Penn Charter

Tyler DiMatteo delivered two RBIs and Jimmy Reardon picked up the win in relief as Springfield (Delco) edged visiting Garnet Valley, 9-8, Tuesday afternoon in a Central League baseball game. Joe Sheeran added two hits and two runs scored. In other Central League action: Jordan Little pitched a complete game and struck out four as Conestoga rolled at Radnor, 10-2. Steve Born, a junior centerfielder, drove in three runs and scored three times. Donovan Davis went 2 for 3 and drove in two runs to lead Strath Haven past visiting Ridley, 9-5. Ches-Mont.

IN ONLY 15.7 seconds (we timed it), Gardner Nutter smashed the record (whatever it was) for the most let's-go-to-the-dictionary words uttered by someone being interviewed for a high school story in the People Paper. Here we go . . . Let the head-scratching begin: Lumbar. Thoracic. Therabands. Oscillating. Deceleration. While the good, ol' Daily News indeed is wonderful, it doesn't offer a science/medical section, so this story must appear toward toward the back of the paper.

Ryan Luxton earned a save and a victory Saturday, helping the Penn Charter baseball team sweep a nonleague doubleheader against visiting Perkiomen School, 6-5 and 4-2. After pitching one inning to preserve the first-game win, Luxton started the second game and scattered five hits over four innings, striking out two and allowing one earned run. Joey Lancellotti had sparked the opening victory, his bases-loaded triple propelling the Quakers to...

Baseball URBAN TOURNAMENT Neumann-Goretti 2, Maret (Washington D.C.) 1 Mount St. Mary's (Md.) 3, Neumann-Goretti 2 CATHOLIC LEAGUE Archbishop Wood 13, Roman Catholic 0 MID-ATLANTIC PREP LEAGUE Hill School 8, Lawrenceville 4 NONLEAGUE Archbishop Ryan 6, Germantown Academy 2 Haverford School 4, Marple Newtown 0 Penn Charter 4, Perkiomen School 2 Wilson-West Lawn 7, Boyertown 0 Penn Charter 6, Perkiomen School...

After pitching a three-hit shutout against her team's league rival, Katie Wenger unabashedly declared her fielders' defense "on fire. " Then the Agnes Irwin righthander said that she loved them. The junior's enthusiasm was well warranted Thursday afternoon, as the host Owls defeated Episcopal Academy, 2-0, in an Inter-Ac League softball game. The Agnes Irwin victory snapped the Churchwomen's four-game winning streak and avenged a season-opening loss to them. "I can throw any pitch and I know that if I mess up that no matter what, they have my back," Wenger said.

Carolyn Spellacy pitched a perfect game for visiting Friends' Central, which defeated Academy of New Church, 13-0, in a Friends Schools League softball game on Friday. Spellacy struck out seven in five innings for the first perfect game of her career. In other Friends action: Sophomore first baseman Hannah Stratford went 2 for 3 with three RBIs and a run scored for host Germantown Friends, which beat George School, 11-6. Rachel Allison added three hits and scored three times.

Peter Donato and Mike Cherry scored three goals each Tuesday as host Radnor topped Conestoga, 10-3, to snap the Pioneers' 32-game Central League winning streak in boys' lacrosse. Conestoga, led by Jake Scott's two goals, last lost a league game on April 20, 2010. Inter-Ac. With two late goals, Ian Strain lifted Episcopal Academy over visiting Malvern Prep, 8-7. The midfielder tied the game with 1:25 left in regulation and won it in overtime. Ryan Hillburn led Malvern with three goals.

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.