Sweet Home’s boys opened their swimming season Friday, Dec. 2, with a win over four other teams at the Sweet Home pool.
Sweet Home scored 86 points to 77 for second-place Blanchet Catholic. Blanchet outscored the girls 115-83 as the Huskies were missing their top club swimmers on both the boys and girls sides, as those were swimming in a club meet.
“This was a great opening meet for the season,” Coach Doug Peargin said. “Every swimmer that swam for us scored points.”
As a team, Sweet Home had 18 personal bests, though some of those were from freshmen and first-year swimmers.
“I don’t know if we’ve ever had that many PR’s in the first meet of the season,” Peargin said. “I would have to say the most improved swimmer in the meet was (sophomore) Dakota Seward in the 500 free. He improved by 21 seconds.”
The Huskies in that opener included a lot of first-time competitive swimmers, he said.
“We still need a lot of work on our fundamentals. Many of our younger swimmers had trouble with their turns, which we’ll work on this week.”
Hard work is paying off, though, he said.
“I think our strength in this meet came in our conditioning. I never saw any of our swimmers get beat because they weren’t in shape. Everybody on the team competed to the best of their ability.”
Sweet Home will be back in the water, with a full team this time, will travel to Philomath Dec. 8. On Dec. 15 the Huskies will host Philomath, Salem Academy and Stayton.
Boys Results
Top 3 and Sweet Home finishers
*Personal Best time
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 86; (2) Stayton 81; (3) Blanchet Catholic 77; (4) Junction City 49; (5) Toledo 12.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Blanchet 2:10.82. (2) Stayton 2:11.69; (3) Sweet Home (Brad Wolthuis, Craig Hansen, Cameron Taber, Seth Wright) 2:12.95; (4) Blanchet 2:42.05; (5) Junction City 2:53.9.
200 Freestyle – (1) Paul Hegney (B) 2:08.50; (2) Chris Linton (Stay) 2:09.30; (3) Craig Hansen (SH) 2:17.84*; (4) Seth Wright (SH) 2:20.92; (5) Dakota Seward (SH) 2:21.68.
100 Individual Medley – (1) Brad Wolthuis (SH) 1:09.09*; (2) Reece Alexander (JC) 1:14.70; (3) Cameron Taber (SH) 1:14.80*.
50 Freestyle – (1) Wesley Parker (SH) 26.70; (2) Tre Swinger (Stay) 27.33; (3) Ikaka Toyoma (Stay) 29.40; (12) Colton Pickett (SH) 35.25.
50 Butterfly – (1) Chris Linton (Stay) 28.93; (2) Cameron Taber (SH) 34.90; (3) Max Cooper (JC) 37.62.
100 Freestyle – (1) Eric Seitz (Stay) 58.57; (2) Seth Wright (SH) 1:01.84; (3) William Yuen (B) 1:02.84; (4) Wesley Parker (SH) 1:03.27.
500 Freestyle – (1) Paul Hegney (B) 5:50.50; (2) Dakota Seward (SH) 6:24.61*; (3) Josh Ptacek (Stay) 6:48.44.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Stayton 1:58.50; (2) Sweet Home (Wesley Parker, Cameron Taber, Dakota Seward, Colton Pickett) 2:01.85; (3) Blanchet 2:01.95; (4) Junction City 2:18.75; (5) Blanchet “B” 2:24.70; (6) Toledo 2:34.73.
50 Backstroke – (1) Brad Wolthuis (SH) 32.04*; (2) Spencer Schbig (B) 37.75; (3) Barden Ballard (Stay) 39.05.
50 Breaststroke – (1) Eric Seitz (Stay) 33.18; (2) William Yuen (B) 34.78; (3) Craig Hansen (SH) 35.05*.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Brad Wolthuis, Wesley Parker, Seth Wright, Craig Hansen) 4:00.87; (2) Blanchet 4:19.41; (3) Stayton 4:23.20; (4) Junction City 5:09.60; (5) Blanchet “B” 5:20.17; (6) Toledo 6:14.91.
Girls Results
Top 3 and Sweet Home finishers
*Personal Best time
Team Scores – (1) Blanchet Catholic 115; (2) Sweet Home 83; (3) Stayton 74; (4) Toledo 19; (5) Junction City 14.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Blanchet 2:13.52; (2) Stayton 2:23.20; (3) Sweet Home (Elizabeth Adams, Milah Weld, Ella Parker, Kristen Adams) 2:24.97; (4) Toledo 2:44.39.
200 Freestyle – (1) Ella Parker (SH) 2:26.16; (2) Ally Jones (B) 2:39. 51; (3) Sarah Diaz-Fregoso (B) 2:44.90.
100 Individual Medley – (1) Ana Kosiewicz (B) 1:10.01; (2) Sarah Roy (B) 1:18.21; (3) Megan Mak (Stay) 1:18.53; (4) Elizabeth Adams (SH) 1:L19.11; (5) Milah Weld (SH) 1:21.07*.
50 Freestyle – (1) Kristen Adams (SH) 32.08; (2) Torree Hawken (SH) 32.29; (3) Hikari Kawai (SH) 33.72; (4) Katrina Reynolds (SH) 34.47; 11) Madeline Neuschwander (SH) 36.72.
50 Butterfly – (1) Sydney Maurer (Stay) 32.91; (2) Megan Mak (Stay) 32.97; (3) Caroline Ditzler (B) 33.04; (5) Milah Weld (SH) 35.92*.
100 Freestyle – (1) Sadie Mak (Stay) 1:00.48; (2) Ana Kosiewicz (B) 1:00.76; (3) Elizabeth Adams (SH) 1:09.26.
500 Freestyle – (1) Sydney Maurer (Stay) 6:22.07; (2) Ella Parker (SH) 6:25.03*; (3) Sarah Roy (B) 7:02.20.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Blanchet 2:03.97; (2) Sweet Home (Madelyn Neuschwander, Hikari Kawai, Katrina Reynolds, Torree Hawken) 2:17.30; (3) Stayton 2:22.96; (4) Blanchet “B” 2:25.25; (5) Blanchet “C” 2:40.99; (6) Junction City 2:44.67; (7) Toledo 2:59.26.
50 Backstroke – (1) Caroline Ditzler (B) 35.65; (2) Kristen Adams (SH) 37.12*; (7) Madelyn Neuschwander (SH) 47.59; (8) Hikari Kawai (SH) 48.37.
50 Breaststroke – (1) Sadie Mak (Stay) 39.18; (2) Mera Bussman (JC) 42.34; (3) Torree Hawken (SH) 42.62.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Blanchet 4:24.17; (2) Stayton 4:32.23; (3) Sweet Home (Kristen Adams, Ella Parker, Milah Weld, Elizabeth Adams) 4:43.66; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Torree Hawken, Madeline Neuschwander, Hikari Kawai, Katrina Reynolds) 5:26.75; (5) Toledo 5:32.87; (6) Blanchet “B” 5:49.68; (7) Junction City 5:59.93.