\n

The Saints have won 18 straight games with their last loss to Reading High, 48-40, on Dec. 29.<\/p>\n

For the Panthers, Alex Aletras had 11 points and Zachary Reeser 10.<\/p>\n

\"BerksBerks Catholic\u2019s Johnny Giesa scores two of his eight points in a 62-35 District 3 Class 4A victory on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, at Lloyd Wolf Gymnasium. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kingston McKoy scored 18 points and Carmelo Harper added 16 as defending district champion Berks Catholic rolled to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,305,28,128,130,129,726,706],"class_list":["post-123503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-high-school-sports","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123503","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=123503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}