Mercersburg baseball standout Christian Binford ’11 has committed to play at the University of Virginia and football player Sam Rodgers ’11 has given a verbal pledge to Syracuse University.

Mercersburg’s boys’ swimming team, which captured the 2010 Eastern Interscholastic Swimming Championships, includes six swimmers who have been named NISCA/Speedo All-Americans: Tareq Kaaki ’11, Nick Thomson ’10, Linc Kupke ’11, Ty Malone ’10, Kevin Shivers ’13, and Sammy Schadt ’10.

Mercersburg's sports teams are well represented on the recently released Chambersburg Public Opinion newspaper All-Star teams.  Click on the links below to see the full All-Star roster for each sport. Note that much of the surrounding area competes in girls soccer in the spring, while Mercersburg plays in the fall. So, soccer selections to the P.O. team include both fall and spring competitors.

P.O. Girls Soccer All-Stars Feature

P.O. Baseball All-Stars Feature

P.O. Softball All-Stars Feature

Josh Edgin ’06, a left-handed pitcher at Francis Marion who began his college career at Ohio State, was selected by the New York Mets on the second day of the 2010 Major League Baseball Player Draft. Edgin, a senior from Three Springs, Pennsylvania, was a two-time All-Mid Atlantic Prep League and All-Area selection for the Blue Storm.

It's a chant that A.J. Firestone '10 will hear from 110,000 football fans on home weekends next season, as the Mercersburg standout takes the field at Penn State University, where he will compete for the starting punting position. For more information, read Firestone to Punt at Penn State, a feature story from the [Chambersburg] Public Opinion. And, get the full list of new Mercersburg alumni who have signed letters-of-intent or committed to compete at the collegiate level next year: Mercersburg Athletes Commit to Collegiate Careers. 

Mercersburg played eventual champion Germantown Academy close for three innings, but the Storm could not weather an eight-run outburst that keyed the nationally ranked Patriots' 13-1 semifinal win in the Pennsylvania Independent Schools Athletic Association state baseball tournament.

A strong pitching performance by Christian Binford '11 and timely hitting led Mercersburg to a 7-2 win over Malvern Prep in the PAISAA state baseball quarterfinals. The Storm punched its ticket for the PAISAA's final four Saturday at Perkiomen School.