Sports

by Tom Utescher Last Friday, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy girls’ varsity tennis team evened up its record within the Inter-Ac League, knocking off visiting Penn Charter, 5-2. The PC Quakers prevailed at first singles and fourth doubles, but the host Blue Devils won the five matches in between on the score sheet. They had […]

by Jonathan Vander Lugt It’s fair to say that the Springside Chestnut Hill offense has impressed in 2019. Coming into Saturday’s matchup against Archbishop Ryan, the Blue Devils had averaged a shade over 40 points per game. Junior quarterback A.J. Graham seemed to have found his sea legs, while senior do-it-all playmaker Ke’Shawn Williams was […]

by Tom Utescher Mount St. Joseph and Gwynedd Mercy each came into last Thursday’s league volleyball match with a 4-1 record in the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies. The Mount Magic had lost a five-set contest on the road to league leader Villa Maria a week earlier. Gwynedd had not yet faced Villa, and the […]

by Tom Utescher In their cross country home opener last Wednesday, the Mount St. Joseph Academy Magic evened up their league record at 1-1 by defeating Villa Joseph Marie, 24-34. One of several talented freshmen for the visiting Jems, Meredith Glunz, won the race on the 3.1-mile Mount campus course in 19 minutes and 24.4 […]

by Tom Utescher Just about a week before the beginning of Inter-Ac League play, the boys’ soccer team at Penn Charter got a good non-league workout, traveling to Northeast High School to take on a challenging Vikings squad. It took a while for the visiting Quakers to adjust to the speed of the opposing side, […]

by Tom Utescher In their second official field hockey match of the season, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Blue Devils were challenged with an overtime situation last Friday. They passed the test, as freshman Caroline Foley scored nine minutes into the sudden victory OT session for a 2-1 SCH victory over visiting Sacred Heart Academy. […]

by Tom Utescher In last Tuesday’s Inter-Ac League cross country tri-meet, senior Issy Goldstein of host Germantown Academy won easily in a time of 18 minutes and 43 seconds, and the Patriots wound up with all of their scorers in the top 11 for a team total of 28 points. While visiting Baldwin School was […]

by Tom Utescher In the second week of September, Mount St. Joseph Academy’s field hockey squad faced its most challenging three-game stretch of the season thus far, as the Magic played two of their toughest league opponents and one formidable non-league rival. The Mount entered the week with a 4-0 record, then suffered its first […]

by Tom Utescher Germantown Academy’s volleyball team ran its record to 4-0 in its early non-league matches last Thursday afternoon. The Patriots didn’t know much about their opponent, Valley Forge Baptist Academy. Located in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, home of Ursinus College, the school has a co-ed enrollment of just 120 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. […]

by Jonathan Vander Lugt On the heels of a 2018 season that was as good as any in recent memory, Penn Charter football is off to rolling start in 2019. The Quakers have played three games and have won each by at least three touchdowns, with a total point differential of +80. Not too shabby. […]