February 2, 2006 Issue                                               

©2005 The Chestnut Hill Local

Sports

Springside hoopsters end Inter-Ac drought
by TOM UTESCHER

Venture on a space odyssey back to 2001. To be exact, into the Springside School gymnasium on January 16 of that year. It’s late in the afternoon, and sophomore guard Maggie Koch has fired seven three-point field goals to lead the host Lions to a 55-32 victory over the Bears of Baldwin School. Springside supporters didn’t know it then, but it would be their basketball team’s only victory in the Girls Inter-Ac League that season, and more than that, it would linger as the Lions’ last league win for the next four years.

GA girls win low-scoring battle over Charter
by TOM UTESCHER

For the girls’ hoop squad at Germantown Academy, last week’s schedule featured a flurry of activity as the Patriots engaged in two Girls Inter-Ac League contests and two tough non-league tilts. GA prevailed in each one, defeating, in order, Penn Charter (37-19), Peddie School (44-36), Agnes Irwin (56-36), and St. Basil’s Academy (49-47).

Springside’s newest Lions, Nadya Grisheava (left) and Ulya Savelieva. (Photo by Tom Utescher)

From Russia, with “Game”
by TOM UTESCHER

At an institution where squash has traditionally been considered the primary winter sport, an invigorating breeze from the Baltic Sea has breathed new life into the basketball program.

Last week Springside School welcomed a pair of Russian exchange students, and they came packing some impressive hardcourt qualifications. Natives of St. Petersburg, they are Ulya Savelieva, a guard who can also play small forward, and center Nadya Grisheava.

Friday Night Basketball: Sixers edge Kings
by TOM AMODIE

In a battle of two of the league’s better teams the Sixers edged the Kings 31-29 in a low scoring game. The Sixers put two players in double figures — Rahmel Hamilton with 13 and O’Shane Black with 11. Probably more importantly than that, the Sixers’ defense held Jesse Biddle, one of the league’s better scorers, to just eight points. Arthur Borgeroff paced the Kings with 19 points. The Kings and Sixers each have one loss.

CHA senior Mike Flannery: high school player of the year

Mike Flannery #23 is flanked by his mother Kim and father Mike Sr.

The Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia has selected Chestnut Hill Academy senior Mike Flannery as one of its high school players of the year.

Mount swimmers take Merion’s measure
by TOM UTESCHER

After a frustrating December during which they struggled against squads with larger and deeper rosters, Mount St. Joseph Academy’s swimmers have fared better in the first month of the new year.