Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 4/14/23
La Salle will host Catholic League rival St. Joseph’s Prep tonight at 6:30 in a game to benefit the HEADstrong Foundation.
The game will be held at Flannery Field.
Aside from HEADstrong, the game will bring awareness to Cole’s Goals.
Cole’s Goals was created to help raise awareness about Biliary Atresia and other liver diseases and to fundraise for The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) Liver Research Foundation.
Cole Joseph Princehorn, son of first-year Prep coach Mark Princehorn, was born on November 30, 2020 and at his 2-month appointment it was learned he was suffering from Biliary Atresia. The rare congenital disease, which afflicts infants, causes a blockage in the ducts that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder.
Cole underwent a 7-hour surgery and has made great progress while undergoing treatments for 2 years. In July he had a liver transplant. Cole is still giving the good fight as he was diagnosed with a rare cancer called Post Transplant Lymphomic Disorder (PTLD). An annual benefit, called Cole’s Goals, to benefit CHOP, will be held on May 2 when St. Joseph’s Prep plays Souderton at 6pm at Penn Park.
La Salle is 5-3 overall and 4-0 in the Catholic League. The Prep is 4-3 and 2-0 in the Catholic League.
La Salle has won the last six Catholic League championships; St. Joe’s Prep last won the title in 2015.
Click here to donate to HEADstrong – https://pledge.headstrong.org/team/483749
