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La Salle College Explorers

La Salle College Explorers
La Salle College Explorers
Head Coach: Brett Gordon
PIAA District 12 - Class 6A
Philadelphia Catholic League - Red
 
 
OVERALL PCT CONF PCT HOME AWAY STREAK
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08-16
10:30 am

vs. Neshaminy (0-0)

Scrimmage

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08-22
7:00 pm

@ Pittsburgh Central Catholic (0-0)

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08-29
6:00 pm

@ Malvern Prep (0-0)

Ocean City High School (NJ)

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09-05
7:00 pm

@ Salesianum (DE)

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09-13
1:00 pm

vs. Calvert Hall (MD)

Northeast Supersite

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09-26
7:00 pm

@ Roman Catholic (0-0)

Widener University
Division Game / League Game

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10-04
7:30 pm

@ St. Joseph's Prep (0-0)

Franklin Field
Division Game / League Game

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10-11
1:00 pm

vs. Bonner-Prendie (0-0)

William Tennett High School
Division Game / League Game

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10-17
7:00 pm

vs. Cardinal O'Hara (0-0)

Wissahickon High School
Division Game / League Game

-

10-24
7:00 pm

@ Father Judge (0-0)

Division Game / League Game

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La Salle WR/DB Joey O’Brien commits to Notre Dame

June 21, 2025  |  

Joey O’Brien Commits to Notre Dame After a lengthy recruiting process 5 star defensive back and wide receiver Joey O’Brien has committed to Notre Dame. O’Brien is one of the most sought after football recruits in the country and stars for the La Salle Explorers. This year with La Salle, O’Brien won the PCL red […]

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La Salle DB John-Patrick Oates latest Philly recruit to pledge to Temple

June 18, 2025  |  

The Temple football program has been kinda silent in the Philly recruiting scene. Not any more. La Salle TE John-Patrick Oates joins a host of Philly kids who have pledged to play for the Owls. Oates passed up offers from the likes of Howard, ODU, Eastern Michigan, Georgetown, Towson, Morgan St, Richmond and Monmouth to […]

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Former Philly Area All-Stars Look Forward to Draft Weekend

April 24, 2025  |  

The 2025 NFL Draft will take place Thursday night through Saturday evening. Over the course of those 3 days there are quite a fee players from Philadelphia and Delaware county who will hear their name called or sign contracts with teams after the draft concludes. Leading the way will be Penn State edge rusher Abdul […]

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PA’s Top 2026 QB Picks Mizzou

April 18, 2025  |  

La Salle College High School junior quarterback Gavin Sidwar has officially committed to the University of Missouri, PaFootballNews learned Via Hayes Fawcett Friday afternoon. The 6-foot-3 190 pounder is ranked the 11th best player in PA (Via. 247Sports) in the class of 2026, and the second best quarterback behind only Penn State commit Peyton Falzone […]

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District 12 is well represented on the PFN Coaches All-State Teams

January 9, 2025  |  

The 2024 football season has concluded and coaches across the state submitted their nominations for the PFN coaches all-state teams. District 12 and the Inter-Ac also known as the Philly City Leagues are very well represented throughout 3 of the 6 classifications. In the 4A classification Bonner Prendie the state champs placed 5players on the […]

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St. Joseph’s Prep Beats La Salle College in Rematch 21-14 (Photo Gallery)

November 10, 2024  |  

St. Joseph’s Prep Beats La Salle College in Rematch St Joseph’s Prep – 21 La Salle College – 14 https://x.com/ScipScip

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Revenge is Best Served Cold: St. Joseph Prep advances in 21-14 win over La Salle

November 9, 2024  |  

Sold Out. That’s the best way to describe a game of this magnitude. The two top teams in the State meet again for the second time in the season. Even after winning the first meeting, La Salle would still be considered the underdog as most of PFN projected SJP to win. The opening kickoff would […]

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District 12 Playoff Preview Week #12

November 8, 2024  |  

District 12 Playoffs Preview 6A Public League Finals #2 Abraham Lincoln @ #1 Imhotep (Northeast Supersite): Saturday 1pm Imhotep is entering this game on a 5-game winning streak. The Panthers are 9-1 on the season with their lone loss to East St. Louis HS early in the season. In last week’s semifinal game against George […]

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Playoff Preview: The Rematch- St. Joe’s Prep vs La Salle D12 Round 2

November 7, 2024  |  

La Salle v. St. Joe’s Prep Where: Wissahickon High School When: 1:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 9th Last Meeting: October 5th, 2024: La Salle 35 St. Joe’s Prep 34 (4 OT) La Salle Explorers (PFN 6A Rank 1) Coach: Brett Gordon La Salle. In coach Brett Gordon’s first season as the head coach, not only has […]

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Philly City League Weekly Rankings & Recap

October 17, 2024  |  

Week 8 Rankings & Recap: La Salle St. Joes Prep Imhotep Malvern Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Archbishop Ryan Abraham Lincoln Haverford School   Weekly Game Recap: Lower Moreland 26 Thomas Edison 8: Lower Moreland jumped out to an early 24-0 lead and coasted the final quarter for the win. Dobbins 20 Mastbaum […]

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Philadelphia City League Weekly Rankings, Recap & Preview

October 11, 2024  |  

Week 7 Rankings: La Salle College St. Joseph’s Prep Imhotep Charter Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Malvern Prep Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Germantown Academy Archbishop Ryan Abraham Lincoln Week 7 Recap: Overbrook 24 Vaux 0: Overbrook jumped out early on Vaux behind the dynamic duo of QB Jineer Fogan & WR Khary Bruce. Brook improved to 4-3 […]

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La Salle Stuns St. Joseph Prep in Four Overtimes

October 6, 2024  |  

Football. Love it or hate it, you can at least admire it. St. Joe’s Prep vs La Salle was without a doubt the most anticipated game of the week. Quite possibly could have been the most anticipated game of the season with how each team was playing. The first half was all defense with neither […]

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Philly City League Week 6 Rankings and Recap

October 2, 2024  |  

Week 6 Recap & Rankings: St. Joes Prep La Salle College Imhotep Charter Bonner-Prendie Roman Catholic Malvern Prep Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Germantown Academy Abraham Lincoln Archbishop Ryan Kipp-Dubois 14 Edison 0: Kipp used a strong defense to will their way to a win behind defensive lineman Andrew Morency’s 3 sack performance. Edison got a […]

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Sidwar LaSalle Sail Pass Episcopal Academy

September 21, 2024  |  

NEWTOWN SQUARE: Traditionally LaSalle College High School has been known for its Quarterback play. In January one of the greatest QBs in school history, Brett Gordon returned to the Explorers has head football coach. One of the additions that Gordon brought in was former Neshaminy Head Coach Mark Schmidt to coach the offensive line. Perhaps […]

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District 12 & Inter-Ac Week 3 Recap

September 17, 2024  |  

Week 3 in the 3 Philly City Leagues has come and gone. When the weekend began there were 8 undefeated teams and that number is now down to 5 after Ben Franklin, Imhotep & Haverford all lost their first games this season. Currently only Bonner-Prendie, Roman Catholic, La Salle College & Simon Gratz are the […]

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District 12 & Inter-Ac Week 3 Preview

September 13, 2024  |  

Week 3 City Rankings Roman Catholic Imhotep Charter La Salle College St. Joe’s Prep Malvern Prep Bonner-Prendie Haverford School Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Cardinal O’Hara George Washington We are fully entrenched into the 2024 season as all teams within the cities 3 leagues have between 2-3 games under their belts already. There are quite a […]

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What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII This Week: Week 4

September 12, 2024  |  

Hello and welcome to this week’s installment of What the Heck’s Happening in Districts I & XII. Week Three is in the books and what a week it was we saw several big-time performances. Let’s look at what went down and what could happen this week Holman Off to Great Start For Morrisville: The Morrisville […]

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2024 District 12 & Inter-Ac League Week 1 Recap

September 3, 2024  |  

Week 1 is officially in the books and what an entertaining weekend of football in the city of Philadelphia it was. Plenty of upsets, playoff contending teams gaining statement wins and some quality football matchups. Benjamin Franklin 42 Olney 0: The Ben Franklin Electrons pulled off the first big shocker with their shutout big win over […]

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District 12 Week 1 Rankings & Preview

August 30, 2024  |  

This week will feature all of the Inter-Ac teams playing as well as most of the Philly Public League & Catholic League teams in action. Last week’s game showed La Salle is very formidable & will be a legit threat in not only the CL race but in the PIAA 6A race. Imhotep had a […]

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La Salle blows by Harrisburg.

August 24, 2024  |  

Gavin Sidwar and Joey O’Brien combined for 152 yards on 9 passes garnering 2 touchdowns and Julian McFadden hauled in 2 td passes to lead the Explorers to a convincing  45-7 win over 2nd ranked Harrisburg. The Explorers took advantage of several Cougar mistakes, including two botched punts giving them excellent field position. La Salle […]

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La Salle College HS DB Chris Fileppo finds new home at West Virginia

June 23, 2024  |  

LaSalle College rising Sr LB Chris Fileppo announced Sunday evening he has given his verbal commitment to Big 12 program West Virginia University. Chris had previously committed to FBS program James Madison University this past spring but he recently reopened his recruitment. As a junior he posted 62 tackles, 1 interception with 7 passes defended […]

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La Salle College Chris Fileppo commits to James Madison

April 4, 2024  |  

Chris Fileppo after a great junior season at LaSalle saw an uptick in interest from Division programs including nabbing offers from Villanova, Monmouth, Lafayette, New Hampshire and James Madison. Friday evening Chris announced he would be continuing his academic and football careers at James Madison. Chris returns to LaSalle for his senior year looking to […]

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Fran Brown & Syracuse Strike Again

April 3, 2024  |  

Commited 🍊🍊🍊🍊!!! @FranBrownCuse @RossDoug21 @CuseFootball @LaSalleFball @TorreySmithWR @EdOBrienCFB pic.twitter.com/xtvhnVE4Rm — Julian McFadden (@mcfadden_jules) April 3, 2024 Fran Brown’s recruiting impact is heating up for Syracuse football as they received their eleventh verbal commitment from the class of 2025 when LaSalle’s Julian McFadden (5’11” 160 lbs) WR verbally committed to the Orange via his social media […]

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La Salle College HS names Brett Gordon Head Coach

January 3, 2024  |  

The La Salle College Explorers on Wednesday named former Explorer great Brett Gordon (Class of 98) as its next head coach of the football program. Brett as an Explorer quarterback won 2 Catholic League championships, engineered them to a record 32-game winning streak, at the time set the state record for career touchdown passes with […]

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La Salle College High Lineman Lukas Donahue inks Letter of Intent with Merrimack College

December 20, 2023  |  

After a successful high school career at La Salle College the end result for Senior OL Lukas Donahue today culminates in him signing a National Letter of Intent with Division 1 FCS program Merrimack College. Merrimack plays in the NEC conference against a host of schools from PA, NY, Massachusetts, New Jersey & Connecticut. Lukas […]

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District 12 6A Championship Game Previews

November 10, 2023  |  

This week both the Public League & Catholic Leagues will crown their 6A Classification Champions. Abraham Lincoln & Northeast will battle for the Public League title while in the Catholic League St. Joes Prep & La Salle will take the field for the CL title. Game Schedules: Saturday 12pm: Northeast @ Lincoln HS (South Philly […]

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District 12 Catholic League Week 10 Preview

October 27, 2023  |  

Philadelphia Catholic League Week 10 Preview CL Red Division Roman Catholic @ St. Joes Prep (10/28 @7pm Upper Dublin HS) Roman enters this CL Red Division game 7-1 outscoring their opponents by a margin of 266-128 and riding a 4-game winning streak. Their lone loss was to Maryland powerhouse Dematha Catholic which was just a […]

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PA High School Football Continuing Careers — looking at Duquesne vs. Delaware

October 8, 2023  |  

We had a great opportunity to follow-up on the continued careers of some PA High School football players, and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience as we took in a game between the visiting Duquesne Dukes and the host Delaware Blue Hens. While both rosters were well represented by PA players, we feature the standouts and […]

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St. Joes Prep Dominates in 42-6 Win Over La Salle

October 6, 2023  |  

While Prep’s offense seemed slow and didn’t look like themselves, the defense was playing at an elite level the entire game. With two early turnovers on offense and giving the ball up in scoring position, SJP should’ve been down big. A superior defensive line, flying linebackers, and sealed tight coverage caused numerous sacks and multiple […]

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District 12 Week 6 Preview

October 6, 2023  |  

District 12 Week 6 Preview: There are some key league divisional games this weekend so let’s get into the top tier games. Public League Northeast @ Imhotep: The Vikings enter 5-1 winners of 5 straight games and will travel across town to take on Tep who is 6-0 and the top ranked team in the […]

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District 12 Week 5 Preview

September 28, 2023  |  

We are currently in week 5 of the 2023 season here in District 12. Many teams took advantage of scheduling a week 0 game, so they have 5 games played while a few choose to schedule an extra scrimmage. Due to inclement weather and team player shortages, we have a handful of teams who’ve only […]

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District 12 Week 4 Preview

September 22, 2023  |  

District 12 Week 4 Preview: Games of the Week: West Philadelphia @ Frankford Thursday 3pm: The Speedboys are currently 2-2 looking for another division win. They live and die with the running game. With a large offensive line that’s also experienced they are looking to take the next step. Frankford currently is on a 2-game […]

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District 12 Week 3 Review & Notes

September 20, 2023  |  

District 12 Week 3 Recap Academy of Palumbo 14 Dobbins 0: The Griffins used a stout defense & timely offense to secure the 14-0 win. While Dobbins played hard, they committed multiple penalties & self-inflicted turnovers doomed them. Up next for the Griffins are a date with Samuel Fels while Dobbins looks ahead to a […]

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Stone Saunders and Rico Scott Torch La Salle in 47-21 Win

September 8, 2023  |  

Mark Stoops and Nick Saban sat back and couldn’t help but laugh watching Stone Saunders total five touchdowns and Rico Scott total three touchdowns. Early issues going three and out in the first drive and giving up a touchdown right away, some speculated on how Bishop McDevitt would respond or if La Salle would be […]

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District 12 Rewind & Review: Week 1

September 6, 2023  |  

Week 1 in District 12 was full of excitement with some marque matchups some ended in thrilling fashion, others ended with a running clock. Without further ado lets’ get into the games of the week with the great 8 for the week: #1 St. Joes’ Prep v St Peters Prep: The Hawks coming off a […]

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District 12 Great 8 Rankings Week 1

August 31, 2023  |  

Week 0 of the 2023 season had some interesting and competitive games while there were a handful of blowouts including a record for a league in points scored. I’ve released my initial weekly rankings in honor of the late great Ted Silary. Every preseason he would list “The Great 8” in which coaches from each […]

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2023 District XII Catholic League Red Division Preview

August 22, 2023  |  

Catholic League Red Division The CL Red Division will remain the big school CL Division for the 2023 season. Defending CL/City/State Champions St. Joes Prep, La Salle, Archbishop Wood, Father Judge and Roman Catholic all return vying for the league championship. There is continuity within this division with no new head coaches. St. Joes Prep: […]

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St. Joe’s Prep Squeaks by La Salle, 21-13, to Advance to the D12 6A Championship.

November 11, 2022  |  

St. Joe’s Prep has been rolling all year. In all but one of their first 8 matchups, they had scored 30 or more points. The Hawks steam rolled the Explorers in their first matchup, and with Caddy Phillips, Prep’s starting Running Back, back in the lineup, the expectation was that this matchup would be more […]

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D12 6a Semifinal Preview: St. Joe’s Prep Looks to Keep Rolling vs. La Salle

November 8, 2022  |  

The La Salle defense, pictured, will need to have the game of their lives Friday night. Picture is from La Salle. Franklin Field has played home to the last three matchups between St. Joe’s Prep (7-1) and La Salle College High School (5-5). This occasion will be different. 7pm on Friday Night at Historic Franklin […]

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St. Joe’s Prep routes La Salle 35-7, @LaSalle_Sports @SJPrep_Football

November 14, 2021  |  

Revenge is a dish best served cold. The temperature at Franklin Field dropped from a mild 62° all the way down to 44° during the St. Joe’s Prep vs La Salle rematch. In their last outing, the game was close for all 48 minutes and ended in La Salle winning, 28-21. But Saturday’s matchup was […]

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D12 6A Semifinal Preview: La Salle vs St. Joe’s Prep @LaSalle_Sports @SJPrep_Football

November 12, 2021  |  

Setting: The stage is set: Historic Franklin Field on Saturday at 2:00pm. The Explorers of La Salle College High School will take on the Hawks of St. Joseph’s Prep. Small chance of rain in the pregame, but the rain will clear out and it should be partly cloudy and a cool 48° at kickoff. The […]

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La Salle vs. Roman Catholic D12 Quarterfinal Preview @LaSalle_Sports @_RomanFootball

November 4, 2021  |  

La Salle College High School, the Philadelphia Catholic League Red Division Champions, will host the Roman Catholic Cahillites, who handed the Explorers their only loss of the season. The two will play at Springfield (Montco) High School on Saturday, November 6th, at 1pm. The Cahillites had 1 win in Philadelphia Catholic League play this year, […]

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La Salle wins PCL Red Division Championship in win over Archbishop Wood 20-0 @LaSalle_Sports @WoodFootball

October 31, 2021  |  

For the first time since 2015, the La Salle College High School Explorers are PCL Football Champions. Back in 2015, there were three PCL champions, 2A, 3A, and 4A. Now there are just two champions, one for the Red Division and one of the Blue Division. The Explorers claim the Red Division, while Neumann-Goretti captured […]

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Game Preview: La Salle vs. Archbishop Wood @LaSalle_Sports @WoodFootball

October 26, 2021  |  

7pm at Wissahickon High School, Archbishop Wood will look to spoil not only La Salle’s senior night, but also La Salle’s chance to clinch their first PCL championship since 2015. How Wood can win: Wood does not need to play a perfect game to beat La Salle. What the Vikings need is a complete game, […]

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La Salle routes Father Judge 52-14 @LaSalle_Sports @fjfootball27

October 23, 2021  |  

Dominate. After being outworked, outhustled, and outplayed by Roman Catholic two weeks ago, La Salle wanted to dominate. They did just that for four quarters on Friday Night vs Father Judge, as they won 52-14. La Salle scored early and often in a variety of different fashions. EJ Wentz got the Explorers on the board […]

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La Salle outlasts @SJPrep_Football 28-21 for a historic victory

October 2, 2021  |  

Photos Nate Hall There was no denying the magnitude of this game. All week it was being hailed as the biggest game that the Philadelphia area has seen in years. By far the biggest game in Southeastern PA this week and even garnering national attention, ranked as the number 5 game to watch by MaxPreps. […]

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LaSalle vs Tep 2021 Gallery @LaSalle_Sports @TepFootball @SjbV5

September 14, 2021  |  

La Salle 13, Imhotep Charter 8 Second Quarter L-Sam Brown 33 pass from Alan Paturzo (Santiago Sturla kick), 10:03. I-Stanley Tre McLeod 5 run (McLeod run), 1:57. Fourth Quarter L-Ryan Moore 12 pass from Paturzo (kick failed), 7:28.

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