August 21, 2008 Issue                                       

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CHA rower’s summer culminates in Canadian Henley gold
by TOM UTESCHER

CHA’s Don Leatherwood

Overtaking rival crews from Mexico and Canada, Chestnut Hill Academy sculler Don Leatherwood and his partner, Corentin Morel, won the gold medal in the junior double category at the 2008 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta.

The 126th edition of the Canadian Henley was held Aug.  5-10 on a 2000-meter course at Martindale Pond in St. Catherines, Ontario.

Leatherwood, who will begin his senior year at CHA next month, and Morel, who hails from New York and attends The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, had already earned gold medals this summer at the Independence Day Regatta in Philadelphia, the U.S. Rowing Club National Championships in Camden, N.J., and at the Philadelphia Youth Regatta at the end of July.

Mount tennis loaded with veterans
by TOM UTESCHER

With almost the entire roster of players returning from its 2007 tennis team, Mount St. Joseph Academy is looking to recapture the league title it last held in 2006.

Villa Maria displaced the Mount Magic as Athletic Association of Catholic Academies champion last fall, knocking off the Mount in both of their regular-season meetings by 3-2 scores. In the AACA playoffs the Magic bowed out in the semifinal round to Merion Mercy, which in turn lost to undefeated Villa in the championship. The league’s top player in 2007, Merion Mercy’s Laura Matz, has graduated.