Chestnut Hill Local

GA wins first Girls Inter-Ac lax tourney

by TOM UTESCHER

On May 15 Germantown Academy's lacrosse team added an exclamation point to its 2004 Girls Inter-Ac League championship, defeating visiting Episcopal Academy 12-11 in the finals of the inaugural postseason tournament in the league. The Patriots (final overall record: 13-3-2) were up 8-5 at halftime, but the Churchwomen (11-6) rallied in the second period and GA had to recover from a 9-10 deficit to pull out the victory.

Germantown had officially clinched the 2004 league championship back on May 7, finishing its Inter-Ac regular season games with a record of 6-1 while its three closest rivals all wound up 5-2. The new league tournament gave several of the challengers a second shot to play the champs, but the Pats held firm against both Episcopal and against...

CHA track third at Inter-Ac Championships

by TOM UTESCHER

The battle for the team laurels at the 118^th Inter-Ac League Track and Field Championships was decided in dramatic fashion in the final event of the day, but it was a duel between two teams from west of the Schuylkill. Going into the 4 x 400 meter relay in the May 15 meet, Chestnut Hill Academy was locked into third place in the team scoring, unable to catch Malvern Prep and Episcopal Academy, and well ahead of Penn Charter and meet host Germantown Academy.

Malvern's Friars and Episcopal's Churchmen were tied up at 56 points each at the start of the meet finale. An impressive second leg by Chestnut Hill's Jeff Bryant gave the Blue Devils a lead of about 25 meters, but the field closed a bit in the third loop,...

Flynns and twins help Mount medal at Stotesbury

by TOM UTESCHER

On the night of May 15, two different Mount St. Joseph Academy households in Chestnut Hill enjoyed the distinction of possessing a pair of medals from the 2004 Stotesbury Regatta.

The Flynn sisters, who had rowed in different boats, could show off one gold and one silver medallion. Margaret, a junior, earned the highest honor as a member of the Mount's undefeated "Light Brigade" lightweight eight. Mollie, a ninth grader, performed for the Magic in the freshman eight, which captured a Stotesbury silver.

Twin sisters tend to accumulate a lot of matching accessories over the years, and MSJ sophomores Kaitlin and Liz McDonald continued the trend at the nation's largest scholastic regatta. The siblings earned coordinating gold medals through their...

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...

Archives | Subscribe | Classifieds | Advertising