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This week in Boston Neighborhood Sports, we bring you highlights of the 2016 BPS City Swimming Championships, along with some news about Fenway Lady Panthers girls basketball player Jaqualah Holliman.

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Friday's snowstorm didn't do City basketball teams, any favors when school gets cancelled, so do after school activities. So all basketball games were postponed, but on Thursday, the most important action for bps athletics was in the water. When the 2016 city championships were held at Madison, Park High School, let's head out to the mattah dome to check out the city swimming championships.

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Latin academy, in fact, was looking for that ninth City swimming championship in a row and they started off well 100-yard freestyle, that's Hugh fan winning for boston, latin academy, 56.3 1 seconds for him; 100-yard backstroke, that's Tomas, galliano, 40 bryant, winning that one in one minute, five point five five seconds in this 100-yard breaststroke and is Justin Chung for O'brien winning that one in one minute three seconds, then the 400-yard freestyle relay and that's Chung again for O'brien's, as they won the relay four minutes: 11.9 seconds Chung and fellow O'brien swimmer, Carly Cahill one outstanding male and female swimmers of the championships, but it was latin academy again beating everybody all together for their ninth straight swimming championship, some more results for you from the championship games, that's 200-yard!

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Metal relay or bryant won that one 200 freestyle jason is aaron its key, wonderful boston, latin academy and a 200-yard individual medley was justin chung again, you can see why he was the male swimmer of the afternoon. More results from thursday, 50 yard, freestyle, jonathan smith of east boston, 29 seconds for him hundred yard, butterfly jason.

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Is there knit ski for latin academy in one minute point 44 seconds, 500-yard, freestyle, jonathan smith and the 200-yard freestyle relay latin academy, one that when they are your 2016 city swimming champions, so another one for the Dragons swim team, very impressive streak? They got going nine in a row. That's pretty incredible! We do have some good news from the local high school hardwood. Fenway Lady Panthers jakayla Holliman has committed to play basketball next year for division.

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One early, Dickinson, University sharpshooting Holliman, has been a huge contributor to Fenway, as they have won two straight city championships. Hallman has also been a city league all-star for the past two seasons and has been the leading scorer of event for Fenway this year. So congratulations to jakayla Holloman on committing to Fairleigh Dickinson. That's going to do it for sports this week, folks be sure to come right back here next week for more on Boston neighborhood sports.