Boys Basketball: Foster, Ridley rip Conestoga for title

NEWTOWN SQUARE >> Most times, practice makes perfect on the basketball court for Brett Foster. But on the instance that the Ridley guard got closest to the rim Monday night at Marple Newtown, he was uncharacteristically off-balance.

“I was too close under the net, so I was kind of falling back,” Foster said, the product of his trip up the ladder neatly snipped and strung around his neck. “So I had to grab the rim to and lean back to cut it.”

Just about every other voyage to the hoop that Foster endeavored in Ridley’s 62-38 demolition of Conestoga in the Central League Championship Game went more smoothly in a tour de force showing to cap a perfect regular season in the league with a second straight championship. Foster scored 23 points, and Julian Wing added 17, but the ease and comfort with which they glided by the Pioneers was something to behold, backing up a 16-0 regular-season blitz of the field to improve to 22-1 before Friday’s District One Class AAAA opener. The Raiders are the fourth seed and host No. 29 North Penn.

Foster was the architect Monday. He needed just 16 shot attempts to tally his points, puzzlingly without the benefit of a trip to the line despite absorbing plenty of contact around the rim. He hit 10 of his shots, including 3-for-5 from 3-point range on a night that Ridley knocked down five of 12 attempts from deep. The East Stroudsburg commit also corralled eight rebounds, many long boards from Conestoga’s ghastly 1-for-17 shooting from 3-point land. He equaled Wing’s three steals to lead the team and dished six assists, his pinpoint dimes the oil in Ridley’s unstoppable offensive machine. Ryan Bollinger hit a pair of third-quarter 3-pointers en route to 12 points, helping Ridley methodically pull away.

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Ridley’s Brett Foster, left, celebrates with teammates after the Green Raiders won the Central League championship, 62-38 over Conestoga, Monday night. (Digital First Media/Robert J. Gurecki)