On your drive to work this morning, did you pass by any of Delaware County's many high schools? Did you spot any of the occupied ball fields? Student-athletes in jerseys?

The fall season is upon us.

I don't know about the Delco readership, but my summer was a fantastic one. It's a shame to see it creeping toward a close. On the other hand, it brings us to the opening of the fall sports season.

At the Daily Times, we've already got the wheels in motion on our annual high school football preview section. With the other sports, however, they will be highlighted in Tuesday's newspapers.

Harry Chaykun was out and about covering the girls side and I was at The Haverford School for the Inter-Ac Boys Soccer camp, where reigning All-Delco goalkeeper Max Kurtzman (pictured) was putting on a display.

Pick up a copy of the Daily Times to read more about the fall sports season.

Prior to The Haverford School's game Tuesday afternoon, the Fords honored former coach and athletic director Don McBride by naming the school's basketball court after him.

McBride coached the Fords to a 48-44 record in eight seasons, including a 1969 Inter-Academic League championship. More importantly, McBride served the school for more than 25 years in administrative roles and as an English teacher.

Thus the deserved honor - McBride Court.

Current Fords coach Steve Cloran was hoping he and the Fords could channel some of McBride's greatness in Tuesday's game against Penn Charter because - interestingly, ironically, whichever word you choose - the Fords hosted and beat Penn Charter 40 years ago to the day, with the league title at stake.

"It wasn't our day," Cloran said, "and I feel really bad about that because it could have been a really nice day. I just hope our game didn't ruin it for some of the other people here today."

It wasn't meant to be this year, with the Fords falling to the Quakers. A.J. Jones had the breakout game with 25 points.

A couple things I saw Tuesday night at Marple Newtown got me thinking about doing a 'By the Numbers' post. First, the Tigers' Soutiri Sapnas knocked down five 3-pointers. For being a slasher who drives the lane, that's an unreal amount. Second, there was a time in the third quarter when Marple had more 3-pointers as a team (7) than 2-point field goals (6).

Here are some of my other findings from a night of Delaware County boys basketball action:
2 - Wins Ridley needs to clinch the Central League crown, after beating Upper Darby tonight.
5 - Number of Haverford High scorers to reach double figures. That's NBA caliber, right there.
7 - Number of games (and losses) for the Haverford School in Inter-Ac play.
10 - Blocked shots recorded by Glen Mills' Aaric Murray, who posted a triple-double in the Bulls' win over Penn Wood.
10 - Consecutive Del Val League crowns won by Chester High. Kudos to the Clips for maintaining their reign of the league for the past decade.
14 - Conestoga's biggest lead over Marple Newtown, which overcame the deficit only to lose to the Pioneers.
26 - Points scored by Ridley's Shamar Harris, posting a new career-high in the process.