Sweet Home’s girls won their fourth meet in a row, with a first-place team finish at the Stayton Invitational Dec. 29.
The girls won all but one of the their events, Megan Hager, Josie Hewitt, Jamie Seward and Chloe Tyler all finishing first in two individual events.
Senior Brad Wolthuis was the only winner for the boys, who were third behind Newport and Molalla, and ahead of Stayton and Cascade. Wolthuis took the 100 meters after a close second-place finish in the 50.
“We needed a meet to break up the long Christmas break,” Coach Doug Peargin said.
“We’ve put in some long, hard yardage this first week of the break and this was our chance to see how well it would pay off for us. It also enabled us to see a couple of teams that we haven’t had an opportunity to see thus far in the season – Cascade and Molalla.”
He said the Huskies swam “pretty well,” coming away with some personal bests in the metric pool at Stayton.
Halfway through their seaosn, Peagin said the Huskies need to pick it up in establishing personal bests, to establish some momentum going into what he called “the tougher part of the season.”
Sweet Home will travel to the Lebanon Invitational at noon Saturday, Jan. 5, “which will be, by far, our toughest meet of the season.”
The line-up is expected to include North Bend, Marist, Newport, La Grande, Bend, South Albany and the hosts.
“In my opinion, this meet will be tougher than our district meet,” Peargin said.
“It will almost be like the state meet. If we’re to be a contender at district or state, we’ll need to have some big swims at this meet.”
Stayton Invitational (Metric Distances)
Girls Results (*Personal Best Time)
Top 3 and Sweet Home finishers
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 220; (2) Stayton 85; (3) Molalla 73; (4) Cascade 52; (5) Newport 50.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Sarah Hewitt, Torree Hawken, Josie Hewitt, Moria Curtis) 2:26.91; (2) Molalla 2:34.49; (3) Stayton 2:35.65; (4) Cascade 2:40.85; (5) Sweet Home “B” (Isabel Rodriguez, Bailey Womack, Katrina Reynolds, Olivia Marineau) 2:41.95; (6) Newport 2:57.84; (7) Sweet Home “C” (Isabel Sayer, Lauren Taber, Annaleea Shuttlesworth, Meagan Baham) 3:02.69; (8) Newport “B” 3:41.08.
200 Freestyle – (1) Megan Hager (SH) 2:13.72; (2) Sydney Maurer (S) 2:32.44; (3) Ella Parker (SH) 2:38.46; (4) Isabel Sayer (SH) 2:44.47*.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Jamie Seward (SH) 2:48.27; (2) Cori Oster (M) 2:55.73; (3) Caitlyn Martinak (S) 3:06.38; (4) Isabel Rodriguez (SH) 3:15.09; (5) Bailey Womack (SH) 3:24.83.
50 Freestyle – (1) Chloe Tyler (SH) 30.82; (2-tie) Payton Miller (M), Allya Sierra (C) 33.53; (5) Moira Curtis (SH) 34.26; (8) Meagan Baham (SH) 37.19*; (9) Brook Womack (SH) 37.41; (12) Lauren Taber (SH) 38.95*; (15) Olivia Martineau (SH) 42.50;
100 Butterfly – (1) Chloe Tyler (SH) 1:15.01; (2) Chloe Lone Elk (C) 1:21.26; (3) Megan Mak (S) 1:21.89; (4) Ella Parker (SH) 1:28.37; (5) Isabel Sayer (SH) 1:43.58*.
100 Freestyle – (1) Josie Hewitt (SH) 1:05.21; (2) Sydney Maurer (S) 1:10.16; (3) Torree Hawken (SH) 1:15.04; ((7) Isabel Rodriguez (SH) 1:21.09.
400 Freestyle – (1) Megan Hager (SH) 4:44.73; (2) Brook Womack (SH) 6:05.15*; (3) Alison Wickham (M) 6:06.08.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Jamie Seward, Chloe Tyler, Sarah Hewitt, Megan Hager) 2:00.51; (2) Stayton 2:10.47; (3) Molalla 2:16.86; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Katrina Reynolds, Meagan Baham, Annaleea Shuttlesworth, Torree Hawken) 2:22.32; (5) Cascade 2:25.56; (6) Newport 2:33.98; (7) Stayton 2:34.20.
100 Backstroke – (1) Jamie Seward (SH) 1:13.34; (2) Sarah Hewitt (SH) 1:14.19; (3) Chloe Lone Elk (C) 1:19.90; (10) Maren Weld (SH) 1:49.10.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Josie Hewitt (SH) 1:20.16; (2) Marie Dabbah (C) 1:40.24; (3) Alison Wickham (M) 1:40.29; (4) Torree Hawken (SH) 1:40.99; (6) Brook Womack (SH) 1:43.84.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Stayton 4:52.44; (2) Sweet Home “A” (Katrina Reynolds, Isabel Sayer, Ella Parker, Moira Curtis) 5:02.29; (3) Sweet Home “B” (Brook Womack, Annaleea Shuttlesworth, Olivia Martineau, Lauren Taber) 5:51.06; (4) Newport 6:21.81.
Boys Results (*Personal Best Time)
Top 3 and Sweet Home finishers
Team Scores – (1) Newport 234; (2) Molalla 95; (3) Sweet Home 86; (4) Stayton 69; (5) Cascade 11.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Newport 2:05.93; (2) Newport “B” 2:10.00; (3) Sweet Home (Dakota Seward, Bill Hawken, Brad Wolthuis, Hunter Calderwood) 2:19.50; (4) Molalla 2:21.49; (5) Stayton 2:23.72; (6) Molalla “B” 2:44.36.
200 Freestyle – (1) Tristan Scarborough (N) 2:19.13; (2) Kolby Spink (N) 2:27.12; (3) Hunter Calderwood (SH) 2:33.99*; (8) Jacob Kennedy (SH) 3:00.57*; (9) Micah Wright (SH) 3:05.49*.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Lucas Ellingson-Cosenza (N) 2:23.56; (2) Vinny Onestar (N) 2:41.33; (3) Tanner Fixsen (S) 2:42.01; (5) Dakota Seward (SH) 3:06.15.
50 Freestyle – (1) Luke Bachart (N) 27.25; (2) Brad Wolthuis (SH) 27.89; (3) Mac Hartsell (N) 29.33; (11) Chase Lopez (SH) 34.04*; (13) Seth Gaylord (SH) 35.53*; (16) Bill Hawken (SH) 37.27; (21) Mason Hook (SH) 39.82.
100 Butterfly – No Sweet Home competitors.
100 Freestyle – (1) Brad Wolthuis (SH) 1:05.20; (2) Mac Hartsell (N) 1:07.01; (3) August Bergquist (C) 1:09.68; (9) Chase Lopez (SH) 1:21.34*; (10) Micah Wright (SH) 1:22.66*; (11) Seth Gaylord (SH) 1:28.21*.
400 Freestyle – (1) Luke Bachart (N) 4:28.52; (2) Caden Shanks (N) 4:40.23; (3) Hunter Calderwood (SH) 6:19.43*; (4) Dakota Seward (SH) 5:20.49.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Newport 1:53.50; (2) Newport “B” 2:07.51; (3) Sweet Home (Jacob Kennedy, Hunter Calderwood, Dakota Seward, Brad Wolthuis) 2:07.70; (4) Stayton 2:21.60; (5) Molalla 2:23.84; (6) Sweet Home “B” (Chase Lopez, Bill Hawken, Seth Gaylord, Mason Hook) 2:23.85; (7) Newport “C” 2:23.08; (8) Molalla “B” 2:50.39.
100 Backstroke – (1) Nick Topar (N) 1:11.79; (2) Tanner Fixsen (S) 1:12.95; (3) Jacob Kennedy (SH) 1:28.19*.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Zachary Ferrell (M) 1:22.67; (2) Vinny Onestar (N) 1:24.33; (3) Josh Malloy (N) 1:26.52; (5) Bill Hawken (SH) 1:35.60*.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Newport 4:05.45; (2) Stayton 4:36.69; (3) Molalla 4:47.07; (4) Newport “B” 5:25.62; (5) Sweet Home (Chase Lopez, Micah Wright, Mason Hook, Jacob Kennedy) 5:39.92; (6) Molalla “B” 6:00.98.