SPRINGFIELD — A team that blows a 12-point fourth quarter lead isn’t supposed to win. A team that doesn’t hit a field goal in overtime isn’t supposed to win. The Penncrest Lions were that team.
They still won.
“We stayed together,’ junior big man AJ Taylor said.
Penncrest went 14-of-14 from the free throw line in the extra session and downed Springfield, 58-53, Friday in a Class AAAA District One tournament playback. The Lions advance to play Academy Park in a play-in for a spot in the PIAA state tournament Tuesday. It was inches, and perhaps a decision, from not being there.
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