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OCBP Women Compete in Cape-Atlantic Invitational
The Ocean City Beach Patrol's Erin Curry takes a second in the swim, while Rachel Boudart and Emma Elmer finish fourth in the doubles row.
Cape May Beach Patrol walked away with the team title in the Cape-Atlantic Women's Lifeguard Invitational on Wednesday (Aug. 10) on the beach at Suffolk Avenue in Ventnor.
But Ocean City placed well in two events at the summer's premier event for women lifeguards in South Jersey.
Erin Curry, a Mainland Regional High School graduate who will swim for Liberty University as a freshman this fall, took second in the half-mile ocean swim.
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Curry caught a wave to leave a pack of swimmers behind and nearly catch winner Greta Reichert of Wildwood Crest. Ventnor's Mackenzie Howarth finished third. (Click on video icon at right.)
Ocean City's doubles crew of Rachel Boudart and Emma Elmer finished fourth, edging rival Ventnor (Meghan Holland and Paige Howarth) at the finish. (Click on video icon at right.)
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Ventnor had won six straight team titles prior to this year.
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