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Week of April 24 – April 30, 2015
YMCA Gymnasts Thrive
WATERTOWN — A total of 47 athletes from the Saratoga Regional YMCA’s Springettes Gymnastics Team attended the New York State YMCA Gymnastics Championships on April 18 and 19 at Jefferson Community College in Watertown. More than 220 gymnasts from eight different YMCAs in the state attended the competition. Saratoga placed first in the team competition at levels 3, 4, 7, and 8, and second in 5 and 6. There were 15 athletes from Saratoga who came home allaround state champions in their levels and age group groups including Meghan Wishart, Emma Momrow, Brooke Giacchetta, Mackenzie Hart, Olivia Allen and Alessandra Layer in level 3; Abbigail Derlinga, Ava Dallas, and Katy Hawthorne at level 4; Brynne Wright at level 5; Jordan Toma at level 6; Kate DellaRatta at level 7; Abby Moller and Marissa Verro at level 8; and Julia VanHorne at level 9. The Springettes also came home with 51 winners on individual events. The Springettes are coached by Kim Hewitt, Vicky Plitt,
Breanne Clark, Kym Rozek and Sarah Logsdon. The next competition for the Springettes is the YMCA Regional Gymnastics Championship where approximately 40 teams will attend from the Northeast.
Individual Results: Level 3, Age 7: Leah Torres placed 1st on vault, 3rd on bars, 4th on beam, 1st on floor and 2nd in the all-around. Hadley Snyder placed 4th on vault, 1st on bars, 5th on beam, 4th on floor and 3rd in the all-around. Level 3, Age 8: Alessandra Layer placed 2d on the vault, 1st on the bars, 2nd on the beam, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around. Level 3, Age 9: Olivia Allen placed 3rd on the vault, 3rd on the bars, 2nd on the beam 1st on the floor and 1st in the all-around. Katrina Momrow placed 1st on the vault, 6th on the bars, 1st on the beam, 4th on the floor and 3rd all-around. Alexis Hewitt placed 5th on the vault, 4th on the bars, 5th on the beam, 10th on the floor and 4th all-around. Level 3, Age 10a: Mackenzie Hart placed 6th on the vault, 1st on the bars, 3rd on the beam, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around.
Level 3, Age 10b: Brooke Giacchetta placed 1st on the vault, 1st on the bars, 1st on the bema, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around. Marianna Nasta placed 2nd on the vault, 2nd on the bars, 3rd on the beam, 2nd on the floor and 2nd all-around. Carly Fay placed 6th on the vault, 6th on the bars, and 2nd on the beam, 5th on the floor and 3rd all-around. Level 3, Age 11a: Emma Momrow placed 3rd on the vault, 3rd on the bars, 1st on the beam, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around.
Level 3, Age 11b: Megan Wishart placed 2nd on the vault, 1st on the bars, 3rd on the beam, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around. Isabelle Layer placed 1st on the vault, 3rd on the bars, 1st on the beam, 3rd on the floor and 2nd all-around. Jamie Eisenberg placed 4th on the vault, 4th on the bars, 2nd on the beam, 2nd on the floor and 3rd all-around. Level 3, Age 12 and up: Sarah Pritchard placed 5th on the vault, 7th on the bars, 5th on the beam, 7th on the floor and 7th all-around. Level 4, Age 11: Katy Hawthorne placed 1st on the vault, 2nd on the bars, 1st on the beam, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around. Sophia Sperling placed 2nd on the vault, 1st on the bars, 2nd on the beam, 5th on the floor and 2nd all-around. Alyssa Bonser paced 10th on the vault, 3rd on the bars, 4th on the beam, 9th on the floor and 4th all-around. Morgan Thompson placed 8th on the vault, 5th on the bars, 6th on the beam, 7th on the floor and 7th all-around. Level 4, Age 12: Ava Dallas placed 1s ton the vault, 3rd on the bars, 1st on the beam, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around. Cassidy Levy placed 3rd on the vault, 2nd on the bars, 2nd on the bema, 5th on the floor and 2nd allaround. Kalli Hewitt placed 5th on the vault, 1st on the bars, 5th on the beam, 3rd on the floor and 4th all-around. Anna Gaume placed 2nd on the vault, 7th on the bars, 8th on the beam, 6th on the floor and 6th all-around. Level 4, Age 13 & up: Abbigail Derlinga placed 9th on the vault, 2nd on the bars, 3rd on the beam, 1st on the floor and 1st all-around. Alyssa Greene placed 4th on the vault, 1st on the bars, 4th on the beam, 4th on the floor and 3rd all-around. Level 5 ages 9 to 12: Kaylee Ferro placed 4th on the vault, 3rd on the bars, 3rd on the beam, 3rd on the floor and 4th all-around. Level 5 ages 13 and up: Brynne Wright placed 1st on ault, 2nd on bars, 2nd on beam, 2nd on floor and 1st in the all-around. Erika Bonser placed 2nd on vault, 1st on bars, 1st on beam, 1st on floor and 2nd in the all-around. Level 6 age 12: Adelle Feeley placed 5 in the vault, 3rd on the bars, 2nd on the beam, 4th on the floor and 2nd all-around.
Level 6 age 13: Jennifer VanHorne placed 4th on the vault, 3rd on the bars, 1st on the beam, 3rd on the floor and 2nd all-around. Kaitlyn Kidder placed 1s ton the vault, 5th on the bars, 5th on the beam, 5th on the floor and 4th allaround. Megan Shawver placed 6th on vault, 6th on bars, 3rd on beam, 6th on floor and 6th all-around. Level 6 age 14 and up: Jordan Toma placed 2nd on the vault, 3rd on the bars, 1st on the beam, 3rd on the floor and 1st all-around. Carmen Cusick placed 3rd on the vault, 5th on the bars, 4th on the beam, 4th on the floor and 3rd all-around. Kerri Jackowitz placed 5th on the vault, 2nd on the bars, 6th on the beam, 7th on the floor and 4th allaround. Samantha Brantigan placed 10th on the vault, 9th on the bars, 7th on the beam, 2nd on the floor and 7th all-around. Addison Bonacio placed 9th on the vault, 4th on the bars, 10th on the beam, 9th on the floor and 8th all-around. Sydney Hedge placed 8th on the vault, 7th on the bars, and 8th on the beam.
Level 7 age 14 & up: Kate DellaRatta placed 1st on the vault, bars and beam, 2nd on the floor and 1st all-around. Emily Ward placed 3rd on the vault, 2nd on the bars, 2nd on the beam, 1st on the floor and 2nd all-around. Emily Fischer placed 2nd on vault, 3rd on bars, 3rd on beam, 3rd on floor and 3rd all-around. Level 8 age 14 & under: Abby Moller placed 1st on vault, 1st on bars, 5th on beam, 1st on floor and 1st allaround. Molly Russell placed 5th on vault, 2nd on bars, 3rd on beam, 3rd on floor and 3rd all-around. Level 8 age 15 & up: Marissa Verro placed 1st on the vault, bars, beam and floor and first all-around. Courtney Kirshe placed 3rd on vault, 2nd on bars, 2nd on beam, 2nd on floor and 2nd all-around. Level 9 age 14 & up: Julia VanHorne placed 1st on vault, 1st on bars, 3rd on beam, 1st on floor and 1st all-around. Sophie Hrebenach placed 2nd on vault, 2nd on bars, 2nd on beam, 2nd on floor and 2nd all-around.
Antley Elected to Hall of Fame
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Jockey Chris Antley, trainer King Leatherbury and racehorses Lava Man and Xtra Heat have been elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in the contemporary category. The elected will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on August 7 at 10:30 a.m. at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion. Antley, who was born in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and grew up in Elloree, S.C., won 3,480 races and had purse earnings of $92,261,894 in a career that spanned from 1983 until his death in 2000 at the age of 34. Antley rode his first winner, Vaya Con Dinero, at Pimlico in November 1983. He won 127 graded stakes races and 293 overall stakes. The leading North American rider by wins in 1985 with 469, Antley was a two-time Kentucky Derby winner, taking the Run for the Roses with Strike the Gold in 1991 and Charismatic in 1999. He also won the Preakness Stakes with Charismatic. Antley ranked in the top 10 nationally in wins each year from 1984 through 1987 and was the leading rider at Monmouth Park in 1984, 1985 and 1986. He was the leading rider at Saratoga in 1990. Leatherbury, 82, who was born in Baltimore, won his first
race at Florida’s Sunshine Park in 1959 and currently ranks fourth all time with 6,454 wins. He has won 52 training titles in Maryland (26 each at Pimlico and Laurel) and four at Delaware Park with career purse earnings of $62,910,371. Leatherbury has won 23 graded stakes races and 153 overall stakes. Lava Man was bred in California by Lonnie Arterburn, Eve Kuhlmann and Kim Kuhlmann. Arterburn trained Lava Man until he was claimed during his 3-yearold season for $50,000 by trainer Doug O’Neill for STD Racing Stable and partner Jason Wood. A winner of seven Grade 1 races — more than any other Californiabred in history — Lava Man posted a career record of 17-8-5 from 47 starts with earnings of $5,268,706. Among California-bred horses, only Hall of Famers Tiznow and Best Pal and 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome have higher career earnings. Xtra Heat (Dixieland Heat— Begin, by Hatchet Man) was bred in Kentucky by Pope McLean’s Crestwood Farm and sold as a 2-year-old for $5,000 at Maryland’s Timonium sale to trainer John Salzman, Sr. and partners Ken Taylor and Harry Deitchman.