STATE COLLEGE — Grace Carrington and Molly Workman each were seven-event winners as the State College Area High School girls swim team swept a pair of Mid Penn Conference dual meets last week, including a 117-66 decision over visiting Hershey on Saturday, Jan. 27.
Gabby Siekman helped the Lady Lions get first-place points in two individual events and two relays, as well, over the two meets. The Lady Little Lions won at Cumberland Valley, 111-75, on Wednesday, Jan. 24.
The State College boys split — taking down Hershey, 99-86, but falling at Cumberland Valley, 106-80 — even though Sam Huggins won seven events and Leo Garlicki six.
Individually, Carrington took first in the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle races in both meets. At home, she swam the shorter distance in 24.49 seconds and completed the longer event in 53.02.
At Cumberland Valley, she registered a 24.41 in the 50 and a 53.39 in the 100.
She and Workman comprised half of the winning 200 freestyle relay against Hershey, with Kelly Brownstead and Anne Horgas rounding out the squad, posting a time of 1 minute, 39.49 seconds.
Workman won the 200 individual medley and the 100 butterfly versus Hershey with respective times of 2:09.87 and 57.24. She swam the 200 freestyle and 100 breaststroke at Cumberland Valley, winning the former with a time of 1:53.01 and the latter with a mark of 1:06.53.
Also in the Hershey meet, Workman teamed with Brownstead, Ditta Kowalik and Inhye Sung for a winning time of 1:52.66 in the 200 medley relay. Carrington, meanwhile, won the 400 free relay with Brownstead, Kowalik and Siekman with a 3:46.09.
Sung turned in the State College girls’ lone other individual win against Hershey in the 100 breaststroke with a 1:13.15.
Carrington, Horgas, Siekman and Sung took the 400 freestyle relay with a 3:46.12 against Cumberland Valley, where Workman, Brownstead, Horgas and Kowalik won the 200 free relay by finishing in 1:40.34.
Siekman also won a pair of individual events in the earlier meet, swimming 2:12.57 in the 200 IM and 1:00.89 in the 100 backstroke.
Emerson Grantz won the 500 freestyle for the Lady Little Lions at Cumberland Valley, touching the wall in 5:18.60.
Huggins had a perfect meet for the State College boys against Hershey, when he clocked 1:55.43 in the 200 medley and 4:38.88 in the 500 freestyle; teamed with Garlicki, Garrett Flickinger and Todd Siekman for a 1:39.74 in the 200 medley relay; and joined the same trio for a 1:31.20 in the 200 free relay.
Garlicki won the 100 freestyle with a time of 49.97. Siekman was a double winner, taking the 50 free with a 22.53 and the 100 butterfly with a 57.22.
The same quartet took the 200 medley relay against Cumberland Valley with a time of 1:38.94. That night, Garlicki won the 200 IM and 100 butterfly by registering 2:00.92 and 55.68, respectively. Huggins placed first in the 200 freestyle with a 1:42.96 and in the 500 freestyle with a 4:37.78.
There also was diving at the Cumberland Valley meet. State College’s Chris Hill prevailed from the 1-meter platform with a score of 227.45.
Bellefonte teams sweep Penns Valley
STATE COLLEGE — Kiaha McCool swam a blistering 2:11.22 in the girls 200 individual medley — the second-best time in Lady Raider history — for one of her three wins as Bellefonte swept Penns Valley in a tri-meet that also included Central Mountain on Jan. 24 at the State College High School natatorium.
The Lady Raiders improved to 9-3 with an 87-41 win against the Lady Rams, although they dropped an 86-77 decision to Central Mountain. The Bellefonte boys notched a 60-50 victory against Penns Valley and also fell to Central Mountain, 84-55, leaving the Red Raiders 3-9.
McCool also finished first in the 100 freestyle by swimming 54.92. Additionally, she was part of the team with Katelyn Packer, Addie Pringle and Grace Rossman that took the 200 freestyle relay with a 1:46.11.
Packer won the 200 freestyle with a 2:03.60 and the 100 butterfly with a 1:01.96.
Rossman, Sydney Fetters, Sarah Litten and Ashley Moretz were the top team in the 400 free relay, turning in a time of 4:23.49.
Carter Boone won all four of his events for the Bellefonte boys. He recorded a 1:54.61 in the 200 freestyle; swam 55.33 in the 100 butterfly; posted a 1:50.57 with Cedric Bagwell, Isaiah Johnson and Turner Malik in the 200 medley relay; and clocked 1:43.47 swimming with the same trio in the 200 freestyle relay.
Bagwell and Johnson also garnered first-place points in individual events. Bagwell won the 100 backstroke with a 1:06.50. Johnson took the 200 IM with a 2:08.88.
