Sweet Home’s swimmers got back in the water after a week off from competition and won the boys and girls divisions of the Stayton Invitational going away Friday, Jan. 2.
The Huskies won 19 of 22 events, tripling their closest competition’s score on the girls side, and coming close to doubling it on the boys’.
“That was a fun way to start the year,” Coach Doug Peargin said. “It’s a great way to start out the rest of the season.”
He said he couldn’t list anybody as a big winner because there were so many of them.
“The team worked together to win this one,” said.
The girls’ depth and speed was telling in the 200 Freestyle Relay event, in which the Huskies swept the top three positions and placed their fourth team in seventh place.
The fact that Stayton has a metric pool (with longer distances) didn’t seem to faze his team, Peargin said.
He said the Huskies have shown dedication, which pays off in races
“It helps an awful lot when the kids try to make all the practices over Christmas – we stuck with the two-a-day practices all the way through Christmas vacation and I think that made a big difference in how well we swam in this meet,” he said.
Sweet Home will be on the road again this week, swimming at Philomath on Saturday, starting at 9 a.m.
Stayton Invitational
Girls Results (All distances in meters)
(Top Three Individuals
and Sweet Home Finishers)
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 219; (2) Stayton 74; (3) Gladstone 643; (4) Cascade 63; (5) North Marion 55.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Mikayla Nelson, Milah Weld, Jessica Coates, Maddee Hawken) 2:24.41; (2) Stayton 2:34.74; (3) Gladstone “A” 2:46.20; (4) Gladstone “B” 3:03.31; (5) Sweet Home “B” (Hope Fears, Livvie Hindmarsh, Sierrah Owen, Kendyl Stutzman) 3:10.21.
200 Freestyle – (1) Lucie Davis (SH) 2:12.10; (2) Sara Helfrich (SH) 2:43.68; (3) Coby Lemon (NM) 2:46.96.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Jessica Coates (SH) 2:39.16; (2) Esther Gunselman (SH) 2:52.35; (3) Katie Palmer (NM) 2:53.17.
50 Freestyle – (1) Lauren Yon (SH) 28.83; (2) Esther Gunselman (SH) 31.57; (3) Jami Seevers (NM) 34.43; (4) Kristen Adams (SH) 35.55; (5) Natasha Benson (SH) 36.15; (8) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 36.69; (11) Kendra Vorce (SH) 37.18; (12) Megan Oberg (SH) 38.25; (19) Sierrah Owen (SH) 40.28; (31) Carol Ann Ross (SH) 46.74; (32) Kendyl Stutzman (SH) 46.82; (38) Loka Eksa (SH) 58.82.
100 Butterfly – (1) Sarah Clyde (Gladstone) 42.22; (2) Mia Davis (SH) 1:16.13; (3) Caitlyn Linton (Stayton) 1:25.53; (4) Sierrah Owen (SH) 1:44.91.
100 Freestyle – (1) Elin Talback (Cascade) 1:07.23; (2) Elea Hewitt (SH) 1:08.82; (3) Min Wei (Cascade) 1:11.88; (5) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 1:22.79.
400 Freestyle – (1) Mikayla Nelson (SH) 4:43.81; (2) Sara Helfrich (SH) 5:41.52; (3) Coby Lemon (NM) 5:59.35.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Livvie Hindmarsh, Mia Davis, Esther Gunselman, Jessica Coates) 2:09.94; (2) Sweet Home “B” (Natasha Benson, Sara Helfrich, Elea Hewitt, Lauren Yon) 2:10.70; (3) Sweet Home “C” (Milah Weld, Maddee Hawken, Makayla Nelson, Lucie Davis) 2:15.01; (4) Cascade 2:16.46; (5) North Marion 2:25.21; (6) Stayton 2:29.47; (7) Sweet Home “D” (Kendra Vorce, Megan Oberg, Carol Ann Ross, Kristen Adams) 2:35.68; (8) Gladstone “A” 2:45.55; (9) Gladstone “B” 2:54.85; (10) North Marion “B” 3:01.41; (11) Gladstone “C” 3:09.95.
100 Backstroke – (1) Lauren Yon (SH) 1:11.65; (2) Sarah Clyde (Gladstone) 1:15.72; (3) Caitlyn Linton (Stayton) 1:19.13; (5) Natasha Benson (SH) 1:34.12.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Min Wei (Cascade) 1:29.27; (2) Aleya Hill (Stayton) 1:34.39; (3) Maddee Hawken (SH) 1:39.43; (4) Milah Weld (SH) 1:44.89.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Mia Davis, Kristen Adams, Elea Hewitt, Lucie Davis) 4:50.19; (2) Stayton 4:54.62; (3) North Marion 5:28.69; (4) Gladstone 5:32.08; (5) Cascade 6:07.20; (6) Sweet Home “B” (Megan Oberg, Carol Ann Ross, Hope Fears, Kendyl Stutzman) 6:42.36; (7) Gladstone 6:48.99; (8) North Marion “B” 6:52.89.
Boys Results
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 195; (2) Gladstone 118; (3) North Marion 80; (4) Cascade 27; (5) Stayton 12.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Ryan Yon, Rawlins Lupoli, Sean Wolthuis, Jaeger Howatt) 2:17.20; (2) North Marion 2:25.15; (3) Gladstone 2:39.60.
200 Freestyle – (1) Ryan Yon 2:36.42; (2) Trask Telesmanich (Gladstone) 2:36.80; (3) Austin McArthur (NM) 2:51.90; (5) Adam Barber (SH) 3:00.10.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 2:31.07; (2) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 2:50.61; (3) Alex Stewart (Gladstone) 3:01.46.
50 Freestyle – (1) Jaeger Howatt (SH) 27.56; (2) Rowland Lupoli (SH) 27.62; (3) Joshua Navarro (Cascade) 28.00; (6) Tanner Goble (SH) 29.35; (16) Jun Kaneyama (SH) 32.70l (20) Craig Hansen (SH) 35.17; (21) Logan Howatt (SH) 37.16.
100 Butterfly – (1) Nathan Hager (SH) 1:06.73; (2) Chris Linton (Stayton) 1:17.51; (3) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 1:19.76.
100 Freestyle – (1) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 1:01.48; (2) Rawlins Lupoli (SH) 1:02.33; (3) Alex Stewart (Gladstone) 1:06.98.
400 Freestyle – (1) Grant Jones (SH) 5:33.82; (2) Trask Telsemanich 6:07.27; (3) Cy Schaefer (Cascade) 6:10.46.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Rawlins Lupoli, Tanner Goble, Brandon Vasfaret, Jaeger Howatt) 1:52.86; (2) Gladstone 1:55.82; (3) North Marion 2:02.84; (4) Gladstone “B” 2:07.40; (5) Sweet Home “B” (Jun Kaneyama, Adam Barber, Sean Wolthuis, Grant Jones) 2:09.00; (6) Sweet Home “C” (Logan Howatt, Craig Hansen, Nick Tolman, Jacob Harden) 2:24.59; (7) North Marion “B” 2:27.43; (8) Gladstone “B” 2:37.45.
100 Backstroke – (1) Nathan Hager 1:13.43; (2) Jaeger Howatt (SH) 1:16.13; (3) Joshua Navarro (Cascade) 1:19.14.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Rowland Lupoli (SH) 1:18.49; (2) Mac Olson (Cascade) 1:33.31; (3) Andrew Gross (Gladstone) 1:35.22; (5) Jun Kaneyama (SH) 1:43.82.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Adam Barber, Grant Jones, Rowland Lupoli, Nathan Hager) 4:39.61; (2) Gladstone 4:39.83; (3) North Marion 4:48.16; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Logan Howatt, Craig Hansen, Nick Tolman, Jacob Harden) 5:45.47; (5) Gladstone 6:11.38.