swimming

The Daily News reports Batavia freshman Catherine McAllister has qualified for the finals in two events at the Section 5 Girls Swimming Championships at Webster Aquatic Center.

She qualified third in Class B in the 100 backstroke in the prelims Wednesday with a time of 1:02.66, just shy of the state qualifying time of 1:02.00.  That time broke Kathy Hancock's 23-year old school record time of 1:03.91.

McAllister also qualified third in the 200 IM, with a time of 2:17.95. McAllister, Taylor Henry, Sarah DiBacco and Alayna Miodozeniec qualfied sixth in the 400 freestyle and 200 medley relays.

Henry qualified 11th in  he 100 backstroke and DiBacco will be in the consolation finals of the 500 freestyle.

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Daily News Sportswriter Alana Stage wrote a nice feature on the Casper boys on the Le Roy football team. Stage talked with the three boys (Jordan, Jon and Josh) and their mother, Crystal, in the piece.

Jordan and Josh are twins and both lineman for the Oatkan Knights and Jon is a fullback.

Stage writes about Crystal's initial feelings about not wanting her kids to play football, the injuries suffered by Josh and Jordan.

For more information on Le Roy's Far West Regional game on Saturday and video interviews with Jordan, Travis Fenstermaker and coach Brian Moran, check back to The Batavian this evening.

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Area swimmers have done well in the past, and the Genesee Region League holds some Section 5 records.

The boys have done well in Class C and D in the past.

Byron-Bergen's Luke Fink set the record for the 200 freestyle (1:44.11)  and 500 freestyle (4:43.71) in 1998.

Notre Dame's Chris Norton holds the 100 butterfly record (:52.58) for Class D, which he set in 2004. Oakfield-Alabama/Avon is listed as the record holder in the 200 medley relay (1:44.64), set in 1993. Did these two schools swim together back then?

Batavia's Bethany Brown holds the record in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.23) and 200 freestyle (2:01.11) in Class C for the girls.

 (area coaches interested in getting coverage on The Batavian should e-mail brian (at) thebatavian (dot) com)