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With Thanksgiving looming, it’s time to count football blessings By The Numbers
November 27, 2024
Strath Haven’s Shane Green runs against Penncrest in the first round of the District 1 Class 5A playoffs last month. Green ran for 1,447 yards this season en route to helping the Panthers earn a share of the Central League championship. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)
By Matt Smith
As the high school football season winds down, only the three traditional Thanksgiving morning games remain, along with Bonner & Prendergast, Delaware County’s last team standing in the state playoffs competing in the PIAA Class 4A semifinals Friday.
It’s been a memorable season from a local standpoint, one that has seen numerous records shattered, both at the team level and across the county.
Before the helmets and shoulder pads are put away until next summer, it’s time for a Daily Times tradition: By The Numbers, our annual look at the season in statistical form.
1 >> Number of wins each for Chichester and Sun Valley. The bright side? Before the turkey’s out of the oven Thursday, one of these teams will have doubled its win total.
3 >> Philadelphia Catholic League teams that have advanced to the PIAA semifinals: Bonner & Prendergast (4A), Roman Catholic (5A) and St. Joseph’s Prep (6A). While the Catholic League has had multiple state champions in the same season – most recently in 2019 with Prep and Archbishop Wood – it has never crowned three champions in one year.
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Springfield’s failures in red zone, turnovers help Rustin win district title
November 23, 2024
NATE HECKENBERGER – FOR MEDIANEWS GROUP Springfield’s Brad Barber carries the ball Friday night against West Chester Rustin. Barber rushed for 58 yards and like all of his teammates, no touchdowns. Rustin won the District 1 Class 5A title with a 34-2 victory over the Cougars.
By Matthew DeGeorge
One trip to the red zone in which it came up empty of points might have been enough for Springfield to overcome Friday night.
But two in the first half? Even with a jolt from its special teams unit, two was too much against a team of the caliber of West Chester Rustin.
Rustin’s defense pitched a shutout, three times turning Springfield away in the red zone for a 34-2 victory Friday in the District 1 Class 5A championship game. The second-seeded Golden Knights (13-1) move on to face the winner of District 12 champ Roman Catholic and District 6 winner Hollidaysburg in a PIAA semifinal.
Rustin led 14-0 in the blink of an eye. Quarterback David McClain hit Jojo Magolon for a 56-yard sideline route on third-and-10 on its opening series. Then six snaps later, Nate Pechin jumped a Jackson Kennedy crossing route, picked it and dashed 34 yards to paydirt. The game wasn’t seven minutes old, yet Springfield was in a 14-point hole.
“It’s just a crazy momentum shift at the beginning of the game,” Pechin said. “Both teams are fired up and you come in and punch them in the mouth like that, it definitely is a demoralizer for them. It boosted our morale and we were ready to go for the rest of the game. It fired us up pretty good.”
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District 1 football champs could find clearer path through state tourney
November 22, 2024
By Matthew DeGeorge
There will be a lot on the line Friday night when West Chester Rustin and Springfield tangle in the District 1 Class 5A final. And while it may be low on the list for either coach, at least for neutral spectators it carries the potential of a rare competitive state semifinal in the eastern half of the PIAA tournament, at a time when competitive balance is under newfound scrutiny.
The moving and shaking in the PIAA classifications for the current two-year cycle has opened a rare lane for District 1, one much complained about in the past.
For the first time in Philadelphia’s inclusion in PIAA sports, the Public League and Catholic League powers are both in Class 6A, where St. Joseph’s Prep disposed of Imhotep Charter last week in the first round of states. The ebb and flow of talent within District 12 and the fading of Archbishop Wood’s dynasty leaves the next best non-6A Catholic League team competing in Class 4A, in the form of Bonner & Prendergast.
All of which leaves the District 1 Class 5A champion’s fate less predetermined than usual, just as discussions about separating public and private championships are percolating in the Pennsylvania legislature.
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A note on archived articles
September 03, 2015
By Havenfootball.net Staff
Just a quick note to our readers about the articles that appear on our web page. Our home page, the one you are viewing now, can only accommodate a fixed amount of “posts”. As the season gets more involved the articles will appear, move down the page, and then vanish from the home page. All posts, however, are stored in our archives. At the bottom right hand side of this home page is our Archives listing. It is listed by month. Simply click on the month you believe the article originally appeared and a list of the articles posted will appear along with the first few lines. Click on the headline and you’ll get the article, photos and appropriate links. Enjoy!
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