Glen Mills

GLEN MILLS always seemed to have the image of the big, bad wolf when it came to football in the Del Val League. In the 1990s, there was a groundswell of parents who did not want their sons playing Glen Mills, especially those from Sun Valley and Interboro. So Glen Mills helped the Del Val football coaches come up with a solution: Glen Mills left the league voluntarily in football, while all other Glen Mills teams opted to stay in the Del Val. But with Sun Valley leaving the Del Val for the Ches-Mont League and Harriton leaving for the Central League this season, officials at Glen Mills, a school for court-adjudicated youths, thought it was a good time to return to the Del Val in football for the first time since 1994, after playing as an independent in the interim.

The Glen Mills football program is going national. The Battling Bulls, who have compiled a 19-1 record the past two seasons, were having a tough time getting tri-state area teams to play them, so they have put together a torturous nonleague schedule. They will play games at national powerhouse Valdosta (Ga.) and Woodson High in Washington. "We've developed a tradition here at Glen Mills, and it was getting to the point where we were having a tough time getting games," Glen Mills coach Joe Ferrainola said yesterday.

Somewhere in Ohio, a fan not acquainted with the District 1 Class AAAA playoff system is ready to bet the mortgage on Glen Mills winning a Pennsylvania state championship. He should save his money. The Bulls' 42-14 rout of Ohio juggernaut St. Ignatius on Saturday was a powerful statement in the case for making strength of schedule one of the criteria in determining District 1 Class AAAA playoff berths. But it won't be anything more than a statement until the system is changed.

Glen Mills' unexpected postseason run in volleyball ended in disappointing fashion with a 15-11, 15-8 loss to Bensalem in the District 1 quarterfinals. And what was most disappointing for the Bulls was that their two stars could only sit and watch. Sophomores Shamar Cooper and Demar Parker sat out Tuesday night's match at North Penn after suffering injuries in the first match they had played that day. Glen Mills (6-10), which was seeded 13th, upset fourth-seeded North Penn, 15-12, 7-15, 15-8.

At first glance, Demitrius Johnson's 5-foot, 5-inch, 135-pound frame might fool some people about how effective he can be on a football field. Then again, how would opposing teams know. The Glen Mills' senior receiver's ability to run the 40-yard dash in 4.3 seconds usually gives them only the briefest look. Johnson's 60-yard touchdown run, along with an 83-yard scoring run by teammate Chris Dickerson, were the third-quarter scores that put the Bulls in command of their 44-0 Del-Val League trouncing of Sun Valley Friday night.

Glen Mills coach Joe Ferrainola likens his team's predicament tomorrow to the situation Cardinal O'Hara was in Sept. 18. That's when the Lions shocked Central Bucks West, 13-10, in Doylestown, ending the Bucks' 55-game unbeaten streak. Tomorrow night, Glen Mills (0-2-1) visits Berwick High, the defending PIAA state Class AAA champion - and winner of its last 19 games. "I think we're going in there with almost that same attitude that (Cardinal O'Hara) did," Ferrainola said.

A Central Bucks East player, his team having just lost a District 1 playoff game to Chester, saw Clippers star Zain Shaw walking out of the locker room. He had one thing to say to Shaw: "Beat Glen Mills. " A Delaware Valley League coach, ticking off the teams he has lost to, failed to mention Glen Mills. Reminded of this, he replied: "I don't acknowledge Glen Mills. " Before his team's district semifinal game against Glen Mills, Ridley coach John DiGregorio walked over to the press row at the Palestra, pointed to his own team being introduced by the PA announcer, and said: "This is what a high school team looks like.

When Glen Mills learned it would be playing Steelton-Highspire - and a guard who might be playing for Temple next season - in the second round of the PIAA Class AAAA tournament, the Bulls began practicing against a simulation of the Steamrollers' much-heralded zone press for an hour and a half a day. "I got tired of that press in practice," said Glen Mills point guard Frank Allen. The preparation paid off, however, as did a Glen Mills zone defense that forced the District 3 champions into an off night of shooting.

In the end, Norristown blinked. And fumbled. And bobbled. And threw the game away. Nine straight times, the Eagles turned the basketball over to Glen Mills at the Palestra last night and lost a chance at a state championship. During the fourth-quarter run, a run that Glen Mills coach Tom Mann said he had never seen the likes of before, the Bulls (27-3) scored 20 straight points to come from behind and claim the PIAA Class AAAA Eastern Regional championship, 73-59. "We couldn't stop it," said Norristown coach John Cresswell.

Raise Labs Inc. , of San Francisco, last week climbed to the top of the 2013 Milken-Penn Graduate School of Education Business Plan Competition - one of several recent competitive business events. Raise, which wants to change how college scholarships are distributed, won three $25,000 prizes: the Milken Family Foundation First Prize, the Startl Prize for Open Educational Resources, and the K12 Prize for Online Learning in Grades K-12. It's the latest win for Raise, which landed $100,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-based College Knowledge Challenge in January.

SO WHY DID Mikel Martinson play in yesterday's U.S. Open local qualifier at Paoli's Waynesborough Country Club, when there were 110 other sites he could have chosen? Well . . . "My two roommates, they live in Leesburg, Va.," said Martinson, who's from Throckmorton, a small town near Lubbock, Texas, and now lives 8 months a year in Charlotte, N.C., while he plays the eGolf professional mini tour. "They're doing the one in Maryland [Worthington Manor Golf Club in Urbana], and it's actually full.

Baseball MID-ATLANTIC PREP LEAGUE Hill School 5, Lawrenceville 3 PIONEER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Methacton 10, Norristown 7 NONLEAGUE Haverford School 5, Conestoga 2 LaSalle 15, Germantown Academy 5 Episcopal Academy 6, Delco Christian 3 Malvern Prep 12, Marple Newtown 3 Central Bucks South 5, Penn Charter 1 Hatboro-Horsham 5, Upper Moreland 4 Perkiomen School 7, Friends' Central 6 Wilmington Friends 13,...

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A fired Delaware County corrections officer filed a complaint Wednesday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging rampant racism and illegal conduct at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Glen Mills. Victor McWilliams alleges in his nine-page complaint that the percentage of black corrections officers at the prison had plunged from about 90 percent in 2002 to less than 30 percent in 2012. "This statistical anomaly cannot be ignored for an employer of this size," the complaint states.

Don't count Pope John Paul II's Brent Mahoney among those who view accounting as a boring field of study. "I took it in high school," he said. "I actually enjoyed it. I'm probably going to major in accounting in college. " Wednesday night at Plymouth Whitemarsh, Mahoney crunched some serious numbers. He collected 13 points, 9 rebounds, and 2 assists and helped the third-seeded Panthers pull past second-seeded Glen Mills, 48-42, in a PIAA District 1 Class AAA boys' basketball semifinal.

In a game dominated by three-point shooting, Lauren Killion's game-winning jumper from 10 feet that lifted host Lower Moreland to a 53-52 overtime win over Sun Valley was not the norm. Killon's shot came with just 12 seconds left in a District 1 Class AAA girls' basketball quarterfinal Saturday. She finished with eight points. The fourth-seeded Lions were coming off a first-round bye and seemingly needed all the extra rest they got. Sun Valley raced to a seven-point halftime lead and held a five-point edge entering the fourth quarter.

In a game dominated by three-point shooting, Lauren Killion's game-winning jumper from 10 feet that lifted host Lower Moreland to a 53-52 overtime win over Sun Valley was not the norm. Killon's shot came with just 12 seconds left in a District 1 Class AAA girls' basketball quarterfinal Saturday. She finished with eight points. The fourth-seeded Lions were coming off a first-round bye and seemingly needed all the extra rest they got. Sun Valley raced to a seven-point halftime lead and held a five-point edge entering the fourth quarter.