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FAB 5: Week 10

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1. Tyler Street, QB, Academy Park: Street passed for four touchdowns and racked up 222 yards through the air to lead the Knights to their first victory over Interboro in 18 years. Street showed Friday night why he is considered one of the county’s elite signal callers.

2. Radnor. First win since the end of the 2010 season for the Red Raiders came Saturday afternoon. They disposed of Lower Merion, 35-7, to end the year on a high note. Jimmie Blake and Chris Galloway led the way on offense. Blake also eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark for the season.

3. Rashon Fentress, TE, Interboro: Fentress had a monstrous second half. He totaled nine catches for 166 yards and two touchdowns, doing whatever he could to keep the Bucs in the game.

4. Caleb Favino, RB, Delco Christian: Favino amassed 119 yards on 10 rushes to lead the Knights to a satisfying, season-ending victory over Red Lion Christian (Del.).

5. Steve Elf, LB, Garnet Valley: Our defensive standout for Week 10 was Steve Elf,w ho had a pair of sacks in the Jaguars’ district playoff-clinching victory over Haverford. Led by the strong performance of Elf, the Garnet defense figured out a way to bottle up Haverford quarterback Eddie Durkin and the Fords’ potent offensive attack.

FAB 5: Week 6

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Here are the top performers from Week 6:

1. Parker Maas & Anthony Rosanio, FB & RB, Marple Newtown: The Tigers, in desperate need of a win, got a pair of 95-yard rushing efforts from Maas and Rosanio. Together, they led a rushing unit that churned out 329 yards in a rout of Harriton.

2. Nolan Cummings, LB, Cardinal O’Hara: I covered O’Hara’s 57-7 shellacking of Bishop McDevitt, so I might seem a little biased here in picking Cummings He played only one quarter and change, but the junior MLB wrecked havoc against McDevitt’s rushing attack. By my count, Cumming had roughly four or five tackles for a loss, most coming in a first quarter in which the Lions scored 40 points. Four-zero. So even though the Lions had their offense clicking, Cummings was a big factor on D.

3. Mike Ockimey, WR/DB, Bonner-Prendergast: Ockimey caught three passes for

Mike Ockimey caught one touchdown pass and took back an interception for a TD in Bonner’s 28-9 win over Lansdale Catholic. CREDIT: BONNERFRIARS.COM

49 yards and one touchdown and had an interception return for a touchdown. Ockimey’s performance was exactly what the Friars were looking for against Lansdale Catholic, snapping a two-game losing.

4. Caleb Favino, RB, Delco Christian: The Knights were handed a 7-6 loss by Lower Moreland, but Favino was very productive. The senior posted 149 yards on 20 carries and hauled in two catches for 13 yards. Favino, who missed all of his junior year due to injury, is showing signs of what made him such as dangerous varsity player when he was a sophomore.

5. Marcus Sydnor, WR/DB, Haverford High: Sydnor has been a standout defensive player and go-to guy in the Fords’ passing game all season. Both of Sydnor’s catches versus Octorara — against whom the Fords won, 49-23 — went for TDs. He totaled 74 yards on those plays.

Weekend Notebook: Delco Christian, Springfield’s amazing comeback, and … Joe Biden?

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In Wednesday’s Daily Times, Terry Toohey has the first Football Notebook of the season (subbing in for me this week). Also included is the latest Super 7, which also will be posted here.

But first … our Weekend Notebook:

  • Delco Christian’s season opener with Carson Long Institute was postponed Friday due to inclement weather and moved to Monday, but once Carson informed the Knights athletics department that it could not host, the game was canceled. As for the Knights’ next scheduled game, Calvary Christian cannot field a team and therefore forfeited its season. So, the Knights won’t kick off their season until Sept. 22, when they host Bicentennial League rival Bristol. By PIAA rule, both forfeits result in a pair of wins for the Knights.
  • Chichester’s Corbyn Nyemah was a bright spot in the Eagles’ 35-7 loss to Archmere Academy Saturday. The senior tight end had two catches for 31 yards. His first catch was on 3rd-and-10 on Chichester’s first drive. He ran right down the middle for about 10 yards and had a defender all over him as he pulled down Duffy Gilhool’s throw with one hand and lunged forward for another couple of yards. Defensively he had a couple of tackles for losses and forced quarterback Brian Rogers to hurry several passes.
  • Speaking of Archmere coach Jerry Ambrogi (Delco resident) is a former Auks player and was a long-time assistant coach at the school. This is his 13th season as head coach. He was asked about the recent comments by Vice President Joe Biden, who stopped by a high school football practice on a campaign visit in the Midwest, and told the players “I’d give anything to have my senior season of football again.” Biden was a senior halfback on the 1960 Archmere team that ended a string of 12 losing seasons by going 8-0 under first-year head coach John Walsh. Biden was the team’s leading scorer with 12 touchdowns. “I think I could find a place for him,” said Ambrogi, who starts only three seniors on his offensive unit. Junior quarterback Brian Rogers (St. Dorothy CYO football, Drexel Hill) said “we’ve heard a lot of stories about when (Biden) played here.”
  • Perhaps The Haverford School would have held on to a 12-point, fourth-quarter lead Saturday against Cardinal O’Hara if the Fords had sophomore running back Philip Poquie at their disposal. Poquie rushed for 98 first-half yards, including a 74-yard touchdown run, but did not play after halftime due to an apparent knee injury. “Obviously, that hurts in terms of the run game,” Fords coach Michael Murphy said.
  • Springfield’s remarkable comeback win over Harriton was truly a tale of two halves for Rams quarterback Pat Morarity. The Division I prospect was 11-for-14 with 192 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions after two quarters. He was just 3-for-12 for 44 yards the rest of the way. After Harriton took a 27-7 lead midway through the third quarter, Morarity went 1-for-10 with no yards passing.
  • Springfield committed five penalities — two were illegal blocks in the back, and two were holding calls. The Cougars also had four fumbles, two of which they lost. “We went in at halftime and we talked and I went to all of my coordinators and I said, ‘I don’t want to yell and scream at halftime,’” coach Tom Kline said. “We were making some little mistakes, but we had to coach them at halftime. I looked at them all in the eye and said to them, ‘We never, ever give up.’”
  • Springfield’s Rob Murphy had nine touches in the game (eight carries for 82 yards; one catch for no gain), and two of his final three went for touchdowns — a 16-yard carry and a 22-yard carry, coming in the span of three minutes in the fourth quarter. “Once I started getting the ball more — I only got it two times in the first half. I don’t have a problem with that, but — I suddenly got in a groove and kept going,” Murphy said.

Commitments: Lowery, Graham, Winkis, Monaghan

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Academy Park’s Jeremiah Lowery, an All-Delco lineman, is off to Bloomsburg. Fellow Knight lineman Armond Graham is continuing his game at Kutztown.

Delco Christian’s Tyler Winkis (LB/FB) and Mike Monaghan (TE/LB) are off to Ursinus and Malone University (Ohio), respectively. Winkis was a second team All-Delco linebacker in 2011.

Thoughts on a wild weekend of playoffs

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  • You have to think Garnet Valley is the frontrunner to win the District One Class AAAA title … or maybe one of the team’s to beat. I’m not sure if there is a team as dynamic as the Jaguars, and now that they’re beginning to figure out how to play four quarters of solid defensive football, the Jags will be tough beat. Although …
  • … there is something to be said about C.B. South, the No.13 seed that demolished No. 4 Plymouth-Whitemarsh Friday night, 52-24. Watch out for the underdog, right? The Titans scored on their first seven possessions vs. P-W, so they’ll surely be a big test for the Jags’ improved defense.
  • Academy Park was pushed aside by every so-called Daily Times football expert (we’re not egotistical snobs — we can make fun of ourselves, you know) only to pull off the biggest upset of the weekend — a 35-10 beatdown of No. 2 seed Springfield. I talked at length about AP’s win in my audio update.
  • There’s a pretty decent chance we’ll see an all-Delco D1 Class AAA final. Strath Haven is peaking right now and has the look of a team that is poised to win a 12th D1 championship. Only problem is, the Panthers play a Pottsgrove team that is markedly better than the one they disposed of in last season’s playoff.
  • Kudos to Delaware County Christian School for a phenomenal year, but Calvary made the necessary adjustments, it appeared, to exact revenge on the Knights. Nevertheless, it was a great year for a program that will continue making progress in the coming years.
  • Same could be said about Msgr. Bonner. The Friars enjoyed their best year since about 2001, winning six games and coming within one victory of a PCL championship. Only problem was, they were up against Arch. Wood, a runaway train that even Denzel Washington couldn’t stop. Bonner wasn’t completely out of the game until late in the third quarter, which is more than just about every other team that faced Wood can brag about. They fought and didn’t stay down, no matter how many times Wood drove them to the ground.

This week’s poll: Delco’s playoff chances

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The playoffs are upon us, and the opening week of the postseason for most of the PIAA brings a slew of games. We want to know who you think is the most likely to have one more game postseason game left in them. Weigh in on the matter in our poll section on the sidebar.

Very briefly, the nine candidates:

- Garnet Valley and Ridley, who square off against each other in the District One Class AAAA first round. Garnet Valley, the No. 5 seed, has a win against No. 12 Ridley to its credit already this season.

- Academy Park (No. 7 seed) and Springfield (No. 2) in the District One Class AAA quarterfinals meet for the first time.

- Strath Haven, the Class AAA No. 5 seed, renews acquaintances at Marple Newtown (No. 4), which beat them earlier in the year.

- No. 6 seed Interboro travels to No. 3 seed Phoenixville, also in Class AAA, for the first meeting of the season.

- No. 1 Delco Christian tries to defeat No. 2 Calvary Christian for a second time this season in the District One Class A title game.

- Monsignor Bonner attempts to avenge its earlier loss to Archbishop Wood in the Philadelphia Catholic League Class AAA championship game.

We want to hear what you think …

Delco Christian playoff meeting set

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The final piece of the Delco playoff picture has fallen into place, with an official announcement of Delco Christian’s Class A playoff game today. The Knights will take on Calvary Christian Saturday at 1 p.m. As this is the District One Class A title game, it will be held at a neutral site, Upper Moreland High School.

The way the Class A picture works – and it’s quite muddled – is that the teams from District 12 and District One are essentially dumped into the same pool, with the top two teams playing for the title and the winner moving on to a date with the District 11 champion after a week off. (You can check the bracket at District One’s website, provided they ever get around to updating it. In that bracket, disregard the empty game space below Delco Christian; that’s a relic from when Districts One and 12 had more than five teams to muster in this class.)

Delco Christian has beaten Calvary, a Bicentennial Athletic League rival, this season. The teams met in Week 3, with the Knights winning, 14-0, behind rushing touchdowns from Zac Moore and Tyler Winkis.