North Allegheny Sweeps Boys and Girls Swimming Titles in Class AAA

By: HSSN Staff
Friday, March 2, 2012 | 3:50 PM

The North Allegheny Tigers dominated the AAA WPIAL boys and girls swimming championships on day two held at Trees Pool at the University of Pittsburgh Friday afternoon..

The girls won their fourth straight WPIAL title and scored a whopping 152 point victory over second place Oakland Catholic. Upper St Clair finished 4.5 points back to finish 3rd. NA won 5 total girls medals, USC 3.

On the boys side it was a lot closer as NA beat 2nd place USC by 47.5 points. NA led heading into day two, however USC took the lead early on on day two. NA took over mid morning snd never trailed again. Peters Twp  finished third .5 ahead of 4th place Bethel Park. The Tigers have now won 6 of the last 7 WPIAL boys titles. NA, USC, and Bethel Park all won three medals each on day two. Three WPIAL records were set as right from the start Alyssa Ruffing a Sophomre from Franklin Regional won the 100 yard freestyle with a score of 51.08. Kristen Murslack a Junior  from Pine Richland set a new WPIAL mark in the 100 yard breaststroke, scoring 1:02.68. The final record set was by the NA girls 400 yard freestyle relay team. They bested their own record set last year by less than a second scoring, 3:28.83 to cap off their WPIAL team win.

BOYS FINAL STANDINGS

1.  North Allegheny – 308.5

2.  Upper St. Clair – 261

3.  Peters Township – 191.5

4.  Bethel Park – 191

BOYS 100 YD. FREESTYLE

1.  Lucas Bureau – Latrobe 46.03

2.  Alex Hardwick – Upper St. Clair

3.  Erik Brinkhoff – Bethel Park

4.  Andrew Rich – Peters Township
 

BOYS 500 YD. FREESTYLE

1.  Christian McCurdy – Penn-Trafford 4:32.22

2.  Theo Hubbard – Mt. Lebanon

3.  Zachary Buerger – North Allegheny

4.  Sam Rutan – North Allegheny
 

BOYS 100 YD. BACKSTROKE

1.  Matthew Buerger – North Allegheny 49.74

2.  Ryan Dudzinski – Upper St. Clair

3.  Zachary Misak – Bethel Park

4.  Travis Myers – Butler
 

BOYS 100 YD. BREASTSTROKE

1.  Matthew Baurle – Penn-Trafford 58.15

T-2. Andrew Nosbisch – Gateway

T-2. Gabriel Larson – Penn Hills

4.  Alex Caprara – Gateway
 

BOYS 400 YD. FREESTYLE RELAY

1.  North Allegheny (Matthew Buerger, Sam Rutan, Greg Arnold, Zachary Buerger) 3:07.04

2.  Upper St. Clair

3.  Bethel Park

4.  Franklin Regional

 GIRLS FINAL STANDINGS

1.  North Allegheny – 392

2.  Oakland Catholic – 240

3.  Upper St. Clair – 235.5

4.  Franklin Regional – 202.5

GIRLS 100 YD. FREESTYLE

1.  Alyssa Ruffing – Franklin Regional 51.08 (WPIAL Record)

2..  Allie Panetti – North Allegheny

3.  Victoria Shaffer – Upper St. Clair

4.  Katerina Borisov – North Allegheny
 

GIRLS 500 YD. FREESTYLE

1.  Shannon Haberman – Oakland Catholic 5:00.06

2.  Jade Song – North Allegheny

3.  Kally Vanderbilt – North Allegheny

4.  Allison Murslack – Pine-Richland
 

GIRLS 100 YD. BACKSTROKE

1.  Brittany Dudzinski – Upper St. Clair 56.70

2.  Meghan Schilken – Mt. Lebanon

3.  Jacqueline Du – North Allegheny

4.  Allie Brinkhoff – Bethel Park
 

GIRLS 100 YD. BREASTSTROKE

1.  Kristen Murslack – Pine-Richland 1:02.8 (WPIAL Record)

2.  Kayla Owens – Latrobe

3.  Madeline Marcelle – Woodland Hills

4.  Emily Schmitt – Upper St. Clair
 

GIRLS 400 YD. FREESTYLE RELAY

1.  North Allegheny (Katerina Borisov, Erin Bishop, Jade Song, Kally Vanderbilt) – 3:28.83 (WPIAL Record)

2.  Franklin Regional

3.  Upper St. Clair

4.  Mt. Lebanon