MOULTRIE — Like Ryan Helms, her Moss Farms teammate, Anna Aguero is making the adjustment to the 16-18 age group just fine, thank you.

Aguero, in her first East Championships since moving up from the 14-15 age group, has qualified for Junior Nationals on all three boards.

And on Saturday, she turned in third-place finish on tower, which she considers her best event.

“It’s so much fun for me,” Aguero said Saturday after taking the bronze medal. “It’s a challenge.

“And I felt really good today.”

Ali Lepech gave Moss Farms its second bronze medal of the day when she finished third in the 14-15 girls 3-meter event.

In all, four Moss Farms divers qualified for the Junior National Champion-ships with finishes of 12th or better in the third day of the East Championships’ four-day run at the Moose Moss Aquatic Center.

The 2006 Junior National Championships will be held July 26-30 in Indianapolis, Ind.

Hannah Moore finished ninth in the 16-18 girls platform event.

And Kelsey Goodman was 11th in the 14-15 girls 3-meter.

Moss Farms’ Ann Perry Blank just missed qualifying, finishing 13th on 3-meter, just 1.45 points out of 12th.

In the 16-18 girls platform, U.S. Elite Diving’s Katie Bell won the event with a 390.30. Margaret Hostage of the Montgomery Dive Club was second with a 356.75.

Aguero took the silver medal in the platform event at the East Championships in Rockville, Md., last year in the 14-15 age group, finishing behind Kristy Shepler.

Shepler, who dives for Team Orlando, also moved up this year and finished fourth.

Aguero went on to finish 12th at Junior Nationals on platform last year and also qualified for Senior Nationals in the event last summer.

“That was the best tower list I’ve ever seen her do,” Moss Farms coach Ron Piemonte said of Aguero’s Saturday performance.

She has had an excellent summer, taking a pair of gold medals at the Region championships in Boston, Mass., last month.

Aguero opened the East Championships this week by qualifying for Junior Nationals on 1-meter by the narrowest of margins.

Her 12th place finish score was just .4 points better than the score posted by Pitt Aquatic Club’s Amanda Lohman.

On Friday, she was ninth on 3-meter.

“I’m glad I made it on all three boards,” she said. “I hope I can step it up a little at Nationals.”

Moss Farms teammate Hannah Moore finished ninth on platform and also has qualified for Nationals on all three boards.

Moore also was ninth on 1-meter and was seventh on 3-meter.

Aguero and Moore help keep each other on their toes.

“On our team, there is a competition between us,” Aguero said. “And it’s good for us to have that.”

Before going to Junior Nationals, Aguero will join Helms, Moore, Lepech and Goodman in heading to a Senior Zone meet next week in Woodlands, Texas.

It will be the first meet the Moss Farms divers will take part in with Ed Goodman as the head coach.

Goodman will replace Ron Piemonte as the team’s coach following today’s end of the East Championships.

Aguero said she is looking forward to Goodman taking over from Piemone, who is going to Virginia Tech.

“I really like working with Ed,” Aguero said. “He really encourages you.

“He’s a positive influence on all of us.”

Lepech, who qualified with a 10th-place finish on 1-meter, was “very steady,” on 3-meter on Saturday, Piemonte said.

Both Goodman and Blank, started strong, but faltered down the stretch.

Goodman, who finished second on 1-meter on Thursday, held on to finish 11th.

“Like I’ve said, it’s nice when you don’t feel like you’ve dived your best and you’re still able to qualify,” Piemonte said.

Blank, who was sixth on 1-meter, just missed after turning in low scores on her final two dives.

Thea Vock of Legacy Diving took the gold medal in the 14-15 girls 3-meter with a 319.40. Ansley Long of the Atlanta Diving Association was 10 points back in second.

Lepech turned in a 294.45.

Also diving for Moss Farms on Saturday were Tevin Hightower and Henry Norman, who were making their East National Championships debuts.

Hightower, competing in the 13-and-under boys 1-meter, finished 24th in the event won by Jersey Rebel Diving’s Ross Edfort, who had a 265.20.

David Zarb of Georgia Diving Club was second with a 238.35. Cory Bowersox of the Patriot Dive Club was third with a 238.05.

Norman took part in the 14-15 boys 1-meter and finished 31st.

Nick McCrory of North Carolina Aquatic club was first with a 392.05. He was followed by Cougar Diving’s Sam Decker, who had a 389.25, and Connor Kuremsky of Pitt Aquatic Club, who had a 347.85.

“For Tevin and Henry, it was like going to another planet,” Piemonte said. “It was their first time at anything like this.

“But they got to see what it’s like to get to this level.”

Also on Saturday, Mary Dunnichy of Starz Diving Club won the 13-and-under girls 3-meter with a 3008.40. Cougar Diving’s Samantha Lera was second with a 252.65, followed by Lauren Hall of Atlanta Diving, who had a 235.45.