Sweet Home ended its regular dual-meet swimming season Friday, Feb. 4, with wins from both the boys and girls over Junction City, North Marion and Kennedy, finishing an undefeated string for the girls.
“(Senior) Jamie Seward came up to me at the end of the meet and said, ‘The only meet I’ve ever lost in four years was at state,’” Coach A Jay Bronson said.
The boys finished with a 4-3 dual meet record, “which is amazing, since we only have eight kids,” Bronson said.
The Huskies held Senior Night, honoring 10 departees from the program, Bill Hawken, Jacob Kennedy and Micah Wright for the boys, and from the girls team, Meagan Baham, Malia Hewitt, Autumn Ice, Isabel Sayer, Jamie Seward, Chloe Tyler and Jenna Wolthuis.
Following the meet, they held a reception honoring longtime Coach Doug Peargin, who is coaching his 50th season at Sweet Home, all but one of those years – this one – as head coach.
When they got down to business on the blocks, the Huskies made it clear they’re ready for this week’s district meet, Friday and Saturday at South Albany pool.
“We had a lot of time drops across the board,” Bronson said. “Even our experienced swimmers. We had some great swims.”
Tyler swam a season-best 1:56.41 in the 200 Freestyle, to win that event by 27 seconds.
“That is not going to be her event at district and state,” Bronson said, noting that it was still an excellent time.
Tyler also won the 100 backstroke, while Seward was a double winner for Sweet Home in the 50 and 100 freestyles.
Malia Hewitt wont the 100 Breaststroke and Kirsten Sautel was first in the 100 Backstroke. Sweet Home won all three of the girls relays.
For the boys, RJ Abbott doubled for wins in the 50 and 200 freestyles, and Blake Arthur added a victory in the 200 Individual Medley. Freshman Boden Sayers won the 500 Freestyle in a personal-best 7:57.03, ahead of teammate Shayne Schuster.
“Boden swam a significant time in the 500,” Bronson said. “Shayne did well too.”
“This was a good meet to get us ready for district this week.”
The district meet will be restricted to team members only, due to COVID restrictions, he said. No spectators will be admitted.
Girls Results
Team Scores: (1) Sweet Home 180; (2) Junction City 44; (3) North Marion 38; (4) Kennedy 22.
Top 3 Individuals and Sweet Home Finishers
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Chloe Tyler, Malia Hewitt, Isabel Sayer, Jamie Seward) 1:53.46; (2) Sweet Home “B” (Peyton Markell, Jenna Wolthuis, Kirsten Sautel, Taryn Abbott) 2:14.02; (3) Junction City 2:18.87; (4) North Marion 2:32.14; (5) Kennedy 2:35.98.
200 Freestyle – (1) Chloe Tyler (SH) 1:56.41; (2) Lily Jackson (JC) 2:23.42; (3) Nora Brenden (K) 2:31.40; (4) Rylee Markell (SH) 2:34.36; (5) Payton Brookefield (SH) 2:38.57.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Malia Hewitt (SH) 2:12.73; (2) Kirsten Sautel (SH) 2:23.86; (3) Sofia Vachter (NM) 2:50.41; (4) Taryn Abbott (SH) 2:54.79.
50 Freestyle – (1) Jamie Seward (SH) 26.10; (2) Peyton Markell (SH) 27.77; (3) Isabel Sayer (SH) 28.04; (4) Jenna Woltuis (SH) 28.52; (5) Meagan Baham (SH) 28.75; (22) Timber Nobles (SH) 42.94; (23) Emerson Martineau (SH) 43.00; (24) Autumn Ice (SH) 43.80.
100 Butterfly – (1) Chloe Tyler (SH) 1:00.98; (2) Isbael Sayer (SH) 1:12.85; (3) Jenna Wolthuis (SH) 1:19.75.
100 Freestyle – (1) Jamie Seward (SH) 56.51; (2) Meagan Baham (SH) 1:05.88; (3) Lily Jackson (NM) 1:09.17; (5) Rylee Markell (SH) 1:12.32; (6) Nora Pettner (SH) 1:15.99; (14) Timber Nobles (SH) 1:36.64; (15) Emerson Martineau (SH) 1:42.68.
500 Freestyle – (1) Nora Brenden (K) 6:45.36; (2) Taryn Abbott (SH) 6:46.56; (3) Kylie Henderson (JC) 7:02.97; (5) Tierney Clarno (SH) 8:14.01.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Chloe Tyler, Malia Hewitt, Meagan Baham, Jamie Seward) 1:45.37; (2) Junction City 2:05.65; (3) Sweet Home “B” (Rylee Markell, Payton Brookefield, Nora Pettner, Tierney Clarno) 2:10.58; (4) North Marion 2:12.00; (5) Kennedy 2:13.34; (6) Junction City “B” 2:38.09.
100 Backstroke – (1) Malia Hewitt (SH) 1:03.51; (2) Peton Markell (SH) 1:09.55; (3) Jordan Folsom (JC) 1:22.05; (6) Autumn Ice (SH) 1:55.14.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Kirsten Sautel (SH) 1:15.97; (2) Sofia Vachter (NM) 1:23.45; (3) Payton Vrookefield (SH) 1:28.76; (7) Tierney Clarno (SH) 1:41.38.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Meagan Baham, Isabel Sayer, Kirsten Sautel, Peyton Markell) 4:05.16; (2) Sweet Home “B” (Jenna Wolthuis, Rylee Markell, Payton Brookefield, Taryn Abbott) 4:45.93; (3) North Marion 5:37.52.
Boys Results
Team Scores: (1) Sweet Home 119; (2) Junction City 62; (3) Kennedy 23; (4) North Marion 14.
Top 3 Individuals and Sweet Home Finishers
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Blake Arthur, Bill Hawken, RJ Abbott, Micah Wright) 1:59.98; (2) Junction City 2:07.00; (3) Sweet Home “B” (Jacob Kennedy, Boden Sayer, Ben Tolman, Sayne Schuster) 2:37.64.
200 Freestyle – (1) RJ Abbott (SH) 1:57.29; (2) Mitchell Doubrava (NM) 2:19.05; (3) Julian Waits-Carpenter (JC) 2:43.53; (4) Shayne Schuster 3:22.92.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Blake Arthur (SH) 2:34.82; (2) Ben Tolman (SH) 3:33.00.
50 Freestyle – (1) RJ Abbott (SH) 25.38; (2) Cedric Hughes (NM) 26.06; (3) Micah Wright (SH) 26.53; (7) Jacob Kennedy (SH) 30.56.
100 Butterfly – (1) Cameron Miller (K) 57.43; (2) Julian Waits-Carpenter (JC) 1:26.66; (3) Ben Tolman (SH) 1:50.95.
100 Freestyle – (1) Brian Edwards (JC) 1:00.47; (2) Joey Brabb (JC) 1:01.15; (3) Micach Wright (SH) 1:01.73; (4) Bill Hawken (SH) 1:01.84.
500 Freestyle – (1) Boden Sayer (SH) 7:57.03; (2) Shayne Schuster (SH) 9:18.28.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Junction City 1:53.24; (2) Sweet Home (Blake Arthur, Ben Tolman, Boden Sayer, Shayne Schuster) 2:09.53; (3P Kennedy 2:11.82.
100 Backstroke – (1) Cameron Miller (K) 59.45; (2) Jacob Kennedy (SH) 1:25.30; (3) Boden Sayer (SH) 1:33.38.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Brian Edwards (JC) 1:13.66; (2) Bill Hawken (SH) 1:16.94; (3) Mitchell Doubrava (NM) 1:17.61; (4) Blake Arthur (SH) 1:27.31.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Micah Wright, Bill Hawken, Jacob Kennedy, RJ Abbott) 4:14.50.