Lowe, DeSio help Ducks to USA U18 hockey title
Trevor Lowe, a defenseman who was captain of the Strath Haven ice hockey team, and Michael DeSio of Ridley, a secondteam AllDelco forward, were members of the Delaware Ducks team which recently captured the USA Hockey 18U Tier II championship.
The Ducks defeated Team Wyoming, 12-3, the Utah Golden Eagles, 5-3, the Atlanta Fire, 4-0, the Northern Kentucky Norse, 6-3, and the Boise Jr. Steelheads, 7-6, on their way to the championship.
DeSio scored five goals and had five assists and Lowe chipped in with one goal and five assists in the Ducks’ five games.
The 12th annual Cavalier Lacrosse School will be held at Cabrini University June 18-21 under the direction of Cabrini women’s head coach Jackie Neary.
The camp is open to players entering grades 2-9. Sessions will be held from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and from 9 a.m. until noon Thursday.
Players are grouped by age and ability. Campers receive instruction in all the fundaments of lacrosse. Instruction will be provided by Neary, a Ridley graduate who played for a national championship team at Temple University, as well as members of Cabrini’s women’s lacrosse team and local high school and college guest coaches.
The camp fee is $250, with team rates available. Applications are available through the athletic office or at www.cabriniathletics.com. Go to the inside athletics drop down window and click on camps and clinics. For additional information, contact Neary at 610-225-3908 or Kate Pearson at 610902-1016.
The 19th Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival will take place April 28 at Radnor High.
The festival honors Samson, a Radnor graduate who helped Middlebury College earn the NCAA Division III women’s championship in 1999, then became a quadriplegic after suffering a spinal chord injury in a sledding accident the following winter.
Over the years, more than $1.9 million raised from the event has been distributed to charities benefitting medical research and patient care for people with spinal chord injuries.
Among the boys games on the 2018 schedule are Archbishop Carroll vs. Downingtown West and Garnet Valley vs. SpringFord at 9 a.m., Marple Newtown vs. Great Valley at 11 a.m., Avon Grove vs. Malvern Prep at 1 p.m., and Radnor vs. Episcopal Academy at 4 p.m.
The girls schedule includes Garnet Valley vs. Episcopal Academy at 10:45 a.m., Radnor vs. Upper Dublin and Archbishop Carroll vs. Unionville at 12:30 p.m., Conestoga vs. Downingtown West at 2:15 p.m., and Notre Dame vs. Bishop Shanahan at 4 p.m.
Ed Malloy, an All-Delco basketball player during his days at Cardinal O’Hara, and Mark Lindsay, an Aston native who played at Malvern Prep, were members of the officiating crew that worked the NBA playoff game in Portland Saturday night, which was won by the New Orleans Pelicans,
Malloy has worked in the NBA for 16 seasons and has been chosen to work the playoffs in 11 of those years. Lindsay is completing his 11th season as an NBA ref and received a playoff assignment for the fourth year.
Mike “Duke” Callahan called the Milwaukee at Boston game Sunday afternoon. Callahan, a Cardinal O’Hara graduate, has worked for the NBA for 28 seasons and has officiated in the playoffs in 22 of those seasons. 9795.
The Sports Legends of Delaware County Museum on Iven Road in Radnor has sold all the ads it had room for in the commemorative program for its June 2 dedication of a statue of Emlen Tunnell, the Radnor graduate who saved two lives while serving with the Coast Guard during World War II.
The statue will be located outside the Radnor Township Municipal Building on Iven Road.
Jim Vankoski, curator of the Sports Legends Museum, notes that April 22 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mickey Vernon, the Marcus Hook native who won two American League batting championships during his major-league baseball career.
“Mickey died Sept. 24, 2008,” Vankoski said. “Two months before that, he and I were taking a trip to the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society to visit his friend, (the late) Ernie Montella.
“I had asked him to proofread a card set we were producing to celebrate his baseball career. I was happy when Mickey gave his stamp of approval to the project and was glad to correct the two mistakes he found. Of course, neither of us realized that two months later the cards would become a commemorative set of his life in baseball.”
Digital copies of the 13 Mickey Vernon cards are available by sending an email address to vankoski21@comcast. net.
Additional information can be obtained by contacting Vankoski at 610909-4919.
The name of the late drag racing legend “Jungle Jim” Liberman was spelled incorrectly in an item in a recent In the Community about the late “Joltin’ Joe” Jacono.
Liberman, a Westtown native, and Jacono, who hailed from Chester, competed in a number of Funny Car races at the height of their careers.
Also, the headline accompanying the most recent In the Community incorrectly stated the number of student-athletes honored by the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame’s Delaware County Chapter at its recent winter sports awards luncheon.
Nine individuals received recognition as scholar-athletes from the Delaware County Chapter.