After Bonner took home the PCL Champion plaque in 2025, Delco will not be sending a team to the semifinal round in 2026.

Technically, Devon Prep isn’t Delco, but if you see that dugout you’d think differently. The roster and coaching staff has Delco all throughout it.

With Devon Prep being the highest seed of the four teams we cover at #6, this wasn’t necessarily a shock, but it is still a bummer nonetheless.

#1 La Salle will host #4 Neumann-Goretti, who took down #5 St. Joe’s Prep 7-4. #3 Wood will take on #2 Conwell-Egan, after PCL Most Valuable Player Brady Guzzie struck out 12 in a one-hit shutout to beat Judge 6-0.

La Salle 5, O’Hara 0

(photo of La Salle’s Cooper Weiss via John Rayer/DBN)

By: Gabe Danisi:

La Salle came out and took care of business Wednesday, shutting out Cardinal O’Hara 5-0 in a PCL Quarterfinal that wasn’t as close as the hit totals might suggest. Win or go home, and for O’Hara, the season ended here.

The Explorers got things going right away in the first. Kaden Cortez reached on a dropped third strike and advanced on a passed ball and error. Brycen Clarke followed with a fly ball that the left fielder dropped, scoring Cortez to make it 1-0. Then Luke Borgmann crushed a triple to center to score Clarke and push it to 2-0. Just like that, La Salle had the tone set in a game where every run felt enormous.

O’Hara had chances but couldn’t cash in. The Lions actually out-hit La Salle six to five on the day, with Nate Evert, Colin Thomas, Connor Clark, Joey Thompson, Jack Quinn, and Jayson Gniewoz each picking up a hit — but they couldn’t string anything together when it mattered. The closest they got was the third inning when Joey Thompson singled with runners at second and third, but La Salle’s Cooper Weiss escaped without giving up a run. In a quarterfinal, you can’t leave runs on the bases like that and expect to survive, especially as the #10 seed against the #1.

La Salle kept adding on. Michael O’Connor tripled in the sixth to score two and push it to 4-0, and a Matt Wambold error brought home the fifth run later in the inning to put it completely out of reach at 5-0.

On the mound, Weiss was quietly excellent — six innings, five hits, zero runs, three strikeouts, and one walk. He didn’t do anything flashy, just threw strikes and let his defense work behind him, and in a playoff game that’s all you need. La Salle didn’t commit a single error all game. For O’Hara, Jack Quinn had a solid outing and pitched well enough to get a win — six innings, two earned runs, five hits, five strikeouts, and one walk. The Lions defense hurt him at the worst possible time.

Ronnie Raby was a menace on the bases for La Salle, stealing three of the team’s six stolen bases on the day. Borgmann led the Explorers with two hits including the first inning triple that set the tone, while O’Connor drove in two from the seven hole.

O’Hara falls to La Salle in the PCL Quarterfinals, done in by early mistakes they couldn’t recover from. For the Lions, the season is over and they finish at 9-13. La Salle moves on to face a surging Neumann-Goretti on Monday in the semifinals.

Wood 6, Devon Prep 1

(photo of Wood’s Brady Sell via Brendan Ricciardi/DBN)

By: Brendan Ricciardi:

Archbishop Wood’s Brady Sell, a Lafeyette recruit, was named the PCL Pitcher of The Year for 2026, and he certainly looked the part today.

Sell allowed just three hits and one unearned run with ten strikeouts over 6.1 innings in this win for Wood. Jack Coughlin retired the final two hitters in the seventh.

Wood scored in the first inning on an RBI groundout off the bat of AJ Hopkins and had traffic on the bases for the first few innings, but did most of their damage when they scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth.

Chase Cavallaro made it 2-0 with an RBI single and Caden Vacca added another single to make it 3-0. The gut punch for Devon Prep was a three-run double with two outs by Averell Walls to blow it open and make it 6-0 Vikings.

Devon Prep responded for one run on a Christian Leckman RBI groundout after Billy Degler doubled, but that was the lone run for Devon. Ryan Wheeler and Leckman also had hits.

Johnny Doogan allowed nine hits and five earned runs with two strikeouts to start the game. Liam Jung threw two clean innings of relief, but the damage had been done at that point.

Devon Prep ends the season at 9-8, and Wood will head to Conwell-Egan on Monday for the semifinal round.

Episcopal 9, Radnor 0

By: Brendan Ricciardi:

The Episcopal offense has scored 23 runs in the last two games, which is a great sign with the playoffs beginning soon.

They put up four in the top of the first before Radnor could even pick up a bat. Spencer Schuh scored on a balk for the first run, and Dillon Walls drove in JD Amoroso with a single to make it 2-0. Michael Schaffer and Baxter Schuh would also add RBI singles in the inning to extend that lead to 4-0.

The Churchmen would go on to score one in the second, two in the fourth and two in the fifth to win this non-conference game easily.

JD Amoroso, Baxter Schuh and Dillon Walls all had two hits. Walls drove in two runs, while Michael Schaffer, Baxter Schuh and John Gonzalez also drove in runs as well.

On the mound, Dan Castro was stellar. He started the game and allowed just two hits over four scoreless innings for Episcopal with two strikeouts. Jacobo Jackson threw two hitless innings with three strikeouts in relief.

For Radnor, Austin Havertine and Griffin Sonier had hits in the loss. Havertine and Sean Mutschler both threw two innings of relief with no earned runs. Matt Medina threw 1.2 innings of relief with one hit and four strikeouts.

Episcopal improves to 18-8 on the year. They will be the #4 seed in the PAISAA State Tournament and host the winner of Friday’s game between The Haverford School and Abington Friends next Tuesday, 5/19. It looks like they have a couple more tune up game’s scheduled for this week first as they head to Shanahan on Thursday and The Hill School Friday night under the lights.

As for Radnor, the District 1 5A bracket will not be released until Thursday night, but it certainly looks like they will be the #4 seed and get a first round bye. The Raptors are 12-7-1 overall and went 12-4 in the central league. If the bracket holds, they will host the winner of Monday’s Rustin/Hatboro-Horsham game on Wednesday, 5/20.

Delco Christian 2, Calvary Christian 1

By: Brendan Ricciardi:

There’s a very good chance that Delco Christian and Calvary Christian play this exact same game next Tuesday in the first round of the District 1 2A playoffs.

Because of Josey Lyren and Micah Dutton, that game would be played at Delco Christian.

Both teams came into this game at 8-3, with the winner taking over the #2 seed. Delco Christian scored their first run on a Nathan Burd RBI double that scored Matteo DeBellis in the bottom of the third.

Calvary Christian tied it up in the top of the fifth, and the game remained tied 1-1 going into the seventh. Maden Longley led off the seventh with a single, and Josey Lyren worked a walk. After a wild pitch advanced them to second and third, Gabe DiGregorio was intentionally walked to load the bases.

Micah Dutton didn’t waste any time, singling on the first pitch to knock in Longley and end this game with a bang.

Dutton was the walk-off hero, but Josey Lyren was the story of this game. He struck out 13 hitters over seven innings with just four hits allowed and one unearned run.

Longley and DeBellis both had two hits in the win.

Delco Christian finishes the regular season at 10-10 and 9-3 in the Bicentennial League. I would be surprised if anything else changes, so it certainly looks like these two teams will face off again next Tuesday, once again at Delco Christian.

Malvern Prep 7, Perkiomen School 1

By: Nick Mazzarella:

Can you believe that Malvern Prep has nearly double the amount of wins as the New York Mets?

In yet another dominating fashion, the Friars pick up their 30th win of the season. Like many times before, they scored first, as Bryan Cogliano singled in two runs to continue a norm that is hot starts for the Friars.

In the second, Jack Herbein allowed what would be his only run of the game on a sac fly. After that, he and the rest of the staff were lights out.

Half an inning later, the Friars offense struck again. Cole Scarbinsky drove in one on a double. This was followed by a blast to left field from Cogliano for his third and fourth RBI’s of the day to extend the lead.

An inning later, they tacked on two more, ending the scoring for the day.

And for the rest of the game, the Friars pitching took care of it. Kayden Wallace, Collin Romanczuk, and Tyler Ryan combined for four innings of one hit, shutout baseball with five strikeouts.

And with that, Malvern Prep picks up their 30th of the year, and will wrap up the regular season on Saturday morning against St Georges Tech before getting a first round bye for the PAISAA playoffs. They will host the winner of Friday’s Westtown and Springside-Chestnut Hill game on Tuesday, 5/19.

WC Henderson 7, Haverford 4

By: Jaidyn Rivera:

The Haverford Fords fell to Henderson Warriors in today’s out of league match up 7-4 despite out hitting them eight to five.

Henry Lilgendahl led the Fords in todays game with three hits. 

The Warriors opened the scoring in the top of the third inning with two singles that scored two runs. 

Lucas Rothstein started the game for Haverford. The lefty allowed zero hits and two runs over 2.1 innings, striking out three and walking two. Grayson Boebert pitched three innings in relief today for the Fords allowing only 2 hits and 5 runs (2 earned) while striking out three and walking six. 

Lilgandahl showed pop in the lineup for the Fords today and led the Fords with 2 RBI’S and going 3-3 on the day at the plate. Sean MacGillivray and Boebert also drove in runs for the Fords. Shane Durkan had two stolen bases in todays match up. 

In this out of league game, both teams were just trying to tune things up before the playoffs start for them. Haverford will be the #1 seed in the District 1 6A playoffs, and there is actually a chance that these two teams meet again next Wednesday.

Henderson is the #17 seed and right now would play #16 Boyertown, where the winner would go to Haverford.

The bracket will be finalized Thursday night.