Sports

by Tom Utescher Penn Charter softball, the undefeated Inter-Ac League champion and Pa. Independent Schools champion in 2019, graduated only two players from last year’s squad. However, Abby Mannion and Abby Quin were both four-year varsity players, and Quinn has gone on to join the team at West Chester University. The Quakers have their pitching […]

by Ed Morrone Last season, the SCH Academy baseball program won its first outright Inter-Ac title in 30 years, and even from the bench, it was one of the best days of Colton Roberts’ life. Roberts was a sophomore on that perfect afternoon last May, the backup catcher to senior Sam Aslansan, and his contributions […]

by Ed Morrone Last season, the La Salle baseball program did something it had never accomplished in its rich history: the team won its second consecutive Catholic League crown, no small feat given how much of a buzz saw that league can be on a daily basis. Now, with eyes set on a dynastic three-peat, […]

by Tom Utescher Near the end of the 2019-20 basketball season, one of the top female players at Penn Charter decided to continue her hoops career right here in Northwest Philadelphia. Senior Kait Carter, a 5’10” guard, has signed with Chestnut Hill College, a member of the NCAA Division II Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. A […]

by Tom Utescher Mount St. Joseph Academy ended its basketball season last Saturday in a first-round game in the PIAA tournament. The third seed out of District 1 in Class 5A, the Magic bowed, 47-41, to another three-seed, District 12’s Archbishop Carroll High School. Mount St. Joe’s, which had been the runner-up in the Athletic […]

By Ed Morrone Although it’s one of the oldest sports clichés in the book, family is everything to the Penn Charter baseball team, on and off the field. Take three of the team’s best players heading into 2020 for example. First, there’s junior outfielder/pitcher Jake Siani, whose two older brothers, Mike and Sammy, have been […]

by Tom Utescher After entering the PIAA District 1 Class 5A playoffs as the fifth-ranked team, Mount St. Joseph Academy is going on to the state tournament as a third seed after splitting its last two district contests last week. In a semifinal on Tuesday evening, the Magic lost, 52-42, to the top seed and […]

by Ed Morrone Jordan Longino has quite the monumental decision to make this summer, but if you’re searching for an overwhelmed, panic-stricken teenager, you’ve come to the wrong place. Longino is a two-sport star junior athlete at Germantown Academy, and he is very, very good at both games he plays. As the Patriots’ starting quarterback […]

by Tom Utescher The girls of Penn Charter authored an impressive body of work during the 2019-2020 basketball campaign, but the Quakers would just as soon forget about the games that served as bookends to their season annals. PC both began and ended its season with losses to Abington Friends School. In early December, the […]