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South Fayette girls track: The “most scared” of Freeport before team champs

Written by Cara De Carlo on .

“I knew that we matched up pretty well against Beaver and Freeport…” said South Fayette head coach Joe Winans. He noted that Southmoreland was also a good team, but the scores with Beaver Area and Freeport were the closest. South Fayette won 80-70 over Freeport, and 79-71 over Beaver. It was a well fought championship for the Lions.

“Freeport was the scariest to me because where we were strong, their athletes are strong.” Winans felt that South Fayette’s distance runners would be rivaled very effectively by Freeport’s strong distance runners.

“Beaver -- I knew they were stronger in the sprints,” added Winans. Likewise, South Fayette worked to pick up at least some seconds or thirds in the sprints, and to get back some points from Beaver in the distance events.

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South Fayette track: Scrimmaged Central Valley and West Allegheny despite weather

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“The team’s been performing pretty well,” said head coach Joe Winans. He described the team’s first scrimmage with Central Valley as being somewhat of a wakeup call for those used to the format of indoor track.

 “You could tell as the meet with Central Valley went on, some of the athletes kinda faded,” Winans said. He explained that in indoor track, there may be periods of hours between a given athlete’s events. But in outdoor track, the same athlete will not have that kind of recovery time.

“At West Allegheny [on March 27], we ran a pretty strong meet,” said Winans. “We had good performances from beginning to end. The team showed that they responded well to that challenge.”

So, how did they do it? How did South Fayette stack up so well against a great team like West Allegheny?

“Business as usual,” said Winans. “That’s what I tell the kids.”

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Alumni Update: Evan Lestini (Washington & Jefferson)

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Washington & Jefferson freshman Evan Lestini, a South Fayette graduate, shot a two-day total of 155 to lead the Presidents' men's golf team at the McDaniel Invitational in Westminster, Md.

Lestini shot W&J’s low round during the tournament by carding a 76 during the opening 18 holes. He then shot 79 inn the second round to finish 15th among 66 qualifiers.

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South Fayette girls' swimming team posts third-place finish at states

Written by Nick Tolomeo on .

With District 1 Villa Maria Academy on its way to posting a record team total and winning its third consecutive PIAA Class AA girls’ team championship, now was not the year to be chasing first place but South Fayette had an extremely strong showing on Wednesday and Thursday.

The team totaled 119 points and finished third place barely edging District 4 Central Columbia who had 118.5 points. District 3 York Suburban was second with 125 points.

After South Fayette, the next highest WPIAL team was Indiana who totaled 67 points, good enough for 12th place.

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