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Throughout her four-year career with the Rams, opponents could expect two things from point guard Anna Azzara: 100 percent effort and 0 percent emotional ammunition.

Trophies present a tally, but the defining element in sports - and life, for that matter - isn’t how you handle the easy times. It’s the resilience you summon when the times are tough. Reluctantly or not, that will be the outgoing Rams’ trademark.

It was a moment Anna Stein thought would never come, which would explain her vise-like grip on the Pioneer Athletic Conference Championship plaque in the moments immediately following Perkiomen Valley’s second consecutive league title courtesy of a 60-51 victory over Spring-Ford on the Rams’ home floor Thursday night.

Reserve guard Brady O'Donnell made the game-winning assist on a Max Lebisky layup with 1.6 seconds left, breaking a tie and delivering No. 2 seed Phoenixville a thrilling 54-52 victory over reigning champion Spring-Ford for its first league title since 2007.

Spring-Ford had already won its first Pioneer Athletic Conference boys swimming championship with a 10-0 sweep of its league dual meet schedule. But the Rams added some icing to the cake on Friday night by placing first in six of the 11 events at the PAC Championships at Upper Merion High School.

A complete list of links to the Mercury All-Area player of the year stories and teams from the fall 2023 season

Need for food remains at record levels in Berks and surrounding counties

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Spring-Ford 3, Delaware Valley 0: Spring-Ford’s postseason-long hot streak continued in the opening round of the PIAA Class 4A tournament on Tuesday with a three-set win on the road at District 2 champion Delaware Valley. Spring-Ford won by set scores of 25-19, 25-22, 25-15. The District 1 third-place team improved to 21-7 this […]

M&M took over Hershey this weekend. Forget a battle of candy giants, the giants at Hershey Racquet Club Saturday were Spring-Ford seniors Mia Matriccino and Evelyn Mejia, who claimed the PIAA Class 3A doubles championship. Matriccino and Mejia claimed the second state championship of their high school careers by defeating Council Rock South’s Michelle Lerman and […]

Spring-Ford beat Plymouth Whitemarsh in three sets 25-20, 25-20, 25-19 in the second round of the District 1-4A playoffs Thursday night.