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By Matt Smith

Molly Rullo is too modest and team-oriented to ever admit that she is now the No. 1 player at Cardinal O’Hara.

She is the face of the latest generation of Rullo basketball greats, a lineage that stretches back nearly 80 years ago, when her grandfather Jerry Rullo starred at Temple and later won an NBA title with the Philadelphia Warriors.

Rullo’s freshman season was close to perfection. She fit in from the start with senior leaders Maggie Doogan, Sydni Scott and Annie Welde. Rullo was an excellent outside shooter and defender and scored from all areas. She played an important role in a magical season for the Lions, who won the Philadelphia Catholic League championship and a second consecutive PIAA Class 5A title. Rullo averaged 10.5 points and five rebounds per game while shooting 40 percent from 3-point distance.

“I’m super excited for this year,” Rullo said before practice Tuesday. “Last year was really awesome. I think just getting back into the environment again is important, like playing the PCL teams and getting great competition from everyone else we play. 

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By Missy Dougherty

The names and faces have come and gone in the Haverford High School girls’ basketball program over head coach Lauren Pellicane’s six years in charge, but the expectations remain the same.

“We want to compete for a Central League championship, make a deep run in the district tournament, and qualify for states,” Pellicane said.

The Fords will once again look to make some noise in the Central League and beyond this season – some “big” noise that is.

Pellicane will have an overabundance of size as this year’s squad will be led by two four-year post players in 6-foot-2 Caroline Dotsey and 6-foot-1 Mollie Carpenter.

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By Josh Verlin

It’s a whole new Bonner-Prendergast. 

New coach, new stars, new attitude, new style. 

Billy Cassidy has already made a big impact on the Friars’ program in just the few months since his June hiring, the former Friends’ Central sharpshooter bringing in a ton of energy and a heaping dose of talent to create another team that has high hopes in the already-loaded Philadelphia Catholic League.

“You’re in a new environment, you’re surrounded with kids that have dreams and goals of playing at the next level and the highest level possible — being able to mesh all the different personalities, talents together, is the challenge that we’ve talked about since day one,” Cassidy said. 

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By Mike Mayer, Webmaster

When we first began our audio Game-of-the-Week broadcasting back in 2013 we saw it as a way to bring high school basketball to players, families, friends and fans who could not get to the LIVE game.  There were only two ways to see or “hear” a basketball game back then and it was either in person or through our audio broadcasts.

With the advance of technology, band width, and hot spots (not to mention the Covid outbreak) virtually all Delaware County high schools now operate some form of video broadcast streaming of all of their boys and girls basketball games. It is a wonderful use of technology and will certainly enhance everyone’s ability to watch their teams.

The downside is that our listenership plummeted last year as very few people were interested in “listening” to a broadcast when they could watch it.  Granted the vast amount of broadcasts were simple single “automated” camera shots with no play-by-play but watching is better than listening and we found ourselves broadcasting to 10-20 people.

We have a broadcast crew and we have single camera video streaming ability so we are available to any Delaware County high school that would like us to come in a produce a first quality video broadcast (at no cost) for their special games and match-ups. If you’re an Athletic Director and would like our services just drop us a note at delcohoops@aol.com.

In the meantime we’ll working on putting together a list of all the You Tube sites for the various high school live game streams.

By Joseph Santoliquito

The memories are great. They’ll resonate through the years and will be great talking points at school reunions.

Marple Newtown head coach Sean Spratt knows there is more that can be derived from the Tigers’ historic 2021-22 season, in which they won their first two PIAA state playoff games in school history before giving eventual 5A state champion Imhotep Charter a major scare in finishing with an 18-11 overall record.

Nine seniors are gone from that team (Justin DiBona, Jordan Bochanski, Matt Cantwell, Joe Downs, Owen Mathes, Eric McKee, Nick Sanfrancesco, Christian Sessa and Jonny Small).

A strong core does return enriched by the experience of reaching the 2022 state quarterfinals, where Marple Newtown lost to the Panthers, 44-39, in the closest game they played toward winning their fourth state championship in the last five seasons (the 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

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By Jerome Taylor

After a deep playoff run, every high school team has to answer the same question the following year: How do we replicate last year’s success?

Haverford High School has dealt with this challenge since its 2020 Central League title run. Now, after reaching the Central League semifinals last year, the Fords must once again find out who the next crop of producers will be. 

A trio of all-Central league players led last year’s team, Nick Colucci (first team), J.R. Newman (second team) and Alex ‘Googie’ Seidman (second team). Only Seidman remains from that trio after Colucci (Scranton) and Newman graduated. 

Seidman, who committed to Catholic University this summer, will be stepping into a new role as the lead guard for the Fords. 

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