Shorians bring perfect mark in MAC Gold to city title meet
Friday, February 13, 2009 6:11 AM EST
By John Hetzler, Macomb Daily Sports Writer
Will Lakeview break through? Will Lake Shore repeat? Will South Lake make sure 2009 is its year?
All of those questions will be answered at the St. Clair Shores swimming and diving championship tonight at 6 p.m. at South Lake High School.
"From my standpoint, it seems to be a highlight of their season," Lake Shore coach Tom Zalewski said. "They're always talking about it. It seems to be something they've been looking forward throughout the year, especially this year with South Lake being in the MAC Gold Division."
This is the fourth year the schools have held a tri-meet to determine a city champion, and Lake Shore and South Lake have taken turns winning the title every other year.
Lake Shore won last winter, which means, historically at least, this should be South Lake's year.
But results in the pool this season suggest the Shorians could repeat.
Lake Shore enters tonight's meet with an 8-1-1 overall record, including a perfect 4-0 mark in the MAC Gold Division.
Senior Tony Szep, who placed ninth in 200 free and second in breaststroke at county meet, leads the Shorians. Szep already has qualified for the Division 3 state meet in the breaststroke.
Lake Shore also relies heavily on versatile senior Brian Damm.
"He swims pretty well in most of the events we put him in," Zalewski said.
South Lake, which finished ninth at last weekend's Macomb County meet, has a 5-3 overall mark and a 3-1 record in the MAC Gold.
The Cavaliers are led by three state qualifiers: Nick Patricca, Max Woerfel and Austin Killgore. Brian Micallef also is part of South Lake's 200 medley relay team that also has qualified for the state meet.
Lakeview is 2-6 overall and 2-4 in the MAC Silver Division.
In addition to determining a city champion, the tri-meet also will determine the MAC Gold Division dual-meet championship.
A Lake Shore victory would give the Shorians the MAC Gold title outright, while a triumph by South Lake would give the Cavaliers a share of the MAC Gold championship along with Lake Shore.
WELCOME
Why do we need a Macomb County Swimming and Diving Blog?
With five divisions and 28 teams (in the MAC), it not possible for one person to keep up with the accomplishments of the athletes and the teams in Macomb County.
This brings up an additional point. I would like this blog to cover the teams that compete in Macomb County. Almost all of the Macomb County based swimming and diving teams compete in the MAC. Therefore, we will be covering some Oakland, Wayne and St Clair County teams as well. We also have De La Salle located in Macomb County, so we need to make sure they are included as well.
I am not trying strictly portray Macomb County Swimming and Diving from only my perspective. To that end, I am looking for contributors from all five Divisions and also from DLS. Even better would be a correspondent from each team that would post a recap of the previous weeks meets, outstanding practices or events.
I will also try to include links to sites that cover Macomb County and MAC sports and Athletes.
Enough for now - I have to go prepare milk and cookies for Santa (yes my boys believe in Santa) - note the first post on this Blog was Dec 24th 2007
JP
please note: this blog has been up for over a year now, and I have never had to moderate or delete comments, until now. I will be happy to return to an uncensored forum, when some of the children that have posted recently, learn some manners.
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