Sweet Home’s girls won their toughest meet of the year, featuring five of the top teams in the state, Saturday, Jan. 4, in the inaugural Peargin Plunge at Sweet Home’s pool.
It was probably one of the strongest fields the Huskies have hosted in recent years, other than when they hosted the district meet during COVID, Coach A Jay Bronson said.
The visitors included Newport, the defending boys and girls champion from last year, La Grande, which placed second in the girls state championships, along with perennial contender Marshfield, and Molalla, Cascade Christian, Cove and Salem Academy, which are regulars on the deck at the state championships.
The meet honors Doug Peargin, still an assistant coach with the Sweet Home swimming program, who has been part of Husky aquatics for more than 50 years, during which his teams won multiple boys and girls state titles.
“I think it was the biggest one we’ve had, maybe bigger than when we hosted districts,” Coach A Jay Bronson said of the quality of the competition in the meet. “All the teams seemed to love being here and we had some great swims.”
Khloe Sautel was a double winner for the Husky girls, finishing first in the 200 Individual Medley and the 500 Freestyle, and swimming a leg in the Huskies’ 200 Medley Relay and 200 Freestyle Relay wins. Both were best times for her, Bronson said.
Sweet Home also won the girls 400 Freestyle Relay, Lexi Rundell, Daisy Lalonde, Peyton Markell and Kirsten Sautel combining for a half-second win over Marshfield in 4:09.53.
Kirsten Sautel was the Huskies’ other winner, taking first in the 100 Breaststroke.
The boys team of Andrew Tolman, Shayne Schuster, RJ Abbott and Austyn Hogan won the 200 Medley Relay and Abbott and Schuster contributed individual wins in the 100 Butterfly and 100 Breaststroke, respectively.
Sweet Home’s Timber Nobles was named the Huskies’ Swimmer of the Meet, dropping times in every event she swam, Bronson said.
Up next for the Huskies is the Albany Sprint Meet on Saturday, Jan. 11, which will include all the teams in the district.
Sweet Home’s next home meet will be Friday, Jan. 17, hosting Philomath, Sisters, Kennedy and Hidden Valley at 4 p.m.
Peargin Plunge Girls Results
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 75; (2) Marshfield 67; (3) Newport 50; (4) La Grande 45; (5) Salem Academy 39; (6) Cove Charter 14; (7) Cascade Christian 10; (8) Molalla 8.
Top 3 and Sweet Home Finishers
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Khloe Sautel, Kirsten Sautel, Peyton Markell, Lexi Rundell) 2:02.27; (2) Marshfield 2:06.49; (3) La Grande 2:13.35; (4) Newport 2:19.31; (5) Molalla 2:22.05; (6) Marshfield “B” 2:30.31; (7) Sweet Home “B” (Emerson Martineau, Ella Haggas, Kylie Melkvik, Timber Nobles) 2:41.20; (8) Salem Academy 2:42.76; (9) Newport “B” 3:23.89.
200 Freestyle – (1) Rinnah Lynch (LG) 2:07.71;’ (2) Allison Wright (Ma) 2:07.83; (3) Ellie Gladow (SA); (4) Peyton Markell (SH) 2:24.09; (6) Ella Haggas (SH) 2:34.68.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Khloe Sautel (SH) 2:25.01; (2) Hannah Zamora (LG) 2:36.93; (3) Hana Parker (N) 2:40.34; (9) Timber Nobles (SH) 3:14.81.
50 Freestyle – (1) Becca Koza (Cove) 25.71; (2) Avery Bartholomew (Ma) 27.39; (3) Gwynn Postlewait (N) 27.64; (7) Daisy Lalonde (SH) 29.26; (16) Emma Whitton (SH) 36.56; (20) Emerson Martineau (SH) 38.54.
100 Butterfly – (1) Hana Parker (N) 1:13.00; (2) Lily Thompson (Ma) 1:!3.55; (3) Gigi Howard (N) 1:17.10; (7) Kylie Melkvik (SH) 1:29.91.
100 Freestyle – (1) Ellie Gladow (SA) 1:02.16; (2) Carson Birky (SA) 1:03.40; (3) Allison Pettett (N) 1:03.51; (7) Lexi Rundell (SH) 1:04.25; (19) Emma Whitton (SH) 1:23.39.
500 Freestyle – (1) Khloe Sautel (SH) 5:31.46; (2) Allison Wright (Ma) 5:40.60; (3) Ella Croson (Ma) 6:18.07; (5) Ella Haggas (SH) 6:44.56; (6) Timber Nob les (SH) 7:02.07.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Kirsten Sautel, Daisy Lalonde, Lexi Rundell, Khloe Sautel) 1:51.76; (2) La Grande 1:53.80; (3) Salem Academy 1:55.93; (4) Newport 2:01.31; (5) Cascade Christian 2:02.80; (6) Marshfield 2:04.59; (7) Molalla 2:05.40; (8) La Grande “B” 2:09.47; (9) Sweet Home (Kylie Melkvik, Emma Whitton, Emerson Martineau, Ella Haggas) 2:21.15; (10) Cascade Christian “B” 2:23.18; (11) Salem Academy “B” 2:24.62; (12) Newport “B” 3:02.41.
100 Backstroke – (1) Becca Koza (Cove) 1:01.22; (2) Rinnah Lynch (LG) 1:03.11; (3) Peyton Markell (SH) 1:09.70; (6) Daisy Lalonde (SH) 1:14.19.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Kirsten Sautel (SH) 1:10.08; (2) Gwynn Postlewait (N) 1:14.01; (3) Ella Croson (Mar) 1:20.75.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Lexi Rundell, Daisy Lalonde, Peyton Markell, Kirsten Sautel) 4:09.53; (2) Marshfield 4:10.28; (3) Salem Academy 4:27.65; (4) Newport 4:32.34; (5) La Grande 4:36.26; (6) Marshfield “B” 4:44.99; (7) Cascade Christian 4:45.97; (8) Sweet Home “B” (Kylie Melkvik, Emma Whitton, Emerson Martineau, Timber Nobles) 5:14.86; (9) Molalla 6:04.33; (10) Newport “B” 6:45.24.
Boys Results
Team Scores – (1) Newport 70; (2) Marshfield 69; (3) Sweet Home 64; (4-tie) Molalla, Cascade Christian 37; (6) La Grande 31.
Top 3 and Sweet Home Finishers
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Andrew Tolman, Shayne Schuster, RJ Abbott, Austyn Hogan) 1:51.31; (2) Molalla 1:53.37; (3) Cascade Christian 1:55.06; (4) Newport 1:55.93; (5) Marshfield 2:05.29; (6) Molalla “B” 2:15.84; (7) Marshfield “B” 2:21.60; (8) Salem Academy 2:34.58.
200 Freestyle – (1) Zane Ricker (LG) 1:49.91; (2) Ben Hurty (N) 1:51.41; (3) RJ Abbott (SH) 1:54.17; (4) Arman Marble (SH) 2:07.12; (7) Henry Jones (SH) 2:15.98.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Evan Zastrow (LG) 2:14.39; (2) Shayne Schuster (SH) 2:20.58; (3) Isaac Janbay (CC) 2:@3.08; (5) Grayson Savri (SH) 2:24.07.
50 Freestyle – (1) Myles Anderson (CC) 23.49; (2) Elliot Aley (Mar) 24.52; (3) Austyn Hogan (SH) 25.45;
100 Butterfly – (1) RJ Abbott (SH) 58.82; (2) Jayden Riley La Grande 1:03.97; (3) Alex Dunning (Mar) 1:06.82; (7) Andrew Toman (SH) 1:09.36.
100 Freestyle – (1) Myles Anderson (CC) 50.37; (2) Ben Hurty (N) 50.50; (3) Quinton Kloster (Mar) 54.09; (8) Austyn Hogan (SH) 57.65; (9) Henry Jones (SH) 1:00.79.
500 Freestyle – (1) Zane Ricker (LG) 4:59.77; (2) Jahan Eibner (N) 5:33.65; (3) Arman Marble (SH) 5:35.93; (4) Grayson Savri (SH) 5:36.91.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Marshfield 1:39.03; (2) Newport 1:39.68; (3) Sweet Home (Austyn Hogan, Andrew Tolman, Shayne Schuster, RJ Abbott) 1:40.12; (4) Cascade Christian 1:43.04; (5) Molalla 1:44.96; (6) Marshfield “B” 1:53.15; (7) Molalla “B” 1:56.79; (8) Newport “B” 2:05.51; (9) Salem Academy 2:15.32.
100 Backstroke – (1) Will Postlewaite (N) 1:01.70; (2) Quinton Kloster (Mar) 1:03.59; (3) Evan Zastrow (LG) 1:04.40; (4) Andrew Tolman (SH) 1:05.37.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Shayne Schuster (SH) 1:08.10; (2) Carter McGriff (Mar) 1:08.41; (3) Ivan Farias (N) 1:10.38.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Newport 3:37.02; (2) Marshfield 3:43.40; (3) Molalla 3:59.28; (4) Marshfield “B” 4:13.56; (5) Newport “B” 4:15.50; (6) Molalla “B” 4:40.41.
