Summit Year in Review: The Year In Sports

continued making waves in local sports in 2011. Take a look at how Summit teams did against the competition in the sport-by-sport breakdown below.

• Cross Country: For the third year in a row, the in the team and individual categories at the Union County Cross Country Championships at Warinanco Park.

• Track and Field: Boys again won the title at the . Girls at the April 16 Westfield Relays. Hilltoppers had at the Penn Relays. Five athletes . Girls won a .

• Football: The Hilltoppers nearly went this entire season, but they fell to Madison in the . The first marked the .

• Lacrosse: The boys team had that carried over from the previous title year. They  and . The Hilltopper squad the Tournament of Champions title. the Union County Tournament, but . 

• Swimming: The 200 Medley Relay team of Loring Bowen, Ryan Sebastian, Cameron Simko, and Will Beckett broke the set last year, .  Bowen was a and 100 yard Back. Bowen is the first two Event County Champion since Ian Bowman in 1998 (200 and 500 Free). Bowen also broke the 1986 school record in the 100 backstroke.

• Volleyball: in Summit history. Girls had an , but failed to in their first appearance in . 

• Hockey: had an season. Boys repeated their , but fell short .

• Wrestling: In only it’s as a varsity squad, Summit High School’s wrestling team showed growth . Nick Abbott Championship at 130 lbs.

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