Posted on 27 February 2015 by ldevlin.
PHILADELPHIA — As a freshman, Haverford High’s Maddie Hart regarded the 100 butterfly as an accessory to her main areas of specialty.
As a junior, she’s a Delaware County record holder.
Hart won the 100 fly in 54.74 seconds Friday at the District One Class AAA Championships, downing Emily Rhodes’ two-year-old Delaware County mark and successfully defending her title from last year.
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Posted on 26 February 2015 by ldevlin.
With the second major installment of the swimming postseason about to begin with the District One Championships Thursday and Friday, history could be rewritten on the girls’ side of the Delaware County record board.
Brenda Bartlett, for one, thinks it’s long overdue.
This week’s district meet at La Salle University has the potential to deliver some very fast swimming. And squarely in the crosshairs of that speed are some of the longest-held records in the county’s history.
Dating to 1988, the 100 freestyle record of Sun Valley graduate Christine Gallagher (52.02 seconds) is in jeopardy, with Radnor freshman Julia Cullen and Strath Haven sophomore Summer Martin around a second shy of it. The most daunting threat could come at states, when Cardinal O’Hara’s Hanna Blewett, who clocked in at 52.23 at the Catholic League Championships two weeks ago, gets another run at it.
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Posted on 26 February 2015 by ldevlin.
Girls 100 butterfly: Battle No. 2 between Haverford’s Madison Hart (seeded second) and Radnor’s Julia Cullen (third).
Girls 400 freestyle relay: Five teams make it to states, followed by the next eight fastest relays statewide. Radnor enters the event seeded sixth, with Haverford seventh and Strath Haven eighth.
Girls 100 breaststroke: Five Delco girls are in the top 17 seeds, led by Haverford’s Cassandra Reed in ninth.
Boys 50 freestyle: Garnet Valley’s Andrew Woerth is seeded 14th, which means he’ll have a central lane in the third-to-last heat.
Boys 100 backstroke: Radnor’s Eli Avart is seeded fourth, and Garnet Valley’s Ivan Michalovic is seeded fifth.
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Posted on 26 February 2015 by ldevlin.
PHILADELPHIA — Nine buses rolled toward the Liacouras Center Wednesday night, each carrying a full load of Ridley fans, each stuffed with a full load of mystery.
Already having reaching the Final Four of the District One Class AAAA tournament, the Green Raiders were about to reveal whether they were there by accident, by skill, by good bracket fortune or some of each. Yet there was also the risk that as the No. 9 seed in the tournament, facing fourth-seeded and 24-2 Plymouth-Whitemarsh, that they would prove they did not belong at all.
But then Julian Wing buried a 3-pointer to force a tie at halftime, and then the Green Raiders rallied from four points down in the final minute to have two late chances to win, and then, both results were validated. Plymouth-Whitemarsh, yes, was the better team, winning, 44-41, to reach the tournament final. And Ridley, though redirected into a Friday consolation game at Pennsbury, would be a worthy, if not a dangerous state-tournament participant.
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Posted on 25 February 2015 by ldevlin.
SHARON HILL — A mere glimmer of a dream back in third grade became reality for the senior leaders of the Penncrest Lions.
“It just makes everything worth it,’ a glowing Mike Doyle said. “Since we were little, it was a goal.’
Behind the red-hot shooting of Nolan Carroll, Penncrest beat Academy Park, 49-37, Tuesday in a District One Class AAAA Tournament playback. The victory clinched the Lions’ first trip to the PIAA Tournament since 2010 and made a childhood dream a reality for this senior-laden squad.
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Posted on 24 February 2015 by ldevlin.
Weight: 106 School Grade Team
Vince Tavani HAV 11 1
Thomas Reif UD 10 2
Kevin Christie GV 10 HM
Trevor Beresford PC 10 HM
Weight: 113 School Grade Team
Jake Mejias UD 11 1
Ty D’Ortone PC 10 2
Will Newmiller HAV 12 HM
Nolan Rufo MN 9 HM
Weight: 120 School Grade Team
Noah Frantz SH 11 1
James Hopkins UD 12 2
Pete Moore HAV 12 HM
Weight: 126 School Grade Team
Matthew Marino GV 10 1
Sam DePhillipo UD 9 2
Robbie Hazard LM 11 2
Jared Smith HAV 12 HM
Weight: 132 School Grade Team
Colin Cronin UD 10 1
Ryan Stocku PC 10 1
Nick Puliti GV 10 2
Noah Strehse HAV 10 HM
Weight: 138 School Grade Team
Kevin Zhao CON 12 1
Matt Mortimer GV 10 2
Brett Burns SH 9 HM
Weight: 145 School Grade Team
Robbie Peters GV 10 1
Chris Sciarrino SFD 11 1
Max Livingston UD 10 2
Michael Sklar CON 12 HM
Weight: 152 School Grade Team
Pat Rowe GV 12 1
Brody Brush LM 11 2
Justin Bianchi HAR 12 HM
Weight: 160 School Grade Team
Matt Young PC 12 1
Dan Iredale CON 11 1
Pat Kane UD 12 2
Weight: 170 School Grade Team
Tom Meyers RAD 12 1
Matt Bloxton HAV 12 2
Max Miller PC 12 2
Weight: 182 School Grade Team
Zak Taylor RAD 12 1
Joe Pyfer PC 12 1
Mark Peters GV 11 HM
Brian Kennerly UD 10 HM
Lawrence Alkins RID 12 HM
Weight: 195 School Grade Team
Madhat Fares UD 12 1
Ethan Pentz CON 12 1
Ryan Rushton GV 10 2
Ibrahim Ammar HAV 10 HM
Weight: 220 School Grade Team
Joshua Yeboah-Gyasi UD 12 1
Anthony Goodman MN 10 HM
Chris Alyanakian PC 12 HM
Kent Chance RAD 12 HM
Weight: 285 School Grade Team
Justin Fremont SH 12 1
Mike Karas CON 11 2
Leo Teti-Cassidy RID 10 HM
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Posted on 23 February 2015 by ldevlin.
SPRINGFIELD — A team that blows a 12-point fourth quarter lead isn’t supposed to win. A team that doesn’t hit a field goal in overtime isn’t supposed to win. The Penncrest Lions were that team.
They still won.
“We stayed together,’ junior big man AJ Taylor said.
Penncrest went 14-of-14 from the free throw line in the extra session and downed Springfield, 58-53, Friday in a Class AAAA District One tournament playback. The Lions advance to play Academy Park in a play-in for a spot in the PIAA state tournament Tuesday. It was inches, and perhaps a decision, from not being there.
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Posted on 23 February 2015 by ldevlin.
TREDYFFRIN — It’s going to take a fifth game, possibly in the state tournament, for Ridley and Conestoga to settle their score.
Right now the better team is the Green Raiders, who Friday night survived a controversial finish to defeat the Pioneers, 36-34, in the quarterfinal round of the Class AAAA District One basketball tournament.
The ninth-seeded Green Raiders (22-5) take on Plymouth Whitemarsh in the semifinals Wednesday night at Temple University.
The top-seeded Pioneers (22-4) get Lower Merion in the consolation round.
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Posted on 23 February 2015 by ldevlin.
Upper Darby’s Mason Weh and Akeim Thomas put on a show at the Track and Field Coaches Association of Greater Philadelphia Meet of Champions Saturday. Weh and Thomas went 1-2 in the 60-meter hurdles and turned in two of the three fastest times in the state. Weh won with a state-best time of 8.02 seconds. Thomas was second in 8.09 seconds. That tied him with Mitch Valko of South Fayette for the second fastest time in the state.
Gurjeet Rai of Marple Newtown took second in the pole vault (13-9). Penncrest finished third in the 4 x 400.
Nina Gambacorta of Garnet Valley and Janese Lych of Academy Park made it a 1-2 Delco finish in the shot put at the Delaware Valley Girls Track & Field Coaches Association Meet of Champions Friday night at Lehigh.
Gambacorta took gold with a put of 41-6 ¼. Penncrest’s Katie Arbogast took second in the 400. Teammate Alicia Collier was fifth in the 200 and the pair helped the Lions take fifth in the 4 x 200.
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Posted on 23 February 2015 by ldevlin.
ROYERSFORD — The 2015 postseason has been one of redemption for Penncrest seniors Matthew Young and Joe Pyfer. After winning their respective weight classes at the Central League Tournament a week ago — Young at 160, Pyfer at 182 — the pair of Lions moved one step closer to the PIAA Class AAA Southeast Regional with quarterfinal victories in the District One-West Tournament Saturday at Spring-Ford High School. The meet was cut short by afternoon snow and will resume Monday. One more win will send Young to the regionals, a place he envisioned he’d be as a junior. But injuries thwarted his 2014 campaign.
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