Chestnut Hill Local

Earthquakes, Clash capture CHYSC intramural titles

Ed note: The following is a roundup of the Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club's intramural and travel soccer games.

U-17 Intramural Championship

The U-17 Intramural league wrapped up its season this past weekend. During the regular season the Burn (coached by Patrick Fennimore) finished first, followed by the Earthquakes (coached by David Lockard) in second place, the Fury (coached by Steve Garfinkel), the Wildcats (coached by Vince Hurtubise) and the Kixx (coached by Dan Childs).

After the playoffs, the championship game was a hard-fought contest between the Wildcats and the Earthquakes. The Earthquakes emerged as the victors with a 2-0 win, making them the 2004 season champions of the U-17 league.

Dennis Fillebrown scored both goals. Players for the Wildcats included: Ben Babcock, David Bardfield, Aviv Bridge, Jonathon Bass, Carlos Cortez, Charles Feely, Alon Gur, Brigette Hurtubise, Patrick Johnson, Paul Kutzler, Masa McGill, Lisa LePera, Sarah Mooar, Zach Porges, Jacob Todd, Phil Thomas and Ben Gavin. Players for the champion Earthquakes included: Tija Bross, Djibril Dumasani, Eric Fagan, Dennis Fillebrown, Kirk Finkel, Aliza Hasty, Alex Jarvis, Ann Jarvis, Ari Kietzman, Adam lebowitz-Lockard, Maureen Menkevich, Ben...

Arena Arrives - The Mount 10th grader was the top golfer in District I

By TOM UTESCHER

As a Mount St. Joseph Academy freshman in 2003, Victoria Arena helped the Magic win the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies golf championship, and ended the season by qualifying for the PIAA state tournament.

She built on her success this fall, spearheading the MSJ squad in an undefeated romp through the AACA, and then going up against the best golfers in Southeastern PA to win the District I tournament. This earned her another appearance at States, where she would finish 18th.

The slim, raven-haired sophomore doesn't immediately strike you as a star athlete, but her horde of trophies, plaques, and medals has grown to the point that her parents are thinking of purchasing a cabinet to house them.

"She works hard, and she's very consistent," remarked Mount St. Joe coach Tom Casey. "She's very good off the tee; she never gets herself in trouble. She's always putting herself on the fairway in good spots. She's a very good putter, as well."

Arena and her teammates won all of their regular-season AACA matches...

Germantown Friends School fall season wrap-up

by MELISSA BRAFF, SARAH GELLES, and JESSE WEINSTEIN-GOULD

The GFS Tigers capped off their fall season with Friends Schools League championships for both the girls' and boys' cross country teams.

Individual tennis championships were also among the GFS titles this season, as the first doubles team of Mariel Capanna and Avery Tilney captured the gold after two winning sets at the FSL finals held at George School on Nov. 2. Other players, and the team as a whole, distinguished themselves against worthy opponents throughout the season and the team held strong all the way through the championship game against Friends' Central on Oct. 29.

The GFS girls varsity soccer team won the Oct. 30 playoff against Friends' Central 2-1, with Kate Kolbert-Hyle leading the offense. Kolbert-Hyle's drive, the strong defense of Kate Zipin and Ceci Davis-Hayes, and midfield surprise Julia Bergman combined forces while tearing up the field at the playoff game, enabling the Tigers to prevail. They fell against George School 2-1 in double overtime after a hard-fought, evenly-matched championship game.

The field hockey semi-finals, between host Germantown Friends and visiting Westtown, ended with the final score a somewhat lopsided 3-1 in favor of Westtown, but there was no question that....

FALL SEASON WRAP-UP

(Records of local varsity sports teams)

CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY

Cross Country

0-4 in Inter-Ac League dual meets

0-5 overall

Sixth Place at Inter-Ac Championships

Football

7-0 in Independence Football League

8-1 overall

IFL Champion for third straight year

Soccer

8-2 in Inter-Ac...

FUN HOUSE MIRRORS

by CLARK GROOME

Attending the Phantoms hockey game at the Wachovia Center a couple of weeks ago was a lot like looking in a fun house mirror. You know what you're looking at but it's all out of kilter.

The Wachovia Center is home to the Philadelphia Flyers. Their American Hockey League affiliate normally plays across the parking lot at the Spectrum. A couple of times a year, when the Spectrum is booked with something else and the Center is free, the Phantoms play on the big boys' ice.

Well, this year, the folk who run the National Hockey League and their players union have decided that in order to make the game better for the fans and to save it from itself they need to have a work stoppage.

The owners, who must think that people in the Sun Belt value the game the way those in the Canadian Rockies do, have locked out the players because the NHLPA doesn't like the term "salary cap." The result: the season that was supposed to have started a month ago is on hold. What's even more distressing is that the two sides haven't sat down together to try to solve the impasse since September 8.

It's a mess, and many close to both sides think that the season is done, that...

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