January 11, 2007 Issue                                       

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Mount makes it a dozen
by TOM UTESCHER

The Mount’s Laura Johnson is guarding Villa’s Emily Brown.For more photos visit www.chlocalphotos.com

Mount St. Joseph Academy’s hoop squad kept its unprecedented season-opening win streak going last week, tabbing two victories within the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies and raising its overall record to 12-0.

In an emotionally-charged home court contest on Thursday evening, the Magic knocked off defending league champ Villa Maria, 57-47, and an in a less dramatic encounter at Merion Mercy on Saturday afternoon, the Magic took care of business by beating the Golden Bears, 44-28.

On Thursday, the bleachers at the Mount were filled by a crowd eagerly anticipating this important early-season AACA match-up. As the bout got underway, the Magic’s Laura Johnson and Elle Hagedown each rang up a pair of field goals (one of Johnson’s a three-pointer) and one of the smallest players on the court, MSJ guard Jen Sabia, scored off of a rebound.

Spartan swimmers sink Mount
by TOM UTESCHER

It was unseasonably warm late last week, but it’s going a bit far to suggest that Mount St. Joseph Academy and Springfield High School should’ve held Thursday’s swim meet at an outdoor pool. The teams assembled, as planned, alongside Springfield’s indoor pond, where the host Spartans (5-1 overall) came away with a hard-won 97-88 victory over the visiting Magic (1-4).

Epiphany, MMR winners at Norwood Snowball Tournament
by TOM UTESCHER

There would be no repeat champions this year at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy’s Snowball Tournament, the annual 16-team boys and girls basketball tourney which ran from Thursday through Sunday at the local school.

Local “squirt” squad takes second

Local “squirt” squad takes second: The Wissahickon Squirt A Ice Hockey Team battled their way to a second place finish in the Vineland New Jersey Holiday Tournament last week. To reach the finals, the WSC team defeated the Hatfield Ice Dogs 5-4, the Atlantic City Sharks 5-3 and Vineland Patriots 3-2.

GFS Boys’ basketball team are all winners!

The GFS boys’ basketball team winning the Jenkintown Tournament in December.

Germantown Friends School’s boys’ varsity basketball team won this season’s first Friends Schools League game on January 5, defeating Westtown School 40-25 and making its 13-1 record the best in recent memory. The team is led by senior tri-captains David Gould of Germantown, Marek Loder of Flourtown, and Omari Philip of Wyndmoor, under the direction of head coach Bill Dooley of Warrington and assistant coaches Jerome Mimms of Germantown and Brandon Jones of Mount Airy. Recent highlights include winning the Jenkintown Robert Hopf Holiday Tournament on December 28, defeating Episcopal Academy on December 5, and winning the GFS-hosted Germantown Community Basketball Tournament for the first time in its 17-year history.

Notre Dame drones past Springside, 47-27
by TOM UTESCHER

Notre Dame’s Devon Kane is on the attack against Springside’s Kristen Fuery. For more photos visit www.chlocalphotos.com. (Photos by Jimmy J. Pack Jr.)

Considering that last Friday’s basketball bout at Springside was the first Girls Inter-Ac contest of the new year for the host Lions and the first league game altogether for the visiting Irish of the Academy of Notre Dame, there was hardly a sense of electricity in the air during the encounter.

Neither team looked particularly sharp, and both shot poorly. Springside hung in until the second quarter; then the visitors pulled away, grinding out a workmanlike 47-27 victory. The Lions had not played since the previous Saturday, and Notre Dame’s players had taken time off after a busy December that had included a tournament trip to Florida.