It’s not unheard of for a football game to be moved or rescheduled due to weather, in fact Upper Dublin had to move a game due to snow just a few seasons ago, but this was entirely different.
As for the guys, this is the closest group on a football team that I’ve ever been around and it really shows in the way we play for each other and rally around each other.” “Every week, the coaches put us in position to win and this was no different. “Getting on the field and having a chance to forget about it for a little bit was what we needed and getting a win to go with it was amazing,” Lee, who caught six passes, said. UD senior receiver Noah Lee, who recorded 107 yards and two touchdowns Saturday, said he and his teammates spent most of the previous two days exchanging videos and photos of damage and checking in on each other. With the damage, which also extended into the developments and housing around the high school and all over Fort Washington and Maple Glen, being as severe as it was and leaving the district’s flagship building and facilities unsafe, there were questions if the Cardinals would even get to play this week. Ida hit the area Wednesday, which was also Upper Dublin’s first day of school. “I told them for three hours, you have to put everything in a box, leave it out there, play for each other and play for our community. “You just go with your gut on this one and fortunately, we have some really good leadership, not that you ever have a ‘good year’ to have something like this, but we know we have the right kids,” Stover said. To anyone who had arrived at Council Rock North High School without any background knowledge, it simply would have looked like another strong effort on both sides of the ball from one of the top programs in District 1 and the Suburban One League.Īfter all the Upper Dublin community has been through in the wake of the extensive damage left by Hurricane Ida this week, it was anything but just another usual effort by the Cardinals.Ĭast out on the road with their stadium and their high school unusable due to storm damage, the Cardinals rallied and showed plenty of resilience as they hammered “visiting” Council Rock South 38-7 on Saturday afternoon with CR North hosting the contest. With his players assembled in front of him, Upper Dublin football coach Bret Stover removed his well-worn gameday visor and tipped it in their direction.
18’s game against North Penn was postponed to a date to be determined.NEWTOWN > The gesture was simple, but said plenty. The Cardinals will face Upper Moreland on Feb. With two weeks remaining and four games left on the schedule the Cardinals are 9-5 and the No. Upper Dublin remains in the race for the District 1-6A playoffs as the season winds down. Now I’m where I think I should be and I still think I can keep improving.” Junior year I stepped my game up, went from 11 points per game to about 19 or 20. “Sophomore year I was just a guy on the floor. “It just showed me how much I’ve improved over the years,” Stover said. He joined the 1,000-point club last week with a 29-point performance in a win over Hatboro-Horsham. After earning third team All-Suburban One League American Conference honors as a sophomore and first team honors as a junior, the centerpiece of Upper Dublin’s offense is averaging 25 points and 11 rebounds per game. Stover is in the middle of his best high school season. After 11th grade he played with Philly Pride. Stovers’ first year playing AAU with the Jersey Shore Warriors after his 10th grade season opened his eyes to how fun basketball can be. Throughout middle school and ninth grade he thought baseball was his way to go, but found more of a love for basketball as a sophomore. His older brother, Ryan Stover, played football at Towson and his dad, Upper Dublin football coach Bret Stover, played football at Millersville.Ĭoming into high school, Drew Stover thought his athletic future might be on the baseball diamond. The Cardinals big man will be another college athlete in the Stover family. Stover also considered East Stroudsburg and Chestnut Hill, but the size and location of Millersville separated it from the others. BOYS #BASKETBALL: Upper Dublin’s scores his 1,000th career point on a fast-break layup at 1:43 in the 2nd quarter vs.