by Tom Utescher After helping the old Chestnut Hill Academy win a string of Inter-Ac League tennis championships while earning individual MVP honors, Ryan Gargullo graduated in 1998 and went on to play for La Salle University. When his formal playing career ended, he held numerous positions as a coach and instructor. Now he’s back […]
Read More >by Tom Utescher The boys’ lacrosse team at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy appears to be in a good position from a personnel standpoint heading into the 2020 season. Only four members of the 2019 squad graduated, and although a few of last year’s underclassmen transferred out or dropped off the team, this has been more […]
Read More >by Tom Utescher Some talented young players will take on key roles this spring for the softball team at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, but it will be hard to make up for the loss of a group of very experienced athletes from the 2019 squad. Clean-up hitter and centerfielder Colebe Oliver has graduated, and the […]
Read More >by Tom Utescher The fact that the girls’ lacrosse team at Penn Charter is coming of age is clear just from a glance at the roster. For the past several seasons, a number of freshmen and even some eighth-graders have been listed for the Quakers, but this year just a single ninth grader’s name appears. […]
Read More >by Tom Utescher Penn Charter softball, the undefeated Inter-Ac League champion and Pa. Independent Schools champion in 2019, graduated only two players from last year’s squad. However, Abby Mannion and Abby Quin were both four-year varsity players, and Quinn has gone on to join the team at West Chester University. The Quakers have their pitching […]
Read More >by Ed Morrone Last season, the SCH Academy baseball program won its first outright Inter-Ac title in 30 years, and even from the bench, it was one of the best days of Colton Roberts’ life. Roberts was a sophomore on that perfect afternoon last May, the backup catcher to senior Sam Aslansan, and his contributions […]
Read More >by Ed Morrone Last season, the La Salle baseball program did something it had never accomplished in its rich history: the team won its second consecutive Catholic League crown, no small feat given how much of a buzz saw that league can be on a daily basis. Now, with eyes set on a dynastic three-peat, […]
Read More >by Tom Utescher Near the end of the 2019-20 basketball season, one of the top female players at Penn Charter decided to continue her hoops career right here in Northwest Philadelphia. Senior Kait Carter, a 5’10” guard, has signed with Chestnut Hill College, a member of the NCAA Division II Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference. A […]
Read More >by Tom Utescher Mount St. Joseph Academy ended its basketball season last Saturday in a first-round game in the PIAA tournament. The third seed out of District 1 in Class 5A, the Magic bowed, 47-41, to another three-seed, District 12’s Archbishop Carroll High School. Mount St. Joe’s, which had been the runner-up in the Athletic […]
Read More >By Ed Morrone Although it’s one of the oldest sports clichés in the book, family is everything to the Penn Charter baseball team, on and off the field. Take three of the team’s best players heading into 2020 for example. First, there’s junior outfielder/pitcher Jake Siani, whose two older brothers, Mike and Sammy, have been […]
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