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DOWNINGTOWN: It’s one of the biggest matchups on the Chest Mont schedule every year traditionally both Coatesville and Downingtown West are not just powers in the Chest Mont League but also District 1 Friday night was no different.

In one corner you had the visiting Coatesville Red Raiders coming into the game at 5-1 and winners of three straight with three consecutive games. In the other corner, the 4^th ranked Downingtown West Whippets entered undefeated and with a defense allowing 10.5 points per game. In the end, it was the Whippets that were left standing. Leaving a wet Kottymeyer Stadium with the 21-14 victory.

“It’s a great opponent it’s a great rival.” Whippets head coach Mike Milano said of Coatesville adding “They (Coatesville) is a really good football team, and we think we have a pretty good football team too.”

After their 2022 meeting was canceled due to threats of violence the teams had to wait a little longer to get started has Friday. night’s contest was delayed 15 minutes due to lighting but eventually, things did get started.

After forcing the Red Raiders to go three and out to start the game the Whippets offense wasn’t letting a heavy rain get in their way has, they marched 67 yards mostly through the air on eight plays including a fourth down conversion by Quinn Henicle to keep the drive alive and on the next play Alex Kam put the Whippets on the board with his 10-yard touchdown run.

On their ensuing drive, the Red Raiders evened things following a kickoff return by Frank Miles that put the Red Raiders at their own 49, they needed only six plays including a 34 Matt Ortega Jr to Mills connection that set them up at the Whippet 4 yard-line and on the next play Damon Watson punched it from 4 yards out.

On the ensuing Whippet drive, Freshman DL CJ Miller pounced on a Henicle fumble and the Red Raiders were in business at the Whippet 27. Four plays later Ortega connected with JaQuan James for a 29-yard touchdown to give the Red Raiders the 14-7 lead.

After a scoreless second quarter in which both defenses threw their weight around the teams entered the locker room with the Red Raiders leading 14-7.

After the Red Raiders forced the Whippets to punt on the opening possession of the second half, they appeared poised to add to their lead by driving down to the Whippet 35-yard-line when Tommy Miller intercepted Ortega, however on their ensuing drive the Whippets would turn the ball themselves.

Henicle’s arm would tie things up when he hit Jordan Barry in strive and 60 yards later we had a tie ball game.

Henicle used his legs to give the Whippets the lead with 5:57 remaining in the game with his 9-yard touchdown run. With his team facing a 3&11 from their own 2-yard line Henicle showed tremendous poise in the pocket connecting with a good friend Dean Hangey for a 33-yard gain to keep the drive alive eventually the Whippets would need to punt giving the Red Raiders one final chance however penalties and the Whippet defense prevented the Red Raiders from tying the game.

The victory marked the first time since the 2019 District 1 Championship game that Whippets knocked off the Red Raiders. “We’ve worked ever since then, we got them in our house and we did what we were supposed to,” Henicle said

The Whippets look to improve to 8-0 next Saturday when they travel down to Chester with kickoff scheduled for 11 a.m. The Red Raiders will look to get back in the win column when they host Bishop Shanahan for their homecoming game with kickoff scheduled for 7 pm.

Go west, young man — that is where former Coatesville High School and Rutgers University star defensive back Avery Young is headed as a undrafted free agent.

Young was signed by the San Francisco 49ers following the 2023 NFL Draft after a stellar career at Rutgers University, where he totaled 80 tackles as a fifth year senior in the 2022 season.

Young was named Honorable Mention All Big 10 for the 2022 season and was a Hula Bowl participant.

Young was an integral part of two PIAA District 1 championship teams while at Coatesville and he follows his father, Anthony, and his brother Jordan into the NFL.

Anthony played for the Indianapolis Colts in the 1980’s after starring at Temple University and Jordan is a current member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Avery’s father Anthony, said, “He was a little disappointed he was not selected earlier. I told him about the business of the NFL and he will use this as fuel. I was in a similar situation when I joined the league.”

Coatesville head coach Matt Ortega talked about what Avery brought to his Red Raiders on and off the field.

“Avery was probably the highest character player we have had in my time at Coatesville,” Ortega said. “He just prepared so well and was a student of the game. His football IQ was so high and that was a big reason he played early in his career at Rutgers as a freshman.

“He just was a great example and such a hard worker in the classroom, the weight room and in practice and all that preparation carried over to field. Avery is just a great player and a great person.”

During Young’s time with the Red Raiders, one of Coatesville’s rivals was Downingtown East, and Cougar head coach Mike Matta had high praise for the former Coatesville star.

“Avery was a tremendous competitor,” Matta said. “He was very quick to the football and he was an explosive hitter. He changed the complexion of the game in all three facets of the game — defense, offense and the kicking game.”

Young was a five year starter at Rutgers and he totaled 290 total tackles in his career as a Scarlet Knight and will be going a 49ers team that advanced to the NFC Championship game, which lost to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Equity Health Network Providers from left, Jarvis Berry, Coatesville Youth Initiative; Moira Gassenmeyer, Equity Health Center Coordinator; Maureen Tomoschuk, Coatesville Volunteers in Medicine; Michele Francis, and Kathy Gorman, Chester County Hospital. Not pictured: Transportation Management Association of Chester County and Coatesville Center for Community Health.

In response to the 2022 Brandywine Hospital Closure, leaders from the community and in nearly 20 local and county organizations convened to develop long-term equitable health access strategies. These community leaders explored gaps in access to health services exacerbated by COVID-19, brought to light through community discussions and the Greater Coatesville Health Survey. Further research determined that an integrated care model would be an accessible, effective resource for Greater Coatesville. The combined studies led The Alliance to apply for Chester County’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. At the end of 2022, the county awarded $2.2 million to the Equity Health Center in Greater Coatesville.

The Equity Health Center launched after planning and collaboration across government, public, and private sectors who advocated for increased health services in the community. With an Oversight Committee composed of local community leaders and other physical and mental health providers, the Equity Health Center will be housed on the fourth floor of the Brandywine Center at 744 East Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, PA 19320.

The Equity Health Center will serve as a connecting point for health services across the community. Integrated care connects professionals who use their expertise in a standalone service. By connecting mental health, physical health, preventative education, and/or transportation, the understanding of a community member’s well-being can now be expanded from individual services to a larger provider network for improved health outcomes.

“The opportunity to bring an Integrated Equity center to Greater Coatesville serves as a vital tool to address the social determinants of health and increase equitable health access and well-being for all the citizens in Coatesville and its surrounding areas. As a member of the oversight committee, we thank Chester County, ARPA funding, and community stakeholders for allowing us to develop a provider network in Coatesville, improve health outcomes, and provide the healthcare our region deserves,” said Rev. Dr. Linwood Smith Jr., Community Health and Wellness Organizer and Itinerate Elder at the African American Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Equity Health Center convenes five service providers to address health, wellness, and access. With providing primary care for uninsured and increasing navigational support for youth mental health, among other services, these service providers will directly address the barriers to access that were identified and further confirmed through the Greater Coatesville Health Survey, conducted in Summer 2022. Following a Request for Proposals, and a review from the Oversight Committee, the five providers were chosen to implement programming aimed at increasing engagement in community healthcare.

The providers and their services are listed below:

A further growing Community and Provider Network will enhance this network of contracted providers. The Oversight Committee, with administrative oversight by The Alliance for Health Equity, will oversee the work and deliverables of the Equity Health Center. The members of the Oversight Committee members include Rev. Dr. Linwood Smith (community partner), Milena Lanz (Maternal Child Health Consortium), Tamara Fox (ChesPenn Health), and Heather Kaplonski (Child Guidance Resource Center). Following scheduled renovations, updates on the opening of CVIM services, additional behavioral health services and other wellness opportunities are forthcoming.

Learn more at the Alliance for Health Equity.

DOWNINGTOWN — A smile creased Quinn Henicle’s face. The Downingtown West senior quarterback was well aware of the history between the Whippets and Ches-Mont League National Division rival Coatesville

The last time Downingtown West beat Coatesville was in 2019 when the Whippets’ seniors were in eighth grade. Because the game was canceled last year due to threats of violence, many of these seniors never previously faced Coatesville, including Old Dominion commit Henicle.

Call Friday night at Downingtown’s Walter E. Kottmeyer Stadium making up for lost time.

After struggling offensively in the first half, the Whippets came back to score in the third and fourth quarters to hand Coatesville a 21-14 defeat. Before that, the last time Downingtown West beat Coatesville was a Will Howard-led 48-36 Whippets’ victory in the District 1 Class 6A championship in November 2019.

This season, Downingtown West remains undefeated at 7-0 overall and 2-0 in the Ches-Mont National, while the Red Raiders fell to 5-2 and 0-1 in the Ches-Mont National.

“It’s a war against (Coatesville) and we knew that going in,” said Henicle, who completed 14 of 18 passes for 208 yards and a touchdown, with a fourth-quarter score that proved to be the game-winner. “We fought for this. We wanted it more. We learned we’re mentally tough. I waited my whole career to face them. I’m a two-year starter, so I never got a chance to play them last year. This feels great.”

The play of the game came when Henicle hit senior receiver Dean Hangey with a 33-yard sideline bomb with just over two minutes to play. The Whippets had their backs to their end zone on a third-and-nine at the West two, when Henicle found Hangey at the 35.

From there, West ran the clock down to 55 seconds left to play, forcing Coatesville into a panic. The Red Raiders committed three penalties for 15 yards and never found any cohesion to threaten West.

“I used to live in Coatesville and I know those guys and love all of them,” said West’s Kam Alex, who scored the first touchdown of the game. “Two years ago, we lost in the last seconds. Last year, from our perspective, we felt that they were running away from us, that they were scared of us. I kept motivating our guys to finish, finish, finish.

“This is amazing. I’m about to celebrate with the guys.”

With the West offense dragging, Henicle tied the score by hitting Jordan Barry in stride for a 60-yard TD pass with 49 seconds left in the third quarter. On the Whippets’ next drive, they banged out an exhaustive 10-play, 76-yard drive, with Henicle touching it off with a nine-yard TD run with 5:55 to play.

“Last year we didn’t get a chance to play, and two years ago, they hit a fade ball in the corner of the end zone with 13 seconds left to beat us,” West coach Mike Milano said. “These seniors really didn’t get a chance to play Coatesville twice, and for some of these seniors, this was their first time. Henicle played a great game.”

Milano and Henicle saw the corner bite on an earlier play, which set up the Barry touchdown. The 33-yard toss to Hangey was a call that came from sheer guts.

“That was huge to get us out of that hole,” Milano said. “I trusted Quinn and he put it up and gave Dean a chance to get it. We talk history, and these guys go way, way back with the Downingtown-Coatesville rivalry. I told them afterward that I was proud of them.”

Coatesville took a 14-7 lead into halftime. Neither team was able to do much offensively, with the Whippets picking up 98 yards of total offense to Coatesville’s 111 yards.

West scored on its first possession, traveling 67 yards over eight plays. The big play of the drive was West’s first play of the game, a 23-yard completion from Henicle to Jake Kucera. Henicle kept the drive alive with an eight-yard scramble on a fourth-and-three at the Coatesville 18. One play later, Alex zig-zagged his way into the end zone for a 7-0 West lead.

Coatesville responded by scoring on its next two drives. The Red Raiders tied it on a Damon Watson four-yard run, made possible by Matt Ortega Jr.’s 35-yard completion to Frank Miles.

On the next drive, Coatesville took advantage of a CJ Miller fumble recovery at the West 27, caused by a blind-side sack by Matt Luton. The Red Raiders took the lead when Ortega connected with James Jack Qwan for a 29-yard touchdown. The score came after a Red Raiders’ unsportsmanlike penalty, which put the Red Raiders in what appeared to be a second-and-26 fix. Ortega wiped that out by hitting Qwan.

There was a total of five combined unsportsmanlike or personal fouls between the two teams in the first half.

Early on, the difference was the Coatesville defense, which held West to a scant 30 yards of total offense the rest of the half after the Whippets’ opening drive. Miller, a 6-3, 340-pound freshman defensive tackle, caused a lot of havoc inside for West, which could not move the ball between the tackles, and by the pressure of Luton and senior linebacker Jon Rivera.

Miller, Luton, and Rivera combined for five tackles in losses for minus-17 yards in the first half.

By the second half, Coatesville was struggling.

“We had guys cramping up and guys playing different positions because guys were getting tired, and that showed with guys not getting lined up right,” Coatesville coach Matt Ortega Sr. said. “We have to come back Monday and bounce back from that. We have to move on to next week. We weren’t right in the second half on offense.”

Scoring Summary

Coatesville (5-2) 14 0 0 0-14

Downingtown West (7-0) 7 0 7 7-21

1st Quarter

DW – Kam Alex 10 run (Ben Mehan kick), 7:21

C – Damon Watson 4 run (Colin Shaeffer kick), 4:22

C – James Jack Qwan 29 pass from Matt Ortega Jr. (Shaeffer kick), 2:54

3rd Quarter

DW – Jordan Barry 60 pass from Quinn Henicle (Mehan kick), :49

4th Quarter

DW – Henicle 9 run (Mehan kick), 5:55

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COATESVILLE, Pa. (CBS) -- A Coatesville grandmother who was trapped in her car following a wreck is on a mission Wednesday. She is desperately searching for the Good Samaritan who she says stopped and saved her life.

Carla Long was on her way to a doctor's appointment. She was only about a mile from home when she crashed and her car flipped over.

Now, she's on a mission to find the man who stopped to help her.

Dashcam video on Long's car shows the moment of impact when the mother and grandmother says she hit a patch of ice while driving on Route 82 in Coatesville and went flying into a ditch on the side of the road.

"I could see the cars passing and nobody stopped for a good couple minutes," Long said.

Long was pinned and in pain inside the car as she honked the horn and flashed her lights to get anyone's attention.

"If it wasn't for him I would've just been left there, but he stopped and he didn't have to," Long said

Long's prayers were answered as the man appeared and saved her.

"He's my guardian angel," Long said.

The Good Samaritan stayed with Long. He called 911 and helped keep the 45-year-old calm, but then to make matters worse, a pickup truck hit the same patch of ice, crashed into Long's car and nearly ran over the Good Samaritan.

"He jumped out a second before it happened," Long said.

Long credits her guardian angel for helping save her life, but she never got his name.

"Honestly, I want to hug him," Long said.

And now, she's determined to find him to express her gratitude.

"To let him know he saved a family, it would mean the world to me," Long said.

Long's birthday is this Sunday and she said the greatest gift she could receive would be to meet that Good Samaritan and say thank you in person.

Ryan Hughes

Ryan Hughes joined CBS News Philadelphia in June 2022. He previously worked at WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he's covered stories ranging from weeks on the Surfside condo collapse, to the impact of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, and the Super Bowl in Miami.

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