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Sports
Some habits are hard to break, and last week neither a
previously unbeaten team from the George Washington Carver High School
of Engineering and Science nor an improved Kennedy-Kenrick club could
keep Mount St. Joseph Academy from winning the Catholic War Veterans Holiday
Basketball Tournament for the fifth year in a row.
Mid-December is when most of the Ivy League universities
answer high school hopefuls who’ve submitted “early action”
applications, and after anxious hours checking mailboxes and special admissions
websites, a number of area student-athletes recently learned that they’ll
continue their playing careers at the prestigious schools they’d
set their hearts on.
Playing in the post-Christmas tournament hosted by a Neumann-Goretti
High School ballclub that features three future NCAA Division I players,
a realistic goal for Springside’s hoop squad was to win one of its
two tourney outings.
CHA Devils defeat GFS Tigers
in b’ball face-off
by ANDREW LAZOR
The Dec. 20 meeting between Chestnut Hill Academy and Germantown
Friends School proved to be an action-packed match-up between the inter-conference
rivals. The Inter-Ac’s Blue Devils managed to defeat the Friends
Schools League’s Tigers 49-37 in a game that featured 34 fouls and
several technicals.
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