PA – Central Athletic League | Archive | September, 2023

RIDLEY TWP. — Alicia Higgins and Isabella Tront are Garnet Valley’s only returning varsity players from last season’s District 1 Class 4A championship team.

By merit, they are two of the leaders on a new-look Jags squad, hoping to live up to lofty expectations under first-year head coach Eryn Brady, who was previously an assistant coach for the now happily retired Mark Clark.

There are many fresh faces on this year’s Jags, who said goodbye to senior Maddie Wood, the two-time Daily Times Player of the Year as well as All-Delcos Kelly St. Germain, Sara Weins and Klaira Zakarian. Sophomore Sarah Wood is concentrating on beach volleyball after she enjoyed a remarkable freshman campaign at Garnet Valley.

An excellent setter, the senior Higgins was injured for a large chunk of the 2022 season due to a high ankle sprain. Tront, a junior middle hitter, was a valuable contributor on the front line on the Jags’ senior-laden team last fall.

“I am the oldest player and there are many younger players who I never played with before, so there has been an adjustment and it’s a whole new dynamic,” Higgins said following Garnet Valley’s sweep of Ridley (24-15, 24-14, 24-13). “Last year I was hurt so I had to take a break and I don’t play club in the offseason. So, really, I haven’t set in a game for like two years, so it’s been different for me but I really did miss it.”

Higgins dished out 55 assists and seven aces against Ridley and set Tront up for the game-winning point. She has been a pleasant surprise according to Brady, who was an excellent player at Upper Merion, where she won two District 1 titles, and York College.

“I tell Alicia all the time how I’m so proud of her, how she leads this team,” Brady said. “I am really impressed with her play. She has really blown me away, with the expectations I had of her coming into this season, she has done a great job leading the team on and off the court.”

Tront dominated at the front of the net alongside outside hitters Abigail MacMillan, Cara Furchner and Mary Nancarrow.

“What’s been less of an adjustment is that we had a bunch of these girls on JV and our practices are very in line with one another, so it was like bringing half the team up with us for this year,” said Tront, who posted seven kills. “We’ve developed great chemistry with all the girls and I think we’re definitely showing it out on the court.”

Regan Hill chipped in with six kills for the Jags (7-1, 3-1 Central League), who have won four consecutive matches. Their lone defeat was at the hands of first-place Haverford (8-1, 3-0).

“We are a bunch of new players playing with each other, so chemistry is going to be important for us … especially setter-hitter dynamics and being able to get those passes to the front row,” Tront said. “Basically building that chemistry between each of the inner links, the passing and the setting, and setting in the hitting, to really put that ball away.”

Brady wants to see better consistency. There were times Monday when the Jags were comfortably ahead, only to allow a tough Ridley team to battle back. The third game was probably their cleanest effort, with the Jags taking 12 of the final 15 points.

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Garnet Valley’s Alicia Higgins returns a serve in the first game as the Jaguars defeated Ridley 3-0 Monday afternoon at Ridley High School. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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NEWTOWN SQUARE — One by one, the results streamed in, staggering and impressive, bold and potentially threatening: a 50 and a 56 and a 47.

Such were the points produced by Marple Newtown in a remarkable 3-0 start to the football season.

Such was the production that Mike Miller would calmly dismiss.

“Yes, we saw it,” said Miller, Springfield’s jolting linebacker. “But I truly believed they had not played a defense like ours. I truly believe we are one of the best.”

That was his opinion. And that was an opinion he backed up Friday, leading a swarming Cougars defense in a 22-0 Central League road triumph.

Limiting the Tigers (3-1, 2-1) to 31 rushing yards and containing their dangerous passing game, Springfield (3-1, 2-1) dominated what was as close to a statement game as possible two weeks into September.

Senior quarterback Ryan Whitaker completed five of nine passes for 140 yards and touchdown tosses to Mike Friel for 60 yards and Chris Dolan for 36, but largely relied on a steady rushing attack to keep the clock — and the Tigers’ insides — spinning.

Nate Romano ran for 81 yards including a one-yard touchdown that he would adorn with a two-point conversion run. Mike Turner added 67 yards and the Cougars ran a winning streak to two since a tough loss to Strath Haven.

“Our players are resilient,” coach Chris Britton said. “We work on it. But it’s a volume. It takes a while. Our seniors are leading the way and our juniors are starting to buy in with it. And I think it’s working out for us.”

For Springfield, the big defensive plays started early, at least one out of quick necessity. Marple Newtown quarterback Dave Bertoline, who would pass for 118 yards, would spice the opening drive of the game with a 44-yard pass to Paul DeFruscio, planting the Tigers at the Springfield 1-yard line. But the drive was punctured when Springfield’s Vinny Valerio recovered a fumble in the end zone and returned it to the MN 48.

Suddenly, or so it seemed, the Tigers’ three-game scoring party seemed to lose some air.

“We should have been in,” Marple Newtown coach Chris Gicking said. “But we can’t make mistakes like that against a really good team. And after that, they took it to us.”

After a short push-back, Springfield capitalized on the turnover when Whitaker connected with Friel and Sean Williams added the PAT.

“Our team has been very good at that,” Whitaker said. “Even after big plays, no one puts their head down. Against Haven, we were down at half, but put our heads down and went on a scoring drive. We were tied at half against Conestoga but came back and scored right away. We will not give up.”

The Cougars took a two-score lead on their next possession, with Romano uncorking a 19-yard run for possession at the 1, then spending the next two plays scoring eight points. With Springfield determined to effectively end it early, Dolan recovered the ensuing on-side kick, but the Marple Newtown defense would not buckle.

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Springfield’s Vinny Valerio takes a fumble out of the end zone in the first quarter Friday night against Marple Newtown. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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LOWER MERION — Ridley had no wins to show for its first two weeks of action, in two of the toughest games on its schedule.

Its offense took out its frustrations on Lower Merion Thursday.

Ridley tallied 405 yards of offense with its first-teamers taking just 24 snaps in three quarters in a 55-26 handling of the Aces.

“Just being the underdogs, having to come out on top after two tough losses,” Ridley receiver Khameen Powell said. “All that hard work, it definitely wasn’t for nothing, so we knew we had to come back strong and get a good win.”

All but one of the touchdowns was of 30 yards or more. Connor Kelly busted a 46-yard touchdown sprint on the first play from scrimmage. Powell, who had an 89-yard kick return, scored on a 53-yard shovel pass from Ryan Carroll and a 57-yard quick slant to go with rushing scores of 30 and 58 yards, the latter a lateral from Carroll. The junior QB also hit Chase Staley for a 53-yarder.

Only Carroll’s fourth TD of the day, an 11-yard strike to Nate Barnshaw in the third quarter, didn’t involve a long and ultimately fruitless chase from Lower Merion’s defense.

Carroll threw for 190 yards on 6-for-7 passing. Powell was the gamebreaker, his five touchdowns coming on six offensive touches plus two on special teams. Already up to 10 touchdowns on the season, the senior is instant offense.

“I’ve been playing with him for a while,” Carroll said. “Almost every time he touches the ball, something special is going to happen.”

Powell got Ridley (1-2 Central League and overall) right back after the Aces had briefly taken an 8-7 lead in a wild start. LM’s opening possession went three-and-out, leading to a punt and Kelly’s score. Zion Gray returned the ensuing kick 80 yards to the house for a brief Aces lead once the two-point conversion was converted.

It lasted as long as it took Powell to return the next kick 89 yards to the house.

Lower Merion would spend the rest of the day figuring out how not to kick to him, accruing five of their 12 penalties. Powell needed four carries to reach 103 yards, and his two catches accounted for 110.

“Just read my blocks,” Powell said. “I’ve got a one-on-one with the safety, make a move and then I’m gone with my speed.”

For all of Ridley’s offensive explosiveness, this was not a Ridley-Lower Merion game of the recent past. The Aces counterpunched, trailing 21-14 after one quarter and 27-14 at half. They did it all without quarterback Mekhai Smith, who is out for at least a month with a knee issue.

Sophomore Nick DeLuca stepped in and didn’t miss a beat. He went 19-for-28 for 262 yards and three touchdowns. He was sacked twice but didn’t turn the ball over.

“We’ve just got to trust our quarterback and go out there and do our jobs,” senior receiver Josh Barrow-Adams said. “For our team to work, everybody’s got to do our jobs. We trust our quarterback to do his job, and we’ve got to do our jobs.”

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Ridley’s Khameen Powell runs for one of his three first-half touchdowns against Lower Merion at Arnold Field in Ardmore Thursday. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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NETHER PROVIDENCE — Penncrest and Strath Haven buckled up and dug in for the Media Bowl at George King Field Thursday night.

The Lions picked up a few more yards than the Panthers did on the ground. Neither team lost a fumble. Penncrest didn’t complete a pass or commit a penalty.

On the last four Penncrest snaps of the fourth quarter, the Strath Haven defense increased its intensity and shut the door on the Lions to claim a 20-14 Central League decision. Haven (4-0, 3-0) remained undefeated while the Lions, who opened the season with a pair of nonleague victories, dropped to 2-2.

James Fisher, whose late 74-yard run helped the Panthers to a 21-20 win at Ridley a week ago, had three scoring runs Thursday, the final one set up by his 45-yard reception of a pass tossed by Jake Kitchin 10 seconds before halftime. Haven had a 20-7 advantage as the teams left the field for the break.

“I just ran a post route and it was a great throw by Jake,” said Fisher, who ran 63 yards to score earlier in the second quarter and gained 111 yards on 10 carries.

Penncrest kicked off to begin the second half, with solid play by Asher Wynne and Ben Kauffman holding Haven to minus-two yards on three plays.

The Lions took over and drove 63 yards on 14 run, capped by sophomore quarterback Paul Graham’s 3-yard run. Graham, who took over for injured senior signal caller Nico Tozzi, also scored on a short run 54 seconds before halftime.

Wynne’s kicked with 1:33 left in the third quarter pulled the visitors within six points, but that turned out to be the last points scored.

“We played tough and we fought back,” Penncrest coach — and the starting QB’s dad — Paul Graham said. “They scored that TD after the long pass play just before the half, but we came out and held them and took the ball right down the field and flipped the momentum. We just didn’t have some things go our way after that.”

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Strath Haven’s Marco Kaufman, seen tackling Interboro’s Robert Finnegan during a Week 1 game, led a sturdy defensive effort in a 20-14 win over Penncrest Friday. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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CONCORD — Garnet Valley has faced its share of adversity in the first month of the season.

There was the opening night loss at Central Bucks West, which snapped the Jaguars’ 34-game undefeated streak in District 1 competition.

There was the comeback at Ridley the following week, in which the Jags trailed by 14 points late in the first half, but scored five of the final six touchdowns en route to victory.

One week ago, GV found itself in another close game with a much-improved Penncrest squad, but pulled away late in the second quarter and cruised to a 21-point win.

The reigning five-time Central League champions have been challenged every week, a notable difference from years past. Haverford was the latest test. With their new-look triple option offense, the Fords came into Moe DeFrank Stadium looking to be the ones to hand the Jags their first Central League loss since 2017. While it was the furthest thing from easy, the Jags made enough plays to secure a 14-13 victory Thursday night.

GV’s defensive front thwarted Haverford quarterback Liam Taylor on fourth-and-three late in the fourth quarter, then Jags running back Luke Vaughn broke off a huge run to seal the win.

“We went through our ups and downs and we stuck together the whole time,” Garnet Valley center Dylan Bledsoe said. “And that’s what brings a good team together, and in a dogfight, that’s where it goes. We were able to stick together and get the win.”

The Jags and Fords were deadlocked at seven at halftime. Dean Koehler (108 yards on 16 carries) scored the game’s first touchdown on an eight-yard run with 9:54 left in the second quarter. The Fords then proceeded to run a 15-play drive that chewed up nearly eight minutes of game clock, punctuated by a 25-yard TD pass from Taylor to Buddy Coacher, who made a great catch in the back of the end zone.

“We knew it was going to be a dogfight and we stuck in it like we knew we could,” said Taylor, who was sensational running the offense. One week after a 229-yard rushing performance, the sophomore accumulated 148 yards on 28 carries. “It’s a one-point game. If we didn’t have a simple mistake, we would have won that game, you know? I’m proud of everyone. We are moving the ball really well. … We’re just going to keep getting better and we have.”

That “simple mistake” was a missed extra-point by backup kicker Ryan Corbett after Taylor’s three-yard scoring dash pulled the Fords (1-3, 0-1 Central League) to within a point of a tie with 2:05 left in the third quarter.

“Without Ryan Corbett playing the offensive line and defensive line, we don’t have 13 points on the board and they have more than 14,” Haverford coach Luke Dougherty said. “We asked him to go from linebacker and tight end to O-line and D-line this year. And he did it so willingly. He beats himself up. The only reason he’s kicking is because our kicker is hurt and he’s a gaelic football guy, so he knows how to boot the ball. Without Ryan on the O-line and D-line, we’re not even in the game.”

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Haverford quarterback Liam Taylor had an outstanding game but was stopped on a late run to try to get into the end zone for what would have been a Fords lead Friday night at Garnet Valley. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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BERWYN >> For a grind-it-out, ball-control team like Conestoga, capitalizing on opportunities is essential.

Thursday, at Teamer Field, the Pioneers made the most of a couple fourth-down plays, one of which senior lineman, Quinn Nichols, saw coming.
“I actually called it,” Nichols said. “I told (Charlie Newhall) I was going to score a touchdown and it happened.”

Nichols’ blocked punt and scoop and score from the three-yard line with 12 seconds left in the first half propelled Conestoga to a 22-8 win over Upper Darby in the Central League matchup.

On their previous possession, the Pioneers (2-1 league, 2-2 overall) got stopped on a fourth-and-four from the Upper Darby five, so Nichols’ big special team moment was just what ‘Stoga coach Matt Diamond was looking for.

“We wanted to go into halftime up two scores and we had just gotten stopped trying to get in,” Diamond said. “Our defense got the stop and our special teams scored to give us the opportunity to do that. It was a big momentum shift going into halftime.”

In the second half, Conestoga played keep-away, possessing the ball for nearly 17 of the 24 minutes. The Pioneers averaged just 3.5 yards per carry on the ground, but put together two long drives for scores.

The first was on their opening drive, when Jude Cook scored from a yard out on the 12th play.

On the 13th play of a possession that drained over seven and a half game minutes off the clock, Cook hit Jake Yancoskie on a fourth-and-six, and Yancoskie broke down the far sideline for a 36-yard TD.

“I thought it was a really great win to get us back on track to where we want to be,” Diamond said. “We lost a tough one to a good Springfield team last week and that motivated the guys this week in practice to get on the right track.”

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Conestoga’s Jude Cook hands the ball to the referee after reaching the end zone against Upper Darby. (Nate Heckenberger – For MediaNews Group)

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BERWYN>>The Conestoga field hockey team has won the last three straight Central League titles, and kicked off its campaign for a fourth in dominant fashion. Led by Shae Wozniak, who notched a hat trick twice over with six goals in the game, the Pioneers (2-0 overall, 1-0 Central League) cruised to an 11-0 rout of visiting Marple-Newtown (1-2, 0-1) in the league opener for both schools.

“We really are deep with our offensive threats,” said Conestoga coach Regan Marscher. “We did some really nice passing and moved the ball and distributed it well. This team is unselfish, yet at the same time hungry. I’m really proud of the way this team played on offense today.”

Wozniak was on fire early, posting a hat trick before six minutes had been played, and adding a fourth with 4:24 still to play in the first period.  Within 90-seconds of the start of the second half, Wozniak had put up her second hat trick of the game, finding the back of the cage three times in thirty-second intervals to start the third.

“I’ve never had a six goal game before, but this was a total team effort today,” said Wozniak. “Everyone moved the ball around well, and we communicated well. This is a nice way to get the season going. We’ve got a really tough schedule this year, which will help us down the road in the post season. “

Despite her six goal outburst, it was hardly a one woman show for the Pioneers, who saw five different goal scorers, and six different players credited with assists, led by Ava Lofgren who tallied the assist on each of Wozniak’s first three scores.

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Conestoga’s Ava Lofgren battles with Marple-Newtown’s Kerri Trainor (BILL RUDICK for MediaNews Group)

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RADNOR — The beauty of pre-Labor Day football is that no matter the implications of a final score, there shall be a consistency of reaction.

So it was Friday when Marple Newtown defeated Radnor, 56-7, and both camps unloaded the same basic reaction.

Two words: It’s early.

“I told them we were 1-and-4 last year and wound up making the playoffs,” Radnor coach Kyle Yeiter said. “I was just letting them know, ‘Guys, it’s a long season.’”

At the same time – at the other end of both the field and range of emotion – coach Chris Gicking would be sharing a similar take.

“I just said, ‘We have Upper Darby next,’” he said. “And we know they are a very good football team. So we have a lot of work to do this week.”

The Raptors (0-2,0-1 Central League) were stung hard by injuries in the trenches, but with the way MN has played in the first two weeks – outscoring Boys Latin and Radnor by a combined 106-27 – it may not have mattered.

While having entered the season encouraged by a several-season ramp-up to a roster deep in experience, the Tigers have been showing the ability to exceed those dreams. Behind a dominating offensive line Friday – including, among others, Andrew Kirlin, Jason Bennett, Brett Cowan, Eric Janda and Jake McGowan – they rushed for 232 yards and scored on every first-half possession.

Brian Box paced the balanced attack with 109 rushing yards, including TD sprints of 54 and 6 yards, and added a flourish of an 85-yard return of the second-half kickoff to complete the hat trick.

“The big guys up front, and everybody around them, are just going 100 percent every single play,” Box said. “They don’t let up on any play.”

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Marple Newtown’s Brian Box, seen scoring against Conestoga in a game last season, rushed for109 yards and two touchdowns Friday night against Radnor. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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SPRINGFIELD — Marco Kaufman got some of his football genes from his grandfather and some from his father.

“My Dad, Chris, played soccer for Strath Haven,” the Strath Haven running back and middle linebacker said. “They say he was rough like a football player when he was playing soccer.

“My uncle Matt played for two state championship soccer teams when he was at Strath Haven. I always played soccer when I was younger, but when I got to high school it was all football.”

Tom Kaufman, Marco’s grandfather, was one of the backs who helped St. James High to the Catholic League championship game in 1964, the last game the Bulldogs played under legendary coach Francis “Bean” Brennan.

Tom Kaufman was in the stands at Springfield Friday night to watch Marco run 29 yards with 1:46 to play for the touchdown that gave Haven a 19-15 victory over Springfield in both teams’ Central League opener.

After Marco Kaufman’s TD, he donned his middle linebacker game face and pitched in on the other side of the ball as the Panthers (2-0, 1-0 Central) allowed the Cougars to get no closer than the SH 43. Junior Ben Milligan knocked down Ryan Whitaker’s final two passing attempts, sending the visiting team and its fans home happy.

“I try to make sure I find the ball and play off my teammates,” said Kaufman, who shut down a Springfield drive that had reached the Haven 10 on the Cougars’ first possession by making a tackle for a two-yard loss on fourth-and-two.

Strath Haven coach Kevin Clancy was pleased with the way his team bounced back from giving up a pair of touchdowns in the third quarter, by scoring twice in the final 12 minutes.

“They kept their poise when things got rough,” Clancy said. “That’s a big thing to be able to do and to learn from. And I’ve got to give a lot of compliments to those guys over there,” he added, pointing to the Springfield sideline.

The Cougars outgained the Panthers, 290-229, with 196 of the Springfield yards coming on the ground.

“The first thing we wanted to do was shut down (Nate) Romano,” Haven junior linebacker Shane Green said of the Springfield junior who got only 31 yards on nine carries but did grab a 12-yard scoring pass from Whitaker late in the third quarter. “And we had to read the routes in pass coverage and find the ball.”

Springfield senior Mike Turner was the ball carrier who gave Haven fits, picking up 138 yards on 19 carries, including a 51-yard scoring sprint in the second minute of the second half.

“I was proud of our effort,” Springfield coach Chris Britton said. “This was a very good high school football game, and it’s a shame somebody had to lose. But we know there’s still a lot of football left to be played.”

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Strath Haven’s Marco Kaufman breaks into open ground in last week’s game against Interboro. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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RIDLEY TWP. — When Ronnie Leraris turned the corner Friday night, he was unstoppable.

The senior running back accumulated 229 yards on 16 carries and scored five touchdowns to lead Garnet Valley to a 42-28 win over Ridley at Phil Marion Field.

After trailing 21-7 with 3:33 to go before halftime, the Jaguars (1-1, 1-0 Central League) scored six of the game’s final seven touchdowns.

“We ran the right plays in the second half,” Leraris said, “and we executed.”

Dean Koehler, who played a huge role in the defensive secondary, smirked as Leraris uttered those words.

“Well, Ronnie is that fast,” he said. “It’s kind of hard to tackle him.”

Ridley found out the hard way in its opener.

“I give love to the O-line and the perimeter receivers and the slot back,” Leraris said. “They blocked their (tails) off tonight and that helped me a lot.”

Garnet Valley was staring at an almost unfathomable 0-2 start to the season after a loss to Central Bucks West last week. The Green Raiders went up by two touchdowns in the second quarter. It was the combination of quarterback Ryan Carroll and wide receiver Khameen Powell that presented all sorts of challenges for the GV defense. Powell had touchdown catches of 41 and four yards. He would’ve had a third in the opening half had the senior not dropped a wide open pass in the end zone.

The Jags were lucky to be down by only 14 points when the offense went to work late in the second period. Speedy wide receiver Kai Lopez ran a seam route and was left all alone. Quarterback Luke O’Donoghue, who got the start in place of injured Tyler Lassik, made a perfect throw and Lopez ran to the end zone untouched, trimming the Ridley lead to 21-14 with 2:04 left in the half.

“I think the thing with us is we know that, no matter what happens, we always have each other’s back,” said Koehler, who had one of two interceptions of Carroll in the second half. “Other teams, when they start going down, they start yelling at each other. But with us no matter what happens, good or bad, we’ve always got each other’s back and I think that’s what separates us from every other team.”

One of Leraris’ five TDs was a 40-yard pass from O’Donoghue in the first quarter. Head coach Eric Van Wyk noted that the offense had gone nearly six quarters to begin the season without scoring a rushing touchdown. The Jags fixed that in a hurry and wound up amassing 369 yards rushing at 8.6 yards per carry. Koehler checked in with 83 yards. O’Donoghue finished with 48.

“I think it’s kind of a crazy thought, going almost six quarters without a rushing touchdown,” Van Wyk said. “I think what changed tonight was the guys up front. That was the big challenge. We really challenged them this week in practice, both the offensive and defensive lines. As the game went on we really built that up. We’ve been trying to figure out who’s going to be the guy who steps up and tonight it was Ronnie. We knew we had to try to get him in open space and we finally got that going.”

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Garnet Valley’s Ronnie Leraris, seen in a game against Haverford last year, scored five touchdowns as the Jags beat Ridley Friday. (PETE BANNAN-DAILY TIMES)

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