Itinerant SCH racquetmen chalk up league wins
Sports May 13, 2013 0 Comments
by Tom Utescher The brand new tennis facility at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy will be ready for use next month, but during this spring season no home courts have been available to the Blue Devils. Leading a nomadic existence, the SCH racquetmen have found rough going against their colleagues in the Inter-Ac much of the [...]
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SCH golfers overcome by charging Bears
Sports May 13, 2013 0 Comments
by Tom Utescher While three-time defending champ Academy of Notre Dame was alone atop the Girls Inter-Ac League golf standings going into last week, the other schools were still scrambling for the lower places, so Springside Chestnut Hill Academy thought it might have a chance of knocking off visiting Baldwin School at Sunnybrook Golf Club [...]
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PC girls lacrosse overcomes Norwood Bears
Sports May 13, 2013 0 Comments
by Tom Utescher In a middle school lacrosse encounter between two Northwest Philly teams last Wednesday, the girls of host Penn Charter scored seven of the first eight goals of the day and went on to win, 15-7 against visiting Norwood Fontbonne Academy. The NFA Bears played better late in the first half and asserted [...]
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GA boys take 9-8 decision against Devils
Sports May 13, 2013 0 Comments
by Tom Utescher When visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy quickly took a 3-0 lead in last Tuesday’s Inter-Ac lacrosse match at Germantown Academy, it looked like the Blue Devils were on their way of a season sweep of the Patriots. After that, though, the Pats regrouped, tied the game 5-5 by halftime, and proceeded to [...]
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Area athletes at Penn Relays
Sports May 6, 2013 0 Comments
by Tom Utescher A number of area track and field athletes turned in noteworthy performances late last month at the historic and prestigious Penn Relays. In the Championship of America race in the girls’ distance medley relay, a Germantown Friends quartet that includes three underclassmen finished second in an elite field with what is believed to [...]
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SCH, PC, GFS crew medal at Cities
Sports May 6, 2013 0 Comments
by Tom Utescher For area crews, last Sunday’s Philadelphia City Championships was the first of the season’s major medal races, and medals there were, for rowers from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, Penn Charter, and Germantown Friends School. Two quads won gold medals in the novice category, the boys of SCH and the girls of Germantown [...]
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Mount frosh perform Magic at City Champs
Sports May 6, 2013 0 Comments
by Tom Utescher The Mount St. Joseph Academy crew is used to bringing home multiple medals from the annual Philadelphia City Championships, but most of the three golds and two silvers won by the Magic last Sunday didn’t come from the usual sources. Seven of the 11 vessels entered by the Mount made it to [...]
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