Radnor High School | Archive | September, 2023

The Team Boys Varsity Soccer will play their next game against Harriton on 9/19/2023 at 3:30:00 PM Click HERE for event info.

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The Team Boys Varsity Football will play their next game against Upper Moreland on 9/22/2023 at 7:00:00 PM Click HERE for event info.

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NETHER PROVIDENCE — For more than 70 minutes Tuesday, Radnor’s boys soccer team pressed Strath Haven just about every moment that they had possession of the ball in their own half. For all that effort, they produced chances aplenty but none that broke through Haven’s stubborn defense.

All it takes, the message from Radnor’s bench remained, was one – one instance in which the Raptors combined the right turnover with the right move in the final third.

It took 75 minutes, but the payoff was worth the effort.

A turnover caused near the sideline in the 75th minute sparked the decisive sequence, leading to Commerce Fisk’s goal and a 1-0 win over the Panthers.

“The virtue of our team is hard work,” Fisk said. “That goal is the epitome of it. It’s going at it, going at every single ball and finding every way possible to have it go in the net. You can feel it on the sidelines, it’s just fantastic.”

The goal started like many an empty attacking Radnor move did on the afternoon: With pressure, midfielder Matt Santerian and forward Roman Rivera converging on a Haven defender near the touchline. Santerian was the one to dribble toward the box, cutting back a cross pass that found its way to Fisk, who led to fellow forward Andrew Marino. His shot was pawed away by Haven goalie Will Hall with a big left hand. But Fisk was quickest to the rebound, burying it to put Radnor (5-1, 2-0 Central) up.

“The goalie gets it with his hand, and I come in and just try to poke at it with my right foot,” Fisk said. “And I was lucky enough to finish it.”

Radnor had created the better chances all afternoon. In the first half, it controlled field position with seven corner kicks to Haven’s none. The Panthers (3-4, 1-2) responded after halftime to even the pace of play but they didn’t create a ton of danger.

The Raptors were unlucky not to be ahead sooner. Part of that was due to Hall, who made five saves. He punched away a Michael Savadove header inches from the bar off a corner late in the first half, and he corralled a rising shot by Jack Ennis in the 70th minute when Ennis broke free on a counter.

“I’ve played with him my whole life, and he’s one of the best keepers I’ve ever played with,” Haven forward Noah Plunkett said of Hall. “He’s incredible in club when I played with him. Today, he was great. It was unlucky that they scored off the rebound.”

The Raptors spurned a couple of counterattacks created from pressure, with Ennis putting a shot wide a minute into the second half with the outside of his right boot to Marino and Fisk launching a 2-on-1 past a beaten defense in the 64th in which Marino unselfishly squared to Fisk instead of taking it himself.

One goal has proven to be enough for Radnor this year. All five wins have been shutouts, the lone loss a 3-1 decision to Downingtown East. The Raptors have three seniors in Savadove, Jake Bowman and Aidan Damiani anchoring a three-man backline that controls space beautifully. With Savadove’s aerial command, Bowman’s speed and the telescopic range of Damiani to clog passing lanes, it’s a potent combination. Nate Lucchesi provides a strong shield in midfield, and both Lucchesi and Damiani created chances with their service out of the back.

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Radnor’s Jack Ennis, left, goes for the ball ahead of Strath Haven’s Connall Strachan in their Central League game Tuesday at King Field. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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The Team Radnor(G V) will play their next game against Haverford High(G V) on 9/14/2023 at 6:00:00 PM Click HERE for event info.

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The Team Girls Varsity Tennis will play their next game against Lower Merion on 9/14/2023 at 3:45:00 PM Click HERE for event info.

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The Team Girls Varsity Field Hockey will play their next game against Strath Haven on 9/13/2023 at 7:00:00 PM Click HERE for event info.

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The Team Girls Varsity Soccer will play their next game against Strath Haven on 9/14/2023 at 3:30:00 PM Click HERE for event info.

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The Team Boys Varsity Soccer will play their next game against Strath Haven on 9/14/2023 at 4:00:00 PM Click HERE for event info.

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NETHER PROVIDENCE — By the time the Strath Haven offense gathered at its 20 to begin the tell-tale possession of its early season Friday night, Kevin Clancy was certain the message was already understood.

Just the same, it would reverberate in the huddle.

“Jake Kitchin and Marco Kaufman both said it,” running back James Fisher recalled. “They said, ‘We still have fight left.’”

Kitchin, the quarterback, was right. So was Kaufman, a back. And as for Fisher, he proved as much on third-and-four when he darted through the middle, cut to the right, and raced 74 yards for a touchdown with 1:58 to play. That, with a Ben Milligan PAT, was the difference in a 21-20 triumph over Ridley in a Central League classic.

Not sealed until a Green Raiders drive snaked to the 19 before ending on an incomplete pass in the end zone with 41 seconds left, the victory was an exhibit of what Panthers coach Clancy long has preached.

“We were on the ropes there a little bit,” Clancy said. “But I think there’s a lesson to be learned in that: It’s that you are never out of it as long as you are willing to play hard.”

Dire as the situation was before the deciding touchdown, it was worse for the Panthers with eight minutes left.

Demonstrating that they will be a handful before anything in the Central is decided, the Green Raiders took a 20-7 lead on Khameen Powell’s third TD reception of the night from junior Ryan Carroll, capping a short drive begun with Bobby Soper’s recovery of a muffed punt at the Panthers’ 30.

But Strath Haven needed five plays – including a 57-yard carry from Shane Green – to put Kitchin in business to sneak in from the 1-yard line, with Milligan’s placement narrowing the deficit to six. The Panthers would puncture the ensuing Ridley possession with a couple of deflected passes and accept possession at the 20 after a punt. After being penalized five for illegal movement, they then trusted the eternal charms of the run-heavy Clancy offense.

Strath Haven would rush for 296 yards, including 151 from Green. Fisher added 110 yards and another 133 as a receiver, including an 83-yard scoring aerial from Kitchin in the first quarter.

“James Fisher, I can’t say enough good things about him,” Clancy did say. “He plays every minute of every game both ways. He was cramping up and playing with cramps and the whole thing, and he mustered up the energy to make that big run. He has just had a knack over his career of making big plays at the biggest times.”

For 0-2 Ridley, Powell caught seven passes for 182 yards, including scoring receptions of 51, 22 and 29 yards. Carroll completed 14 of 20 passes for 263 yards. Alante Smith chipped in with 101 rushing yards.

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Strath Haven’s Alexi Gustafson lifts James Fisher to the sky after the latter took a pass to the house Friday night against Ridley. (Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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HAVERFORD — The moment in the second quarter Friday proved to be the inflection point in Liam Taylor’s night. Things didn’t change, though, in the way you might expect for a sophomore quarterback.

The Haverford signal-caller stretched for the goal line on second-and-goal from the 3 with 5:11 left until halftime. He reached the one, struggled forward on second effort and lost the ball, allowing Chichester to recover.

Instead of getting down on himself, Taylor took his game to another level. He ran for a pair of second-half touchdowns and 229 yards on 19 carries, orchestrating three scoring drives after his turnover to lead the Fords to a 27-8 nonleague win.

“It shows great leadership and it shows that he can forget about his mistakes,” Haverford running back Nate Shoemaker said of his quarterback. “It’s awesome, since he’s a young quarterback and can forget about it right away and lead our offense to a great second half. All props to him.”

Taylor didn’t let the mistake linger. He led the Fords to a score on their next possession, an eight-play, 47-yard march capped by Will Hulea’s 12-yard scamper to make it 13-0 with 57 seconds left in the half.

After the break, Taylor gouged a tiring Chichester defense up the gut. He rumbled for eight yards on fourth-and-2 at midfield, a gutsy call by coach Luke Dougherty, then busted a 51-yard touchdown on the next snap.

“I just can’t get down on myself,” Taylor said. “Next play, it’s in the past. If I keep thinking about it, it’s just going to affect the rest of the game. So I just move on.”

Taylor added a 17-yard score later in the frame. He had seven runs of 17 or more yards, consistently making the right read in Haverford’s new option offense, waiting for his blockers and hitting the hole confidently and purposefully.

The Fords (1-2) controlled the clock by running the ball 54 times for 373 yards and picking up 19 first downs. Taylor attempted two passes, completing none. Eight fumbles, only one of which was lost, is the only pain point on an otherwise stellar offensive night.

The defense bent but never broke. Against Chichester’s hurry-up, no-huddle attack, the Fords gave up big plays. But not until a 55-yard connection between Danny Kelly and Hamza Clay in the fourth, which set up Kelly’s three-yard score to Derrick Robertson in the flat, did they break.

It took a few score-saving tackles: Kicker/linebacker Ryan Corbett on long kick returns by Clay and Bajzhiir Reese; safety Owen Rose on a 21-yard run by Reese in the second quarter and a 19-yard burst by Kahleef Best in the third. Shoemaker, who ran 22 times for 102 yards with a first-half touchdowns, picked off Kelly in the second quarter and returned it 45 yards to set up the drive on which Taylor fumbled. The Fords turned Chichester over on downs in plus territory five times, including at the 12 in the first quarter thanks in part to a first-down tackle for loss by Hulea.

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Nothing stops Liam Taylor as he runs for a second half touchdown against Chichester Friday night. The Fords went on to a 27-8 victory.(Pete Bannan – MediaNews Group)

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