CITY SECTION CHAMPIONSHIP: G.H. SHOULD SWIM AWAY WITH FIFTH TITLE IN A ROW.Byline: Scott Magoloff Daily News Staff Writer The trend at last Wednesday's Wednesday’s child full of woe. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 309] See : Melancholy City Section swimming preliminaries was represented by Cleveland High's Amy Jones. The diminutive di·min·u·tive adj. 1. Extremely small in size; tiny. See Synonyms at small. 2. Grammar Of or being a suffix that indicates smallness or, by semantic extension, qualities such as youth, familiarity, affection, or sophomore broke two of her own records she set last year, establishing new marks in the 50 (23.54) and 100-yard (50.93) freestyles. She is heavily favored in both events for the finals, which begin at 3 p.m. today at Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach. Both of Jones' times are faster than the championship-winning times posted in the Southern Section Division I meet. ``I didn't expect it,'' Jones said after the prelims. ``I did a lot better than I thought I would. But I usually do better at prelims than finals.'' Jones' records from last year (23.88 in the 50, and 51.81 in the 100) were also set in the prelims and paved pave tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves 1. To cover with a pavement. 2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. 3. To be or compose the pavement of. the way to her first two City Section titles as a freshman. The four-time defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Granada Hills girls' team is expected to increase that number to five after it dominated the prelims with record swims of its own. The 200 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 400 freestyle The code name for the MCE version of Windows. See Media Center Edition. relay teams of Amanda Kim, Katherine Nielson, Nicole Shifflett and Jennifer Parmenter broke the records set by previous Granada Hills teams. Last Wednesday, the Highlanders eclipsed the mark (3:41.12) established by last year's Granada Hill's team in the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:39.60, and they broke the 1997 200 medley relay record (1:54.51) with a swim of 1:53.30. In the boys' meet, Taft's Dimitry Uchitel finished first in the 50 freestyle in 23.39 at the prelims. He was also second in the 100 freestyle with a time of 51.96. He should feel the heat from Granada Hills' William Chae, who was fourth in the 50 freestyle (23.34) and second in the 100 freestyle (51.50) at the prelims. El Camino Real's boys' team, which has one of its smallest contingents ever for the final, would like to just match last year's second-place finish Noun 1. second-place finish - a finish in second place (as in a race) runner-up finish 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 . ``We were pretty disappointed; we had a lot of great swims,'' junior Brian Brown Brian Brown or Bryan Brown may refer to:
Brown finished first in the 200 individual medley (2:00.72) and the 100 backstroke (55.74) in the prelims. FACTS What: City Section swimming championship meet. When: Begins at 3 p.m. today. Where: Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool, located one block south of Ocean Avenue at Termino Road in Long Beach. Take the 405 south to the 710 south and take the downtown Long Beach exit to Ocean Avenue. Take Ocean east and make a right at Termino. |
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