Haverford

West Chester scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday night, then turned the game over to Fred Breidenbach as the Golden Rams beat Seton Hill, 9-5, to gain the championship of the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional. West Chester (41-10) will meet Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival Kutztown (36-18) at 1 p.m. Sunday at Owls Field in West Lawn, Pa. A win sends the Golden Rams to the Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C., May 26 to June 2. West Chester sent 10 men to the plate in the first, and Seton Hill (46-11)

The Haverford Township Board of Commissioners will meet at 8 p.m. Monday at the township building, 2325 Darby Rd., Havertown.

All that I know about Drew Lewis is what I have read in newspapers. He is and long has been one of the most proficient hatchet men. Skill in identifying who should be fired is the most important factor in any reorganization. Haverford should have given a doctorate to Drew Lewis as its most proficient alumnus 20 years ago. The Republican Party should have recognized that his skills as a hatchetman are what the nation most needs. His courage in being true to his principles, as in the Haverford commencement, demonstrate why he would be the strongest presidential candidate available.

When Downingtown took a couple of early leads against Haverford in their opening-round game of the District 1 girls' lacrosse tournament yesterday, memories of last year's stunning first-round loss to Springfield came flooding back for Fords coach Nancy McGoldrick. Some of her players felt them, too. "This time we were determined that wasn't going to happen," said Haverford junior Colleen O'Hara, who helped spearhead a seven-goal surge that turned a tight game into a 14-5 romp for the Fords.

Calling all wannabe assistant township managers: Haverford is looking for someone to fill a position it hasn't had in a long time, a person who can oversee the public works department and help Township Manager Tom Bannar with administrative duties. Other municipalities, such as Tredyffrin, Springfield and Lower Merion, employ assistant township managers. Haverford Commissioners President Fred Moran suggested creating the position at a meeting Jan. 9, after the death a week earlier of Public Works Director Al DiGirolamo.

Frances McKittrick Sargent, 74, of Haverford, a homemaker, died June 1 at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Mrs. Sargent was born in 1913 in St. Louis and lived in Paris for three years during the 1920s. She returned from Europe in the late 1920s and settled on the Main Line. She was a graduate of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn., and Miss Wright's School in Bryn Mawr. Mrs. Sargent enjoyed gardening and was involved in a local garden club, according to her son, Samuel P. Howe 3d. She was a member of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church and the Merion Cricket Club.

In a moment charged with emotion, the Board of Commissioners voted last night to hire the first woman to join the township's 63-member police force. "It gives me great honor to appoint the first female cop in Haverford," a beaming Irene Shipe of the township's Civil Service Commission told the board. "But I'm torn between two things. I'd like to make a big deal out of this because it has been long in coming, but I'd also like to encourage more women to apply," she said.

The Haverford College women's soccer team was about to lose its first game of the season, to Marymount (Va.) University on Wednesday. But somebody forgot to tell that to Haverford sophomore sweeper Julia Napier, a first-team all- Middle Atlantic Conference selection in 1992. A soccer player since age 5, Napier had learned a lot of things. But she never learned how to lose without a fight. So there she was, hustling to the bitter end. "In Division III soccer, it's all about who wants it the most," Napier said after the 2-1 loss.

The Haverford High ice hockey team answered the doubts with determination, countered the boos with belief. "Everybody out there doubted us," senior captain and right winger Kevin Tallon said. "We were always the bottom dog. " The Fords (15-10-4) aren't barking from the bottom any more. They have qualified for the Flyers Cup, regardless of how they fare against Monsignor Bonner in the Eastern League Tier I championship series. In the best-of-three series, Haverford topped Bonner, 5-3, in Monday night's opener at the Skatium.

Meeting in closed session with a lawsuit hanging over their heads, the Haverford commissioners this week agreed on a reapportionment plan that board members say more nearly equalizes the populations of the township's nine wards. The Monday night session was hastily called last week after the League of Women Voters filed a suit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, contending that the township was violating the voters' equal-protection rights. The timing conflicted with a ice-hockey game played at the Skatium to benefit a Monsignor Bonner High School student who was burned in a school accident.

Episcopal Academy scored 15 goals in its final game of the year. Jon Garino didn't account for any of them, yet still managed to be the dominant player in what Churchmen coach Andrew Hayes called the "biggest" win in program history. Garino won 20 of 28 face-offs to lead Episcopal to a 15-11 upset of top-seeded Haverford School and clinch its first Inter-Ac Invitational lacrosse championship in front of a sellout crowd Thursday night at Cabrini College. Garino's ability to dictate play by winning 71 percent of the draws allowed the second-seeded Churchmen (18-5)

West Chester scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday night, then turned the game over to Fred Breidenbach as the Golden Rams beat Seton Hill, 9-5, to gain the championship of the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional. West Chester (41-10) will meet Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival Kutztown (36-18) at 1 p.m. Sunday at Owls Field in West Lawn, Pa. A win sends the Golden Rams to the Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C., May 26 to June 2. West Chester sent 10 men to the plate in the first, and Seton Hill (46-11)

Alvernia beat Haverford, 8-3, in the opening round of the NCAA Division III baseball tournament Wednesday in Lakewood, N.J. Haverford's Nick Miranda (New Hope) was 3 for 4 with an RBI. The Fords (24-18) will play at 1:15 Thursday in the double-elimination tournament. Nole Saylor (Boyertown) drove in three for Alvernia. Pat Moran (Cherry Hill Wesst), Mike Kerns (Archbishop Wood) and Bill Parave (Pennsauken) each drove in three runs to lead Penn State Abington (24-19)

Henry Blynn scored twice and set up two other goals to lift Haverford School over visiting Episcopal Academy, 9-6, on Tuesday, as the Fords completed a second straight undefeated Inter-Ac League lacrosse season. The Fords (18-1 overall, 8-0 league) entered the game ranked No. 1 in the state by phillylacrosse.com. Episcopal (15-5, 4-4) is No. 5 in the state. Will McNamara and Zach Rego aided the win with a pair of goals and one assist each. Goalie Jake Landman turned away nine shots.

BY 5:30 MONDAY afternoon, only one word should have been directed toward the lone freshman in Delaware Valley Charter High's baseball lineup. Bravo! Say hello, with gusto, to Rainiel "Ray" Bravo, a 5-10, 180-pound designated hitter, and congratulate him on the strong performance he mounted in a Public D contest, played in occasional drizzle, at Charles Papa Playground, Haverford and Lansdowne avenues. As the visiting Warriors thumped Robert Lamberton, 17-2, in six innings, thus clinching first place at 9-0, all the 15-year-old Bravo did was go 5-for-5 with four singles, a two-run homer and four RBI. He posted his hits in that order, too. A hard single to right to chase home a run and cap a three-run first.

Haverford College will wait more than a year to get its first choice for a new leader, Lafayette College president Daniel H. Weiss. The prestigious Main Line liberal arts college on Tuesday announced that Weiss, an art history scholar who has led Lafayette since 2005, would become Haverford's 14th president in July 2013. Weiss, 54, asked for the time to finish his eighth year with Lafayette and oversee projects he had started, including the design and building of a new center for global education and a new arts campus.

The president of Lafayette College in Easton will become Haverford College's 14th president, but he won't start the job for over a year, Haverford officials announced Tuesday. Dan Weiss, who has been president of Lafayette since 2005, was approved by Haverford's Board of Managers on Saturday, following a national search that began last fall. He starts at the 1,200-student liberal arts college in July 2013, which allows him to complete his eighth year of presidency at Lafayette, Haverford said.

It is the source of the 300-million-year-old stones that define Main Line houses, and the epicenter of concussive explosions that were said to rattle the china at the Llanerch Diner. In its time, it has ingested chunks of Philadelphia, massive quantities of Blue Route dirt, at least one car, and an airplane. In short, the old Llanerch Quarry, near one of the region's most densely developed corridors in Haverford Township, Delaware County, was no ordinary hole in the ground.

Henry Blynn didn't even have a chance to celebrate. As his shot from the right point reached the net for his second goal of the first half, the Haverford School attackman was driven to the Radnor turf by a Conestoga defender. The hit left Blynn dazed enough to not even realize that an unnecessary-roughness penalty had been signaled. With his chance at celebration stripped, the senior created plenty of more opportunities, as he scored five more times for a game-high seven goals and Haverford School topped Conestoga, 13-8, in the marquee boys' lacrosse game Saturday at the 12th annual Katie Samson Festival.

The Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival, in its 12th year, takes place Saturday at Radnor. Samson, a 1998 Radnor graduate who served as the team's lacrosse goalie, was paralyzed while sledding at a park the winter after she helped Middlebury (Vt.) capture the 1999 NCAA Division III title. In light of Samson's life-altering injury, the Katie Samson Foundation, with the festival at its core, was founded in 2001 to help raise money for spinal-cord injury research. This year's schedule includes the most teams in the event's history, 54 (28 girls, 26 boys)