NH’s Bostick & Char Valley’s Lohman Win WPIAL AAA Diving Gold
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Saturday, February 22, 2014 | 8:59 PM
North Hills senior Noah Bostick captured a bronze medal as a sophomore and at last year’s competition he took home the silver with a score of 496.65. Consider the progression complete for Bostick as he captured the WPIAL Class AAA gold medal by posting a score of 506.85 at North Allegheny High School.
Bostick was solid throughout all three rounds of the meet. After going back and forth with Penn-Trafford sophomore Joey Ference heading into the final round of three dives, Bostick took control with his first final dive and finished 52.10 points ahead of the second place finisher, Andrew Doerfler of North Allegheny.
Ference was in line to capture the silver medal but had a failed dive on his next to last attempt which allowed Doerfler to move into second place. Doerfler, making his second
straight appearance in the diving finals, finished 7th last year as a sophomore and scored 454.75 in this year’s meet. Ference, 11th as a freshman, finished with a score of 403.20.
The top 6 finishers in the finals will represent the WPIAL in the state championships. Junior Cary Johns from Mt. Lebanon (400.10), senior Addison Lynch from Fox Chapel (398.95) and sophomore Andrew Sederholm from Franklin Regional (379.10) will join the medalists to compete at Bucknell University on Wednesday March 12th in the PIAA Boys AAA state diving championships.
Here is the final order of finish:
WPIAL Class AAA Boys 1 Meter Diving
Name Year School Total Points
1 Bostick, Noah SR North Hills 506.85
2 Doerfler, Andrew JR North Allegheny 454.75
3 Ference, Joey SO Penn Trafford 403.20
4 Johns, Cary JR Mount Lebanon 400.10
5 Lynch, Addison JR Fox Chapel 398.95
6 Sederholm, Andrew SO Franklin Regional 379.10
7 Redman, Riley JR Pittsburgh Central 369.30
8 Devine, Tommy SR Peters Township 342.25
9 Kern, Nathan SR Pine Richland 341.70
10 Kisiel, Luke JR Connellsville 337.70
11 Fremer, Gage SR Peters Township 325.15
12 McCollough, Levi SO Butler 319.90
13 Murray, Zach SR Baldwin 318.85
14 Schon, Kevin SO Franklin Regional 316.55
15 Zottola, John JR Fox Chapel 316.50
16 Ziegler, Jared SO North Allegheny 312.65
17 Lohman, Brett JR Upper St. Clair 226.35
18 Schmelzer, Mike SO Shaler 222.50
19 Bertoni, Mike JR Penn Trafford 217.80
20 Wolff, Joey SO North Hills 210.00
21 Todd, Nathan SR Hempfield 137.50
22 Browell, Xander SR Peters Township 136.65
23 Swindal, Joe SO Mt. Lebanon 133.35
24 Bachner, Blake JR Kiski Area 127.35
25 Barta, Taylor JR Greater Latrobe 122.15
26 Skidmore, Mitch JR Moon 99.55
27 Hawthorne, Ben JR Hampton 97.70
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Chartiers Valleys’ Maria Lohman won her third overall gold medal, 2nd in AAA girls diving (she won gold her Freshman year in AA) today in the diving championship. Lohman who finished with a personal best score of 540.15 led the entire meet. After the preliminary round she led by 60.85 points then expanded her lead after the Semi-Final to 87.10 points. The final round was really only a formality and Lohman made it count with her final three dives beating the 2nd place finisher, Miranda Simon of Fox Chapel 126.05 points. Simon a talented diver in her own right finished with an impressive 414.10 a very high score for any meet so that should show you how well Lohman performed. The top six finishers go on to states from the meet and they were Lohman(540.15), Simon(414.10), Julia Vespoli(407.10) of hosting North Allegheny, Emily Eames(380.10) of Fox Chapel, Brionna Litwin(378.50) of Bethel Park, Kalli Bickett(369.90) of Mt. Lebanon. The aforementioned Litwin completed the McDonalds Dive of the Meet on her final dive with a back one and a half summer-sault with a half twist with free entry and a 2.1 difficulty. She did that dive with her state hopes on the line and by the judges standards nailed it to move on to Bucknell and the PIAA Championships. The meet started with 28 divers and then was cut to 20 divers followed by a round of 16. In order of finish after the top six were:
Maria Capozzi 363.60,
Alyssa Siano 357.20,
Maddie Mianzo 345.80,
Abbie Settembrono 334.00,
Claire Welland 326.50,
Emma Dorazio 325.20,
Desiree Kline 320.95,
Claire Jacob 319.85,
Allison Penny 297.20,
Emmalee Keep 273.25 round out the final round competitors.
The semi-finalists were those divers the top 6 mentioned earlier and:
Katelyn Schmidt 219.45,
Morgan Melencia 204.10,
Rachel Douglas 201.10,
Jill McDonnell 199.35.
The divers who didn’t make it past the preliminaries:
Rena Gerber 132.05,
Autumn Fotta 131.10,
Erin Ferrari 127.45,
Ashley Wentz 123.60,
Julianna DiPippa 122.50,
Brooke Boggio 117.15,
Kalin Marino 112.80,
Alexandra Smithco 83.30.
Tags: Chartiers Valley
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