Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

Over 700 swimmers from all over the United States gathered at Long Beach, California to compete in the US Olympics Trials for a chance to compete in the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece as a part of the United States' swimming team on July 7-14.

Among those 700 swimmers was 19 year old South Dearborn graduate, Katie Robinson who just completed her freshman year at the University of Texas.

Robinson was a four year swimmer for the Knights of South Dearborn where she was crowned the state champion six times in the 100 meter freestyle, 100 meter butterfly and the 50 freestyle. As well as six time state champion Robinson also achieved All-American status while in high school. After graduating from high

school she accepted a scholarship to swim at the University of Texas in Austin. While at Texas Robinson competed in any event from 50 to 100 meter freestyle and 100 to 200 buterfly during her freshman year.

Robinson traveled with the rest of the Longhorn Aquatics team, which made the largest team in the trials, to compete for her chance to swim in the Olympics. She competed in the 100 meter butterfly as well as the 200 butterfly.

The first race was the prelims where the top 16 would advance to the semifinals, from which 8 would be taken to the finals and the top two would represent USA in the Olympic on August 13-29. Robinson was unable to make it out of the 200 meter butterfly where she finished 26th in a time of 2:16.44. The 100 meter butterfly was a different story as she managed to swim a personal best 1:01.2 to finish 15th in the prelims and advance to the semifinal round later that evening. In the semifinals

Robinson again swam a personal best of 1:00.99, which pushed her one spot ahead of where she was seeded and she finished 14th, but wasn't able to advance to the finals. "This first time was a huge experience for me," noted Robinson, "It meant a lot to me to be swimming with some of the great swimmers from the United States."

Robinson plans on competing in the 2008 trials again for a chance at the US Olympic team, but until then she is concentrating on her remaining years as a part of the Longhorn's Aquatic Team at the University of Texas. She is currently training for the Senior Nationals, which will be held on August 3-7 at the University of Stanford's campus in Palo Alto, California. "Hopefully in the next four years I will be faster and stronger and will be ready for the trials in 2008."

Katie is the daughter of Harley and Jascia Robinson of Dillsboro.

Katie Robinson

Josh Barnett - Sports Editor

Jac-Cen-Del's baseball team finished second in the 20 team Hoosier Hills Tournament after falling to Jennings County by two runs in the championship game.

In their first round game the Eagles defeated East Central at East Central 14-6 to advance to the second round of the tourney. Adam Peetz was the winning pitcher, pitching all 7 innings and giving up 6 runs (4 earned) on 10 hits, walking just one batter and striking out 6. Peetz also batted 2 for 4 with a double, stolen base, 3 RBI's and 3 runs scored. Kyle Horan batted 3 for 4 with a triple, one RBI and a run scored.

JCD defeated Oldenburg at Batesville 13-1 in five innings. The Eagles scored 11 of their runs in the first inning to put the game out of reach early. Tyler Bradshaw was the Eagles' starting pitcher, going 3 innings, giving up no runs on one hit, walking 2 batters and striking out 3. Adam Vollmer came in to pitch one inning, giving up no runs on one hit, walking one batter and striking out
none. Craig Horan came in to close out the game, going one inning, giving up one run on two hits, walking no batters and striking out 1.

In the semifinal game the Eagles defeated Brownstown at Seymour by a score of 2-0 with their pitcher, Bryan Schwanholt throwing a no hitter. He pitched all seven innings and gave up no runs and no hits, while walking just 3 batters and striking out 11. Shortstop Adam Vollmer scored one of JCD's runs and Craig Horan scored the other. Horan batted 1 for 3 with a home run in the contest and Vollmer went 0 for 3.

The Eagles lost by just two runs in the championship game against the Panthers of Jennings County. The Panthers jumped out to an early lead scoring 2 runs in the top of the first inning but Jac-Cen-Del took over the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning when they scored three runs with Chip Schuler and Bryan Schwanholt scoring on an Adam Peetz triple. Peetz was then batted in by Craig Horan.

Jennings Co. regained the lead in their half of the fifth inning adding three runs to their total to make the
score 5-3.

The Eagles again took a one run lead in the bottom of the sixth inning scoring three more runs to make the score 6-5. Schwanholt, Peetz and Justin Huff all scored in the inning to give JCD the lead. Jennings County managed to add three more runs in the top of the seventh inning to take a 2 run lead. JCD wasn't able to score again as the Panthers held on to pick up the victory and win the Hoosier Hills Tournament.

Bryan Schwanholt finished the game batting 3 for 4 with 2 runs scored. Blake Billman went 2 for three and Adam Peetz batted 1 for 2 with 2 runs scored.

Peetz was the starting pitcher for the Eagles, pitching 3 innings and giving up 5 runs (4 earned) on 5 hits, walking one batter and striking out one. Tyler Bradshaw came in to pitch 3 innings, giving up 2 runs (1 earned) on no hits, walking 2 batters and striking out one and Bryan Schwanholt came in to close the game, pitching one inning, giving up one run on one hit.