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先週末のSEC決勝の記事がAnn Arbor Newsに掲載されていました。勝がホームステイしているところのJason Hassがインタビューされたようです。
Pioneer swims to SEC crown
Pioneers win 9 of 12 events at league meet; Saline places second
Sunday, February 26, 2006
BY JEFF ARNOLD
News Sports Reporter
Four climbs to the top of the awards stand hadn't changed Jason Hass' mind.
Never mind what the clock had indicated at Saturday's Southeastern Conference swim championships, the Pioneer High School junior still wasn't convinced the perfect race exists.
Maybe not. But Pioneer's final venture into the pool had proven close.
The Pioneers capped another SEC title run by breaking a 7-year-old pool record in the 400-yard freestyle relay, one of two pool marks and one of four conference records to tumble Saturday afternoon.
"It was good enough,'' Hass said of the 3-minute, 12.01-second time turned in by himself, Chris Buck, Robert Steele and Sho Koba that broke Toledo St. Francis' 1999 mark of 3:12.02. "I wouldn't say it was perfect, but I was very, very pleased ... You always have to have another Pioneer record up on that board.''
Pioneer registered a championship-best 670 points - 303 ahead of second-place Saline, which paced the rest of the seven-team field. The Hornets -led by Kyle Begley's win in the 500 free (4:55.08) and Joel Chambers league championship in 1-meter diving (428.34) captured conference runner-up honors for the second straight year.
Saline again slipped past SEC White champion Dexter (338) while Chelsea (313), Tecumseh (303), Adrian (160) and Lincoln (87) rounded out the league meet standings.
"This really shows our progress. We've gone from fighting to get third to going through a huge fight last year to get second and this year, there were a lot of teams really close to us,'' Saline's Begley said. "But in the end, we got second (place) again and that really shows that we've gotten to a certain level.''
But Pioneer remained on a pedestal well above the rest of the field, using the conference record books as motivation.
"It's always something new and exciting,'' Hass said. "Each (championship) is different than the one before.''
The Pioneers won nine of Saturday's 12 events, getting two individual wins from Hass (200 individual medley and 100 butterfly), two from Koba, who broke the one-day-old pool and SEC records he set Friday in the 200 free and the conference mark he set Friday in the 100 free. Other than Begley, Tecumseh's Scott Yarbrough captured the only other individual league title, winnining the 100 breaststroke in 1:01.29.
Chris and Pat Buck also delivered wins for the Pioneers, who also set two new SEC marks in the 200 and 400 free relays as a primer for its upcoming Division I state title defense.
"I think we're in pretty good shape,'' Pioneer coach Denny Hill said. "We have a little ways to go, but I think we're sitting pretty good.''
Jeff Arnold can be reached at jarnold@annarbornews.com or 734-994-6812.
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