Chestnut Hill Local

Another win over Lions gets GA to lax finals

by TOM UTESCHER

In their second lacrosse match at Germantown Academy in less than a week, the Springside School Lions came away one goal closer, but still one goal short.

On May 8, the Patriots clinched the 2004 Girls Inter-Ac League championship (determined by best record in the full round of league games) with a 13-11 victory over visiting Springside. For the newly-minted postseason tournament in the league, fourth-seeded Springside had to travel to GA again last Thursday to meet the number one Pats in a semifinal contest.

In the home stretch of this rematch, Germantown again led by two goals, 11-9, and after Springside converted on one of three free-position opportunities in the last 36 seconds the Patriots had survived, 11-10. GA moved on to the tourney final to face Episcopal, a 14-8 winner over visiting...

Avenging Monarchs master Mount softball

by TOM UTESCHER

In early April the Mount St. Joseph Academy Magic won their Catholic Academies home opener over Gwynedd Mercy by an 8-1 count, but last Monday it was payback time as the host Monarchs scored twice in the fourth inning to go up 8-6 and then maintained that lead through the next three frames to top the visiting Mount.

The outcome left both teams under .500 in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies, the Mount (7-9 overall) at 5-6, and Gwynedd (6-10-1) at 4-5. Gwynedd helped the Mount get started at the top of the first, when a pair of errors and a walk loaded the bases. After a strike-out, one run came in on a wild pitch, and another scored on a sacrifice grounder by Regina McKenna. The Mount handed a pair of errors back to their hosts in the bottom of the inning, allowing one run to score. The Monarchs' Theresa Bertels then singled to left field, and that helped set up Jen Bach's two-run...

Irwin beats out Charter for last lacrosse playoff slot

by TOM UTESCHER

When the Penn Charter and Agnes Irwin stick squads had to postpone a match originally scheduled for April 16 until May 11, the contest became the last regular-season lacrosse game which would be played in the Girls Inter-Ac league this spring. What the Quakers and the Owls didn't know last month was that the winner of the encounter would clinch the last available berth in the inaugural league tournament.

After jumping out to a 3-0 lead in last Tuesday's tilt, visiting PC slipped behind the Owls and trailed until late in the second half. Junior Margaretha Ehret's fourth goal of the game brought Charter back to a 13-13 tie with a little over six minutes remaining, but the hosts answered by scoring three times in a two-and-a-half minute span, and Irwin prevailed, 16-13.

"This is sort of the story of our season," PC coach Debbie White remarked...

CHA golf faces formidable Fords

by Tom Utescher

Defending golf champion Haverford School sent shockwaves around the Inter-Ac back in April by recording a league-record team score of 216 (at par-35 Gulph Mills, that means that the six scorer averaged one stroke over par). When Chestnut Hill Academy's Blue Devils first engaged the Fords at Sunnybrook Golf Club last Monday, the locals lost, but by a respectably close margin, 235-245.

Haverford (7-1 in Inter-Ac; loss was to Malvern) was led by Brett Murdoch, who bogied the second hole and remained one-over until the ninth, when he picked up a birdie to come in on par with a 36.

Fellow Ford Tripp Bailey and CHA's Jason Ochroch tied for second-best score of the afternoon, each with a 37. Both parred all but one hole, with Bailey needing an extra stroke on the first hole, and Ochroch on the seventh. The consistent CHA junior had also carded a 37 in his previous...

Gwynedd lax unloads on Mount in rematch

by TOM UTESCHER

In an 11-10 loss during the first week of May, Mount St. Joseph Academy's lacrosse squad came within one goal of blemishing Gwynedd Mercy's unbeaten/untied season record.

When the MSJ Magic rolled out Sumneytown Pike last Wednesday for the scheduled rematch, the host Monarchs were determined to avoid another close contest. Gwynedd led the whole way in the game, charging to a 7-2 halftime lead and continuing on to win 15-4 as senior Lauren Morton amassed four goals and seven assists and junior Alex Malatesta recorded a hatrick.

Meg Bostwick, Jess Carfagno and MaryKate Farell added two goals apiece for the home side, and in all eight different Monarchs made their way into the scoring stats as GMA improved...

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