Sports
Wood vs Ryan rematch for girls soccer championship
Archbishop Ryan girls’ soccer team will face Archbishop Wood again this season for the championship. The girls from Archbishop Wood defeated Little Flower in a close 1-0 game to make it to the finals. Archbishop Ryan shut out Lansdale Catholic in a 4-0 game. The championship game will take place at Archbishop Ryan High School […]
Sports: Catholic League standings
Catholic League Boys’ Soccer Father Judge 9-0-0 Lansdale Catholic 7-1-1 St. Joseph’s Prep 7-1-1 Roman Catholic 6-2-1 La Salle 6-3 Archbishop Wood 5-3-1 Bonner-Prendergast 3-4-1 Archbishop Ryan 2-4-2 Conwell-Egan 2-7-1 Archbishop Carroll 1-7 Cardinal O’Hara 0-7 Bishop McDevitt 0-9 Catholic League Girls’ Soccer Archbishop Ryan 9-1 Archbishop Wood 7-0-3 Little Flower 8-2-1 Lansdale Catholic […]
St. Basil’s turns around program, teaching true value of sports
Imagine losing 36 straight soccer games. Heck, imagine losing 36 straight anything. A little more than one month has been completed in the girls varsity soccer season, and St. Basil’s no longer sees the number zero on the left column of the daily win-loss standings. With a few weeks remaining, the Panthers are 7-7 overall; more impressively, they are 3-5 in the Catholic Academies League. As for the expectation of shaking their opponents’ hands while congratulating them on a victory, that is no longer the case.
Players say concussions a concern, but joy of game outweighs risk
LAUREL, Md. (CNS) -- St. Vincent Pallotti High School senior Rudolfo Garcia said, despite having two concussions back-to-back, he never thinks about the possibility of becoming injured before stepping out on the football field to play. "You don't think of being scared," Garcia, 17, said. "If one man is going 100 percent and you're going only 50 percent, you're probably going to get hurt."
Weekend Catholic football roundup: Judge’s unscored-upon streak ends; league powers emerge
Lansdale Catholic, Archbishop Wood, St. Joseph's Prep and West Catholic all notched impressive wins last weekend, five games into the Catholic League season. Meanwhile, Father Judge had not allowed a touchdown in three and a half games until Bonner Prendergast spoiled the streak on a fumble recovery and touchdown. Still, the Crusader defense hasn't yielded a point this season.
At Father Judge HS, strong leaders emerge from strong football program
The Father Judge High School football team appears to possess an uncommon collective maturity for people who are still teenagers. In their first two games of the season, the Crusaders have experienced a myriad of emotions. It began with a 30-22 loss to Episcopal Academy, a game in which a nightmare start – a 30-8 […]
Week 1 of Catholic League football sees La Salle dominate, and a Bonner-Prendie nailbiter
Every year at this time, there’s a palpable excitement among high school sports fans that’s difficult to ignore. It’s football time. In a time-honored tradition at CatholicPhilly.com (the digital successor to The Catholic Standard and Times), we bring you a roundup of the first weekend of competition featuring Catholic League high school teams.
Russian Catholic leader: No church stance on Olympic boycott calls
WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- Calls for an Olympic boycott because of a Russian law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" have become "highly politicized," said an official of the Russian bishops' conference. Msgr. Igor Kovalevsky, secretary-general of the bishops' conference, said the Catholic Church would not be adopting an official stance on either the boycott or the law.
‘Faith, family, football’ permeates Steelers team, says Benedictine
LATROBE, Pa. (CNS) -- Ask Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney why his football team has been training at St. Vincent College since 1966, and he says that the campus has the right facilities, it's close to Pittsburgh and "for many reasons, it works well." Then he adds with a laugh, "And it helps that it's the Benedictines."
Malvern Prep searched deep in the heart of Texas for new basketball coach
Malvern Prep’s administrators have received their share of interesting coaching candidates over the years. Especially recently. Impressed by several resumes, one in particular raised some eyebrows – in a good way. After coaching for 12 seasons at Cypress Springs High School outside Houston, Texas, John Harmatuk was ready, willing and able to travel to the northeast to inherit the Friars.