By Summer Patsko The Valley Forge girls basketball team has a chance to finish fifth in the first GLC tournament after Tuesday’s 56-52 win over Lakewood. The #6 Patriots play #5 Buckeye on Thursday in the fifth-place game. Jada Benjamin scored 11 points, Alysa Coyne, Jurnee Amill and Lameice El-Madhoun all had 10, Emily Beckner

By Summer Patsko After losing a late-season game to Fairview, the Valley Forge girls basketball team bounced back to beat the Warriors 45-26 on Saturday in the GLC tournament. This win means the #6 Patriots still have a chance to finish in fifth place in the tournament. They face #8 Lakewood on Tuesday. The winner

By Summer Patsko The Valley Forge girls basketball team improved to 6-4 with a 51-45 win Monday night over cross-town rival Parma. The Patriots are now 4-3 in the Great Lakes Conference. After bouncing back from to straight losses. Jada Benjamin scored 17 points, Lameice El-Madhoun and Emily Beckner had 9 and Jurnee Amill had

Valley Forge High School basketball player-sportswriter busy on and off the court By John Benson, special to cleveland.com PARMA, Ohio — As much as the player-coach dynamic is well known in sports, one new frontier is that of the player-sportswriter. That’s exactly the role that Valley Forge High School sophomore Summer Patsko finds herself in this

By Summer Patsko The Valley Forge girls basketball team improved to 3-1 with a 49-47 non-conference win at Cuyahoga Heights. Lameice El-Madhoun scored 24 points, Summer Patsko had 10, Jada Benjamin had 7. The Patriots had an explosive first quarter out scoring Heights 12-2. The Patriots never trailed the entire game, but had trouble pulling

By Summer Patsko The Valley Forge girls basketball team improved to 2-0 with a 52-41 win at  Cloverleaf on Friday. Lameice El-Madhoun had a game high 25 points – shooting including five 3-pointers, 5 steals and 7 rebounds. The Patriots trailed 11-8 in the first quarter but used a 9-0 run to pull away with

By Summer Patsko The Valley Forge girls basketball team  opened the season Wednesday with a 59-39 win over Fairview. It was Senior Night for the Patriots, and seniors Jada Benjamin and Lameice El Madhoun combined for 47 points. “We definitely came out a little unsteady and nervous at first, but with our senior leadership and