This time they really had a shot.  The Friars, Bonner Prendergast’s football team, had two of their best practices of the season and were ready to take on Upper Moreland in the District 1-12 Class 4A regional playoffs, writes Terry Toohey for papreplive.com.

Then a Bonner-Prendergast play tested positive for COVD-19 and the Friars had to shut down for two weeks and drop out of the PIAA tournament.

Archbishop Ryan will play Upper Moreland instead on Friday night.

The Chester County Board of Health was notified of the positive test. The Friars can resume practice Nov. 16.

It was Bonner-Prendergast football coach Jack Muldoon who had the sad duty of notifying the players.

Players in school were sent home while Muldoon called the others to let them know.

“I’ve had to deliver bad news before, but this is among the worst,” Muldoon said.

Bonner-Prendergast’s girls soccer team, the Pandas, has also gone into quarantine when they were potentially exposed by another team they played.

The Friars had pitched two shutouts and had earned a spot in the state playoffs for the first time in program history.

Read more about the Friars having to drop out of the playoffs to COVID at papreplive.com.

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