West Scranton senior Roy Ayala had the best 100-yard breaststroke race of his career and qualified for the B final at the PIAA Class 3A Swimming and Diving Championships at Bucknell University\u2019s Kinney Natatorium.<\/p>\n
Ayala posted a time of 56.97 seconds in the preliminary heats. That far surpassed his District 2 time and school mark of 58.20. It was also the 11th fastest swim of the morning races and put him in the consolation final.<\/p>\n
Williamsport junior Evan Summers, who beat Ayala at the District 2-4 Class 3A subregional, had the fastest qualifying time of 53.77.<\/p>\n
The boys\u2019 evening session starts at 4:30 p.m. The girls\u2019 finals are at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights senior Jason Casper wrapped up his individual-event career by finishing 25th in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:46.59. Pittsburgh Central Catholic\u2019s Cinco Perez had the top qualifying time of 4:27.05.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights\u2019 Derek Williams finished 31st in the 100 free with a time of 48.87. Upper St. Clair senior Nazar Zoukovski had the top qualifying time of 44.80. Upper Dublin\u2019s Brady Manser, the 50 free champion, was disqualified.<\/p>\n
Abington Heights senior Geoff Stanton finished 31st in the 100 backstroke. He had a time of 55.74. Unionville\u2019s Grant Fleming was the top qualifier with a time of 47.84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Scranton senior Roy Ayala had the best 100-yard breaststroke race of his career and qualified for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-136479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}