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Athletics D ates to Re me mb e r
Oct 5
Independent-Parochial School League Golf Championship at Beaver Creek CC, Hagerstown, Maryland
Nov 9–16
Pennsylvania Independent Schools State Soccer Championship
Oct 18–20 Alumni Weekend (most varsity sports vs. Blair) Nov 3
Mid-Atlantic Prep League Cross Country Championship at Hightstown, New Jersey
Schedule subject to change; for a full and updated schedule of events, visit www.mercersburg.edu
Winter 2013 Varsity Athletics Roundup Boys’ Basketball
Captains: Patrick Ryan ’13, Dre Wills ’13 Boys’ Basketball Award (most outstanding player): Wills Coaches’ Award (most improved player): Royce Jenoure ’13 John Prevost ’54 Basketball Award: Will Walter ’14 Head coach: Tim Crouch (1st season) Record: 8–13 (1–4 MAPL) Highlights: The Blue Storm defeated St. Maria Goretti in the Independent-Parochial School League championship game to win its first league title since it captured the 2000 Mid-Atlantic Conference championship… the team swept Hill, downing the Rams in both the regular season and the MAPL tournament… Wills, an All-MAPL and an All-IPSL selection, averaged 24.7 points per game and broke the 30-point barrier in five different contests; he will play at Vermont next year… Ryan, who was a [Chambersburg] Public Opinion firstteam All-Area selection, will play at St. Mary’s College of Maryland… Mike Collins ’14 was an honorable-mention All-Area choice… Trustin Riley ’14 earned Academic All-MAPL honors.
Girls’ Basketball
Captains: Sarah Firestone ’13, Melody Gomez ’13, Hanna Warfield ’13 Girls’ Basketball Award (most outstanding player): Teal Tasker ’15 Coaches’ Award (most improved player): Gomez Head coach: Katie LaRue (2nd season) Record: 16–8 (1–4 MAPL) Highlights: The team posted its best overall record since 1986, and opened the season with a record nine straight wins… the Storm won a state tournament game for the first time in five years when it beat York Country Day in the PAISAA first round… another highlight was the program’s first win over Peddie—and its second, a victory over the Falcons in the MAPL tournament… Gomez was named All-MAPL, Academic All-MAPL, and AllIPSL; she and Warfield earned varsity letters all
four years… Tasker led the team with 11.5 points per game; Gomez was tops in rebounding (7.6 rpg) and steals (2.9 spg) and shot a team-high 45 percent from the field.
Diving
Diving Award (most outstanding diver): Patrick Birck ’15 Coaches’ Award (most improved diver): Christina Hyrkas ’13
Head coach: Jennifer Miller Smith ’97 (5th season) Highlights: Hyrkas, who competed all four years for Mercersburg as a swimmer or a diver, placed 16th in the girls’ one-meter event at the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming & Diving Championships; teammates Jordan Shihadeh ’14 (22nd), Bridget Filipe ’14 (27th), and Katie Henderson ’14 (32nd) also competed… Henderson was second in the three-meter novice event and Shihadeh took second in the one-