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Can't-miss high school swimming this week

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:09 GMT

LEAGUE DIVING CONTINUES
The Mid-Penn Conference’s divers got the postseason started Monday with the AA meet at Big Spring. Now it’s Class AAA’s turn at 5:30 p.m. today at Cumberland Valley, where Cedar Cliff junior Rachel Mumma will take center stage before she defends her District 3-AAA girls’ crown later this month.

EAGER WITH ANTICIPATION
That was pretty much the feeling from a lot of swimmers this past week as the regular season and league duals started to wind down. These kids have been plugging away for the last few months and are ready to show what they’ve got for the postseason. They’ll get their first chance this weekend at the Mid-Penn Swimming Championships at Cumberland Valley. The Class AAA meet will start at 4:30 p.m. Friday and the Class AA swimmers will get the spotlight at 10 a.m. Saturday.

SOARING FALCONS
The Cedar Crest boys wrapped up their stellar regular season last Thursday night with a victory over Penn Manor. Beth Yocum’s Falcons (13-1, 12-0), whose lone blemish was against Hershey, began last week with a huge win over Manheim Twp. before polishing off the Comets for an unbeaten Lancaster-Lebanon League mark. The Cedar Crest girls (11-3, 10-2) also turned in a solid season of their own and both squads are poised to make some noise in the postseason. Crest’s postseason begins Thursday and Friday with the L-L meet at the Lititz Recreation Center. The girls’ meet will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, while the boys will compete at 7 p.m. Friday.

HS Diving: Tanner Wilfong and Ashley Buchter capture Mid-Penn AA titles

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:28 GMT

Hershey sophomore Tanner Wilfong scored 477.95 points Monday to cruise to the Mid-Penn AA boys' diving title - (CHRIS KNIGHT, The Patriot-News )

Two of the Mid-Penn Conference’s brightest young diving stars began their respective postseasons in dominating fashion Monday evening at Big Spring High School.

Trinity freshman Ashley Buchter and Hershey sophomore Tanner Wilfong captured their respective Mid-Penn Class AA Diving titles by a sizable margin.

Buchter, who recently broke the Cumberland Valley Natatorium, 11-dive average, amassed a score of 468.65, which was over 160 points better than Susquenita’s Sami Zeiders (307.60). The Boiling Springs trio of Grace Vaughn, Katie McMahon and Brittany Sheaffer rounded out the top five.

In the boys’ meet, Wilfong notched a 477.95 to turn back the efforts of Susquenita product Zac Ashley. Big Spring’s Donnie Sauter scored a 388.35 to take home a bronze medal for the host Bulldogs, while teammate Dewey Stout finished fifth.

SCHEDULE CHANGE
Due to the impending snowstorm, the start time for today’s Mid-Penn AAA Diving Championships at Cumberland Valley has been moved up to 3 p.m. If weather postpones the meet further, it will then be moved to Tuesday, Feb. 16.

OTHERS
Mechanicsburg cruised to a sweep of Central Dauphin, 133-21 in boys and 133-35 in girls. Christine Kopacko (200 free, 100 back) and Coddy Main (100 fly, 50 free) were both double winners for the Wildcats.

MID-PENN DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS
CLASS AA
at Big Spring

Girls’ Results

Ashley Buchter, Trinity                                         468.65
Sami Zeiders, Susquehanna Twp.    307.60
Grace Vaughn, Boiling Springs                             277.85
Katie McMahon, Boiling Springs       277.80
Brittany Sheaffer, Boiling Springs                        270.00
Amanda Rickens, East Pennsboro                       262.40
Ashley Kipps, Big Spring                                      260.45
Alyssa DeGregorio, Big Spring                           257.15
Autumn Derr, Milton Hershey                              245.00
Caroline Cole, Boiling Springs                             234.55
Justina Sechrist, Big Spring                                 228.90
Josey Gerholt, Milton Hershey                             170.85

Boys’ Results

Tanner Wilfong, Hershey                                    477.95
Zac Ashley, Susquehanna Twp.                          412.20
Donnie Sauter, Big Spring                                  388.35
Tyler Reiker, Milton Hershey                               375.50
Dewey Stout, Big Spring                                    360.80
Kyle Stoey, Boiling Springs                                 317.50
Dan Rodriguez, Milton Hershey                          278.80
Jesse Valencia, Big Spring                                  271.75
Jeff Lennon, Milton Hershey                               257.45
Alex Beam, Boiling Springs                                 236.95
Colin Bower, Trinity                                            234.50
Rachel Calaman, Boiling Springs                        207.20

JR Rosania Offers Stretching Tips in February Issue of Swimming World Magazine - SwimmingWorldMagazine.com

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:27 GMT

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:57 GMT

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Complete list of changes to today's local high school sports schedule

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:34 GMT

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation snow plows go four wide as they clear the Westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Lancaster County last week. - (CHRIS KNIGHT, The Patriot-News)

A number of high school sporting events have been postponed or rescheduled with heavy snow expected in the area this evening. Here is a complete list, which will be updated as any new information becomes available.

Scores and schedules

BOYS' BASKETBALL
CD East at Chambersburg, 3:30 p.m.
Harrisburg at Steel-High, 4:30 p.m.
Lower Dauphin at Susquehanna Twp., 3:45 p.m.
Middletown at Gettysburg, ppd. to Feb. 16
Red Land at Hershey, ppd. to Feb. 11
Cedar Crest at Warwick, 4 p.m.
Donegal at Elco, ppd. to Feb. 11
Northern Lebanon at Lampeter-Strasburg, ppd. to Feb. 11 (site changed to Northern Lebanon HS)
Lebanon at Solanco, ppd. to Feb. 11

GIRLS' BASKETBALL
Chambersburg at CD East, 3:30 p.m.
Gettysburg at Middletown, ppd. to Feb. 16
Susquehanna Twp. at Lower Dauphin, 3:45 p.m.
Warwick at Cedar Crest, 4 p.m.
Elco at Donegal, ppd. to Feb. 11
Lampeter-Strasburg at Northern Lebanon, ppd. to Feb. 11 (site changed to Lampeter-Strasburg HS)
Solanco at Lebanon, ppd. to Feb. 11

WRESTLING
Cedar Cliff vs. Parkland, PIAA Team Wrestling Championships (at Whitehall), 4 p.m.
Boiling Springs vs. Octorara, PIAA Team Wrestling Championships (at Methacton), 4 p.m.
Susquenita at Northern Lebanon, canceled
Line Mountain at Lewisburg, ppd. TBA

SWIMMING
Mid-Penn Diving Championships, ppd. to Feb. 16

COLLEGE WRESTLING
Wilkes at Elizabethtown, canceled

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:36 GMT

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Synchronized swimming

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:25 GMT

YORK SYNCHRO-ETTES SWIM TEAM At Middle Atlantic Association Synchronized Swim Meet At Cumberland Valley HS Developmental Meet The following synchronized swimmers received first place finishes: Claudia Keller, Natalie Johns, and Jordan Smith, 11-12 year-old age group trio, (50.

Matt Scoggin named USOC National Diving Coach of the Year

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:05 GMT

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Montgomery Co. moves ahead as scheduled

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:54 GMT

Area schools will are waiting to see if the weather will sideline them once again this weekend. (Photo by Drew Meyer)

While many area school districts were scrambling to postpone and reschedule district and regional swim meets last weekend, swim teams in Montgomery County were merely missing out on another dual meet. The snowed out dual meets impacted divisional standings, but with divisionals slated for Saturday and the county championships scheduled for Feb. 20, the need to rapidly reschedule big meets was not as severe.

As of Monday, teams were still planning to hold divisional meets on Saturday which would keep them on schedule for the upcoming county and Metros championships. However, unlike private school leagues like the Washington Metropolitan Prep School Swim and Dive League, which has the flexibility to hold mid-week meets to account for winter weather, MCPS are heavily limited in their pool time, making it difficult to quickly reschedule a meet involving multiple schools. Six county teams lost meets scheduled for Jan. 30 while all teams were snowed out on Dec. 19.

“Unless there's ridiculous amounts of snow on the ground Saturday morning, we're still going,” Whitman Coach Geoff Schaefer said. “The beauty of the non-public school leagues is they can just say, ‘Hey, we're going to have it at Prep,' or, ‘We're going to run this meet on a Thursday with timed finals at this place.' They have a little bit more flexibility while the county is more strict about what they're going to do and how they're going to handle things.”

As for the missed dual meets, Schaefer favors a proposal put forth by Walter Johnson Coach Jamie Grimes that would use the computer setup at Saturday's divisional meets to create virtual swim meets. Since divisionals take the top three swimmers from each school for each event — just like dual meets — teams that had their dual meets canceled could score their times from divisionals against one another to determine who the winner likely would have been. Fitting in the dual meets is imperative for the county since they move the best team in each division up a level and the lowest ranked team down at the end of each season.

“Nothing has been decided yet officially,” Schaefer said. “But if they used a situation where everything was just run as virtual swim meets at divisionals, it would make things go a lot smoother with regards to completing the season. I think that's the clear choice, but that's my opinion.”

The WMPSSDL has yet to reschedule its postponed championship meet from last week. See the psych sheet here.

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:04 GMT

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:53 GMT

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00 GMT

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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:22 GMT

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Burrell swim team features sister act

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00 GMT

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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:16 GMT

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Mid-Penn Diving: Buchter makes a solid first impression - Carlisle Sentinel

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:03 GMT

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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:03 GMT

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Robinson's Bowersox wins region diving crown

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:26 GMT

Robinson sophomore Cory Bowersox, shown here starting a dive, won the Virginia AAA Northern Region crown on Thursday. (Photo by Paul Tenorio/The Washington Post)

FULL NORTHERN REGION BOYS' DIVING RESULTS

Robinson sophomore Cory Bowersox, the defending Virginia AAA state champion, won his first Northern Region crown last Thursday, taking the title with a score of 525.05.

Bowersox, who finished second at regionals last year to Annandale's Sean McKinney, who will dive at LSU, this time outscored the Atoms' senior, who finished in second with 489.40 points.

Both scores are well above the All-American consideration cut of 375.00.

Washington-Lee sophomore Carl Buergler took third with a score of 453.90, followed by Robinson senior Frank Burdell (411.55) and Madison junior Ryan Fox (408.10).

An update on some of the rescheduling for the swim and dive championships:

The Northern Region boys' swim championship will be held Friday, Feb. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at Oak Marr RECenter, while the girls' diving competition is set for Feb. 12 at Audrey Moore RECenter at 10:30 a.m.

The Northwest Region swim championship, scheduled for Wednesday at Radford University, has been rescheduled for next Monday, Feb. 15. The meet will remain at Radford and will start at 12:30 p.m.

We are still awaiting word on the Virginia AA Dulles District meet. Originally the plan was for the meet to be held on Tuesday, but Loudoun County schools will remain closed tomorrow and thus a plan of possibly scrapping the Region II meet and holding districts on Friday may go into effect. We will post an update here as soon as we get word.

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