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TX RTS .COM JANUARY 27, 2016 THE ADVOCATE Georgetown junior Rehgan Hartsell swims to victory in the breaststroke at the District 18-5A swimming meet this past Friday at the Georgetown Recreation Center. Photo Russell Rinn
GHS Dominates District Swims By Galen Wellnicki Sports Editor
Winning 13 of 22 events and earning 33 individual and six relay berths for the regional championships, Georgetown dominated the District 18-5A Swimming Meet on Friday at the Georgetown Recreation Center. In the nine-school competition, GHS outscored Brenham, 157-114, in the girls team race and bested the Cubs, 160-110, in boys competition; East View was third in both team chases. The Patriots girls rolled up 81 points, and the boys posted 89. Despite Georgetown’s strong performance, awards for the top male and female swimmer went to Brenham junior Hudson
EV’s Parks Named Top Girls Performer Smith and East View sophomore Emilie Parks, who were among the six double individual event winners in the competition. However, Georgetown-East View head coach Tim Pukys and assistant Ginger LaRaisa were selected as the boys and girls coaches of the meet. The first six finishers in each of the events advance to the Region V-5A Swimming and Diving Meet at the Texas A&M Student Recreation Center in College Station on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6. “Awesome -- really great,” Pukys said after the final results were announced. “Our kids (from both schools) swam great.
Almost all of them improved their times.” To put the local dominance of the meet more in perspective, athletes from GHS, East View and Gateway combined to capture 76 of the 131 available individual and relay berths. Gateway’s Gators finished fourth among boys teams with 74 points, and were fifth in girls action with 34 points. In addition to Parks, who is swimming her first season at East View after being at Meridian World School in Round Rock as a freshman, and Smith, double winners were -- all from GHS -- junior Rehgan Hartsell, and freshman Cierra Scully on
the girls side, and sophomore Connor Lancaster and freshman Greyson Alarcon in the boys competition. Parks claimed the 200-yard freestyle by 2.21 seconds with a time of one minute, 56.95 seconds and won the 500 free by 3.07 seconds with a 5:10.80, besting Elgin freshman Rebecca Rivers both times. “I’m really happy (with my performance) against good competition,” said Parks, who was also a key figure in the strong showing of two of the Patriots’ relays. “I’m going to regional with the goal of making state.” Smith, at times, appeared to swim in his District Swims cont. on B7
GHS Girls Roll On By Galen Wellnicki Sports Editor
Right now, it’s all about taking care of business in the Georgetown Lady Eagles camp. In their terminology, as the District 25-5A basketball races rolls into its final five playing dates, it becomes taking care of our business. The Lady Eagles (16-9) stand with an 8-1 district record, one-game behind front-running Vista Ridge, and three games ahead of Leander and East View. Georgetown is two wins away from no worse than a second-place finish in the final standings, and still has a chance of catching the Rangers, who appear to be enjoying a promenade through 25-5A’s double-round robin. Georgetown placed itself in this position this past week with what can be considered blue-collar wins -- a 50-29 effort at Dripping Springs on Tuesday, and a strong finish in a 39-30 performance on Friday at Georgetown senior Dori Brown goes up for a layup in the fourth quarter of Friday’s 39-30 victory over Vandegrift.
Photo Russell Rinn
Eagle Gym. But again, veteran coach Rhonda Farney’s Lady Eagles face another challenging test this week as they played Leander in the Lions Den on Tuesday night, and entertain struggling but dangerous Cedar Park (3-6) at home at 7:30 p.m. Friday night. The Leander game was extremely important. A victory would give GHS a four-game edge over the Lions with four to play and the tie-breaker on the basis of a sweep of the season series. Despite Leander’s attempt to derail GHS in the first meeting with delaying tactics, the Lady Eagles prevailed 30-25 at Eagle Gym in the final district game prior to the holiday break. After playing Leander and Cedar Park, Georgetown will travel to Marble Falls in a 7:30 p.m. battle on Tuesday, Feb. 2. One of the most important segments of Friday’s victory over the Vipers was served up on a tray -- actually six consecutive treys, if you prefer. With Georgetown leading 14-13 with six minutes and 20 seconds remaining in the third period, senior
Kendrick Clark canned her lone 3-pointer of the game to make in 17-13; but in the 36-second span, Vandegrift countered with successes beyond the arc by 6-foot-1 Kallie Roush and Bee Gonzales to regain the lead at 19-17. However, GHS sandwiched 3-pointers by Avery Kelly around one by Taylor Elliott to build a 26-19 lead. A field goal and one by Roush cut the GHS lead to 26-22 with 2:20 in the third period, but a 3-pointer by Brooke Elliott jacked the lead back to 7 at 29-22. Four free throws by Roush, who led all scorers with 18 points, concluded a span in which she scored 9 straight points for her team that cut the Lady Eagles’ lead to 31-28 with 3:10 to play. GHS had an antidote in senior Dori Brown, who put in backto-back buckets off a rebound and a steal to put Georgetown back ahead by 7 at 35-28 with just 90 seconds to play. Vandegrift could get no closer than 5 before Taylor Green and B. Elliott each made a pair of free throws to conclude the exercise. Lady Eagles cont. on B2
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