July 3, 2008 Issue
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Classified Chestnut Hill Local Don't Miss an Issue, Tell us what you see or Winner of Two |
Local SportsMount overcomes Archbishop Wood, Council Rock South
Mount St. Joseph Academy notched another pair of summer basketball league victories last week, prevailing 32-29 in a pitched battle with Archbishop Wood on Monday, and then overcoming Council Rock South, 40-21, three nights later. Monday’s match-up with Wood was one of the relatively rare summer bouts that features regular-season intensity, with both squads playing tough defense instead of merely ringing up points. As the Philadelphia Catholic League begins to compete in the PA Interscholastic Athletic Association in the coming academic year, Wood will play in Class AAA, the division in which Mount St. Joe is the reigning state champion. Like the Magic, the Vikings graduated a strong crop of seniors, but in last week’s encounter they still had 6’3” St. Joseph’s University recruit Ashley Robinson, along with supporting players eager to prove themselves. Wood (which outnumbered the Mount, 14 players to seven) opened the scoring with a three-pointer, but regular field goals by MSJ’s Steph Smith (two points total), Elle Hagedorn (eight points), Mary Jo Horgan (five) and Shannon Bridges (four) forced the Vikings to call a time-out eight minutes into the fray, trailing 8-3. Brandon Jones returns to GFS to coach Sometimes you just have to follow your heart and do what feels right. That is what Brandon Jones, Germantown Friends class of 2000 said to himself after he decided to leave his lucrative job at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and return to the school the gave him a head start in life.
Springside School Lions acquire Brode, Maguire With two recent hirings, Springside School seems to have taken a page from Thomas Hardy’s “Return Of The Native.”
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