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Mount St. Joe senior Georgia Pickett goes up over Villa's Ava Irvine to grab a rebound.
Shorthanded Mounties give Villa Maria a battle, falling 56-50
In last Thursday's Athletic Association of Catholic Academies basketball bout, host Mount St. Joseph Academy fell to Villa Maria, 56-50. more
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Near midcourt, GFS sophomore Mia Rutledge displays some fancy ballhandling while guarded by George School's Basha Harrington, formerly of Germantown Academy.
GFS girls encounter George School program on the rise
The Germantown Friends girls traveled to Bucks County last Tuesday to take on a George School hoops squad that is aiming to move up out of the middle of the pack in the Friends Schools League. more
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A pair of senior post players, PC's Bella Toomey (left) and GA's Kendall Bennett, go after a rebound.
PC girls top GA again, close in on championship repeat
Just past mid-January, nothing was set in stone yet in the quest for the girls' basketball championship in the Inter-Ac League, but last Friday, Penn Charter made a big step towards retaining its title. more
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Blue Devils senior Faith Scally (with ball) looks for a way to avoid a Notre Dame double-team.
SCH basketball looking for first league win
Five minutes into last Friday's Inter-Ac League basketball game, host Springside Chestnut Hill Academy was keeping it close with the Academy of Notre Dame. Then the situation deteriorated. more
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GA senior Kendall Bennett (right) shoots over Episcopal's Natalie Magnotta for two of her game-high 18 points last Saturday.
GA basketball back at full strength for 2023
The Germantown Academy girls lost a close basketball game in their final contest of 2022, when GA was missing two important starters. Not anymore. more
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SCH senior Jack Gaghan goes back along the wall for a ball during the number two match.
Blue Devils racquet men master Malvern for first win
In boys' squash, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy posted its first win of the season last Tuesday, knocking off the visiting Friars of Malvern Prep, 6-1. more
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Penn Charter freshman Natalia Modzelewski looks to make a pass inside from out on the right wing.
PC basketball begins new year with Inter-Ac victory
When they met on the basketball court last Tuesday for the first game of 2023 and the resumption of the Inter-Ac League campaign, both Penn Charter and Episcopal Academy owned overall records under .500. more
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In the 150 lb. class, GA senior Jacob Sasson (top) ended his match with a pin late in the first period.
Despite forfeits, a respectable outcome for GA wrestlers
When a wrestling team has no one participating in six of the 14 weight classes in a dual meet, the result is usually a lopsided loss. That's not what happened to Germantown Academy last Friday. more
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Chestnut Hill College sophomore Morgan Sterner (with ball) soars above Goldey Beacom's Mone Izumi to score two of her career-high 20 points.
Regrouping Griffins of CHC strike Lightning, 79-52
The women of Chestnut Hill College were 5-6 overall a few days before the end of 2022, but won on the road on the last day of the year and then opened 2023 with a victory. more
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Chestnut Hill College's Amir Warwick guides the ball around a defender to make a lay-up. He scored his 1,000th career point as a CHC Griffin on a free throw in the first half.
CHC men capture conference victory in overtime, 87-84
In men's basketball, Chestnut Hill College had been seesawing back and forth across the .500 mark for much of last month, but a victory in the Griffins' first contest of 2023 was their third win in a row. more
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Gabby Bowes (right), a GA sophomore, reaches around Carroll's Brooke Wilson to get off a lay-up.
GA girls clipped by Carroll, 43-38, in 2022 finale
Several girls' basketball teams in the area traveled to out-of-state tournaments last week. Germantown Academy had already done that before Christmas, so last week the Patriots only ventured as far as Cardinal O'Hara. more
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SCH junior Helena Fournaris floats the ball for a serve.
SCH girls edge PC in squash
Penn Charter performed well at the top and bottom of the team ladder, but visiting Springside Chestnut Hill Academy won the third through seventh flights to clinch a victory. more
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GA sophomore Gabby Bowes barrels down the lane, passing PC senior Bella Toomey.
Defending champs open season with win at Germantown
In the Inter-Ac League opener for both teams, defending champ Penn Charter started the 2022-23 campaign with a 55-37 victory at Germantown Academy last Tuesday. more
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GFS sophomore Mia Rutledge rises for a layup.
GFS basketball ends year with a pair of wins
At first glance, the tail end of the basketball schedule looked like an intense stretch for the girls of Germantown Friends. As it turned out, GFS was not seriously challenged. more
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Junior Katelyn Jaconetti brings the ball up the court for the Blue Devils.
SCH basketball finds ANC no longer an easy mark
For a number of years, girls' basketball teams in the area could have been forgiven for penciling in a "W" where Academy of the New Church appeared on the schedule. No more. more
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Going back toward the door of the court to retrieve a ball is senior Ramsey Killinger, the Penn Charter number one.
PC racquetmen top GFS Tigers; girls beat Baldwin
Penn Charter played its boys' squash season opener last Thursday, hosting nearby rival Germantown Friends. more
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Friends Central's Amani Savage tries to protect the ball from Penn Charter's Kaylinn Bethea (left) and Ryan Carter (right). Behind them are PC's Liz Vieira (far left) and Bella Toomey.
PC prevails on final shot in early-season showdown
December was not even a week old, but last Tuesday's non-league basketball battle at Penn Charter had a playoff feel to it. more
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In last week's opening meet, GFS freshman Linus Chen-Plotkin won an official match in the 113 lb. class, and he also prevailed in an exhibition contest later on.
GFS wrestlers quickly conquer short-staffed SCH squad
The father of a Springside Chestnut Hill Academy wrestler was a little late getting to the Blue Devils' meet at Germantown Friends School last Tuesday But the encounter was so brief, he missed the matches and several exhibition bouts. more
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Seniors Kiersten Pumilia (left) and Georgia Pickett are once again captains for the Mount's basketball team, which had no seniors last winter. Germantown Academy had not yet chosen captains at the time of last week's scrimmage.
A Patriots host hoops scrimmage with Mount St. Joe Magic
On their first day back after Thanksgiving weekend, the basketball players at Mount St. Joseph Academy made the short trip out to Germantown Academy for a preseason scrimmage. more
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Rowers from the Vichy Eight and their coach (right) at their recent Hall of Fame induction. Barbara Hoe is in the back row, third from right.
Local woman celebrated for Hall of Fame "Vichy Eight"
A group of pioneers in women's crew, members of what became known as the Vichy Eight, were inducted recently into the National Rowing Hall of Fame, including Chestnut Hill resident Barbara Hoe. more
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