Sports
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. [hotblock] 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Charity begins at the foul line, and ends with O’Hara girls taking CL title
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 packed Palestra. But why was everyone wearing purple? O’Hara senior guard Mackenzie […]
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, […]
The Mount makes Magic happen, takes Academies League hoops crown
Mount St. Joseph’s Academy was just too tough. There’s really no way of getting around that. Although Villa Maria Academy enjoyed its moments here and there, the Hurricanes were unable to solve a balanced attack by the Magic, and the Mount rolled to a hard-fought, 57-41 Catholic Academies League championship victory. “This is great,” said […]
La Salle High extends string of Catholic League wrestling titles to five
One of these days, some Catholic League wrestling opponent is going to defeat La Salle High School. Just not this year. In what was supposed to be a rebuilding year, the Explorers methodically defeated visiting Father Judge, 39-24, and increased their stronghold on the Catholic League crown to five straight. La Salle’s victory streak versus […]