Prendergast upsets St. Hubert’s for first league softball title in 31 years

On a hot afternoon May 22 on an immaculately landscaped field at Arcadia University, Monsignor Bonner-Archbishop Prendergast High School — aka Prendergast when talking only girls’ sports — produced a memorable performance in the Catholic League softball championship.

Led by senior pitcher Brooke Lachette’s steady pitching and a barrage of 10-hit, four-walk offense, Prendergast stunned defending champion St. Hubert’s, 6-3, for the school’s first softball title since 1982.

Archbishop Carroll’s girls lacrosse dominance ending soon? Don’t bet on it

Carroll’s latest conquest was a 20-2 Catholic League semifinal victory against overmatched St. Hubert’s. League Most Valuable Player Taryn Deck was her typical self, contributing four goals and three assists. Two of her teammates added a hat trick and four more supplied two apiece.

Next up to the guillotine is Cardinal O’Hara, which doubled up on Archbishop Wood, 10-5, in the other semifinal. At 6 p.m. Monday at Neumann University, O’Hara will try do what no other team has been able to do in the past dozen years and counting: squash Goliath.

District One hoops champ Villa Maria plays family-style, win or lose

To say that most people figured Villa Maria Academy’s basketball team would have enough ammunition to make a bunch of noise in the postseason would be, well, inaccurate.
For good reason.

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When you lose four standout starters and then need to rely on one primo performer and a horde of relatively inexperienced underclassmen, expectations [...]

St. Anastasia’s girls win state CYO basketball title

St. Anastasia of Newtown Square won the girls state CYO championship March 17 by beating St. Gabriel’s of the Pittsburgh Diocese 36-21 to win the title game at Lancaster Catholic High School.
St. Anastasia’s girls won the archdiocesan CYO championship the week earlier and the right to represent the Archdiocese in the state tournament.
Shown below with their [...]

St. Maximilian Kolbe wins archdiocesan boys CYO basketball title

St. Maximilian Kolbe, West Chester, finished a perfect season with a 58-53 win over parochial powerhouse St. Andrew’s, Newtown, to win its first boys archdiocesan Catholic Youth Organization basketball championship March 9 in front of a capacity crowd at Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster.
(See a photo of the girls CYO basketball state champion, St. [...]

Girls can play CYO football with boys, archbishop directs

Come the fall, girls will be allowed to play full contact football with boys on Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) teams in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, the archdiocesan Communications Office announced March 14 in a statement.

Holy Ghost Prep to face off against La Salle for Flyers Cup

The two finalists emerged via different routes, each impressive in their own particular way.
So, on Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia, two-time defending champion La Salle College High School will meet Holy Ghost Prep in the Class AAA Flyers Cup ice hockey championship.
“Sometimes you need a little bit of luck,” said [...]

Neumann-Goretti boys take Catholic League crown, now look ahead to states

Junior Ja’Quan Newton scored 27 points to lead Neumann-Goretti to a 60-42 Catholic League championship victory over St. Joseph’s Preparatory School Monday night at the Palestra.
The Saints, who also received 11 points and 11 rebounds from senior man-child John Davis, have now captured five straight league titles. The record for consecutive championships is six, a feat pulled off by [...]

Charity begins at the foul line, and ends with O’Hara girls taking CL title

Archbishop Wood’s point guard Jackie Pierson, left, goes up to block O’Hara’s Aminah Farmer.
A trivial three-point bomb from center court was way off the mark, and a sea of purple flooded onto center court.
Cardinal O’Hara had defeated Archbishop Wood and captured the girls’ Catholic League championship, 31-25, before a boisterous crowd Monday night at a [...]

Boys settle Catholic League finals matchup: It’s Neumann-Goretti vs. the Prep, redux

The Catholic League boys’ basketball semifinals took place Wednesday night, Feb. 20, at the Palestra. It’s difficult to imagine a better venue to play – and watch – a basketball game.
The four finalists did their part to create excitement, and in the end, top-seed and four-time defending league champion Neumann-Goretti dominated Archbishop Carroll, 57-34, while [...]