Pottstown's Best So Far

Photo by a shivering Evan Brandt

More and more supports of Pottstown High School's Trojan Marching Band are sport hats hand-knit by Donna Ecker, seen here in the foreground at the Unionville Cavalcade

Twelve high school marching bands took to the field of Unionville High School for the cavalcade the school calls "March on the Brandywine."

But only one of those schools (to my knowledge at least) had earlier performed at a home game which was also their homecoming.

Photo by Evan Brandt

The crowd at Unionville.

That band, not surprisingly for regular readers of this blog, was Pottstown.

Up against a powerhouse in the Yankee Division, Marple Newtown, Pottstown put in its best
performance yet and earned its best score yet, just five-one-hundreths shy of an 80.

Marple Newtown's reputation is well deserved as their score was the highest of all 12 bands and their performance was truly something to behold.

Unfortunately, my iPhone again reminded me that it can be a curse as well as a blessing and for technical reasons that probably have to do with solar flares or something, cut out halfway through the recording of Marple Newtown's performance.

The only other remotely local band to perform was Methacton, so I recorded that as well (with no problems.)

All the videos are embedded in the Storify of Tweets further down the page.

Photo by Evan Brandt

The drum majors line up to march down and receive

awards at the Unionville High School Cavalcade

Here are all the scores:

Patriot Division

First Place: Downingtown West High School with a score of 87.65, also winning the division auxiliary and percussion awards.
Second Place: Kennett High School, with a score of 81.95

Independence Division

First Place: West Chester East High School, with a score of 77.2, also winning the "high guard" award.
Second Place: Eastern York High School, with a score of 76.6
Third Place: Bridgetown High School, with a score of 75.05, also winning the percussion award.

American Division

First Place: East Pennsboro High School, with a score of 88.6, also winning the percussion award.
Second Place: Sun Valley High School, with a score of 86.85, also winning the auxiliary award.

Photo by Evan Brandt

Even the Trojan tractor has school spirit

Yankee Division

First Place: Marple Newtown, with a score of 91.55, also winning the auxiliary and percussion
awards.
Second Place: Pottstown High School, with a score of 79.95 (the season's best).

Liberty Division

First Place: Methacton High School, with a score of 89.5, also winning the percussion award.
Second Place: Conestoga Valley High School, with a score of 86.9, also winning the auxiliary award.

Here are the Tweets from the cavalcade (Remember you have to click the blue "Read Next Page" bar at the bottom to see them all):