PA – Central Athletic League | Archive | May, 2019

TREDYFFRIN >> Conestoga earned a spot in the PIAA Class 6A softball tournament for the first time since 2007 with a 4-2 win against Garnet Valley in the District 1 playback semifinals Wednesday.

For Conestoga’s hard-working senior catcher Emme Rycyzyn, the impact hit her immediately when she saw a Garnet Valley popup settle into first baseman Libby Winters’ glove for the final out of the game.

“My first thought was that we’re finally going to states, for the first time in the four years that I’ve been here,” Rycyzyn said. “It’s been a goal of mine since I was a freshman and it’s great that it’s finally happening.”

Wednesday’s contest at D’Ambrosio Park was a win-or-go-home scenario for  No. 5 Conestoga (19-3) and eighth-seeded Garnet Valley (18-5).

Rycyzyn did her part in seeing that Conestoga came out on top, slamming a home run over the left-field fence in the first inning, making a tough tag on a Garnet Valley baserunner who was trying to score from third on a fly ball to right field in the fourth, and picking a runner off third base to cool a red-hot Garnet Valley rally in the sixth inning.

“This win is a big stepping stone for our program, in terms of our team going forward every year,” Conestoga coach Pete Ricci said.

The Pioneers got off to a good start with a three runs in the first. Winters led off with a hit by pitch, and Claire Overton dropped a sacrifice bunt. Olivia Cepielik lined a single to right and Winters scored on an outfield error, with Cepielik moving to third.

Senior center fielder Jenny Noll, who is bound for Scranton, knocked in a run with a ground out, then Rycyzyn smashed a home run to make it 3-0.

“With two strikes, I shortened up my swing,” Rycyzyn said. “I was trying to make contact on top of the ball, and I put a good swing on it.”

In the bottom of the second, Conestoga went down in order thanks in part to a sliding catch by Garnet Valley center fielder Audrey Shenk and a nice play by Jags shortstop Morgan Mesaros.

In the top of the third, Cepielik made a nice play on a groundball to nail the Garnet Valley batter at first base.

“Olivia has been so consistent at shortstop for us this season,” Ricci said.

Garnet Valley threatened to score in the top of the fourth when Kelly McLaughlin blasted a triple. A Clement-to-Rycyzyn throw-and-catch nailed McLaughlin attempting to score from third on a fly ball off the bat of All-Delco catcher Lindsey Hunt.

“It was a perfect throw from Kate,” said Rycyzyn.

It was the second good defensive play of the game by Clement, who made a sliding catch of a fly ball in the first inning.

Garnet Valley turned a nice defensive play when Hunt, who will be play at Drexel University next year, picked off a Conestoga runner at first with the bases loaded to **** a potential rally.

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SHIPPENSBURG — Olivia Malley, Abby Loiselle and Grace Forbes all coughed at one time or another while standing on the awards platform at Shippensburg’s Seth Grove Stadium.

Sophomore Maggie Forbes was the only member of the Strath Haven 4 x 800-meter relay team who was not under the weather.

“I was sick at Penn Relays so I got that out of the way early,” the younger of the Forbes sisters said.

The exact ailment was not known, but it didn’t prevent the Panthers from doing something no Strath Haven team had ever done: Win the metric two-mile relay at the PIAA Track & Field Championships.

Senior Grace Forbes turned in a sizzling anchor split to lead the Panthers to the title with a time of 9 minutes, 7.50 seconds. That was the second-best time in Pennsylvania (behind Neumann-Goretti, which competes in 2A) and No. 6 nationally, according to pa.milesplit.com.

That was the start of a huge day that would lead the Panthers to a third-place finish in Class 3A. Forbes held off Delco rival Keara Seasholtz of Radnor to win the 800. Forbes and Malley teamed with Haillie Jackson and Tess Bailey for sixth in the 4 x 400 relay.

Standing on the No. 1 spot on the medals stand after the 4 x 800, though, was the biggest accomplishment of all.

“For us, this was a big mental barrier,” Malley said.

Strath Haven finished second in the event seven times in the last 10 years, according to head coach Bill Coren. The pursuit of gold became such a goal for Coren that he put it on his bucket list. But with so many of his top runners ailing, Coren did not feel good about the team’s chances.

The runners weren’t sure, either. Loiselle was so sick that she had to be scratched from Friday’s preliminary round in favor of Ava Crawford.

“I had a really big fever and I didn’t run at all,” Loiselle said. “I was really, really scared coming in because I hadn’t run.”

Loiselle got the baton in first place thanks to a 2:15 split by Maggie Forbes on the second leg but was unable to maintain the lead. Grace Forbes was 15-20 meters off the pace when she received the stick from Loiselle.

Like a lioness hunting its prey, Forbes took her time reeling in Central Bucks West anchor Emmi Simon. It took the 2018 Daily Times Girls Track Athlete of the Year a lap to catch Simon, but that was the plan.

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Strath Haven’s 4 x 800 relay of, from left, Maggie Forbes, Olivia Malley, Abby Loiselle and Grace Forbes, pose with gold medals after winning the race at the PIAA Class 3A Championships Saturday.

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HAVERFORD — There was no sign of panic, no sense of urgency as the Haverford softball team jogged off the field in the middle of the first inning Wednesday.

Although no one would have blamed the Fords if they were a little rattled.

Three errors in the top half of the inning led to a pair of unearned and put the seventh-seeded Fords in an early hole against No. 23 seed Perkiomen Valley in the second round of the District 1 Class 6A tournament.

Yet the mood in the Haverford dugout was upbeat.

“We weren’t worried about it,” two-time All-Delco outfielder Ali Murphy said. “Two runs isn’t that much when we’re hitting.”

The hits did come, the fielding tightened up and the deficit eventually vanished as the Fords rallied for a 5-2 victory over the Vikings to advance to the quarterfinals for the first time in a long time.

Joann Patterson has been the athletic director at Haverford since 1998 and she can remember the Fords winning one playoff round, but not two.

Murphy was the catalyst. She tripled and scored Haverford’s first run on Brooke McKeown’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third inning and had an RBI single and scored on a wild pitch as the Fords scored four times in the fourth to break the game open.

“We go as Ali Murphy goes,” Haverford coach Bob Newman said. “I can’t say enough good things about her. To me, she’s one of the top 10 players in the district, maybe in the state. She’s such a great leader. She helps us out unbelievably. She’s a better kid than she is a player. She’s amazing.”

The spark Murphy provided was not limited to the field. As she usually does, she came into the dugout after that rocky start offering words of encouragement.

“Whenever I come in the dugout I think I always say something like, ‘Let’s go. Let’s get some runs,’” said Murphy, who will play her college ball at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. “All of our seniors usually say something. We needed to get hyped and believe in each other.”

The payoff came in the fourth inning when the Fords put four runs on the board. The final two came when Murphy and McKeown capped the outburst when they scored on the same wild pitch, Murphy from third and McKeown from second.

“That’s the difference in the game when you think about it,” Perkiomen Valley coach Joe Bogus said. “That gave them their fourth and fifth runs.”

As the runs mounted, freshman pitcher Emma Taylor got into a groove. The lefty calmed down after a rocky start to retire 10 straight batters at one point. After giving up four hits and two runs in the first three innings he surrendered three hits and no runs over the final four frames.

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Haverford’s Emma Taylor, pitching against Garnet Valley earlier this season, settled down after a rocky start to lead the Fords to a 5-2 victory over Perkiomen Valley in the second round of the District 1 Class 6A softball playoffs Wednesday

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CONCORD — Dom Picone plays baseball with attitude and confidence, which are great characteristics to have, especially if you’re a pitcher.

Picone is the ace, the man, of the Garnet Valley club that defeated 15th-seeded Ridley, 5-0, in a District 1 Class 6A tournament second-round game Tuesday. The No. 2 Jaguars host seventh-seeded Neshaminy in the quarterfinals Friday afternoon.

Back when he was a freshman, Picone told coaches and players that he would be on the mound, leading Garnet Valley to victory in the district tourney. A freshman with that kind of swagger? Who does he think he is?

Well, Picone got the ball and dominated Wednesday. He made good on his word.

“I told them as a freshman that I was going to win this playoff game and I had to do it,” Picone said. “I promised them.”

Picone pitched a complete game shutout, allowing only two hits and one walk while striking out six. At one point he retired 11 of 12 batters. After allowing a single to Ryan Schreiber in the first inning, he kept Ridley out of the hit column until the seventh inning.

“I just wanted to get ahead, stay ahead, reduce walks and get outs quickly while keeping my pitch count down,” said Picone, who will play baseball at the University of Rhode Island next spring. “I trust my fielders. We always stay after practice to field ground balls and it pays off in times like this.”

Picone admitted that he was antsy this week as Garnet Valley had to wait around an extra day to play its first postseason game. He also said the 4 o’clock first pitch messed up his routine a bit, although the later-than-usual start time hardly affected his performance.

“I was anxious, I was ready to go,” he said. “I just wanted to get it going, to come out here and pitch.”

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Garnet Valley’s Dom Picone delivered on a promise with a two-hit shutout to lead the Jaguars to a 5-0 victory over Ridley in the second round of the District 1 Class 6A baseball playoffs Wednesday. (PETE BANNAN/MEDIANEWS GROUP)

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BERWYN—Ari Lucci wasn’t in No. 5 Conestoga’s line-up at the start of the game as the Pioneers took on No. 21 Kennett in the second round of the District 1, Class 6A softball playoffs Wednesday. In fact, she didn’t enter the game until she struck out as a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the seventh. But Lucci sure redeemed herself an inning later, when she took a two-out, two-strike pitch deep to right to knock in the winning run as the Pioneers (18-2) edged the Blue Demons 2-1 in eight innings.

With the win, Conestoga advances to Friday’s quarterfinal round, when they will travel to Downingotwn West for a match-up with the No. 4 Whippets, a 1-0 winner over No. 20 Souderton Wednesday.

“Not gonna lie, my heart was beating out of my chest when I first stepped in the batter’s box,” said Lucci. “I knew I couldn’t let my team down. I think the pitch was a little high but down the middle and I swung. I saw the ball going up and thought,’please don’t catch it.’ Then I saw her going back and I just hoped it fell. Once I saw she wasn’t getting there, I started to round first and thought, hey, that’s it, we won!”

As nervous as Lucci was with the pressure on, her coach, Pete Ricci, knew she had it in her.

“She won a game for us earlier in the season with a game winner as a pinch hitter,” said Ricci. “So I felt pretty confident she could get it done. As long as she stays with pitches in the strike zone, she’s got the power to hit it deep.”

After Conestoga’s Lauren Lofland worked out of a jam in the top half of the eighth, leaving Kennett runners stranded at second and third, her Kennett counterpart, Genevieve Ebaugh answered back, retiring the first two Pioneers she faced in the bottom half.

Emme Rycyzyn got things going for the Pioneers with a two-out single up the middle, and Kate Clement followed with one of her own. When both runners advanced on a wild pitch, the Demons elected to intentionally walk Faith Walker, hoping to put a force play back in effect, which set up Lucci’s heroics.

From start to finish, this was a pitcher’s duel between Lofland and Ebaugh, with the two matching each other strikeout for strikeout, scoreless inning for scoreless inning.

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Ari Lucci watches the flight of her walk-off hit against Kennett (BILL RUDICK for Digital First Media)

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SPRINGFIELD — The clash of styles in a back-and-forth first half Tuesday afternoon was obvious.

On one side, Garnet Valley’s preference was clear: To push the ball, quickly but carefully, and let their high-powered offense try to mount lengthy runs. Springfield’s approach was more deliberate, prizing long possessions and prudent shot selection.

Both teams knew that executing their plan well enough would undermine their opponents’ approach. Garnet Valley was the one that put the principle into practice.

The Jaguars’ ruthless attacking efficiency produced eight second-half goals, running away from top-seeded Springfield in a 13-7 win in the District 1 Class 3A semifinal.

The win books No. 4 Garnet Valley (17-3) a second straight trip to the District 1 final. Again, it’s Conestoga awaiting them after the No. 2 Pioneers handled No. 6 Radnor, 11-6. The final Thursday at West Chester Henderson (6 p.m.) is a rematch of last year’s 5-4 win for the then 15th-seeded Jags.

“We always want to strike first, so we want to make them play our game,” attackman Mitch Lachman said. “If we’re running the ball, they really can’t hold it. If we’re scoring goal after goal, they can’t play their game. We force them to rush the ball a little more. It definitely helps when we come out strong and get an early lead.”

The Jags didn’t exactly strike first, but they certainly struck most often, never trailing after Lachman and faceoff man Adam Oldrati scored within six seconds of each other midway through the first quarter. They held a slim 5-4 edge at halftime, but a 4-1 margin in the third put the game beyond reach.

When the Jaguars are firing as Tuesday, they simply pummel teams into submission, even one with the defensive reputation of Springfield (18-3). The Cougars were missing top defender Pat Clemens, as they have been for the last month, but Tuesday marked just the second time they’ve surrendered double-figure goals this year.

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Garnet Valley’s Adam Oldrati, right, wins a face-off against Springfield’s Zach Broomall as the Jaguars won, 13-7, Tuesday in the District 1 Class 3A semifinals. (Pete Bannan/Digital First Media)

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SPRINGFIELD —Springfield High has been a key player in the girls lacrosse District 1 playoffs for a long time.

Pottsgrove is making its way into the late stages of the tournament for the first time.

The host Cougars continued their solid post-season play with a 15-2 semifinal round rout of the Falcons at Halderman Field Tuesday afternoon. With the win, No. 2-seeded Springfield (16-5) will face No. 1 Villa Maria (20-1), the defending state champion, for the Class 2A title Thursday.

Pottsgrove (16-5) will take on Bishop Shanahan, which fell to Villa Maria Tuesday, 17-10, in the third-place matchup Thursday. Each of the teams that qualified for the district semifinals will take part in the PIAA tournament, which begins Tuesday, May 28.

Springfield’s 16-2 advantage in draw controls was the difference. Junior Alyssa Long had eight draw controls – all in the first half – and Temple-bound senior Julie Schickling chipped in with six – four in the second half.

“We know what a big difference it makes having the ball that much,” Long said. “It gives our offense a chance to work on things, and it’s good for our defense.”

Pottsgrove coach Kirstin Urie knew the challenges her team faced trying to stay with a team that has so much playoff experience, including a number of players who took part in the state championship match two years ago.

“There are so many things we can take out of this,” Urie said. “That was such a solid team, and playing someone like that at this stage of the playoffs was something new for our kids.

“We just haven’t seen competition like that this year, and we made mistakes that hurt us. We’ve accomplished so much this year, and now we have to work on putting things together and prove to these other teams that we belong here.”

Springfield had a 6-0 lead, with Julie Schickling getting two of her four goals, before Alyssa Petrucelli connected for Pottsgrove 8:34 before halftime.

Sophomore Casey O’Connor contributed three goals and Long, Olivia Pace, and Erin Gormley got two goals apiece for the Cougars.

Jordyn Mays found the back of the net six minutes before the final whistle to close out Pottsgrove’s scoring.

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Springfield’s Alyssa Long, left, in action against Garnet Valley earlier this season, had eight draw controls and two goals to pace the Cougars to a 15-2 victory over Pottsgrove in the semifinals of the girls District 1 Class 2A lacrosse playoffs Tuesday.

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CALN TWP. — Upper Darby’s Kayla Thorpe and Olivia Thomas, and Jordan Brown of Strath Haven were all smiles as they walked off the track at Coatesville Area High School Friday.

The trio had a reason to be happy. All three qualified for the PIAA Track & Field championships after finishing second, seventh and eighth, respectively, in the Class 3A shot put at the District 1 championships.

Fittingly, they walked off together with their medals dangling from their necks. Thorpe, Thomas and Brown may be competitors from rival Central League schools, but they’re also friends.

“It’s a throwers thing,” Brown said.

It’s a Delco thing, too, which is why the trio refers to themselves as “The Delco Pack.”

“We’re always together,” Thorpe said. “We’re closer than a lot of other athletes. We talk all the time, hang out and clap for each other.”

And provide a shoulder to lean on when necessary.

“We all have the same fears, so why not express that, talk with somebody about it, especially someone who’s going through the same thing?,” Thomas said. “Pretty soon you realize we’re all the same.”

There wasn’t much difference or distance between the three Friday. Thorpe took second with a personal-best put of 40-¼. Thomas was seventh in 39-4½, also a personal best. Brown was eighth in 39-2.

Thorpe qualified for the state meet automatically by virtue of her finish. Thomas and Brown easily bettered the state qualifying standard (37-6) to earn a trip to Shippensburg next week.

“It’s going to be nice to see familiar faces,” Thorpe said.

Thorpe’s day was far from done. After taking silver in the shot put in the morning, the junior followed up with another personal-best throw of 126-1 to place third in the javelin and earn another spot at the state meet.

“Today, everything about my flight was going wrong,” Thorpe said. “My coach (Brad Gilbert) said that I needed to keep my arm back. I wasn’t throwing through the point consistently.”

Thorpe threw 119-2 on her third attempt to make the finals and move into fourth place. She followed that up with a 115-4 and 112-5 in her first two attempts in the finals. She was still in fourth place and planned to pass on her last attempt, figuring she was safe for a spot in the PIAA Championships.

All that changed, though, when Henderson’s Cameron Trotter threw 120-0 and Kara Schiek of Villa Maria Academy unleashed a throw of 121-4 on their final attempts to bump Thorpe down to sixth place and out of automatic qualifying.

Only the top five from District 1 earn automatic trips to states. The next three finalists had to meet the qualifying standard of 122-0, which Thorpe had not done. So she decided to take her last attempt.

That’s when he unleashed her bronze medal-winning throw, with the encouragement of Gilbert.

“He said, ‘Let it rip,’” Thorpe said. “I guess I got mad and I let it rip and I PR’d. The school record is 126-7. Hopefully, I can hit that (at states). That’s my goal.”

Thorpe has another objective she would like to accomplish. She is seeded eighth in Saturday’s discus competition and would love to make the state championships in all three throwing events.

“Discus is not my best event, but I’ll try,” Thorpe said.

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The self-styled “Delco Pack” — from left, Upper Darby’s Olivia Thomas, Strath Haven’s Jordan Brown and Upper Darby’s Kayla Thorpe — pose with their medals for finishing seventh, eighth and second, respectively, in the District 1 Class 3A girls shot put Friday. All three qualified for the PIAA championships

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BRYN MAWR >> Owen J. Roberts trailed by only a goal after a wild first half of Saturday morning’s District 1-3A girls lacrosse quarterfinal. But nothing much went right for the Wildcats after that.

The eighth-seeded Wildcats were relegated to a must-win playback game after a 16-11 loss at top-seeded Harriton.
Katelin Williams and Allison Schwab each scored four times for the Rams (19-1), who clinched a spot in the PIAA Class 3A Tournament. Hannah Delahaye scored three for the eighth-seeded Wildcats (15-4), who need to win on Tuesday when they host West Chester Rustin in a 7 p.m. match.

Roberts was outscored 7-3 in the second half while playing without senior co-captain Eloise Gebert, who drew two yellow cards.

“We lost one of our top players early in the second half,” said OJR coach David Schlesinger. “She’s a vital person on the draw and our second-leading scorer. That was a huge loss.”

The Wildcats came up with just one of the 11 draws in the second half, and Sophia Murray scored 18 seconds after her team won that face-off. But that only brought them back to within 14-10. Harriton countered with goals by Williams and Schwab to wrap up the win.

“They’re a very talented team,” said Schlesinger. “We needed to keep it tighter. We lost a little composure after the second card. I like the way we got our composure back and battled to the final horn.”

Williams, who helped the Rams take an early 4-1 advantage, was excited and tired afterwards.

“I haven’t been in states once in my entire career,” said the Harriton senior attack, an All-Central League first-team selection. “The other team did a great job. It was a hard game. We’re all exhausted.”

Harriton, which knocked off defending state champion Unionville 20-11 on Thursday, scored four in a row – the last two by Williams – for a 4-1 advantage. Then the Wildcats called a time out and answered with five consecutive goals over the next five minutes to take their largest lead of the match, 6-4.

But the Rams scored three late in the first half to regain the upper hand and Schwab, another league first-team pick, scored three minutes into the second half for a 10-8 margin. Then after Gracyn Smith scored with her team a player up following a Harriton yellow card, the Rams took control with four scores in a row.

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CALN — Former Penn Wood and Strath Haven coach Bob Jesson watched in awe as Strath Haven’s Grace Forbes anchored the Class 3A 4 x 800 relay team to victory, won the 800- and 1,600-meter runs and helped the 4 x 400 relay finish fourth at the District 1 Track & Field Championships Saturday.

Jesson knows a monster performance when he sees it. He was the coach at Penn Wood when Leroy Burrell won four individual events at the 1985 PIAA Championships. The slightly older Jesson said Saturday Forbes’ performance was more impressive than Burrell’s.

“This was harder,” Jesson said. “It’s distance. Sprinters can run four events … This is unbelievable.”

It was the first time Forbes ran four events in her career and she was surprised by Jesson’s statement.

“I disagree with that,” said Forbes, who ran four events for the first time in her career.

Burrell’s effort did lead Penn Wood to a state title, so Forbes does have a point. Her performance, though, was special, too. A quick review of results available on pa.milesplit.com shows that Forbes is the first female in Class 3A to win the 800 and 1,600 at the district meet going back to 2003.

“I did exactly what I wanted to do,” Forbes said. “I’m happy with what I did.”

Forbes anchored the team of Olivia Malley, Maggie Forbes and Abby Loiselle to victory in the 4 x 800. She then cruised to a five-second win in the 1,600, finishing in 4:49.33. She won the 800 by more than two seconds over Keara Seasholtz of Radnor with a time of 2:10.18. The victory in the 1,600 was done effortlessly. She took the lead with 400 meters to go and was never threatened after that.

“It was perfect,” Forbes said of the 1,600. “I just went out with the front person. She happened to go at a great pace. That’s the pace I practice at in intervals, so it was just like running another interval. I was a little tired at the end. I ran like 65 seconds for the last lap, but it worked out.”

In all likelihood, that was Forbes’ last 1,600 of her high school career.

“I think at states, I’m not running four races,” Forbes said. “I think I’m going to focus more on the open 800, the 4 x 8 and the 4 x 4. The mile, I don’t think I have a good shot at winning. Marlee Starliper (of Northern York in District 3) ran a 4:38 today, so I’m not really sure about that. I really want to run an 800 to make my senior year special.”

Forbes’ performance highlighted a big day for the Panthers, who were fifth in the team competition. Hailie Jackson, Forbes, Tess Baily and Malley were fourth in the 4 x 400. Malley was eighth in the 400 and advanced to the PIAA championships on time. Dana Hubbell placed sixth in the 100 hurdles and eighth in the triple jump. She made states in the hurdles as an automatic qualifier, but not the triple. Bailey placed eighth in the 300 hurdles, but did not advance.

“We had a great day,” Haven coach Bill Coren said.

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Strath Haven’s Grace Forbes crosses the finish line well ahead of the pack in the 1,600. It was one of three gold medals Forbes won Saturday at the district meet at Coatesville High.

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