Sweet Home’s swimming teams placed first in both the boys and girls competitions Friday, Dec. 4, in their first competitions of the year.
The Huskies were missing their top swimmers, who were competing in a club meet, but the rest of the team more than filled the gap.
“We have a good mix of youth and veterans on the team this year,” Coach Doug Peargin said. “What was exciting for me at the meet was that all 29 swimmers for us placed in at least one event.”
Sweet Home swimmers posted 17 personal-bests, “which was a great way to start off the season,” he said.
Notable among those was senior Grant Jones’ 5:52.59 in the 500 Freestyle and junior Sean Wolthuis’ anchor leg in the 400 Freestyle Relay, both of which were fast enough to have gotten them into the finals of last year’s district meet.
Individual winners for Sweet Home girls were Makayla Nelson in the 200 Freestyle (2:01.1) and the 500 Freestyle (6:06.1), Milah Weld in the 50 Breaststroke (41.1) and Esther Gunselman in the 100 Individual Medley (1:09.9). The girls also won the 400 Freestyle Relay.
Individual winners for the boys were Wolthuis in the 100 IM (2:21.10) and the 50 Butterfly (1:05.6), Craig Hansen in the 50 Freestyle (28.1), and Adam Barber in the 100 Freestyle (1:02.6) and the 50 Backstroke (34.2). The boys also won the 200 Freestyle Relay.
Next up for the Huskies is the Philomath Relays on Thursday, Dec. 10.
Girls Results
(Top 3 and Sweet Home Finishers)
Team Scores: (1-tie) Sweet Home, Blanchet 128; (3) Stayton 37.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Blanchet 2:16.09; (2) Sweet Home “A” (Natasha Benson, Milah Weld, Ella Parker, Kendra Vorce) 2:22.67; (3) Stayton 2:35.90; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Hope Fears, Megan Oberg, Livvie Hindmarsh, Kristen Adams) 2:40.48.
200 Freestyle – (1) Makayla Nelson (SH) 2:10.18; (2) Ana Kosiewicz (B) 2:21:48; (3) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 2:47.36; (5) Megan Oberg (SH) 2:56.19.
100 Individual Medley – (1) Esther Gunselman (SH) 1:09.91; (2) Caitlyn Linton (Stay) 1:16.22; (3) Sarah Roy (B) 1:18.74; (4) Ella Parker (SH) 1:18.92; (6) Natasha Benson (SH) 1:22.48.
50 Freestyle – (1) Sadie Mak (Stay) 29.81; (2) Anna Duncan (B) 30.11; (3) Sara Helfrich (SH) 30.32; (4) Kendra Vorce (SH) 30.59; (5) Kristen Adams (SH) 30.59; (7) Tonya Cool (SH) 35.12; (8) Megan Oberg (SH) 37.12; (10) Carolann Ross (SH) 37.40; (12) Shelby Dinsfriend (SH) 38.84.
50 Butterfly – (1) Ana Kosiewicz (B) 32.45; (2) Ella Parker (SH) 35.78; (3) Milah Weld (SH) 37.42; (4) Natasha Benson (SH) 39.42.
100 Freestyle – (1) Kisa Fukuda (B) 1:02/89; (2) Sadia Mak (Stay) 1:04.19; (3) Sara Helfrich (SH) 1:07.36; (6) Kendra Vorce (SH) 1:14.06; (7) Hope Fears (SH) 1:19.76.
500 Freestyle – (1) Makayla Nelsons (SH) 6:06.01; (2) 2) Noelle Crocetti (B) 7:30.47; (3) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 7:46.10; (4) Carolann Ross (SH) 8:54.40.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Blanchet 1:56.04; (2) Sweet Home “A” (Sara Helfrich, Kendra Vorce, Esther Gunselman, Makayla Nelson) 1:56.64; (3) Stayton 2:14.03; (4) Blanchet “B” 2:16.38; (5) Sweet Home “B” (Hope Fears, Tonya Cook, Shelby Dinsfriend, Carolann Ross) 2:27.79; (6) Blanchet “C” 2:29.33.
50 Backstroke – (1) Kisa Fukuda (B) 32:23; (2) Esther Gunselman (SH) 32.41; (3) Caitlyn Linton (Stay) 34:28; (5) Kristen Adams (SH) 38.61; (7) Hope Fears (SH) 45.22.
50 Breaststroke – (1) Milah Weld (SH) 40.72; (2) Caroline Ditzler (B) 41.16; (3) Sarah Roy (B) 41.78.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Sara Helfrich, Ella Parker, Esther Gunselman, Makayla Nelson) 4:16.20; (2) Blanchet 4:34.47; (3) Blanchet “B” 5:05.19; (4) Sweet Home “B” 5:11.73 (Kristen Adams, Milah Weld, Carolann Ross, Livvie Hindmarsh) 5:11.73.
Boys Results
(Top 3 and Sweet Home Finishers)
Team Scores: (1) Sweet Home 142; (2) Blachet 120; (3) Junction City 20; (4) Stayton 17.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Blanchet 2:05.42; (2) Sweet Home (Adam Barber, Craig Hansen, Sean Wolthuis, Grant Jones) 2:06.23; (3) Sweet Home “B” “(Nick Tolman. Wesley Parker, Cameron Taber, Seth Wright) 2:26.80; (4) Blanchet “B” 2:34.19; (5) Junction City 2:34.82.
200 Freestyle – (1) Bradley Derosiers (B) 2:13.67; (2) Grant Jones (SH) 2:21.05; (3) Austin Crocetti (B) 2:31.15; (4) Wes Parker (SH) 2:36.17; (5) TJ Baham (SH) 2:50.54.
100 Individual Medley – (1) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 1:05.67; (2) Chris Linton (Stay) 1:08.95; (3) Chris Kelly (B) 1:13.96; (4) Bradley Wolthuis (SH) 1:15.89; (6) Dakota Seward (SH) 1:33.36.
50 Freestyle – (1) Craig Hansen (SH) 28.19; (2) Charlie Marik (B) 29.17; (3) Russell North (B) 29.48; (9) Riku Funabashi (SH) 34.47; (10) Luke Flierl (SH) 34.72; (12) Dakota Seward (SH) 34.89; (16) Noah Dinsfriend (SH) 35.58.
50 Butterfly – (1) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 28.99; (2) Paul Hegeny (B) 29.29; (3) Cameron Taber (SH) 34.51.
100 Freestyle – (1) Adam Barber (SH) 1:02.60; (2) Wesley Parker (SH) 1:07.40; (3) Chris Kelly (B) 1:08.25; (5) Seth Wright (SH) 1:09.43.
500 Freestyle – (1) Paul Hegeny (B) 5:43.27; (2) Grant Jones (SH) 5:52.59; (3) Chris Linton (Stay) 5:57.33; (5) Bradley Wolthuis (SH) 7:30.06; (7) TJ Baham (SH) 8:08.64.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Bradley Wolthuis, Seth Wright, Cameron Taber, Craig Hansen) 1:59.00; (2) Blanchet 2:04.79; (3) Sweet Home “B” (Wes Parker, Nick Tolman, Dakota Seward, TJ Baham) 2:10.31; (4) Junction City 2:10.31; (5) Blanchet “B” 2:19.04.
50 Backstroke – (1) Adam Barber (SH) 34.20; (2) Austin Hatton (JC) 39.80; (3) Nick Tolman (SH) 40.40; (4) Noah Dinsfriend (SH) 41.17.
50 Breaststroke – (1) Bradley Derosiers (B) 32.98; (2) Eric Seitz (Stay) 34.25; (3) William Yuen (B) 37.39; (4) Craig Hansen (SH) 37.89.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Blanchet 4:14.93; (2) Sweet Home (Bradley Wolthuis, Adam Barber, Grant Jones, Sean Wolthuis) 4:14.95; (3) Sweet Home “B” (Nick Tolman, Wesley Parker, Grant Jones, Cameron Taber) 4:38.68; (4) Blanchet 5:11.66; (5) Sweet Home “C” (Dakota Seward, Riku Funabashi, Noah Dinsfriend, Luke Flierl) 5:49.14.