Records Fall On Day One At WPIAL Class AAA Swimming Championships

By: HSSN Staff
Thursday, March 1, 2012 | 8:09 PM

The McDonald’s WPIAL Class AAA Swimming Championships kicked off Day 1 at Trees Pool on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Several WPIAL records were broken and North Allegheny staked a major claim towards taking both the boys and girls titles after the first day’s events.

North Allegheny set the first record of the day, in the very first event, setting a new mark in the Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay. The NA girls also set a record in the final event, the 200 Freestyle Relay. The NA boys also broke a record in the 200 Medley Relay.

Senior Andrew Rich of Peters Township set an individual record in the 100 Butterfly. Senior Matthew Buerger of North Allegheny bested his brother Zachery in the 200 IM by 51 hundreds of a second.

Here are the individual results and team standings from Day 1, the top 4 finishers qualify to the PIAA Championships next month at Bucknell University.

Girls Team Results:
1  North Allegheny  216
2  Oakland Catholic  141
2  Upper St. Clair   141
4  Franklin Regional 126
5 Pine-Richland 110
6  Bethel Park  105

Girls 200 IM Relay
1  North Allegheny (Jacquelyn Du, Gabriella Borza, Erin Bishop, Allie Pennetti)  1:44.99 WPIAL Record
2  Upper St. Clair
3  Franklin Regional
4  Oakland Catholic

Girls 200 Freestyle:
1  Shannon Haberman   Oakland Catholic  1:52.26
2  Kally Vanderbilt  North Allegheny
3  Alexis Mitchelltree  Moon
4  Victoria Shaffer  Upper St. Clair

Girls 200 IM:
1  Kristen Murslack  Pine-Richland  2:03.75
2  Kayla Owens  Latrobe
3  Allie Brinkhoff  Bethel Park
4  Kathryn Painter  Norwin

Girls 50 Freestyle:
1  Alyssa Ruffing  Franklin Regional  23.36
2  Allie Pennetti  North Allegheny
3  Katie Ford  Mount Lebanon
4  Kaitly Ruffing  Franklin Regional

Girls 100 Butterfly:
1  Natalie Johnson  Upper St. Clair  56.26
2  Erin Bishop  North Allegheny
3  Brittnay Dudzinski  Upper St. Clair
4  Alexandria Elizeus  Oakland Catholic

Girls 200 Freestyle Relay:
1  North Allegheny (Morgan Soulia, Allie Pennetti, Arielle Krigger, Kally Vanderbilt)  1:35.01  WPIAL Record
2  Franklin Regional
3  Mount Lebanon
4  Oakland Catholic

Boys Team Standings:
1  North Allegheny  175.50
2  Upper St. Clair  152
3  Peters Township  109.50
4  Bethel Park  104
5  Franklin Regional  89

Boys 200 Medley Relay:
1  North Allegheny (Matthew Buerger, Casey Meltzer, Zachery Buerger, Evan Staresinic) 1:34.19 WPIAL Record
2  Peters Township
3  Penn-Trafford
4  Upper St. Clair

Boys 200 Freestyle:
1  Lucas Bereau  Latrobe  1:40.23
2  Ryan Dudzinski  Upper St. Clair
3  Alex Hardwick Upper St. Clair
4  Theo Hubbard  Mount Lebanon

Boys 200 IM:
1  Matthew Buerger  North Allegheny  1:53.12
2  Zachery Buerger  North Allegheny
3  Austin Mortimer  Franklin Regional
4  Dan Pletz  Peters Township

Boys 50 Freestyle:
1  Erik Brinkhoff  Bethel Park  21.17
2  Andrew Tomiczek Upper St. Clair
3  Evan Staresinic  North Allegheny
4  Nathan Novak  Upper St. Clair

Boys 100 Butterfly:
1  Andrew Rich  Peters Township  48.97  WPIAL Record
2  Christian McCurdy  Penn Trafford
3  Justin Kostelnik  Laurel Highlands
4  Jake Beley  Gateway

Boys 200 Freestyle Relay:
1  Upper St. Clair (Alex Hardwick, Andrew Tomiczek, Nikhil Narayanna, Ryan Dudzinski)  1.25.23
2  North Allegheny
3  Bethel Park
4  Franklin Regional