Muhlenberg stuns Reading High, 63-61

Matt Flowers spent the last week reminding his Muhlenberg players that he was on the last Muhls team to beat Reading High.

He can’t say that any longer.

Edwin Suarez played a huge game and Alexavior Tomlinson hit the go-ahead basked in the final minute as the Muhls upset the Red Knights 63-61 Tuesday before an SRO crowd in Laureldale.

It was the first meeting between Flowers, the former Reading High assistant, and his long-time boss and lifelong friend, Reading High coach Rick Perez.

The Berks II champion Muhls (9-2, 17-5) trailed by 10 points in the fourth quarter before putting on a furious rush over the final four minutes. They tied it 56-56 on Suarez’s follow with 3:16 left and took their first lead of the second half when Suarez put back another miss with 1:37 left to make it 58-56.

The Berks I champion Red Knights (10-1, 18-3) tied it twice more, the last on Joey Chapman’s drive with 48 second left that made it 60-60.

Tomlinson gave the Muhls the lead for good, scoring off a feed from J’Daniel Mosquera with 33 seconds left.

The Red Knights had a couple chances to tie it but Ruben Rodriguez missed twice from the free throw line with 24 seconds left and Chapman made just 1-of-2 with 9.7 left to cut it to 62-61.

Rodriguez got off a rushed 3-pointer just before the final buzzer but missed the mark.

Flowers scored 11 points in the Muhls’ 62-61 win at the Geigle in the 2000-01 season, when he was a senior.

Before Tuesday the Muhls were 2-68 all-time against the Red Knights. Their only other win in the series came in 1988.