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“Pride of Methacton”

Warrior Athletics – September Celebrations

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This marks the first edition of the “Pride of Methacton” for the 2012-2013 school year. The “Pride of Methacton” serves as our monthly athletics newsletter which updates Methacton Athletics each month in order to best communicate to our schools and community the wonderful accomplishments of our sports programs. We will include outstanding individual student-athletic achievements as well as team accomplishments. Please enjoy our September installment of the “Pride of Methacton”, which focuses its attention on the start of our fall sports seasons.

Student-Athletes of the Month: September

Female: Kara Steinke

Male: Clay Henery

Fall Sports Update:

For your convenience, the Contents are hyperlinked for you to access the information about your team in the easiest way possible. Please remember that you can also do a search for a name on this document if you are looking for someone specific.

Table of Contents

Girls Cross Country:

Methacton Boys Cross Country:

Methacton Football:

Methacton Field Hockey:

Methacton Boys Soccer:

Methacton Girls Tennis:

Methacton Golf:

Methacton Girls Soccer:

Girls Cross Country:

1. Head Coach: Steve Mahan- 30 Years coaching Girl's Cross Country at Methacton.

2. Last Year the Team was 7-2 in the PAC-10 and finished 2nd at the PAC-10 Championship race and 2nd Overall in the Final PAC-10 standings

3. Key losses: Co-Captains Meredith Foulke (North Carolina State) & Emma Sullivan (at Kutztown U. to Pole Vault)

Runners to watch: Jr. Kara Steinke 2x defending PAC Champ

Sr. Brianna Earnshaw All-League Runner

Jr. Kristen Sprayberry 2yr. Varsity Runner

Fr. class Sarah Byrne, Lauren Engelman, Abby Konkoly, Sarah Lebold & Deb. Piefer

4. Outlook: There are 26 runners on the 2012 Methacton Girls X-C Team and 10 are "new" to the HS X-C program (8 Freshman & 2 Soph.). This "new" running group makes for an exciting time for me as a Coach. It would appear that the League is chasing Boyertown, Perk Valley or OJ Roberts on the Girl's side. This year's Team will have to race their best to be in the hunt for a League title. This Team has practiced well and seems to be ready for the challenge of running cross-country this fall.

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Methacton Boys Cross Country:

Head Coach: Steve Savitz

Boys Cross Country Team is 5-0 heading into the half-way point of the season.

The team recently competed against 41 other teams from all over the state at the PIAA Invitational held in Hershey, PA and placed 6th.

The team is led by senior Curtis Watro who is on pace to qualify for states. Curtis has won all five races this season.

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Methacton Football:

Head Coach- Paul Lepre

This is Coach Lepre’s third year as head football coach here at Methacton. Last year we were 6 and 5 overall and 5 and 4 in league.Methacton's first winning season since 2000. Captains this year are seniorsBrandonBossard QB, Jeremy Reid OT/LB, Cooper Given WR/SS, and Chris He OT/DE. Each of these players were selected by their teammates to represent the team. After starting the season with tough losses to Souderton, PV, and Phoenixville, we got on the board with our first win of the season this past Saturdaywith a 35-13 win overPJP II.Methacton played well in all aspects of the game, offense, defense and special teams. Good efforts were turned in by Devin Bradley, Jeremy Reid, Cooper Given, Kyle Lowery, BrandonBossard and the rest of the warriors. Coach Lepre feels like we have a team that will be very competitive in the PAC-10 this year. We will need leadership from our senior group and some underclassmen to step up and play well at the varsity level.

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Methacton Field Hockey:

Head Coach- Sarah Quintois

The field hockey team has a 5-6 overall record and they are 4-5 in the PAC-10.

Alexa Hoover scored her 50th career goal on September 21st when the team beat Pope John Paul.

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Methacton Boys Soccer:

Head Coach: Brian Robbins

The boys soccer team is currently 7-4-1 overall and 5-2-1 PAC.
The team is currently on a 5 game winning streak, with 4 shutouts in the 5 wins. Matt Carey, Joe Germano, and Anthony Santoleri have led the way offensively. Luke Herber, Tony Rajabi, and Matt Skelly have been solid in the midfield. Clay Henery, Glenn Diener, Joe Ruhl, and Chris Parisi have anchored the defense. Taylor LeSage has played every minute of every game in goal for us.
We are currently tied for 2nd place in the Liberty Division and we are looking forward to finishing the season in the playoffs.

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Methacton Girls Tennis:

Head Coach: Cathy Miller- 4th year as varsity coach

Last season 8-1 league 11-3 overall.....currently 3-0 in league 4-1 overall

PAC 10....team, singles and doubles champions

Returning varsity: Jr. LaurenSimeone -1st singles -she was thesingles & doubles PAC 10 champion the last two seasons. Srs. Kristin Beatty andReeba Ivan at 1st doubles. Srs. Allison Mann andKaitlyn O'Toole at 2nd doubles. Srs. Kelly Fields and Natalie Rittenhouse at 3rd doubles

The addition ofJrs EmilyTenzca and Helen Zhou at 4th doubles and FreshmenMihaelaCodreanu and Paige MacDougall at singles should keep the team in the hunt to repeat as PAC champions.

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Methacton Golf:

Head Coach: Kevin Flanagan

The Varsity Golf Team finished in a three-way tie for first place. After tie-breaks were considered the team will be seeded third in the PAC-10 Final Four and play Spring-Ford. The team is led by Juniors: Brandon Vance, Mike Foley, Corey Betham, and Jeff Handwerk. Seniors David Mills and JohnMagagna have been consistent as well.

Individually we had three golfers qualify for district play: Brandon Vance, Mike Foley and David Mills. Also, Brandon Vance became the firstMethacton Golfer to win an Individual League title (PAC 10 or Suburban One). We are confident in our chances to make it back to the PAC 10 Finals and hopefully our Individual qualifiers will see great success at Districts.

Our season highlight was a team record 187 score against Owen J. Roberts two weeks ago.