The verdict is in: Delaware County is guilty – of an unparalleled basketball excellence.
On our front page on Friday, we summed up the situation involving our local high school hoops teams fairly simply. We used photos of four members of the four Delaware County high schools that were playing for state titles over the weekend. We titled it with a simple headline: Hoops Heaven.
On Friday night and Saturday night, those teams turned it into heaven on Earth. Or at least on the hardwood.
We went three-for-four, and likely would have made it a clean sweep if not for an unfortunate injury.
Today Delaware County is home to three PIAA basketball champions.
The Archbishop Carroll boys started it Friday night when they captured the AAA crown by rolling over Greensburg Salem, 75-54.
On Saturday night, the Carroll girls made it a double-dip for the Patriots when they obliterated Lampeter-Strasburg, 68-45. It is only the fifth time in PIAA history that the same school has captured both boys’ and girl’s titles. And Carroll did it in their first shot, with this being the first year Catholic League teams have competed in the PIAA tourney.
Penn Wood High put a fitting capper on the weekend in the final game Saturday night, when they took the boys AAAA crown with a huge win over William Penn of York, 72-53.
The only thing standing between a clean sweep for Delco schools likely was Stephanie Holzer’s ankle.
The Cardinal O’Hara star re-injured the ankle that has bothered her much of the season and was forced out of the girls’ AAAA final in the third period. When she left, O’Hara was leading. But their lean slowly, agonizingly slipped awday and they fell to Mount Lebanon, 67-50.
It says here that Delaware County is king – and queen – when it comes to roundball.
Three state champions, further proof of an unparalleled excellence when it comes to high school basketball.
Now I suppose Villanova will just have to win the NCAA men’s hoops tournament to prove the same holds true at the college level.
But if they do, they will not be the first local college team to win a national title.
When not many people were looking, the Neumann College ice hockey team won an NCAA Division III national title over the weekend.
Three high school titles and a college crown. Not a bad sports weekend.
Delaware County, home of champions!
On our front page on Friday, we summed up the situation involving our local high school hoops teams fairly simply. We used photos of four members of the four Delaware County high schools that were playing for state titles over the weekend. We titled it with a simple headline: Hoops Heaven.
On Friday night and Saturday night, those teams turned it into heaven on Earth. Or at least on the hardwood.
We went three-for-four, and likely would have made it a clean sweep if not for an unfortunate injury.
Today Delaware County is home to three PIAA basketball champions.
The Archbishop Carroll boys started it Friday night when they captured the AAA crown by rolling over Greensburg Salem, 75-54.
On Saturday night, the Carroll girls made it a double-dip for the Patriots when they obliterated Lampeter-Strasburg, 68-45. It is only the fifth time in PIAA history that the same school has captured both boys’ and girl’s titles. And Carroll did it in their first shot, with this being the first year Catholic League teams have competed in the PIAA tourney.
Penn Wood High put a fitting capper on the weekend in the final game Saturday night, when they took the boys AAAA crown with a huge win over William Penn of York, 72-53.
The only thing standing between a clean sweep for Delco schools likely was Stephanie Holzer’s ankle.
The Cardinal O’Hara star re-injured the ankle that has bothered her much of the season and was forced out of the girls’ AAAA final in the third period. When she left, O’Hara was leading. But their lean slowly, agonizingly slipped awday and they fell to Mount Lebanon, 67-50.
It says here that Delaware County is king – and queen – when it comes to roundball.
Three state champions, further proof of an unparalleled excellence when it comes to high school basketball.
Now I suppose Villanova will just have to win the NCAA men’s hoops tournament to prove the same holds true at the college level.
But if they do, they will not be the first local college team to win a national title.
When not many people were looking, the Neumann College ice hockey team won an NCAA Division III national title over the weekend.
Three high school titles and a college crown. Not a bad sports weekend.
Delaware County, home of champions!
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