Methacton Athletics

Dear Methacton Families and Community,

The athletics office wants to congratulate the following volleyball players for being selected to the 2023 PVCA All-District Teams!!

Third Team: Kayla Ginther

Honorable Mention: Mianna Ly & Rachel Pettine

Congrats on all your hard work and accomplishments this season!

Go Warriors!

Sincerely,

John M. Smink

Director of Athletics and Activities

The Warriors had a competitive week of basketball. The Warriors played Lancaster Mennonite and won with a score of 71-54. Sal Iemmello played very hard and competed in the game with 20 points. The next game the Boys Basketball team played was Tacony Academy Charter. After quite the battle, the Warriors won with a score of 69-15. Manny Rodriguez was a key contributor for the team with 13 points. We look forward to another competitive week and challenges ahead. Go Warriors!

Upcoming Events:

Saturday 12/9 - Game vs. Lower Merion HS (AWAY)

The Lady Warriors took the floor for their first regular season game on Friday, December 1st and hosted their 15th annual Methacton Lady Warrior Classic Tip Off Tournament. Friday's game was a tough loss against the eventual tournament champions, the Ridley Raiders. The Warriors were off to a slow start, being down in a score of 14-1 at the end of the first quarter. However, a rally began and increased to only an 8 point deficit. The final score ended in a loss for the Warriors, at 49-21. Junior Abby Arnold led the way with her high score of 6 points, including 4 from the foul line.

On Saturday, the Warriors looked to rebound against Mount Saint Josephs's Academy in their second game. The game ended in a loss for the Warriors, with a final score of 46-42. However, this game was a tough battle, and the Warriors fought extremely hard. Once again, junior Abby Arnold had a career high of 30 points within the game, which included 4 3-point shots. Through the game, the young Lady Warriors showed great resilience after Friday's loss. They will continue to learn from this and work hard to improve throughout the season.

Our JV Lady Warriors opened up the season by winning their first two games. Both days, the girls played with lots of excitement and determination to secure a 37-8 win over Ridley which included 13 points from sophomore Lindsay McCann, 7 points from sophomore Olivia Organtini, and 7 points from Freshman Abby Masatto. They also won 58-46 over Mount Saint Joseph's Academy. Sophomore Lindsay McCann led the way with 18 points, which included 4 3-pointers, sophomore Olivia Organtini added 13 points, and sophomore Avery Kenny scored 11 points.

The Lady Warriors will be back in action on Thursday night, where they will be traveling to West Chester Rustin to play at 5:30pm (JV) and 7 pm (Varsity), and will return home on Saturday against Gwynedd Mercy with JV at 10am and Varsity at 11:30 am.

Upcoming Events:

Thursday 12/7 - Game vs. West Chester Rustin HS (AWAY)

Saturday 12/9 - Game vs. Gwynedd Mercy HS (HOME)

The MHS Varsity Cheerleaders kicked off their competition season at the Kutztown Cheerleading Championship this weekend. The team took 2nd place in the Small Varsity division with a strong performance to start the year. The team looks forward to competing at the NCA Regional Championship in a few weeks. With basketball season starting up, the team looks forward to cheering on the boys' and girls' teams again also.

The girls’ indoor winter track team is underway with practices and identifying athletes for the upcoming events.

Upcoming Events:

Friday 12/8 - Indoor League Meet @ Alvernia (AWAY)

The Methacton Boy's Track team kicked off their season with practice last week. The Warriors have a young team with many new athletes still settling into practice. The coaching staff is pleased with how quickly the new athletes are buying into the culture and program.

On the sprints side, the team will have big shoes to fill after graduating two top 10 state finishers and a state medaling 4x4 relay that went on to finish 15th at New Balance Nationals. Junior athlete Yasser Jarhale will be up for the challenge, as he has the potential to compete in 8 different events from the sprints to the jumps. Senior Ray Tai and Sophomore Brody Mellow also bring experience to the group after they both qualified for the PAC championship in the spring.

On the distance end, the Warriors return 8 athletes that qualified for the conference championships last spring. Matt Sandner & Akhil Yeluri bring competitive experience and work ethic to the table after both finishing 5th in the 1600 & 3200 in May. Charlie Reith also ran a stellar 4:36 in the 1600, and will look to make the jump to the next level this year. This group trained hard through the summer and should see their hard work pay dividends in the coming months.

The Warriors will continue to work hard and gear up for their first invitational at Ocean Breeze in two weeks.

Upcoming Events:

Saturday 12/16 - Ocean Breeze Invitational (AWAY)

The boy’s swim team is looking strong! They’re putting a lot of hard work into their workouts and training. We have our first non-league swim meet against North Penn on Monday, Dec 4 at North Penn High School. Go Warriors!

Upcoming Events:

Monday 12/4 - Meet vs. North Penn HS (AWAY)

The girls swim team is continuing our season training in the pool as well as in the weight room and dryland program. We have incorporated four morning practices a week into our schedule and our first out of the PAC 10 dual meet is this afternoon against North Penn High School

We are looking forward to a good meet with North Penn and some fast swims from our Girls team. It is going to be exciting to see our new swimmers swim at their first official high school meet!

Upcoming Events:

Monday 12/4 - Meet vs. North Penn HS (AWAY)

This past Friday and Saturday the Warriors wrestling team competed in the grueling two-day, 24-team Pottstown Invitational. When the dust settled late Saturday evening the Warriors ended up with an impressive third place finish.

Leading the way was Matty Shumaker who dominated the 160 pound weight class. Shumaker recorded three falls and a 15-0 tech fall en route to his championship. Joining Shumaker on the victory stand was teammate Ryan Hayes who won the 133 pound title with a thrilling 2-1 double overtime victory.

Sophomore Gabe Franks placed second at 285 pounds. Franks pulled off the upset of the tournament when he used arm spin throw to pin top seeded and state ranked Andrew Brennan of LaSalle College in the quarterfinal round.

Dylan Pachik had a good showing, finishing fifth at 215 pounds. In the semifinals Pachik dropped a tough, hard fought match to state ranked Bandon Stiehler of Pocono Mountain West in overtime. Freshman Brayden Giovinco had a strong debut in a Methacton singlet going 4-2 en route to a fifth place finish.

Gavin Rose reached the semifinals of the 172 pound weight class before finishing in sixth place.

Freshman Jack Hayes went 5-2 over two days on his way to a seventh-place finish at 145 pounds, while teammate Shane McQuaid rounded the Methacton place winners by garnering an eighth place finish at 139 pounds.

Other Methacton wrestlers who registered wins but did not the place were Anthony Cancro (2-2) Chase Kerwood (1-2) and Bobby Goliash (1-2).

The tournament also had a junior varsity event which saw Warrior wrestlers Augie Reith, Jackson Power, Joe Civitello, Srikar Kodiganti, George Dyer and Kevin Krupiewski take first place in their respective brackets.

The Warrior matmen are off until Wednesday, December 13th when they host rival Wissahickon. The junior varsity starts at 6:30 pm with the varsity to follow at approximately 7:30 pm.

Upcoming Events:

Wednesday 12/13 - Match vs. Wissahickon (HOME)

Methacton Unified Bocce has returned for its second season this winter. Last year was a very successful season where the team qualified for the playoffs. The team returns only 6 players while they lost 10 players to graduation from last year.

Competition Team:

Allie Conrad - Sr

Taylor Lee - Sr

Catherine DeMontaigne - Sr

Steven Kent - Sr

Joycelyn Tjoe - Sr

Ryan McCann - Sr

Gus Mandracchia - Sr

Alex Greenawalt - Sr

Eva Doulgerakis - Jr

Madison Roeger - Jr

Mianna Ly - Jr

Lukas Reger - Jr

Ryan Alzamora - So

Arden Hartranft - so

JJ Mascaro - Fr

Julia Policastro - Fr

Team Members (not competing this year)

Charlie Wolf - So

Avinh Ly - So

Caitlin Cipriano - So

Varun Bhat - So

Sam Bone - So

Kyle Kim - So

Josh Kim - So

Hatcher Avelar - Fr

Aiden Ludwig - Fr

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday 1/9 - Match vs. Upper Merion HS (HOME)

Email: jsmink@methacton.org
Website: www.methactonwarriors.org
Location: 1005 Kriebel Mill Road, Eagleville, PA, USA
Phone: 610-489-5000
Twitter: @methactonsports