Mercury Football Preview: PJP hoping to carry success of unusual 2020 into this season
They’re looking to play a traditionally normal season … or a reasonably good facsimile. The Pope John Paul II players had a highly unusual...
Mercury Football Preview: Under Kennedy, Methacton plans to continue upward climb
The Methacton Class of 2022 entered the Warriors’ football program in the midst of a coaching change three seasons ago. As they enter their...
Mercury Football Preview: Pottsgrove’s seniors hope to instill winning attitude
The Pottsgrove football program seemed to work like a clock for many years. Constant. Always turning. The COVID-19 pandemic last year stopped the ticking....
Mercury Football Preview: Senior quartet looking to turn tide for Boyertown
It’s a double-decker challenge Boyertown faces in its preparation for the 2021 season. The Bears, like other teams in southeastern Pennsylvania, find themselves working...
Mercury Football Preview: Perkiomen Valley eyes return to PAC’s peak
Perkiomen Valley had the closest thing to a traditional season of any Pioneer Athletic Conference team in 2020 by playing a league-high eight games....
Mercury Football Preview: After year with the big boys, Upper Perk ready to show its strength
The Upper Perkiomen football team was grouped with the big boys last time out. It suited them, though: becoming bigger boys has been a...
Mercury Football Preview: Plethora of 2020’s statistical stars return this season
Being a statistical leader always ranks high in football circles. Even more so when accomplished during a season like the one local high-school programs...
Phoenixville postpones opener vs Great Valley, reschedules Bishop Shanahan game
The Phoenixville football team’s season opener against Great Valley on Friday, Aug. 27 has been called off due to COVID-19 contact tracing in the...
Pottsgrove adapts to keep camp tradition alive
Every summer since 1998, the Pottsgrove football team took a three-hour bus ride to spend its training camp away at Camp Wade in Hancock,...
Mercury-area teams appreciate return of football camp following abnormal 2020
Pope John Paul II junior Markese Williams forgot some things about what a typical high school football training camp entails. “How much my legs...