By: Greg Macafee, Saturday, April 3, 2021, TRIB-LIVE Heading into this season, the Fox Chapel boys basketball team was set to replace four senior starters from a team that went 21-2 the previous year and earned the No. 2 seed in the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs. But while coach Zach Skrinjar was inserting four new...Read More
Eli Yofan, one of the most talented players in recent years to compete on the Fox Chapel Area High School basketball court, earned another honor before the 2020-2021 season ended, and it was a big one – the 6’1” guard scored his 1,000th point during the team’s March 5 quarterfinal playoff game against North Allegheny....Read More
Brad Everett, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 9, 2021 When Andy Swartout checked into the game in the second quarter Tuesday night, he turned into a pool shark. Three ball. Corner pocket. Repeat over and over again. Pine-Richland needed a spark, and right on cue, it was a reserve junior guard who helped the Rams stick it...Read More
By: Greg Macafee, Saturday, March 6, 2021, TRIB-LIVE Throughout this season, the Fox Chapel boys basketball team has gotten contributions from several players. Junior Eli Yofan has been the go-to-guy, averaging 22 points a game, but JP Dockey, Kent Baldauf, Jake DeMotte and Russell Fenton have all come up big at times as well. “That’s...Read More
By: Greg Macafee, Friday, March 5, 2021, TRIB-LIVE The Fox Chapel boys basketball team couldn’t have drawn it up any better. Behind 22 points from junior guard Eli Yofan, all five Fox Chapel starters scored in double digits, and the No. 2 Foxes (20-2) took advantage of an early first-quarter run to knock off No....Read More