Chieftain February 2018 | Page 11

Winter Sports in Full Swing Though less dominant, several teams are eyeing State runs By Colin Watts Title. Chieftain Staff SWIMMING also had a rough start We are well into the Winter sports but are starting to turn things around. season here at Brother Rice. While Coming off big wins against Cranbrook last year we were lucky to have both and De La Salle and a win at Ann Arbor Hockey and Swimming cap- ture State Championships, this year those goals may be a little harder to accomplish for our six cold-weather sports. First, the HOCKEY team has bounced back after a tough start to the season. Overcom- ing a couple of hard-fought losses to No. 1-ranked Catholic Central and Division 2 pow- erhouse Livonia Stevenson, they won fi ve out of six games. After a midseason stumble, they bounced back with a 3-1 victory over Trenton, and are The Ski Team getting ready to hit the slopes now th