Boys Lacrosse: Happy as underdog, Radnor routs Haverford

RADNOR — Weeks before their first game, players from the Radnor boys lacrosse team would walk into their home locker room and be greeted by a piece of paper that had been tacked onto the wall.

The paper listed the predicted top teams of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

“And we weren’t on it,” said Jack Fischer, one of the Raiders’ seniors who admittedly traced his finger up and down the sheet of paper in search of his school’s name. “In fact, we were the sixth or seventh team listed as honorable mention.”

Call it disrespectful, for a program with a pedigree of winning? Fischer isn’t taking the bait.

“We don’t want respect given to us. We want to earn it,” he said.

Radnor is welcoming the underdog role with open arms, with Thursday’s 16-1 rout of visiting Haverford being another notch in the Raiders’ belt as they attempt to return to regional respect.

Twelve Raiders logged at least a point in the lopsided Central League game, and eight different guys found the back of the net for Radnor, which has won seven of its first eight games despite losing 17 seniors from last year’s team to graduation.

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Radnor's Dario Falcone, left, tries to keep Haverford's Ryan Hughes from getting to the ball during the Raiders' 16-1 victory in a Central League game Thursday. (Robert J Gurecki)