{"id":264953,"date":"2026-08-14T00:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264953\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:48:10","slug":"stingrays-settle-for-second-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264953\/","title":{"rendered":"Stingrays settle for second \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published August 13. 2026 02:11PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Hanover Stingrays summer swim team will have to live with the nagging question, What if?, at least for a little while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Entering the Championships Meet last month with a 7-1 record, the Stingrays were geared up to avenge their only loss to Soleco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">But thunderstorms stopped the end-of-season swim meet twice during the early session\u2019s older swimmers\u2019 events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Stingrays coach Evan Kocon explained that the weather delays resulted in the omission of the butterfly, backstroke, and 100 freestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cIt would\u2019ve been really, really close,\u201d said Kocon, \u201cbut we couldn\u2019t make all those swimmers and their families wait, so we didn\u2019t get to finish the morning session with the older kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">As a result, Hanover placed second in the Championships Meet, right behind first-place Soleco by just 50 points once final scores were tallied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Hanover Stingrays compete in the Suburban Swim League of the Greater Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The Hanover Stingrays had to settled for second place, falling to Soleco in the title meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 13. 2026 02:11PM The Hanover Stingrays summer swim team will have to live with the nagging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-264953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264953","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=264953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}