THE COMMUNITY CRIER: October 23,1996 Page 25 On deck SALEM BOYS CROSS COUNTRY At regional meet Saturday. SALEM BASKETBALL At home versus I Farmington Thursday at 7 p.m. SALEM GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY j At regional meet j Saturday. SALEM FOOTBALL Playoff Friday at 7:30 p.m. Salem Rocks coach Chuck Olson consistenly has one of the best swim teams in the state. This year is no different. The Rocks par ticipated at the Michigan Interscholastic Coaches Association meet last Saturday. (Crier photo by R. Alwood Jr.) SALEM GIRLS SWIMMING At North Farmington Thursday at 7 p.m.
Salem sw im m ers shine at m eet Relay teams finish with state qualifying times; indiv duals qualify for state meet; Salem’s season record 6 - 1 SALEM SOCCER At districts until Saturday. CANTON SOCCER At districts until Saturday. BY JANET ARMSTRONG The Salem girls swim team caught fire at the Michigan Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association’s meet at EMU Saturday. 400-yard Freestyle Relay for a seventh-place finish and a team record of 3:46.89. Salem did well in the individual events as well, said Olson. In the 200-yard Freestyle Hala had a personal best and fin ished 24th with a time of 2:02.73.
In the 200-yard Individual Medley, Lynn took a ninth place and qualified for the state meet with a time of 2:02.73. CANTON BOYS CROSS COUNTRY At regional meet Saturday. Seventy-four teams entered the meet, with only the top 40 swimmers in each event competing. “We did very well,” said Salem coach Chuck Olson. “They don’t keep track of team standings, but we had a very nice day.” Each of Salem’s relay teams taking part finished with state qualifying times, said Olson. Williams also made the state cut in the 50-yard Freestyle with a time of 25.37, which earned her ninth place.
Yvonne Lynn, Katie Bonner, Lori McKay and Kathy Kelly finished in fourth place with a time of 1:54.18 in the Medley Relay, which set a new school record. In the tough 500-yard Freestyle Hala finished 13th with a time of 5:27.63, which just missed the state cut, according to Olson. CANTON BASKETBALL At Franklin Thursday at 7 p.m. “We did almost everything we went there to do,” said Olson. “Now we need to improve on the ones that just missed the state cut. In the 200-yard Freestyle Relay Kelly, Carrie Dzialo, Kellyann Williams and Lindsay Hartz captured sixth place with another team record time of 1:43.16.
“We have some meets left to do that.” Salem, who is 6-1 on the season, will compete Thursday at North Farmington. The meet begins at 7 p.m. Chiefs boys CC 3rd in WLAA CANTON FOOTBALL Playoff Friday at 7:30 p.m. Williams, Dzialo, Audrey Hala and Lynn combined in the Varsity team sets personal bests; regionals next « CANTON GIRLS SWIMMING At home versus Northville Thursday at 7 p.m. BY JANET ARMSTRONG The Canton Boys Cross Country team set some milestones Saturday at the Western Lakes Activities Association conference meet. Lake Western who took home second place. Stevenson and Salem finished fourth and fifth respectively behind Canton. Spitz.
“If we have a great day we might finish as high as third. If we run how we have been we may finish between fifth and seventh.” Shaun Moore was the top finisher for Canton finishing fifth overall with a time of 16:43. The Chiefs finished their dual meet season with a record of 5-1, suffering their first dual meet loss in five season’s to Walled Lake Western, who walked away with the Western Division title. “All the guys on the varsity team set personal bests,” said Canton coach Mike Spitz. CANTON GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY At regional meet Saturday.
The Chiefs finished third at the meet behind Walled Lake Central, who cap tured the conference title; and Walled “We did well,” said Spitz, who added that with a solid performance at the regional meet the team could finish high. “It’s hard to say where we’ll be,” said “We had won 27 meets in a row,” said Spitz. “We still finished second.”