By Josh Verlin
The Central League is up for grabs.
There isn’t anything close to an odds-on favorite in the 12-team league of Montgomery and Delaware County public schools, the conference as wide-open as any of the coaches in the league can remember. Last year’s champs, Radnor, graduated almost the entire rotation; runner-up Lower Merion saw Sam Brown finally depart for Penn along with a big senior class; Upper Darby also graduated its entire lineup from the third-place finishers.
That should make for a fun year in the Central League, whose teams all play 16-game league slates, making up the majority of their regular seasons. With conference play beginning just a week into the season, it won’t take too long to see if anybody starts to assert themselves, or if it’s going to be one big mess of possibilities heading down the stretch.
Here’s a look at how we see the Central League breaking down in 2023-24:
