On Friday, Root For Your Girls (And Man)

Editor's note: Welcome to Morning Briefing, where each weekday at 6 a.m. we'll tell you what you need to know to get you through your day—and on Fridays, the weekend, too.

Lower Merion High School's girls plays Cardinal O'Hara tonight in the state quarterfinals. Game time is 7:30 p.m. at Wissahickon High School, and Patch will have a reporter and photographer there to catch every play.

Also, Penn Valley native Matt Griffin's Boston University Terriers face heavy favorite Kansas in a round-of-64 NCAA Tournament game tonight. It starts at 6:50 p.m. on TBS.

Weather

• Ready for highs in the 70s? The National Weather Service predicts we'll reach that today, with a slight chance of overnight showers while temperatures dip into the 40s.
• The weekend probably won't be nearly as nice, with highs in the low 50s and a 30 percent chance of rain Saturday.

Crime

• Lower Merion police are searching for the man who tried to rob the Bala Cynwyd 7-Eleven at gunpoint Saturday morning. He is described as a black man between ages 40 and 50, weighing 180 to 200 pounds and standing between 5 feet 7 inches and 6 feet tall. He wore a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark knit cap, navy blue work jacket and dark pants.

Utilities

• PECO reported between five and 50 power outages overnight in Montgomery County.

The roads

• If you see a pothole that needs to be fixed, call the township's pothole hotline at 610-645-4782.

SEPTA transit

• Thorndale Line: Check the new timetable
• Cynwyd Line: Check the new timetable
• Route 44: No problems reported
• Route 52: No problems reported
• Route 65: No problems reported
• Route 103: No problems reported
• Route 105: No problems reported
• Route 106: No problems reported
• Route 115: No problems reported
• Route G: No problems reported

Trash/recycling pickup

• Both Lower Merion and Narberth are picking up trash and recycling on a normal schedule today.

Schools

• Lower Merion public schools are on a normal schedule today.