Holy Family commit Kara Meredith (above) and Archbishop Wood are back in the PCL semifinals, where they lost a year ago. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
The Catholic League’s down to its final four. The girls’ semifinals are this Tuesday night at the former University of the Sciences, now part of Saint Joseph’s, while the boys are Wednesday night at the Palestra.
Here’s a look at all four games as well as my predictions:
Girls Semifinals
2) Archbishop Wood vs. 3) Cardinal O’Hara (6:00 PM)
There have been four clear contenders for the 2023 Catholic League girls’ championship this season, and they’re the four remaining in the semifinals, with any of the four perfectly capable of winning their next two games and emerging with a title at the Palestra next Monday. These two teams met at this same spot last year, a 55-48 win for O’Hara, but many of the stars of that one are gone: O’Hara’s Maggie Doogan (Richmond), Sydni Scott (Marshall) and Annie Welde (Villanova), as well as Wood’s Ryanne Allen (Vanderbilt) and Bri Bowen (Delaware), leaving it up to the next group of Lions and Vikings to carry the torch.