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CHA racquetmen roll over Shipley
by TOM UTESCHER
Defending Inter-Ac squash champion Chestnut Hill Academy was scheduled to
host 2004-2005 league runner-up Haverford School last Thursday, but with
precipitation in the forecast for that afternoon, most area schools pushed
the panic button and postponed the day’s sporting events.
That left a tilt against Shipley School two days earlier as the only
match action seen by the Blue Devils last week, and by dispatching the
host Gators, 6-1, the locals leveled their season record at 2-2.
CHA’s setbacks came against a collegiate crew from Franklin &
Marshall, and against Brunswick School, a Greenwich, CT outfit that’s
considered one of the best scholastic teams in the country this year.
The only individual bout won by Shipley last Tuesday was at the number
one spot, and by the time it started Chestnut Hill had already clinched
the overall team victory.
Gators senior Jordan Greenberg, who lives on the Main Line but trains
at the Chestnut Hill Academy/Springside Squash Club, took a 9-2, 9-0,
9-0, decision from the Blue Devils’ Brooks Russell.
Up to that point, however, everything had gone CHA’s way. Number
two Nick Pearson beat the hosts’ Ted Schroeder, 9-7, 1-9, 9-1, 10-8,
and even though the Devils were missing their regular third and fifth
players (Tyler Stout and Bob Goldman), they won the third through sixth
matches in three straight games.
Pat Davis downed Shipley number three Rye Biddle, 9-5, 9-3, 9-0, and
Steve Wetherill, also playing up, won 9-6, 9-3, 9-0 over Peter Lisle.
Against Gators number five Mauricy Wojtowicz, CHA’s Chip Culp won
his three games at love, four, and seven, and number six Dave DiDonato
dispatched Jesse Storbach, 9-2, 9-0, 9-0.
Shipley number seven Michael Sulewski put up more of a struggle, but
he eventually fell to the Blue Devils’ Derek Winter, 10-8, 9-6,
8-10, 10-8.
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