Local Sports

Chestnut Hill Girls Soccer Teams

The Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club sponsors girls’ teams in the Philadelphia Department of Recreation indoor soccer league. Games are played at city recreation centers in January, February and March.

Teams are based upon the following age groups:
U08:   Girls born between 08/01/97 and 7/31/98
U09:   Girls born between 08/01/96 and 7/31/97
U10:   Girls born between 08/01/95 and 7/31/96
U11:   Girls born between 08/01/94 and 7/31/95
U12:   Girls born between 08/01/93 and 7/31/94
U13:   Girls born between 08/01/92 and 7/31/93
U14:   Girls born between 08/01/91 and 7/31/92
U15:   Girls born between 08/01/90 and 7/31/91
U16:   Girls born between 08/01/89 and 7/31/90

U08 to U11 teams practice and play at Springside School on Sunday afternoons and U12 to U16 teams practice and play at Pickett Middle School in Germantown on Saturday afternoons. The fee is $95, plus club dues of $25 if not paid for 2005. Participation is based upon competitive tryouts, which will be held the first two weeks of November.

To register online go to www.chysc.org.  After completion of tryouts and selection to a team, walk-in registration will be required for players that do not have a 2005 EYPSA approved ID card, and will be held Monday, November 14th 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Water Tower Recreation Center.

If you have any questions, or if you are unable to register online, please contact the Girls Indoor Commissioner Jeff Krieger by e-mail at jkrieger@kriegerarchitects.com.”

Irwin excursion goes awry for Springside

by TOM UTESCHER

Springside School’s field hockey and soccer teams traveled to Agnes Irwin last Thursday to make up games that had been rained out earlier in the month, and with unfavorable outcomes in both events, the ride home was a long one for the Lions.

The hockey match was a scrappy but scoreless affair most of the way, but just as it seemed overtime was in the offing, Irwin scored on a penalty corner with less than two minutes remaining to capture a 1-0 victory. Just down the hill on the soccer pitch, the Lions were first on the scoreboard, but after that the host Owls swooped down on the Springside net, filling it with half-a-dozen goals for a 6-1 final.

Both the Springside and Irwin hockey teams are well-stocked with seniors who had playoff aspirations at the start of the year, but who got off to an 0-2 start in the Girls Inter-Ac League.

In Thursday’s scramble for that first league victory, the Owls attacked at the outset for about seven minutes, then the Lions took the play to the other end and had Rachel Estepa fire a ball just wide of the left post. Later on, Springside took three straight corners, but they didn’t yield any shots, and the score was still 0-0 at halftime.

Chestnut Hill girls soccer team nets tie, boys fall in tight match

U-12
In a hard fought game with Hunter, the Chestnut Hill girls U12 team tied with their fiercest rivals 2-2. The game started with the Chestnut Hill team playing up hill and into the wind.

U-11
The U11 Chestnut Hill boys soccer team lost a tight match 3-2 at Lenape.

GFS Cross-Country Teams Both Win League Champs

The Germantown Friends School boys’ and girls’ cross country teams defended their Friends Schools League titles, marking the 4th straight year each team has been crowned League champs. In the boys’ meet in the wind and rain at Belmont Plateau, the GFS sophomore class asserted themselves by grabbing the first three places: Max Kaulbach (1st, 17:11), Jake McKenzie (2nd, 17:26), and Isaac Ortiz.

(3rd, 17:45). Senior captain Jonas Crimm (5th, 17:54) and Jasper Sneff-Nanni (11th, 18:37), both of Mt. Airy, rounded out the top five for the Tigers. Sophomore Brad Thompson of Chestnut Hill finished 12th in a personal best time of 18:38.