December 18, 2008 Issue                                       

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Local Sports

Champs from GFS, PC and host CHA at annual wrestling tourney
by TOM UTESCHER

CHA Sophomore Dan Gallagher in his first match of the tournament vs. Cardinal O’Hara’s Matt Rooney. Gallagher, who won by pin in the second period, was the 160 lb. champion and was named most putstanding wrestler of the tourney.  For more photos visit chlocalphotos.com. (Photos by Jimmy J. Pack Jr.)

Host CHA, Germantown Friends School, and Penn Charter each produced an individual champion last Saturday at the 2008 Chestnut Hill Academy Invitational Wrestling Tournament, but the team title went to Westtown School, the defending champions in GFS’ own Friends School League.

Springside squash succumbs to Irwin
by TOM UTESCHER

Springside School won its squash season opener over Shipley, 8-1, at the start of the month, but since then the Lions have fallen prey to several more experienced opponents.

After dropping road matches at Baldwin and Lawrenceville, Springside (1-3) returned home for a tilt with Agnes Irwin (1-1) last Wednesday, and the visiting Owls came away with a 7-2 victory. Because of the popularity of the sport at most of the Girls Inter-Ac League schools, nine individual matches are now counted in the official team scoring, instead of the traditional seven.

Home cooking suits CHC hoop teams
by TOM UTESCHER

Julian McFadden

After playing almost all of their games on the road for the first few weeks of the 2008-09 schedule, the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Chestnut Hill College returned to Sorgenti Arena last Thursday night for their first home doubleheader of the season.

The familiar environment proved a boon to both squads. The ladies, who’d earned their lone victory of the season in their one prior appearance at Sorgenti, squandered much of a 14-point lead in the final minutes but hung on to beat Goldey-Beacom College, 61-58, improving to 2-5 overall.

For the Chestnut Hill men, as for the women, the meeting with Delaware’s Goldey-Beacom was their opening game in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference play. The male Griffins had not played at home at all and had lost all of their first seven games, but they broke into the win column on Thursday by grounding the visiting Lightning, 60-51.

The CHC women got 13 points, four rebounds, and four assists from junior forward Jenna Beck, plus a dozen points apiece from freshman forward Ashlen Stayrook (six rebounds, four assists, two steals) and junior transfer Davina Yacab (seven rebounds), another forward. From the guard spots, junior Maryanne Glass contributed nine points, seven rebounds, and two assists, and sophomore Jessica Pruiti had eight points, three rebounds, and three assists.