MIDDLETOWN — With 10 players, all college commits, returning from the squad that reached the PIAA Class 3A state championship game last spring, Penncrest is getting accustomed to wearing the bullseye. Add up-and-coming goaltender Reese Wickman, the sister of Andrew Wickman, the second team All-Delco goalie for the District 1 Class 2A boys champion Lions…
As the Central League baseball season kicks off, all eyes are on reigning champion Strath Haven. The Panthers are fresh off a double crown as league and District 1 Class 5A champions, and are likely the best team in Delco, poised to make a second straight trip to the state final at Penn State. Leading…
NEWTOWN SQUARE — Strath Haven isn’t fooling around at the start of the 2024 season. The Panthers are swinging the bats well and pitching lights out in late March, looking every bit as dangerous as the 2023 squad. The Central League and District 1 Class 5A champions are determined to run it back this spring….
Sean Henry scored three goals and Gabe Broome added a pair as Strath Haven ran out to a 7-4 boys lacrosse victory Monday over Abington. Deaglan Hogarth and Joe Oyre each scored a goal and Connor Vail had an assist. Baseball Episcopal 10, Penncrest 0 >> Episcopal scored seven first-inning runs abnd cruised from there…
NETHER PROVIDENCE — Last June, Strath Haven came excruciatingly close to becoming the second baseball team from Delaware County to win a PIAA championship. A walk-off loss to Shaler High in the eighth inning sealed a runner-up finish in the Class 5A final at Penn State. That is not good enough for the Panthers Coach…
NETHER PROVIDENCE — The first time he belted streamers to his hips as a 4-year-old flag player for the Rose Tree Colts, James Fisher had a dream that would never be yanked away. It would be there with him as he graduated to youth tackle football. It would grow when he began to play in…
CALN — Strath Haven’s hopes of an upset in the PIAA Class 5A semifinals Friday night realistically lasted all of about seven minutes. The Panthers had a 59-yard touchdown pass wiped out by a flag on a promising opening drive, then didn’t find the end zone until Imhotep Charter was four scores ahead in what…
CHESTER — Strath Haven quarterback Jake Kitchin never envisioned himself scoring three touchdowns in one game. It wasn’t just any old game, either. It was the District 1 Class 5A championship in front of a crowd of thousands packed inside the Chester Athletic Complex. Playing behind the best offensive line in the county, Kitchin was…
Chester and Strath Haven will meet on a football field for only the second time in history Saturday. In a battle of old school and new school, longtime Panthers coach Kevin Clancy leads his team into the Chester-Upland Athletic Complex to play the Clippers, who are under the direction of first-year coach Dennis Shaw. It’s…
NETHER PROVIDENCE — When the game ended, Strath Haven’s Marco Kaufman and Shane Green stood side by side, a living portrait of two exhausted players who had just endured 48 minutes of physical agony. And they couldn’t have felt any better. “Every play I feel I am getting a new bruise,” Kaufman said. “My back,…