MANOR COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL’S EDDIE FORTESCUE, JR NAMED TO PHILADELPHIA SMALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION HONOR ROLL

MANOR COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL’S EDDIE FORTESCUE, JR NAMED TO PHILADELPHIA SMALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION HONOR ROLL
Posted: Feb 21, 2024

By Steven M. Glassman

Director of Sports Information

February 21, 2024

 

PHILADELPHIA, PA–Manor College Men's Basketball (11-5 overall, 5-1 Eastern States Athletic Conference) senior guard Eddie Fortescue Jr. (Blue Bell, PA/Wissahickon) was named to the Philadelphia Small College Basketball Association (PSCBA) Honor Roll for the period February 12-February 18.

Fortescue Jr scored Manor's last eight points, including making a game-winning three-point basket at the buzzer versus the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Division II and ESAC foe Bucks County Community College on February 15. This was the first time the Blue Jays won at the buzzer since joining the USCAA for the 2021-2022 season.  He led Manor with 22 points (a personal season high), including 15 in the second-half.  Fortescue Jr paced Manor with eight field goals made (tying a personal season high) versus Bucks County and was second in three-point field goals made (tying a personal season high four) and attempts (seven).  He was tied for second on the team with 15 overall field goal attempts versus the Centurions. 

Fortescue Jr is second on Manor in three-point field goals made (personal season-best tying 26) and attempts (personal season-best 84) and free throws made (49), attempts (68), and percentage (72.1). He is third on Manor in minutes (personal season-best 512) and per game (32.0), overall field goals made (85) and attempts (190), and points (245) and per game (15.3).  Fortescue Jr has scored in double-figures in 14 (a personal season-best) out of 16 games this season, including four 20-point games.

Fortescue Jr joins the following six Manor players who were previously recognized by the PSCBA:

  • Namir Simmons (Philadelphia, PA/Academy Park): February 5-February 11, 2024 (Honor Roll)

  • Manny Roach (Medford, NJ/Life Center Academy): January 29-February 4, 2024 (Honor Roll)  

  • Simmons: January 22-January 28, 2024 (Honor Roll)

  • Simmons: December 4-December 10, 2023 (Honor Roll)

  • Fortescue Jr.: February 13-February 19, 2023 (Honor Roll)

  • Nissir Cook: February 6-February 12, 2023 (Honor Roll)

  • Larenzo Jackson: January 16-January 22, 2023 (Honor Roll)

  • Nasir Collins: December 12-December 18, 2022 (Honor Roll)

  • Rahmaad Dejarnette: February 7-February 13, 2022 (Honor Roll)

  • Enoch Clark: January 24-January 30, 2022 (Honor Roll)

  • Dejarnette: January 17-January 23, 2022 (Honor Roll)

  • Dejarnette: November 29-December 5, 2021 (Honor Roll)


Fortescue Jr plays for third-year Head Coach Leo Mahon.

The sixth-ranked USCAA Division I Blue Jays travel to play the USCAA Division II Christendom Crusaders (11-10, 5-2 as of February 20) on Saturday, February 24 at 2 p.m. in Fort Royal, Virginia.

 

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