C.V. WALKING ON WATER; CARPENTER-LED FALCONS DOMINATE SOUTHERN SECTION SWIM MEET.Byline: Heather Gripp Daily News Staff Writer It quickly turned from a question of if they would win to a question of by how much. The Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. boys' swim team possessed so much depth, other teams simply didn't stand a chance at Saturday's Southern Section Division II finals at Belmont Plaza. ``We're hoping for maybe a second-place team finish,'' Hart coach Steve Neale said as he reviewed a list of competitors before the meet. ``Look at it. They (Crescenta Valley) have swimmers in every event. That's hard to beat. We have a lot of gaps.'' The Falcons, who had swimmers in every event but the boys' 100 freestyle The code name for the MCE version of Windows. See Media Center Edition. and 100 backstroke, parlayed that depth into a first-place total of 259 points, well ahead of Hart's runner-up score of 188. ``They just all believed in the system all year,'' Crescenta Valley coach Pete Loporchio said afterward af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. Adv. 1. afterward - happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here . ``They all pulled the load. Tonight, it was just a snowball effect For other uses, see Snowball (disambiguation). Snowball effect is a figurative term for a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger (graver, more serious), and perhaps potentially dangerous or disastrous (a . It kept building on each swim. It was infectious.'' Kenney Carpenter did more than just lead Crescenta Valley's bid for a team title. The junior set a Division II record in the 100 butterfly (49.47) to break after setting Pacific League records last week in the 100 butterfly and 200 free. Carpenter also earned the title in the 200 free (1:39.03) in what coach Pete Loporchio called the ``the race of the night.'' Area rivals finished in the top three spots in the race as Joel Everman of Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame took second and Hart's Ryan Parmenter finished third. Everman also earned automatic All-American status with his 4:16.39 win in the 500 free. ``It put a lot of pressure on me,'' Carpenter said of racing against his friends. ``I'm happy to win, but I also feel bad. Me and Joel were just joking around before the race, saying we hope we don't finish like seventh and eighth. ``I was really nervous. I just hit my adrenaline adrenaline (ədrĕn`əlĭn, –lēn): see epinephrine. peak.'' Carpenter, who fell short of Southern Section titles his first two years, said he was focusing only on winning, not setting any more records. ``It was just icing on the cake,'' he said. Hart junior Anthony Ervin Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981 in Burbank, California) to a white mother and a black father, is an American swimmer who won the gold medal in the Men’s 50m Freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics, finishing with the same winning time as Gary Hall Jr. took titles in the 50 and 100 free but wasn't satisfied with his performance. ``The 100, I was way off,'' he said of his 45.65 finish. ``My main goal there is just tear it up and take something away from C.V. I was hoping to do my best times.'' Saugus High's Heather Boylan closed out her high school career with second place finishes in both the 200 and 500 free. The Crescenta Valley girls also turned in a respectable performance, led by double-finalist Tawne Fishback. The freshman was sixth in the 200 individual medley med·ley n. pl. med·leys 1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and and fifth in the 100 butterfly. The Falcons girls also received a boost in the overall point total with a strong performance from their divers Friday in Irvine. Sophomore Kasey Reinhard took the Division II championship by earning a score of 493.9. Freshman teammate Tara Cross placed sixth to give the Falcons a combined 33 team points from diving. In the Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. finals at Belmont Plaza, Maureen Farrell of Alemany turned in the top performance among local representatives. The freshman earned a title in the 100 backstroke, narrowly beating Louisville senior Kim Feig, 58.18-58.49. Harvard-Westlake senior Stephanie Dashiell placed fifth in the same event. Farrell also placed second in the 100 freestyle. A third-place finish Noun 1. third-place finish - a finish in third place (as in a race) finish - designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race); "excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the winner is the team with the by the Harvard-Westlake girls' 200 medley relay team was the only other top-three finish among local participants. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Kristine Ross of Chaminade competes in the 100 butterfly in the Southern Section championships. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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