Lady Cougars seize WVC championship – Hazleton Commonplace Speaker

With the outright Wyoming Valley Conference championship at stake, the Hazleton Area women’ swim crew left nothing to probability.

Lorelei Lucas and Lia Ochs completed first in each of their particular person occasions and contributed to 2 successful relay groups because the Lady Cougars splashed previous visiting Wilkes-Barre Area, 118-51, to cap their good run by means of the convention.

Lucas beat everybody within the 200-yard freestyle and 100 breaststroke and Ochs breezed to wins within the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke. They additionally joined Mercede DeLorenzo and Mariannyi Brache Minaya for a first-place end within the meet-ending 400 freestyle relay.

Ochs, DeLorenzo, Kathleen Rodgers and Ashley Malaga teamed for a primary within the 200 medley relay and Rodgers mixed with Brache Minaya , Rodgers and Malaga for a win within the 200 medley relay.

Rodgers, Brache Minaya and Malaga added firsts within the 200 particular person medley, 100 freestyle and 500, respectively, for Hazleton Area, which received all however one occasion en path to an 11-0 report in WVC twin meets.

Meanwhile, Hazleton Area’s boys’ crew ended its common season with a 131-34 win over the Wolfpack.

Cody Scholl (200 IM, 100 breaststroke), Chase Kaschak (200 freestyle, 100 free) and Cason Machey (100 butterfly, 100 backstroke) led the Cougars with two particular person wins apiece. Scholl additionally was the primary Hazleton Area swimmer within the water on successful 200 medley and 200 freestyle relay groups. Kaschak, Morris Hunsinger and Nick Pop adopted Scholl into the pool within the latter and Wellington Reyes, Machey and Samuel Schenk joined Scholl on the successful 200 medley relay crew.

Schenk contributed a win within the 50 freestyle.

Machey, Kaschak, Pop and Hunsinger teamed to complete first within the 400 free relay.

Both Hazleton Area will spend the following week and a half tapering in preparation for the District 2-4 Class 3A Championships on the Wilkes-Barre CYC and Wilkes-Barre Area High School on Friday, Feb. 27 and Saturday, Feb. 28, respectively.