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The Athletic Department Scoop

January 19, 2007

So far, the Winter Sports Season has been very promising for Summit Athletics. Competition has been at its best in basketball, wrestling and swimming. Our student athletes have met every challenge with much success. We’re looking forward to the Athletic Awards Banquet, which will take place on Feb. 27th at 7:00pm in Kyte Theatre. Boys’ Basketball At this point in the season, The Summit Boys’ Varsity Basketball team despite a rash of early season injuries and illnesses, successfully defeated division rival Seven Hills in a double overtime match on January 12th. The big win put them in first place in the conference. The game was covered by WCPO, Channel 9, as the I-Wireless Game of the Week. The team is 4-4 overall and 4-2 in the MVC. Three of the team’s wins came on the road in league play, including a good early season win against Scarlet Division-rival CHCA. Holding serve at home for the remainder of the season will be crucial to maintaining top honors in the MVC. The 8th grade boys’ basketball team has had a successful start to the season going 4 and 1 in the league and 4 and 2 overall. Our only loss in the league so far was a one-point loss to C.H.C.A. We have had great contributions by all our guys and seem to be coming together as a group as the season goes along. We have key games vs. Seven Hills, NCH, and CHCA all within the month of January. Come support the Knights as they try to bring home a middle school championship! Girls’ Basketball The Summit Girls’ Varsity Basketball team is currently 8-3, with a recent win over Div. 1 Campbell County High School. Summit will be fighting to win a league championship with big games ahead versus CHCA (Jan. 22nd and Feb. 3rd) and Seven Hills (Feb. 7th). The team is led by Sophomore guard Alyssa Dunn (16.4 pts), Sophomore Forward Ashley Hite (ppg 13.2) and Sophomore Guard Kyli Parker (ppg 10.6). The Middle School Girls’ 7th grade basketball team headed to Christmas break with a 4-2 record defeating Miami Valley Christian (19-18), St. Bernard (15-6), Cincinnati Country Day (26-7), and New Miami (28-7). After a couple weeks off they came back and lost a tough game against Nagel. With more than half of the game schedule left we are confident that this will be a rewarding and winning season. The dedication and practice from the girls is what makes this such a strong team. Wrestling In the second year of wrestling’s new beginning at Summit the Silver Knights return to the mat hoping in efforts to rebuild the program even stronger than before. Building participation is a large part of the recipe for success. Summit could always use more members on the team. At the 7-12 Level the program boasts 19 wrestlers (Up from 10 last season) In addition none of those wrestlers are juniors or seniors. Our young men should be commended for there hard work and dedication to the program participating in the “world’s oldest sport.” Both the Upper and Middle School programs will host competition at the Athletic Complex on Jan 24th vs. CHCA & CCD; and on Jan. 25th vs. Mariemont & Middletown. Swimming Small but mighty! The Summit Swim team has gotten off to a great start this season. This year’s participants are: Bryan and Brad Bedacht, Lauren Dean, Maggie David, Liz Edwards, and Alex Hart. Recently, the team competed at the Southwest Classic Swim meet. Bryan Bedacht made it back to finals and placed 12th overall. At our site we had five top 20 finishes. Which is pretty impressive. All swimmers who competed had a successful meet with a total of 14 combined seconds dropped in individual events. The next meet Summit Swimming will compete in is on January 25th at CCD.