Month: March 2025

By Andrew Robinson

Pressure? Perk Valley wasn’t feeling any.

Garnet Valley had played an exceptional first half against the two-time defending District 1 6A champions Friday night inside Hagan Arena on Hawk Hill. It would have made sense if the Vikings had gone to their team room with a little trepidation about their chances to make it three straight, but that’s not what this PV team is about.

No. 1 Perk Valley put together another suffocating defensive second half, using its power inside on both ends to grind past a very game No. 2 Garnet Valley 43-30 to capture its third straight District 1 6A title. 

“I don’t think it was any pressure at all to be honest,” PV’s Grace Galbavy said. “It’s an achievement in itself to win one, you want to win three, but doing it one time is an achievement. If we wanted to raise the bar, we did, but I don’t think it was any pressure on us.”

Quinn Boettinger scored 20 points, the 6-foot-3 center adding six blocks while Galbavy posted 13 points, 11 rebounds, five assists, five blocks and three steals. As a team, PV accumulated 11 blocks, the majority of those coming in the third quarter as GV’s drivers found themselves with not much space to operate.

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By Josh Verlin 

Ben Robinson looked up and saw nothing but a sea of green beckoning to him.

The Conestoga student section, decked out in a combination of Eagles and St. Paddy’s Day gear — a nod to the school’s location on Irish Avenue in Berwyn — was silent on the baseline at Saint Joseph’s Hagan Arena, hands raised to the sky, the Plymouth Whitemarsh students roaring at the other end with just under six seconds left in overtime of the 2025 District 1 6A title game.

No. 3 Conestoga was clinging to a two-point lead, No. 5 Plymouth Whitemarsh having come up with an answer every other time it looked like it might be down and out. Robinson, with four decades of pressure on his shoulders, didn’t let his Pioneer peers down.

“I’m not really thinking about what moment I’m in, I’m just thinking about putting the ball in the basket and that mindset helps me,” the Conestoga senior said. “We work on free-throws every day, so I have confidence at the line that I’m going to hit the shots.”

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