Packy Doherty knows the Devon Prep team he and his teammates will face Friday night is not the same as it was in December.<\/p>\n
They won\u2019t be deceived by the Tide\u2019s 7-18 record. Nor should anyone else.<\/p>\n
In the second game of the season, as part of the North Catholic Tipoff Tournament, the Cavaliers defeated Devon Prep, 73-58, as , Chicky Skoff scored 21 points, Packy Doherty had 14, and Brody Martin and Max McGrath each added 10.<\/p>\n
Devon Prep won only five games the rest of the regular season and through the District 12 playoffs. But you can\u2019t measure the competitive spirit of the players in a program that won state championships in each of the last two seasons.<\/p>\n
The Tide upset District 11 champion Allentown Central Catholic, 68-47, and ended Valley View\u2019s season, 61-41, in a rematch of last season\u2019s PIAA semifinal.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep (22-5) and Devon Prep (7-18) square off in the PIAA Class 4A quarterfinals Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Bethlehem Liberty High School.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying them in the beginning of the year, you could tell that they were still trying to mesh together as a team,\u201d Doherty said. \u201cWe have to put our best foot forward and do everything we can to keep this dance going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout his career, Doherty has risen to the challenge and has been a star on the big stage of the state playoffs.<\/p>\n
His 40-point debut with nine 3-pointers three years ago against Fleetwood set the tone. He guided the Cavaliers to the semifinals in 2024, the second round last season, and now to the quarterfinals, with a 6-2 record in the state playoffs.<\/p>\n
Chicky Skoff had his second explosive offensive performance of the postseason in the win over Salisbury, scoring 20 points to go along with his 28 against Dallas in the District 2 Class 4A championship game.<\/p>\n
Brody Martin has sparked the defense as Scranton Prep held four of its last five opponents to less than 50 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t gamble on defense,\u201d Doherty said. \u201cGambling leads to an advantage for them. We have locked in defending as one, and we have been really playing well together as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Devon Prep\u2019s John Doogan, a junior forward, had 22 points in the win over Valley View. He had only three points when the Tide lost to Scranton Prep in December.<\/p>\n
Cooper Fairlamb added 14 points and Owen Raymond had seven against Valley View.<\/p>\n
Devon Prep has 12 straight PIAA playoff wins and 19 of its last 20. The Tide won the Class 3A championship in 2022 and 2024, and after moving up a classification, won the Class 4A title last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packy Doherty knows the Devon Prep team he and his teammates will face Friday night is not the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-137028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137028","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=137028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}