Treble gold for Mount crew at Stotesbury
by TOM UTESCHER
Two gold medals arrived in a Chestnut Hill household last Saturday evening, as sisters Margaret and Mollie Flynn of Mount St. Joseph Academy returned home from the Stotesbury Regatta. Mollie, a sophomore, wields the number five oar in the Magic’s Lightweight Eight, an undefeated crew which kept its streak intact with a first-place finish at Stotesbury, the nation’s largest scholastic regatta. Her colleagues in this craft are seniors Christine Laskowski (six seat) and Saibh Madden (seven), juniors Marykate Kelly (two) and Kelly O’Neill (three), and sophomores Steph Farris (four), Jane Mieczkowski (cox), Liz Stanowski (bow), Jenn Young (stroke). The lightweights won in five minutes, seven and one-tenth seconds, hitting the wire 5.68 seconds ahead of runner-up Holy Spirit of Absecon, NJ.
GFS repeats as league champs
The Germantown Friends School Tigers pulled out a 9-7 win over always-tough Abington Friends School to secure their second Friends Schools League Championship in as many years. The win is the first back-to-back championship for GFS Baseball.
CHA golf ties for championship
by TOM UTESCHER
Working under the name OMC, a Maori musician hit the charts in 1997 with a single called “How Bizarre.” CHA golf coach Jim Talbot thinks that the tune would’ve made an appropriate theme song for the Blue Devils’ home-away series with Haverford School last week. A tie in a scholastic golf match is rare enough, but the Devils and Fords were deadlocked at the end of both of their bouts, leveling out at 238-all at Sunnybrook on Tuesday, and reaching a 242-242 stalemate at Gulph Mills two days later. Each sporting a final league record of 7-1-2, Chestnut Hill and Haverford will share the 2005 Inter-Ac title.
GA, PC track tops in Girls Inter-Ac
by TOM UTESCHER
Senior Elisse Douglass finished first in four events for Episcopal Academy, but the Churchwomen still fell short in their attempt to repeat as champion at the Girls Inter-Ac League Track and Field Championships on May 14.
Silver medal four leads CHA & springfield crew
by TOM UTESCHER
The Chestnut Hill Academy and Springside School crews have always been known as sculling programs, but it was a boat full of sweep rowers that shone brightest for the Blue Devils and Lions at the Stotesbury Regatta last weekend. Chestnut Hill’s junior four earned a silver medal at the prestigious event, finishing the final race on Saturday in four minutes, 55.75 seconds to come in behind Mathews (4:51.22) and ahead of bronze medalist Grimsby (4:57.27). Mathews is a Virginia team which is also nicknamed The Blue Devils; Grimsby hails from Ontario, Canada.