Pieces fall in place for Lansdale Catholic in playoff run
Every so often, things just seem to fall in line for a team. This fall, the Lansdale Catholic soccer team had things come together at the right time. All season, the Crusaders played well against...
View ArticleBoys’ soccer: Conestoga looks for stiff challenge from Elizabethtown in PIAA...
Tredyffrin – Conestoga, heading into PIAA Class AAAA boys’ soccer state championship final with a sparkling 24-1 record, is preparing for a stiff challenge when it faces Elizabethtown Saturday at 6:30...
View ArticleLow-key Zimmerman has nurtured Conestoga into a state power
By NEIL GEOGHEGAN HERSHEY – With a fierce wind blowing an unrelenting downpour of freezing rain on Saturday evening at Hersheypark Stadium, David Zimmerman was calm and composed, as usual. The veteran...
View ArticleConestoga revels in feeling of first state title since 2011, tops...
HERSHEY >> As the final seconds ticked off in Conestoga’s 1-0 win against Elizabethtown for the PIAA Class AAAA boys’ soccer state championship Saturday at Hersheypark Stadium, the Pioneers...
View ArticleRadnor’s Ryan Peter is Main Line Boys Athlete of the Week
Ryan Peter The junior forward led the PIAA Class 3A District One boys’ soccer champions in goals scored, with nine. An All-Central League second team selection this fall, Peter scored the game-winner...
View ArticleConestoga center back Mike McCarthy is Main Line Boys Athlete of the Week
The junior center back is called “the backbone of our defense,” by Conestoga boys’ soccer head coach David Zimmerman, who notes that every Pioneer was subbed out of games for a period of time with the...
View ArticleConestoga’s Donovan, Jennings create memory of a lifetime
Berwyn – Conestoga High School juniors Nick Jennings and Chris Donovan had been there before – in a tight game with the outcome still hanging in the balance and their club needing a big play. The only...
View ArticlePresenting 2016 All-Main Line boys’ soccer teams
Leading the way on the Main Line high school boys’ soccer scene this fall was PIAA Class AAAA state champion Conestoga (25-1), which was ranked fifth in the United States by Top Drawer Soccer at the...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: The All-Delco Team
First Team Matt Freese, Sr. GK, Episcopal Academy Cal Congleton, Sr. D, Radnor Frankie Knuckles, Sr. D, Penn Wood Phil Regan, Sr. M/D, Radnor Ramon Gallegos, Sr. M, Episcopal Academy Matt Moore, Sr. M,...
View ArticleAll-Delco Boys Soccer: Radnor’s Regan, Congleton lead way in the back
In addition to Player of the Year Matt Freese, the rest of the All-Delco team includes: Cal Congleton, Radnor: The senior center back rotated defensive partners but remained a constant backstop for the...
View ArticleAll-Delco Boys Soccer: Freese sticks with EA while excelling for Union Academy
NEWTOWN SQUARE >> For three years, Matt Freese had devised the plan for his senior season at Episcopal Academy, the capstone of a stellar career. But that changed in early August when the goalie...
View ArticleAll-Pioneer Athletic Conference: Citizen Award & All-Academic Teams
Citizen Award Rachael Moyer, Boyertown Ryan O’Toole, Methacton Naomi Dillon, Norristown Allison Brunton, Owen J. Roberts Allison Newman, Perkiomen Valley Jessica Eldridge and Elyse Langan, Phoenixville...
View ArticleALL-AREA: Zandi the anchor for Henderson’s stingy backline
Defenders in soccer are used to toiling in the shadows. They are accustomed to the guys upfront, who score the goals, getting the lion’s share of the publicity and the awards. That formula was turned...
View ArticleDLN ALL-AREA: Boys Soccer Teams & Coach of the Year
First Team Forwards Hunter Firment, Sr., Unionville One of the main scoring targets for the Indians, who was just as adept at setting his teammates up as well as finding the back of the net. Firment...
View ArticlePa Prep Live’s Top 10 Stories from 2016
We at Pa Prep Live want to wish our athletes, parents and readers a Happy New Year. Before we enter 2017, here is a list of our Top 10 Stories from 2016 decided by you, our readers. Here are the most...
View ArticleMercury All-Area 2016 Boys Soccer Selections
FIRST TEAM Toni Adewole, senior, Hill School Pottsgrove’s Germann Larmond, right. Jamie Burns, senior, Daniel Boone Andrew Daubenspeck, junior, Perkiomen Valley Jake Fetterman, senior, Hill School...
View ArticleAdewole’s transition to being area’s top midfielder was key for Hill School;...
Toni Adewole was an outsider. It wasn’t so long ago he’d never even heard of The Hill School. Yet three years later, Adewole was on the inside – literally and figuratively – capping his soccer career...
View ArticleNorth Penn’s Kohler makes most of senior season
Mike Kohler does a lot of things on a soccer field that catch the eye of an observer. He weaves through two, three or more opposing players and often with little difficulty. He scores goals, threads...
View ArticleNeshaminy-Pennsbury wrestling decided in dramatic finish
Pennsbury’s Antonio Martoccio and Neshaminy’s Jackson Erb clash in exciting finale to the match between the Falcons and the Skins Jan. 17 at Pennsbury. (John Gleeson – 21st-Century Media) FALLS TWP....
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