Senior guard Matt Engle, who has been battling injury all season, has led Central Bucks West to its first title game appearance in the Suburban One League since 2018, writes Jared Leveson for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

This has been the team’s first winning season since 2020 and there are signs that the Bucks could make the first deep postseason run since the team reached the District 1-6A semifinals six years ago.

“It’s been a special season, [but] we’re still going,” said Engle. “We have a long way to go.”

The team would not be where it is without Engle. In June, the 5-foot-10 senior dislocated his knee and tore his patellar tendon. The usual recovery time for a patellar tendon surgery is between 6 and 12 months. Engle decided to turn down surgery so that he could still play during his last season in high school before he attends Villanova in the fall.

He chose platelet-rich plasma treatment which accelerates the healing process by increasing the reparative cells. The recovery can be painful, but Engle is dealing with it.

“It’s manageable,” he said. Read more about Matt Engle in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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