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GIRLS BASKETBALL: Katie Tiffan’s 2nd-quarter run sparks Spring-Ford in PIAA-6A 2nd-round win over Peters Township

March 13, 2024

WINGATE – The Spring-Ford girls’ basketball team spent most of the first half chasing Peters Township until Kate Tiffan provided the Rams with an...

Supporting cast shines as Perkiomen Valley dispatches Haverford 64-50 in PIAA Second Round

March 13, 2024

KING OF PRUSSIA — No Quinn Boettinger for large chunks of a state playoff game? No problem for Perkiomen Valley. A lesser team might...

Perkiomen Valley outlasts Spring-Ford 62-55 in overtime thriller to win second straight District 1-6A title

March 3, 2024

PHILADELPHIA — In the early stages of Saturday’s District 1-Class 6A girls basketball championship game, Anna Stein injected critically opportune energy into a surprisingly...

“Steller Trained” wrestling club taking District 1 wrestlers to new heights

February 29, 2024

READING >> In the middle of the Alvernia University wrestling room Downingtown West’s Chase Sigle hand fights with Northern Lebanon’s two-time state champion, Aaron...

Perkiomen Valley overpowers North Penn 67-36, returns to District 1-6A championship game

February 29, 2024

The North Penn girls’ basketball program knows as well as any that it’s a long road to the top. The passage of a decade...

Spring-Ford nets wire-to-wire victory over Conestoga to reach third D1-6A championship game in four years

February 29, 2024

BERWYN — With six seniors in its eight-player rotation, Spring-Ford knows time is of the essence. There will be no next season together for...

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL: Spring-Ford, Tiffan sisters quiet Upper Dublin

February 25, 2024

UPPER DUBLIN — It was something you don’t see very often, especially around here: a drought in February. With a nine-point lead after the...

Phoenixville topples Pottstown in District 1-5A quarterfinal, books first trip to states in 15 years

February 22, 2024

PHOENIXVILLE >> Phoenixville’s boys basketball team is writing history one game at a time. And the players responsible are in no hurry to finish this particular chapter. Pottstown’s Abdul...

Perkiomen Valley captures second straight PAC championship over Spring-Ford

February 16, 2024

ROYERSFORD — It was a moment Anna Stein thought would never come, which would explain her vise-like grip on the Pioneer Athletic Conference Championship plaque...

O’Donnell, Lebisky deliver game-winning moment as Phoenixville defeats Spring-Ford for first PAC championship since 2007

February 15, 2024

COLLEGEVILLE — Earlier this season, junior Brady O’Donnell was mostly out of the Phoenixville basketball varsity rotation, stuck primarily on the Phantoms’ JV squad....

Boyertown hires Wilson assistant Jami Sands as next head football coach

June 12, 2024

Jami Sands was approved as the next Boyertown head football coach on Tuesday night at the district’s school board meeting....

Spring-Ford’s late rally comes up just short against District 1 champs Garnet Valley in PIAA 3A lacrosse opener

June 5, 2024

GLEN MILLS >> Spring-Ford’s boys’ lacrosse team never said die. And it took a full 48 minutes for the District 1...

DiBricida dances out of danger to toss complete game in PJP’s 3-2 PIAA 4A first round win

June 4, 2024

ROYERSFORD >> With her Pope John Paul II softball team clinging to a one-run lead in the final inning of...

Softball: Boyertown can’t contain Central Dauphin in PIAA 6A first round

June 4, 2024

The Boyertown and Central Dauphin softball teams had their own unique backstories to contend with ahead of their PIAA Class...

One last hurrah for local players at PAC Senior Bowl

June 4, 2024

GRATERFORD >> For four years, they were the stars of Friday nights in the fall. But for some 66 graduating Pioneer Athletic...