By Sean McBryan
Archbishop Carroll and its dynamic senior duo of Drexel commit Grace O’Neill and Villanova commit Maggie Grant might’ve fallen short of their lofty season goals of PCL and state titles; they didn’t go down easily.
If you just focused on the final score, a 47-44 victory for Cedar Cliff, you might think it was a back-and-forth slugfest with multiple lead changes.
It was really a tale of two halves in the PIAA Class 6A second-round tilt between the District 12 champion Patriots (21-6) and District 3 third-place Colts (28-1) Friday night at Governor Mifflin Intermediate School in Shillington.
Cedar Cliff scored the first eight points of the game and jumped out to 13-point leads of 17-4 and 21-8. At halftime it was 26-16 and seemed like the Patriots’ successful season was going to come crashing to a halt.