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Proposed legislation could tackle law blocking separate PIAA championships

By Matthew DeGeorge

Conversations about separate PIAA championships for public and private schools, no matter how vociferous the proponents, have always reached the same dead end.

Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, so goes the well-worn logic, would never allow it. The legislature, via Act 219 of 1972, bound together private and public schools under the PIAA; any procedural decoupling of state champs runs counter to that law, by letter or spirit, and opens the threat of litigation or worse.

This week, a maneuver to remove that legislative impediment has presented itself.

State Representative Scott Conklin (D-77) of Centre County intends to propose a bill that would amend that statute in a way that could give the PIAA the ability to crown separate champions.

“One of the reasons we’re doing that is that the PIAA has said that they’re worried that they’d be open to litigation if they pursued this,” Conklin told the Daily Times Thursday. “By passing this piece of legislation, we (would) now allow the PIAA to set these tournaments up, that they can’t be litigated against.”

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Brice is right for Chichester football’s change in direction

By Matt Smith

Bob Brice has taught social studies at Chichester High School for four years. He knows the students and understands that it’s been a long time since the varsity football team has fielded a winner.

He’s looking forward to tackling the task.

Pending school board approval Feb. 19, Brice will become the new head coach of the Eagles. The position was previously held by Ryan Smith, who coached the team from 2010-2018.

A graduate of West Chester East High School, Brice, 29, was a quarterback at Widener University. He transferred from Widener and finished his undergraduate degree at West Chester University.

After college, Brice returned to East where he was an assistant coach for three years. He spent the last four seasons on coach Mike St. Clair’s staff at Rustin and was the offensive coordinator since 2017. He helped the Golden Knights reach the District 1 Class 5A final in 2018.

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2018 Banquet Awards

By Havenfootball.net Staff

The 2018 Annual Football Banquet was held this past Sunday and here are the players and their respective awards:

Ethan Belville Cowboy Up	Luke Healy Jim Saunders Sportsmanship	Emmitt Young Special Teams

Junior Varsity

Jack Ryder MVP Offense	Koll Peichel MVP Defensive	Jack Henry Lineman MVP	Alex Shehadi Lineman MVP

Freshmen

Matt Shuler MVP	Dylan Shaw Sportsmanship

PIAA Championship Football weekend is here

This is the weekend all Pennsylvania high school football fans live for! Six games in three days! The best place to be is at Hersheypark Stadium but if you can’t make the game you can watch it LIVE on your local cable PCN station (check your cable network for the station). If you don’t have cable (or use satellite) you can still watch on your computer by going to NFHS. They will be broadcasting all six games over the Internet. They do charge a fee but it’s only $10 for a full 30 day subscription. You can even get the games on your cell phone!

A note on archived articles

By Havenfootball.net Staff

Just a quick note to our readers about the articles that appear on our web page.  Our home page, the one you are viewing now, can only accommodate a fixed amount of “posts”.  As the season gets more involved the articles will appear, move down the page, and then vanish from the home page.  All posts, however, are stored in our archives.  At the bottom right hand side of this home page is our Archives listing.  It is listed by month.  Simply click on the month you believe the article originally appeared and a list of the articles posted will appear along with the first few lines.  Click on the headline and you’ll get the article, photos and appropriate links.  Enjoy!