UPCOMING EVENTS
06
21 2017
GRAL swimming: Pebble Creek at Rockville 6:00 p.m.
06
21 2017
GRAL swimming: Antioch at Battlefield Green 6:00 p.m.
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Marlins, Barracudas win GRAL openers By Dave Lawrence and Caroline Naumann Mechanicsville Local MECHANICSVILLE – It was close, but the Mechanicsville Marlins eked out a win in their Greater Richmond Aquatic League season opener against visiting Kings Charter Thursday night. The Marlins edged the Tidal Waves 1015-973, but the key point for both teams is that a number of their younger swimmers got their first meet experience and others showed tremendous improvements in their times from previous years. “We’ve gained a lot of young 8 and unders – 10 and unders, honestly,” said Mechanicsville head coach Ari Brothers. “I think this season will go really well. … It will be fun.” Kings Charter head coach Tristan Amatruda said his team has gone through a lot of change as well. “We’ve had kind of a unique and big shift this year with a lot of families that have been on the team for several years [moving] out of the neighborhood … and we’ve had a lot of new – and young, in most cases – families that have moved into the neighborhood, so it’s been interesting,” Amatruda said. “We’ve had this influx of a ton of new kids, some with swimming backgrounds and some not with swimming backgrounds.”
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Ashland’s Peyton Conklin starts her heat in the 11-12 girls 100-meter backstroke in a Greater Richmond Aquatic League swim meet at AshCreek Thursday. Ashland’s Barracudas dominated all divisions to beat the Crocodiles 1,138.5-896.5.
Mechanicsville was led by six quadruple winners – Sara Gaston, Alison Harvey, Ashton Herndon, Aidan Langford, Audrey Leonard and Alex Pruemer – and eight triple winners: Autumn Angus, Tyler Earley, Teagan Gilhooley, Ames Hargreaves, Patrick Herndon,
Collin Marks, Nathan Stephens and Ashley Trice. Kings Charter was led by quadruple winners Alex Hyde, Nolan Konecny, Ethan Salser, Luke Salser, Hannah Sherril and Trenton Stokes; and triple winners Maggie Caten, Raegan Doise, Lucy Henning, Megan
Lane, Alex Salswer and Cole ended with the Barracudas takWhyte. ing a 242 point victory over the hosting Crocodiles. Ashland wins at AshCreek The last times these two MECHANICSVILLE – The teams swam against each other 2017 GRAL summer swim sea- was at the GRAL Champs son-opening meet between the last year, where the two teams Ashcreek Crocodiles and the Ashland Barracudas Thursday see GRAL, pg. 32
• ASHLAND – The Randolph-Macon football program QB Skills Camp will be held tomorrow from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Randolph-Macon’s Day Field. The camp is open to all quarterbacks entering grades 7-12. It will feature individual one-on-one attention from head coach Pedro Arruza and the Randolph-Macon football staff. The camp will cover all aspects of the quarterback position, as well as film study on quarterback mechanics. The fee is $80 per quarterback. For more information contact Chase Phillips at 804-412-1428 or chasephillips@rmc.edu; or go to http://www.rmcfootballcamps.com/qb-skillscamp.cfm
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