Sunday, February 10, 2013
WRESTLING: SWC cancels its league meet
After postponing several times, South-West Conference spokesperson Pamela Goodpaster has announced that the SWC wrestling is officially canceled.
Labels: Dan Nowak, South-West Conference, wrestling
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Sandy impacts girls' swimming, field hockey
Hurricane
Sandy certainly had its impact on New Haven area high school sports teams, including
girls’ swimming and field hockey, forcing cancelations and postponements of practices
and games.
One
of the hardest hit programs is the Seymour girls’ swim team, which is in the
process of preparing for the upcoming Naugatuck Valley League swim and diving
championships.
“Most of Seymour is out of power,” Seymour girls’ swim
coach Missy Orosz said. “A lot of my team is still stuck in their neighborhoods
because several trees are still blocking roads.
The high school is out of power (as of noon Tuesday) so we
haven't been in the water since Saturday."
The
NVL swim trials are tentatively scheduled to be held on Thursday at Kennedy
High in Waterbury at 4 p.m. The diving competition is scheduled for Friday at
either Kennedy or Woodland (to be determined Wednesday) at 4 p.m. The NVL swim
finals are at Kennedy on Saturday at 4 p.m.
“I am hoping that power is restored soon,” Orosz said. “We
might look into our local Ansonia YMCA to snag pool time, but they have no
power right now."
Orosz also said NVL League commissioners will update the
status of league tournament schedules for all sports on Wednesday.
Like most teams, the Branford girls’ swim team has missed
practice time on Monday and today (Tuesday).
“We have missed opportunities to swim
yesterday and today but I am hopeful that we can squeeze in a practice tomorrow
(Wednesday),” Branford girls’ swim coach Scott Butler said. “I hope that the
missed workouts will minimally affect those of us training for states (CIAC
Class L-M-S and State Open meets)."
Amity
girls’ swim coach Todd Rainey said, “We missed
practice on Monday and Tuesday. I do believe that the pool at Orange (Orange
Community Pool) does have power. We hope to be back in the water tomorrow but
we'll have to wait and see about any school closure.
“The timing of this storm was not ideal in terms of SCC
Championship preparation, but we'll do the best we can. It certainly could have
been much worse."
The Lauralton Hall field hockey team has been trying to
reschedule its last regular season game with Amity since it has seeding
implications for the post season.
“We are still trying to play our regular season game versus Amity,”
Lauralton Hall coach Theresa Napolitano said. “We need to schedule this before
either team plays a league playoff game. Thursday is the last day to get it in
(for the CIAC to count it toward postseason seeding).
“The SWC (South-West Conference) tournament starts with the
semifinal round Thursday but if we end up with a conflict and play Amity that
day, then that semifinal game may be pushed to another day. Barring any field
or school issues we will try to schedule the Amity game for tomorrow
(Wednesday)."
Labels: Dan Nowak, field hockey, girls' swimming, Hurricane Sandy, Naugatuck Valley League, South-West Conference, Southern Connecticut Conference