Second Place Middletown Heads Into Final Days of Lifeguard Games

The sun began to set Thursday as a crowd gathered for night four of the 2011 Rhode Island Lifeguard Tournament at East Matunuck State Beach. Some in the crowd were family and friends, but many were lifeguards who came to support their beach’s rescue team.

During the evening’s first event, the ocean rescue, each beach’s lifeguard crew worked as a team to rescue someone from the water as quickly as they could.  Narragansett Town Beach and Westerly Town Beach guards came in neck-in-neck but Gansett pulled ahead by a few feet to take first place as they carried their victim, Victoria Cunningham, to shore.

The night continued with the kayak relay, during which three lifeguards took turns kayaking approximately 200 meters from shore, around three buoys, and back to shore again. Once again, Narragansett took the gold with lifeguards Ryan Celona, Mike Florio, and Tom Hiller paddling fiercely with Roger Wheeler State Beach coming in second place.   

Narragansett wasn’t just bi-winning like Charlie Sheen, but they were tri-winning last night as they also took first place in the open swim relay with Second Beach coming in second place.

After last night's activity, Narragansett Town Beach is in first place with a total of 146 points. Second Beach is in a close second with 130 points and Scarborough is in third place with 80 points.

The final games

•  On Friday night, anyone interested in cheering on their favorite lifeguards can head down to Scarborough beach in Narragansett tonight at 6:45 p.m. for the Men’s and Women’s Medley Relays, and the men's and women's torp relay race. 
• On Saturday night, catch the lifeguards at Second Beach with events starting around 6:30 p.m.