Sweet Home’s girls lost by half a point to North Bend in last year’s state swimming championships, but the Huskies made sure that didn’t happen Saturday at the Lebanon Invitational, as they won going away, with 177 points to second-place North Bend’s 94.
“We came out strong and ended up winning eight of the 11 events,” said Coach Doug Peargin.
Sweet Home and North Bend were the only 4A schools in the meet, which included host Lebanon, South Albany, Bend and Marist, all 5A schools.
“This was a tough meet – the toughest we’ll see up to district,” Peargin said. “There was at least one swimmer in all 22 varsity events that was a state finalist in last year’s state meet.
Winners for the girls were Lucie Davis in the 200 and 500 freestyles, Lauren Yon in the 50 and 100 freestyles – setting a school record of 24.9 in the 50 Free, Jessica Coats in the 100 Butterfly and 100 Backstroke, and relay wins in the 200 and 400 Freestyle events.
The boys competition was a lot tighter, with Bend taking the team title 86-83 over North Bend, followed by Lebanon (48) and Sweet Home in fourth with 38 points.
Nathan Hager was second in the 200 and 100 freestyles and Brandon Vasfaret was second in the 500 Free.
“Our boys were a little sick and injured but we still swam as well as we could,” Peargin said.
The girls line-up, he said, was “close to what we’ll swim in the district meet.
“We don’t usually see these teams during the season so I jumped at the chance when we were invited,” Peargin said. “This was the first time we’ve been invited to this meet and I hope we get a chance to go again next year.”
The Huskies will need to focus now on the district competition and “getting as much as we can out of our practices,” he said. “We’re about the same place in our conditioning that we were last year at this time. But if we want a trophy at district and state, we’re going to hafve to work harder from this point, to and through both those meets.”
The Huskies will be on the road until Jan. 29, starting with a meet at Philomath at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 9.
Lebanon Invitational
Top 3 and Sweet Home Finishers
Girls Results
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 177; (2) North Bend 94; (3) Bend 54; (4) Marist 32; (5) Lebanon 8.
200 Medley Relay – (1) North Bend 2:01.89; (2) Bend 2:04.71; (3) Sweet Home (Esther Gunselman, Elea Hewitt, Mia Davis, Sarah Hewitt) 2:05.46; (4) North Bend “B” 2:10.81; (5) Lebanon 2:11.46; (6) Bend 2:20.69; (7) South Albany 2:22.17; (8) Sweet Home “B” (Kristen Adams, Milah Weld, Natasha Benson, Livvie Hindmarsh) 2:28.74; (9) Marist “B” 2:33.21; (10) South Albany “B” 3:25.39.
200 Freestyle – (1) Lucie Davis (SH) 1:58.55; (2) Makayla Nelson (SH) 2:05.63; (3) Elliyana Ferrin (B) 2:07.00.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Cassie Dallas (NB) 2:20.18; (2) Sarah Hewitt (SH) 2:27.57; (3) Amanda Allender (M) 2:27.58; (4) Elea Hewitt (SH) 2:29.31; (5) Esther Gunselman (SH) 2:33.13.
50 Freestyle – (1) Lauren Yon (SH) 24.98; (2) Rachel Larsen (M) 25.79; (3) Sarah Kuykendall (NB) 27.60.
100 Butterfly – (1) Jessica Coats (SH) 1:01.76; (2) Elliyana Ferrin (B) 1:04.79; (3) Chyna Fish (B) 1:07.23; (5) Mia Davis (SH) 1:07.88.
100 Freestyle – (1) Lauren Yon (SH) 55.14; (2) Rachel Larsen (M) 56.14; (3) Sierra Trichler (NB) 1:00.45; (9) Sara Helfrish (SH) 1:09.47.
500 Freestyle – (1) Lucie Davis (SH) 5:17.08; (2) Hailey Hyde (NB) 5:32.92; (3) Makayla Nelson (SH) 5:36; (5) Mia Davis (SH) 5:42.11.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Lauren Yon, Jessica Coats, Makayla Nelson, Lucie Davis) 1:46.59; (2) North Bend 1:51.23; (3) Bend 1:51.53; (4) Marist 1:54.85; (5) Bend “B” 2:03.66; (6) Sweet Home “B” (Kristen Adams, Kendra Vorce, Livvie Hindmarsh, Sara Helfrich) 2:07.61; (7) Sweet Home “C” (Megan Oberg, Ella Parker, Milah Weld, Natasha Benson) 2:08.99; (12) Sweet Home “D” (Hope Fears, Shelby Dinsfriend, Tonya Cook, Carolann Ross) 2:23.95.
100 Backstroke – (1) Jessica Coats (SH) 1:03.21; (2) Zaraya Estrada (NB) 1:06.62; (3) Esther Gunselman (SH) 1:07.08.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Cassie Dallas (NB) 1:13.14; (2) Sierra Trichler (NB) 1:17.89; (3) Elea Hewitt (SH) 1:20.53; (4) Sarah Hewitt (SH) 1:20.79.
400 Freestyle – (1) Sweet Home (Lauren Yon, Jessica Coats, Makayla Nelson, Lucie Davis) 3:49.66; (2) North Bend 3:54.80; (3) Bend 4:04.47; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Mia Davis, Sarah Hewitt, Elea Hewitt, Esther Gunselman) 4:06.07; (5) Marist 4:11.99; (7) Lebanon 4:24.24; (9) South Albany 4:47.16; (10) Sweet Home “C” (Natasha Benson, Kendra Vorce, Ella Parker, Sara Helfrich) 4:50.28; (12) Sweet Home “D” (Megan Oberg, Hope Fears, Shelby Dinsfriend, Tonya Cook) 5:10.76.
Boys Results
Team Scores – (1) Bend 86; (2) North Bend 83; (3) Lebanon 48; (4) Sweet Home 38; (5) Marist 28; (6) South Albany 25.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Bend 1:52.69; (2) Marist 1:57.12; (3) Bend “B” 2:04.60; (4) North Bend 2:04.82; (5) Lebanon 2:05.27; (6) South Albany 2:05.61; (7) Sweet Home (Adam Barber, Wes Parker, Bradley Wolthuis, Craig Hanson) 2:13.70; (8) Sweet Home “B” (Luke Flierl, TJ Baham, Cameron Taber, Dakota Seward) 2:35.34.
200 Freestyle – (1) Karl Stutzner-Gibson (NB) 1:49.51; (2) Nathan Hager (SH) 1:54.31; (3) Kurt Felder (B) 1:56.68; (4) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 1:58.60.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Jerrad Perez-Duncan (NB) 2:06.88; (2) Garrett Ross (B) 2:10.44; (3) Ben Thompson (M) 2:10.82; (4) Rawlins Lupoli (SH) 2:12.38; (7) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 2:24.88.
50 Freestyle – (1) Case McEuen (L) 22.29; (2) Danny Woodruff (NB) 23.94; (3) Mitchell Yost (NB) 24.70; (11) Rowland Lupoli 28.20.
100 Butterfly – No Sweet Home competitors.
100 Freestyle – (1) Casey McEuen (NB) 48.98; (2) Nathan Hager (SH) 52.22; (3) Bryce Dickerson (SA) 52.36.
500 Freestyle – (1) Karl Stuntzner-Gibson (NB) 5:01.77; (2) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 5:17.60; (3) Garrett Ross (B) 5:23.77.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) North Bend 1:34.37; (2) Bend 1:37.32; (3) Lebanon 1:38.06; (4) Sweet Home (Sean Wolthuis, Rawlins Lupoli, Brandon Vasfaret, Nathan Hager) 1:39.82; (5) South Albany 1:41.39; (6) Marist 1:49.33; (7) North Bend “B” 1:53.06; (8) Sweet Home “B” (Craig Hansen, Seth Wright, Cameron Taber, Wesley Parker) 1:53.28; (11) Sweet Home “C” (TJ Baham, Nick Tolman, Bradley Wolthuis, Dakota Seward 2:12.27.
100 Backstroke – (1) Jerrad Perez-Duncan (NB) 57.76; (2) Darrin Breshears (L) 59.26; (3) Zack Gardner (SA) 59.55; (6) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 1:07.51; (10) Adam Barber (SH) 1:15.35.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Ben Thompson (M) 1:04.89; (2) Bryce Dickerson (SA) 1:05.44; (3) Rawlins Lupoli (SH) 1:05.90.
400 Freestyle – (1) North Bend 3:28.17; (2) Bend 3:34.07; (3) Lebanon 3:38.01; (4) Sweet Home (Sean Wolthuis, Rawlins Lupoli, Brandon Vasfaret, Nathan Hager) 3:39.42; (5) North Bend “B” 4:04.62; (6) South Albany 4:06.55; (7) Sweet Home “C” (Craig Hansen, Seth Wright, Cameron Taber, Adam Barber) 4:14.14; (12) Sweet Home “D” (TJ Baham, Noah Dinsfriend, Dakota Seward, Luke Fierl) 5:07.11.