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TWO-A-DAYS: Unionville has some new faces in 2020, but the same high...
EAST MARLBOROUGH >> Ever since Pat Clark became to be the head football coach at Unionville, his team has been one of the most successful programs in District 1, and the perennial favorite in the...
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TWO-A-DAYS: No longer a Ches-Mont doormat, Oxford is ready to take another...
EAST NOTTINGHAM >> Oxford High School head football coach Mike Means came to pilot the Hornets football program five years ago, and Means had the task of turning around a program that had lost...
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TWO-A-DAYS: Disciplined Rustin will rely on Gallen, Crispino to carry offense...
WESTTOWN >> The West Chester Rustin football program has seen a lot of success since the school’s inception in 2006. The Golden Knights have won multiple Ches-Mont League American Division...
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TWO-A-DAYS: Downingtown East ready to rely on running game, big bodies up...
UWCHLAN >> Since the inception of the Downingtown East football program back in 2001, Cougar head coach Mike Matta’s squad has consistently been one of the strongest in District 1. Downingtown...
View ArticleDiGIOVANNI: Oxford hopes it’s time to take the next step in Ches-Mont hierarchy
It is finally here. The 2020 scholastic football season finally gets underway tonight, after a six-week postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. League and district playoffs will look quite different...
View ArticlePETE’S PICKS: Henderson, Unionville hold slight edge in toss-up Week 1 matchups
The 2020 high school football season is finally here, and Week 1 action sees what we’ll see for the rest of October (as long as COVID-19 cooperates): Ches-Mont League play. The only two Ches-Mont...
View ArticlePunishing La Salle running game proves too much for Downingtown East
DOWNINGTOWN >> The Downingtown East Cougars have always been known to play a hard, physical, smashmouth brand of football. Friday night at Kottmeyer Stadium, the Cougars looked in a mirror, and...
View ArticleDowningtown East bounces back from loss, blanks Avon Grove
DOWNINGTOWN >> After a season opening loss to highly regarded La Salle last week, Downingtown East kicked off Friday night knowing it needed to make things right against Avon Grove. Well, two...
View ArticleCoatesville gets revenge on Downingtown West in rematch of District 1 final
CALN >> The past four seasons of Coatesville High School football were all about prolific scoring. The Red Raiders averaged more than 45 points per game during that span, with a lot of quick,...
View ArticleKennett coach Frazier named Pa. Coach of the Year by National Federation of...
Being exceedingly good at your job is always something to be celebrated. But when you shine in a job where no one else had been successful before, plenty of people take notice. Since Kennett football...
View ArticleDiGIOVANNI: In Ortega’s Coatesville program, even a ‘rebuilding’ season is a...
There has been nothing normal about 2020 for anyone. That much is clear just from the high school football season, alone. The everyday surprises of this year reached out to Oxford last week, which had...
View ArticleRagni runs wild in West Chester East’s crosstown win over Henderson
WEST GOSHEN >> There have been many very good, if not great, running backs to come out of the Ches-Mont League in recent years. After Friday night’s performance at Harrold I. Zimmerman Stadium,...
View ArticleRustin runs over Downingtown East to clinch district playoff berth
WESTTOWN >> Watch enough high school football games and eventually you will see something you have not seen before. The Downingtown East football team has long prided itself on tough, physical...
View ArticleJacobs, Rustin run all over Wissahickon to reach District 1 title game
[See image gallery at papreplive.com] WESTTOWN >> Since West Chester Rustin started a football program in 2007, the Golden Knights have been known as a devastating running football team, thanks...
View ArticleRustin runs into hot hand of Upper Dublin QB O’Sullivan in district final loss
[See image gallery at papreplive.com] FORT WASHINGTON >> The West Chester Rustin football team overcame many obstacles this season. Rustin dealt with a rash of injuries, the uncertainty of...
View ArticleDowningtown West runs over Avon Grove
pdgiovanni07@gmail.com @PeteDLNontwitter DOWNINGTOWN- The current group Downingtown West football seniors have been through a whole lot of adversity during the past two years. A tragic loss of a...
View ArticleMalvern Prep defense shuts down Germantown Academy
pdgiovanni07@gmail.com @PeteDLNontwitter MALVERN- Saturday afternoon at the Pellegrini Sports Complex the Malvern Prep football team took another big step in securing a coveted Inter-Academic league...
View ArticleDowningtown East holds off strong Spring-Ford rally
DOWNINGTOWN- At the beginning of Friday nights District 1 6A opening round playoff game between Downingtown East and Spring Ford, the fourth seeded Cougars looked like they were going to blow out the...
View ArticleChesco football previews: Shanahan goes for District 1 4A title; six other...
The opening round of the District 1 playoffs saw six Ches-Mont league teams advance to the second round, all in search of a coveted district title. Bishop Shanahan will be playing Pottsgrove tonight...
View ArticleQuakertown shuts down Downingtown East
DOWNINGTOWN- Come district playoff time if a team takes its opponents bread and butter away it is going to be a long night for that team. Friday night at Kottmeyer Stadium in the second round of the...
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