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TELEMUNDO — Swim- ming, Gold Medal finals; men's gymnastics, all-around Gold Medal final; men's diving, synchronized springboard Gold Medal final, at London (same-day tape) 12:35 p.m. CSNC 7:15 p.m. CSNB SWIMMING Sports Special to the DN The Red Bluff Tritons headed north to the cool mountain air of Yreka Fri- day through Sunday. Red Bluff had the fifth largest team with only 29 swimmers. The Tritons were only 7 points behind the 42 swim- mers from Scott Valley and brought home a 3rd place trophy with 495.5 points. Weaverville nabbed first place with 36 swimmers and 784.5 points. The meet began Friday afternoon with long-dis- tance freestyle races and Individual Medley. The Individual Medley includes laps of all four strokes in this required order: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. Saturday events included breaststroke, but- terfly, freestyle (100 meters for 9-18 year-olds and 50 meters for those eight amd under), Medley Relay, and a friendship relay, which requires each team to com- prise members from differ- ent teams. stroke, longer distance breaststroke, a short distance freestyle, and freestyle relay. The 9-10 girls relay team Sunday included back- showed compassion and sportsmanship after winning their Medley Relay race. Samantha Beeman, Kaylee Humphrey, Jasmine Atencio, and Rylie Vise won the event against four other teams. When the Triton girls fin- ished the race, South Siskiy- ou swimmers had two more legs to go before finishing the race. Beeman suggested to her PLUMAS PINES INVITATIONAL 1B Wednesday August 1, 2012 Tritons take 3rd in Yreka Courtesy photo Emilie Louisell swims at the Yreka Splash Swimmers meet over the weekend. teammates that they give up their heat ribbons to the Siskiyou team as a gesture of friendship. All four girls agreed and the Siskiyou team accepted the offer. Six Tritons finished their races in top places to be dec- orated with first or second- place medals for their age groups. first place high point medal for beating out all other six and under boys at the meet. Megan Murray had some Preston Beeman finished an incredible seven seconds faster during his 25-meter freestyle event, which was also Beeman's first time winning a heat ribbon. His speed didn't end there because he also earned a "firsts" and "seconds" at this meet. Murray participated in her second swim meet over the weekend and brought home a second place high point medal for the first time in the six and under age group. She swam her longest freestyle (100 meters) for the first time and also won her first heat rib- bon at a meet. Niko Munoz is a serious He has modified his swimming technique to cut 44.70 seconds from his seed time in the 100-meter freestyle and nearly 40 sec- onds from the 100-meter Individual Medley. These improvements are similar to the time it would take to swim one lap across the pool. Munoz won a second- place medal for his age group. Triton competitor for the eight and under boys group. improved her 50-meter freestyle with a time of 37.14 and outswam her own best times by taking four to Jasmine Atencio ten seconds off each event. Atencio has a talent for the butterfly stroke and she placed first in that event. She said daily practice, focus prior to each event and staying hydrated at the meet contributed toward her fifth (out of five meets) second place high point award this year. three finishes in seven out of eight events at the meet and earned fourth in the 200- meter breaststroke. Staying at the top of the 15-16 year- See TRITONS, page 2B Nicole Sauve had top Courtesy photo Haley Tomas swims the backstroke at the Plumas Pines Invitational. Manta Rays earn 3rd Special to the DN The Corning Manta Rays didn't let a lit- tle cool water get in their way. Eighteen Corning Manta Rays participated in Plumas Pines Invitational held in Quincy this past weekend. Sixteen teams in total participated in the weekend meet and the Manta Rays took home third place in team points overall. day of competition. Kara Beckwith won the high point tro- phy for the girls 9-10 age division. away as Oakland and Reno. "Our goal as a team was to place in the top three teams and bring home a trophy for Corning, and we did just that," coach Julene Stokes said. "After day one of com- petition Corning was in third place and we held onto the position throughout the remainder of the meet." The teams were ranked through the last Some teams participating came as far Kara Beckwith (girls 9-10 age divi- sion): Beckwith won the 50 breaststroke, placed first in the 100 IM, second in 100 backstroke, second in 100 butterfly, first in 100 freestyle, second in 50 butterfly, sec- ond in 50 backstroke, second in 100 breaststroke, second in 50 freestyle and brought home high point for the girls 9-10 age division. RESULTS event and the Men from Corning were ranked second and the women were ranked third out of all of the teams. "We worked hard all week at practice and had the best swimming so far this sea- son," Stokes said. Joseph Wilson, who will be represent- ing Corning in the Far Western Meet next weekend, brought home the high point tro- phy for the boys 13-14 age division. Wil- son earned his spot to swim Far Westerns at the Junior Olympics last weekend, but he went to Quincy with the high point tro- phy on his list bucket list for this season, and cinched the trophy early on in the last sion): Pritchard placed fifth in the 100 IM, fifth in the 100 backstroke, eighth in the 50 breaststroke, fourth in the 100 butterfly, sixth in 100 freestyle, third in 50 butterfly, seventh in 50 backstroke, fourth in 100 breaststroke, seventh in 50 freestyle and she placed fifth overall in the girls 9-10 age division. Tayler Snow (girls 9-10 age division: Hannah Pritchard (girls 9-10 age divi- Snow placed eighth in 100 IM, fourth in the 50 breaststroke, fifth in 100 breast- stroke, won the 100 freestyle in the blue flight and placed third in 50 freestyle blue flight. Snow finished up the meet in ninth place overall in the 9-10 age division. Haley Tomas (girls 11-12 age division): Haley won the 100 IM in the blue flight, placed eighth in 50 breaststroke, seventh in See RAYS, page 2B