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Devils Race to 2nd Place
Finish at SSL Champs
July 26th, Rocklin,
CA: The El Dorado Hills Tasmanian Devils swam to a
second-place finish at the Suburban Swim League Championships this
weekend at Sierra College. The Devils, swimming with pride and
passion, finished with a respectable 1,055.50 points, but were not
able to overcome one of the deepest and fastest Park Terrace teams
in recent years. The Penguins scored 1,466 points to reclaim
the title that they lost last year to El Dorado
Hills.
The Devils and Penguins have now
traded league titles over the last four years, with the Devils
winning in 2006 and 2008, and the Penguins winning in 2007 and
2009.
The Devils were again led by Joshua
Verner (age 14), who led all Taz scorers with 49 points, six points
short of a perfect score. Joshua was fourth overall in the
boys and men’s division. Joshua’s older brother
Daniel (16), was second among Taz boys and men with 33 points.
Trevor Dong (13) was third with 32 points.
The Taz girls and women were led by
Annie Harriman (15) with 42 points. Harriman tied for fifth
among all female competitors. Morgan Jones (11) was eighth
overall with 40.5 points. Katie Weiss (14) tied for ninth
with 40 points.
In age-group scoring, Morgan Jones
was the top scorer in the 11-12 girls division. Joshua Verner
led all 13-14 boys. Annie Harriman was second among 15-16
girls. Jack Peterson (8) was third in the 7-8 boys group with
23 points. Allison Prior (10) was third in the 9-10 girls
division with 23 points. Katie Weiss (14) was third in the
13-14 girls group.
Taz swimmers lowered several club
records over the weekend.
Claire Tomaszewski (age 6) broke an
eleven year old mark in the 6 and Under Girls 25-yard
backstroke. Her finals time of 22.10 lowered the previous mark
of 22.36 set in 1988 by Emily Baracco. Tomaszewski missed the
venerable mark by 0.02 in the preliminaries before going on to
break the record in the event final. Tomaszewski finished
third in the event final behind Emily Cooley and Marin Vial, both
of the Folsom Sea Otters, who both set the SSL record in the event.
Annie Harriman (15) shattered a 14
year old club record in the 15-16 Girls 100-yard
backstroke. Harriman’s winning time of 1:04.72 bettered
the previous mark of 1:05.40 set in 1995 by Jenny
Baracco.
Madeline Prather (16) won the 15-16
Girls 50-yard freestyle. Her time of 25.88 was 0.01 faster
than the previous mark of 25.89 set in 2004 by Chandra Gardener.
The 13-14 Boys team of Eric Rohrer,
Bryan Cole, Joshua Verner, and Trevor Dong set two club records.
Their time of 1:52.31 in the 200-yard Medley Relay shattered
the previous mark of 1:54.29 set the previous year at Champs by
Yanagihara, Verner, Hamilton, and Elkins.
The team swam the 200-yard Freestyle
Relay in 1:38.88, lowering by nearly a second the previous mark of
1:39.86 set by Elkins, Cole, Verner, and Hamilton.
The Folsom Sea Otters scored 892
points to take third place and earn the club’s first ever
trophy at Champs. The Sierra Sharks scored 878.5 points to
finish in fourth place. The College Greens Gators scored 680
points to finish fifth. The Loomis Basin Dolphins finished in
sixth place with 667.5 points. The Broadstone Barracudas
finished in seventh place with 557.5 points.
The Taz also finished second to Park
Terrace in the dual meet standings.
The Tasmanian Devils open the 2010
season on June 5th at College
Greens.
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