<<

FREE PRESS SPORTS Page 12 Colby Free Press Monday, July 1, 2013 SPPORTSORTS Sharks swim to top two again at Goodland The Colby Swim Club broke all-time Goodland meet time of records in Goodland on Saturday 2:35.68. to go with all their other great It followed up a terrifi c Colby achievements this summer. Invite effort one week earlier Colby scored 216 team points to where two relays broke records. place behind that huge host Good- The Goodland Invite also fea- land swim team (286 points) one tured several Sharks who took more time. home individual championships. Once again, the Sharks showed Catlin and Bieberle were dou- they can outscore six area foes ble-event champs. who will be seeing them when Catlin won the 50-yard free- league championship arrives later style (42.24) and 50-yard butterfl y this month. (36.52). Colorado teams simply couldn’t Bieberle continued her domi- catch up as Wray took third (197 nance in the 50-yard breaststroke points), Holyoke fi nished fourth (38.83) and 100-yard individual (186) and Burlington placed fi fth medley (1:22.37). (172). Lemman won the 100-yard Western Kansas foes Oberlin freestyle (1:10.25) while plac- (168), Oakley (90) and Flagler ing second behind Catlin in the (48) again rounded out the fi eld. 50-freestyle (31.35) and Bieberle Yet the real story was how two in the 100-yard individual medley Colby relays broke Goodland (1:24.23). meet records. Another Colby champion was Colby’s Macy Catlin, Alexan- the 13-14 mixed 200-yard medley dra Quattlebaum, Tayler Bieberle relay of Kynndra Rush, Quinlee and Madisyn Lemman set the new Niblock, Kory Finley and Michael 11-12 girls’ 200-yard freestyle re- Quattlebaum (2:35.71). cord with a time of 2:09.74. Kourtney Finley earned one Alexis Carney then jumped with more Colby title in her 9-10 girls’ the 200-yard medley relay which 25-yard butterfl y (18.22). R.B. HEADLEY/Colby Free Press also featured Bieberle, Lemman Watch for complete results in Colby Swim Club’s Mark Faber built a strong pace dur- vitational. The Sharks placed second again among eight and Catlin. both Wednesday and Friday’s edi- ing the Sharks’ home invitational on June 22. Faber raced teams competing behind only host and champion Good- Together, they also swam an tions of the Free Press. to three top two fi nishes during Saturday’s Goodland In- land. Williams sent packing in another Wimbledon shocker LONDON (AP) — Add Serena in a postmatch interview, covering “I probably couldn’t be more stead, Lisicki held, broke again, ing champion the last then lost four straight points in Williams to the list of big names her face with her hands to wipe disappointed,” Williams said. “I and converted her second match four times she played Wimbledon, the tiebreaker to trail 4-3. But she eliminated early at this wild and away tears. “I’m just so happy.” think I may have backed off of a point with a forehand winner. having missed the tournament in capitalized on a couple of errors unpredictable Wimbledon. It was the latest in a string of success. I was playing something Williams said her serve — usu- 2010. She ousted Sharapova in the by the Spaniard and converted her The defending champion failed upsets that has jolted the tourna- successful. I didn’t continue that ally her main weapon — let her fourth round last year. fi rst set point when Suarez Navar- to close out a seesaw third set ment, with defending champion path. The result didn’t go the way down in the third set. Former champion Petra Kvito- ro netted a backhand. Monday, dropping the last four Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal it could have gone had I continued “I felt that I was on the verge va also reached the quarterfi nals, In the second, she broke to lead games against of knocked out in the fi rst three days to play the way I did in the second of winning,” she said. “At that beating Carla Suarez-Navarro of 4-2, and served out the match at to lose 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 — along with set.” point I just was physically un- Spain 7-6 (5), 6-3. love when Suarez Navarro sent a in the fourth round and end her and ’s with- After dropping the fi rst set, Wil- able to hold serve. ... You have to She was joined minutes later forehand long. career-best 34-match winning drawal on the women’s side. liams looked to be cruising, win- be ready and willing to hold your by of , The 18th-ranked Suarez Na- streak. of the U.S. ning nine straight games to take a serve. I wasn’t willing or able, who reached her fi rst career Grand varro was the fi rst Spanish wom- avoided the reached her second 3-0 lead in the third. The players probably didn’t even want to hold Slam quarterfi nal by ousting Fla- an since 2001 to reach the fourth upset bug until Monday. She was quarterfi nal of the year, beating then traded breaks to give Wil- my serve today.” via Pennetta of Italy 7-6 (2), 6-3 round at the All England Club. taken down by Sabine Lisicki in 19-year-old of Puer- liams a 4-2 lead, but the American Lisicki reached the semifi nals at — a year after her ranking plum- Kvitova will next play Flip- a loss that shocked everyone but to Rico 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. couldn’t win another game despite the All England Club in 2011 but meted as low as 262nd because of kens, whose career-best Grand the American star, writes Melissa The 17th-seeded Stephens is the having four break points at 4-3. this will rank as her biggest victo- injuries. Slam showing comes after she had Isaacson. last American singles player left at Those would have given her a ry at the grass-court Grand Slam. Kvitova served for the fi rst set much of 2012 ruined by injuries, “I’m still shaking,” Lisicki said the grass-court tournament. chance to serve for the match. In- She has now eliminated the reign- at 6-5 but was broken at love and including blood clots in her calf.