Monday, Dec. 17, 2012

Panther Creek, Cary sweep meets

Green Hope’s girls win, boys finish second

Panther Creek’s boys’ swim team held off Apex 173-170 and defeated Lee County (88) and Wake Forest-Rolesville (74) on Dec. 11.

Tyler Schade of Panther Creek won the 200 and 500 freestyle races.

The Panther Creek girls’ swim team also won that day, scoring 189 points while Apex (172), Wake Forest-Rolesville (81) and Lee (62) finished in succession.

Haley Biship won the 50 freestyle and 100 fly, while Catamounts teammate Claire Liu took the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke.

Also on Dec. 11, Cary swept the boys’ and girls’ swim meets against Holly Springs and Middle Creek.

Cary’s boys, with 151 points, were led by two-time winners Brandon Ress and Tosh Kawaguchi. Holly Springs (79) was second and Middle Creek (56) was third.

The Cary girls (142) won thanks to double wins in the 100 butterfly and 500 freestyle by Megan Owens, while Middle Creek (96) and Holly Springs (65) rounded out the meet.

On Thursday, Green Hope’s girls scored 192 points to win a quad-meet with Leesville Road (126), Sanderson (98) and Millbrook (96). Shannon Scovel won the 200 and 500 freestyle, while Hannah Moore took first in the 50 and 100 freestyle.

The Green Hope boys had 141 points and finished a close second behind Leesville Road’s 145.5. Millbrook (131) and Sanderson (87.5) rounded out the competition.

Athens Drive’s swim teams finished second to Enloe in another quad-meet Thursday. The boys scored 138 points, short of Enloe’s 193 but ahead of Heritage’s 123 and Fayetteville Pine Forest’s 43.

The girls had 167 points, not enough to best Enloe’s 192 but easily surpassing 103 by Heritage and 23 by Pine Forest.

Athens’ Cameron Brown finished first in the 200 freestyle and the 100 butterfly.