Haverford School

Haverford School's players may never get their mud-caked uniforms completely clean, but don't expect the effects of their latest loss to linger. Coach Ron Algeo said the Fords would recover mentally from Saturday night's rainy, 28-6 homecoming loss to Chestnut Hill Academy. "We were prepared for a closer game physically," Algeo said. "We had a great week of practice. The kids didn't give up ever, ever, ever. They will be ready to come back Monday. " The Fords (0-4) may not have any emotional scars from Saturday's defeat, but their physical condition is another thing.

Swimming coach Bill Palmer thought his team at The Haverford School would win only three meets this year. The Fords have already exceeded his expectations by winning four of their first five meets, two last week. Haverford School edged visiting Haverford High on Wednesday, 41-35, in a nonleague meet. One day later, Haverford School beat Upper Darby, 97-67. "The boys have been surprising me," Palmer said. "It's a great team with a lot of character. These boys are doing everything a coach can ask them to do. " Palmer didn't have to stress the need for a win in the freestyle relay against Haverford High.

One of the best shows in area wrestling will take place Friday with the annual battle between the Haverford School and Episcopal Academy. The bout, this season at Episcopal, usually decides which will claim the Inter-Academic League title. The two teams know each other well. Both clubs participated in the Haverford High and Radnor tournaments. Each team has been scouted by the other. And wrestlers from both teams practice together throughout the season. "I think we have a real shot at them," Episcopal coach Crawford Hill said.

Jim Fenerty earned his 500th career victory as a high school basketball coach on Friday night. And he wasn't even there. The Germantown Academy coach spent more than 32 seasons racking up 499 wins. But earlier this week, on the eve of his latest century mark, Fenerty fell ill while teaching an early-morning civil liberties class to GA seniors. His right side went numb. Some feared he was having a stroke. He was admitted to Abington Memorial Hospital, where he was diagnosed with Polycythemia vera, a bone marrow disease that leads to an abnormal increase in blood cell count.

Brett Campbell has always been good at running past people. It started when he played for a local Nether United club soccer team in Wallingford. It continued, though not right away, when he became a member of FC Delco as a seventh grader. And for the last three years at the Haverford School, opponents have watched Campbell use his speed to exploit defenders - and score a lot of goals. In 2011, Campbell scored 38 goals and had eight assists for a Fords squad that outscored opponents 80-14, en route to a Pennsylvania Independent School championship.

Chestnut Hill Academy's Dan Rosenbaum is best known for his hitting, especially for the way the ball flies off his bat. The up-and-coming junior is also not too shabby on the mound, as he showed in Tuesday's Inter-Ac League showdown with Haverford School. Rosenbaum, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound righthander who doubles as a third baseman, held the Fords to four hits over six innings as the host Blue Devils triumphed, 7-4, and maintained sole possession of first place. "I was hitting spots with my fastball, and my curveball was also working pretty well," he said.

Charles Kelly keeps his lacrosse stick in his team's ice cooler. Kelly handles faceoff duties for the Malvern Prep lacrosse team. During summer tournaments last year, the weather was so hot it caused the head of his stick to bend back almost all the way to the shaft. The flexibility left him with a competitive disadvantage. He had to find a solution. "My dad came up to me and said, 'Why don't you try sticking it in the cooler? It will cool it off and help it stay in place,' " Kelly said.

Haverford School's Matt Galambos, a rugged senior linebacker, committed to Pittsburgh on Thursday. The 6-foot-2, 235-pounder, who doubles as a tight end, also had scholarship offers from Rutgers, Syracuse, and Temple. Harvard and Yale were in the mix, too. "I think he's been a bit underrated," Haverford School coach Mike Murphy said. "I really see him as a kid who's going to make a big impact at the college level. His best football is still ahead of him. " Last season, while helping the Fords to a 6-4 record, Galambos earned Inquirer third-team all-Southeastern Pennsylvania honors as a tight end. In the Inter-Ac League, he was a first-team pick on both sides of the ball.

Paul S. Bernstorf, who led the Columbus (Ohio) Academy to a 35-3 record over the last three years, was named head football coach of The Haverford School on Tuesday. For Bernstorf, who coached Columbus to a 14-0 mark and a state title in 1987, The Haverford School job will mean a return home - geographically. He is a 1976 graduate of Haverford High. "I've had a pretty successful career as a player and a coach," Bernstorf said in a telephone interview from Columbus on Tuesday, "only because I played under and with a lot of good people in the Philadelphia area.

This season marked the first time since 2008 that Haverford School didn't win at least a share of the Inter-Ac League boys' lacrosse title, but the Fords were happy to play spoiler against a top rival hoping to earn its first title in 15 years. Behind a seven-goal fourth quarter, Haverford won, 11-6, Friday at Episcopal Academy in the teams' Inter-Ac regular-season finales. Episcopal could have clinched a share of its first league title since 1998. But the loss gave Malvern Prep sole possession of the Inter-Ac title for the first time since 2008.

Stefan Bergman didn't think the ball was going to go in. In fact, he wasn't even aiming for the net. In a boys' lacrosse game at the Katie Samson Festival on Saturday morning at Radnor, Bergman netted what was estimated to be an 80-yard goal with a little less than five minutes left in the second quarter. Bergman, a senior defenseman for La Salle, helped the Explorers earn an 11-9 win against Haverford School in a matchup of two of the area's best teams. Bergman's goal came as Haverford pulled its goalie as part of a 10-man ride while the Fords controlled the ball in the La Salle zone.

On Saturday, more than 10,000 attendees from some of the best lacrosse schools in the Northeast will descend on Radnor High School for the 13th annual Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival. Dozens of teams will compete, including youth clubs and two colleges: the University of Pennsylvania and Bellarmine University. But the showcase acts mostly as a platform for some of the area's best high school boys' and girls' teams to do battle on one day. Forty-eight high school teams will compete throughout the day on six fields, with the earliest game scheduled for 9 a.m. and the last one set for 5:30 p.m. The boys' game to watch will be between La Salle (10-2)

It takes a viewing of only one Inter-Ac League boys' lacrosse game to realize something different is going on. The pace is heightened, substitutions happen seamlessly, and the game has a flow that's missing in competition among PIAA schools. The length of each quarter is the same as in every other area boys' lacrosse game, but the 60 minutes seem to go by faster. Inter-Ac schools, not bound by the National Federation of State High School Associations rule book to which PIAA teams adhere, play boys' lacrosse under a modified version of the federation rules in a style that more closely resembles the NCAA men's lacrosse game.

Baseball CATHOLIC LEAGUE Bonner-Prendergast 11, St. Joseph's Prep 7 NONLEAGUE Solebury School 8, Doane Academy 7   Rowing 5TH MANNY FLICK/HORVAT SERIES Boys' 2nd 8 Flight 1: 1. La Salle (Bontempti, Savage, O'Neil, Morozzi, Plourde, Diaz, Serpico, Brecht), 4:18.33; 2. St. Augustine, 4:31.33; 3. James Madison, 4:32.76. Boys' 2nd 8 Flight 2: 1. Walt Whitman (Weiss, Hatcher, Khalil, Anderson, Bachman, Davis, Holaday, Walton), 4:41.59; 2. Moorestown, 4:42.91.

Charles Kelly keeps his lacrosse stick in his team's ice cooler. Kelly handles faceoff duties for the Malvern Prep lacrosse team. During summer tournaments last year, the weather was so hot it caused the head of his stick to bend back almost all the way to the shaft. The flexibility left him with a competitive disadvantage. He had to find a solution. "My dad came up to me and said, 'Why don't you try sticking it in the cooler? It will cool it off and help it stay in place,' " Kelly said.

Zeke Zabrinski went 3 for 3 and scored two runs Friday to lead Germantown Academy past visiting Haverford School, 8-7, in an Inter-Ac League baseball game. John Aiello added a home run and two RBIs, and Ryan Dewalt posted the win. Steve Fitzgerald and Steve Scornajenghi hit homers for the Fords. Boys' Lacrosse Ryan Hilburn and Tommy O'Connor scored three goals each as host Malvern Prep edged Penn Charter, 8-7, in a nonleague game. Public. Colin Herbert scored twice and had seven assists as George Washington blanked host Southern, 14-0.

A final score in Wednesday's Scoreboard was incorrect. On Tuesday, Penn Charter defeated the Haverford School in track and field, 751/2 to 461/2.