COBL: The Horse emerges to help Roman Catholic win back-to-back PCL titles

Aron Minkoff in City of Basketball Love:

Most teams ride school buses to get to-and-from basketball games in Philadelphia.

Not Roman Catholic–the Cahillites have a first-class ride, via horseback.

That is, senior wing Nazeer Bostick, who earned the nickname “Horse”.

For the second consecutive year, the Roman Catholic Cahillites rode the Horse to the emerge as victors in the Philadelphia Catholic League boy’s basketball championship.

It was not always pretty but in Roman’s 72-65 victory of Neumann-Goretti, it was the glue guy, senior wing Bostick, who got it done.

In front of his future college coach, Penn State’s Pat Chambers, no less.

“He is the Horse,” senior guard Tony Carr said of his teammate, close friend and future college classmate. “When we play against those guys from Neumann he just ups his game to a different notch. He gets every offensive rebound, he is a ferociously attacking the glass and it just helps us a lot.”

The 6-foot-4 Bostick finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds, nine of those points coming in the fourth quarter to help his team put away Neumann-Goretti….

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