Chestnut Hill Local

by TOM UTESCHER

When they traveled to Philadelphia Biblical University last Thursday afternoon, Chestnut Hill College’s soccer Griffins were seeking two things; their first goal and their first victory.

The brand new CHC men’s franchise, which had been shut out in its first three games this season, achieved both of its objectives against Philly Bible, scoring not once but three times to capture a 3-2 overtime win over the host Crimson Eagles (3-5).

Trailing 0-2 at halftime, the Griffs pulled even in the second period on a pair of goals by junior striker Joe Grinkewicz, who played high school ball at William W. Bodine and then spent two years at Delaware Valley College before transferring to Chestnut Hill this fall. Fellow junior Mike McDonald, who is also a member of the CHC basketball team, was credited with assists on both goals. Freshman Boyd....

Springside hockey tops Tigers

by TOM UTESCHER

The Springside Lions were on the offensive for most of the first half of last Friday’s field hockey match, but junior goalie Nora Tickell kept the cage sealed for host Germantown Friends until the period ended with the score still 0-0. The visitors kept at it after the interlude and finally they breached the GFS bulwark, coming away with a 3-0 victory.

Although the host Tigers came close to breaking up the shutout in the late minutes, in the end they saw their record fall to 0-4, while Springside improved to 3-0-1 in the young 2004 season.

Both teams graduated their starting goalies from a year ago, and in fact for Lions sophomore Sara Heinze, who’d been sidelined by illness earlier, it was the first varsity start ever. She came up with nine saves for the visitors, all in the second half, while Germantown’s Tickell made 17 stops while under a lot of pressure.

The Tigers graduated five other starters from last year’s Friends School League champion squad, while Springside lost four field players from its 2003 club, which tied for sixth in the Girls Inter-Ac.

Despite numerous advances into the GFS circle in the opening half of Friday’s....

Roman repeats at soggy CHA runfest

by TOM UTESCHER

The last gallons of “Ivan” had turned the Chestnut Hill Academy campus into a bayou, but that didn’t stop the local school from staging its annual CHA Cross Country Invitational last Saturday.

To say that defending team champion Roman Catholic dominated the event might be understating the case. The Cahillites boasted the top three finishers and placed five more athletes in the top ten, easily outpacing runner-up Haverford School in the team standings, 19 points to 68. In fact Haverford’s total, adjusted downwards according to the displacement scoring procedure, still did not match the figure of 67 produced by Roman’s second five runners.

Senior Mark Burgmann, a first-team All-Catholic pick last season, won the three-mile race in 16 minutes, 38 seconds, well ahead of his classmate Dan Keefe, who snagged second in 17:33.

While Germantown Friends graduated a lot of talent from its 2003 Friends School League champion team, the Tigers still managed a solid third place in Saturday’s meet, ending...

Mount runs past Pandas, 18-40

by TOM UTESCHER

Paced by senior co-captains Katie McLernand and Megan Badolato, the host Magic of Mount St. Joseph Academy posted a comfortable 22-point victory over visiting Nazareth in last Tuesday’s Bicentennial League dual meet opener.

McLernand won the race, covering the hilly three-mile course in 20 minutes, 14 seconds, while Badolato finished second in 20:41. Sophomore Chelsea Clark and freshman Sarah Collier completed a Mount St. Joe sweep of the top four places in the event before the first competitor for the Pandas, junior Betsy Kenney, crossed the line in fifth place overall.

Neither squad was at full strength for the encounter. Nazareth was missing three of its better runners, and for the Mount junior Siobhan O’Connor was injured and sophomore Rose Wilson was sidelined by illness. The victory raised the Magic’s record to 3-0 this season; the Mount had won a non-league tri-meet with Germantown Academy and Plymouth Whitemarsh Senior High School back on September 2.

In last Tuesday’s league debut, McLernand and Badolato were running...

Mount tennis remains unbeaten

by TOM UTESCHER

The Mount St. Joseph Academy tennis team prevailed in three of the five individual bouts completed in last Wednesday’s match at Germantown Academy,

but there never was an official final reckoning as late afternoon rains drove the remaining players off of the courts.

A day earlier, visiting Gwynedd Mercy gave the Magic (4-0) their first close match in Catholic Academies play, following a pair of 5-0 Mount victories over league rivals Merion Mercy and St. Basil. The Monarchs ruled in the top two singles spots, but Mount St. Joe pulled out a 3-2 victory thanks to junior Kathleen Hubbert’s win at third singles, and to successful outcomes in both doubles contests. Sophomore Alyssa Hirst and Sarah Brierley were paired up at first doubles for the locals, and seniors Maggie McDermott and Taylor Kenney joined up at second doubles.

Playing at Germantown Academy the next afternoon, the Mount conformed to the Girls Inter-Ac League’s four-singles, three-doubles match format. Mount St. Joe had beaten another Inter-Ac club at the end of August, knocking off Notre Dame 5-2. GA’s Patriots came into Wednesday’s...

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