Sweet Home’s swimmers are beginning to focus their training on the district meet and that was evident Friday, Jan. 30, as the Huskies beat Sisters and Stayton, posting 17 personal-best times and re-setting their girls 200 Freestyle Relay school record.
“With only one meet left before the district championships, I feel w’ere right where we should be to have a chance at a good district meet and sending a pretty good number on to state,” Coach Doug Peargin said.
The girls 200 Freestyle Relay team of Makayla Nelson, Esther Gunselman, Jessica Coats and Lauren Yon reset the school record they’d posted earlier in the season, clocking 1:46.01.
The girls won all three relays and the boys won the 200 Medley and 200 Freestyle relays.
Event winners for the girls were Mia Davis in the 200 Freestyle, Esther Gunselman in the 200 Individual Medley, Jessica Coats in the 100 Butterfly, Lucie Davis in the 100 Freestyle, Makayla Nelson in the 100 Backstroke and Elea Hewitt in the 100 Breaststroke.
Sophomore Sean Wolthuis was a double winner for Sweet Home’s boys, taking the 200 Freestyle and the 100 Backstroke, with other wins coming from Nathan Hager in the 50 Freestyle, Rowland Lupoli in the 100 Butterfly, Jaeger Howatt in the 100 Freestyle and Brandon Vasfaret in the 500 Freestyle.
This Thursday, Feb. 5, the Huskies will host North Marion in their final home meet of the season before the district meet, on Feb. 13-14. The dual will start at 4 p.m.
“This is our senior recognition day, where our seniors get introduced before the meet gets under way,” Peargin said.
“We’ll be meeting North Marion, which is the only team kin the district that we haven’t seen yet. This is our last chance to look at our team before going into district.”
To be guaranteed a trip to state, the Husky swimmers will have to finish in the top two spots at the district meet events.
“With 17 PR’s and a school record coming out of this meet, I’m pretty excited about the district championships,” Peargin said.
Sweet Home vs. Sisters, Stayton
Girls Top Three and Sweet Home Results
*Personal record
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 164; (2) Sisters 93; (3) Stayton 45.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Makayla Nelson, Lauiren Yon, Esther Gunselman, Lucie Davis) 1:59.73; (2) Sweet Home “B” (Mia Davis, Sara Helfrich, Elea Hewitt, Kendra Vorce) 2:15.76; (3) Stayton 2:17.47; (4) Sisters 2:25.15; (5) Sweet Home “C” (Natasha Benson, Maddee Hawken, Milah Weld, Megan Oberg) 2:32.00.
200 Freestyle – (1) Mia Davis (SH) 2:09.51; (2) Alyea Hill (Stay) 2:14.50; (3) Madelyn Zadow (Sis) 2:25.81; (4) Sara Helfrich (SH) 2:29.08; (7) Megan Oberg (SH) 2:43.41; (8) Sierrah Owen (SH) 2:51.99.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Esther Gunselman (SH) 2:30.42*; (2) Caitlyn Linton (Stay) 2:40.85; (3) Natasha Benson (SH) 2:52.84*; (4) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 3:07.95; (5) Kristen Adams (SH) 3:20.97.
50 Freestyle – (1) Mary Stewart (Sis) 25.65; (2) Lauren Yon (SH) 25.75; (3) Emily Christen (Sis) 27.35; (8) Kristen Adams (SH) 34.83; (10) Hope Fears (SH) 36.81; (12) Kendyl Stutzman (SH) 40.09; (13) Loka Eksa (SH) 50.64.
100 Butterfly – (1) Jessica Coats (SH) 1:01.96; (2) Elea Hewitt (SH) 1:13.89; (4) Milah Weld (SH) 1:32.57*.
100 Freestyle – (1) Lucie Davis (SH) 56.40; (2) Mary Stewart (Sis) 56.62; (3) Aleya Hill (Stay) 1:01.59; (5) Kendra Vorce (SH) 1:08.84*; (7) Megan Oberg (SH) 1:15.42; (9) Kendyl Stutzman (SH) 1:40.09.
500 Freestyle – (1) Natasha Benson (SH) 6:48.66*; (2) Anna Bartlett (Sis) 6:49.04; (3) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 6:59.03; (4) Sierrah Owen (SH) 7:50.20/*; (5) Carol Ann Ross (SH) 9:07.95*.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Makayla Nelson, Esther Gunselman, Jessica Coats, Lauren Yon) 1:46.01 – School Record; (2) Sisters 1:50.25; (3) Sisters “B” 2:06.04; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Kristen Adams, Kendra Vorce, Milah Weld, Maddee Hawken) 2:09.14; (5) Stayton 2:12.96; (6) Sweet Home “C” (Carol Ann Ross, Hope Fears, Kendyl Stutzman, Sierrah Owen) 2:34.51.
100 Backstroke – (1) Makayla Nelson (SH) 1:05.12; (2) Caitlyn Kinton (Stay) 1:11.30; (3) Madelyn Zadow (Sis) 1:13.27; (7) Hope Fears (SH) 1:35.88.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Elea Hewitt (SH) 1:20.07; (2) Maddee Hawken (SH) 1:26.48*; (3) Maddi Boettner (Sis) 1:27.51.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Mia Davis, Jessica Coats, Elea Hewitt, Lucie Davis) 4:04.56; (2) Sisters 4:17.79. (3) Stayton 4:24.61; (4) Sweet Home “C” (Milah Weld, Kristen Adams, Sierrah Owen, Megan Oberg) 5:11.90; (5) Sweet Home “D” (Carol Ann Ross, Hope Fears, Kendyl Stutzman, Loka Eksa) 6:50.27.
Boys Top Three and Sweet Home Results
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 159; (2) Sisters 40; (3) Stayton 10.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Sean Wolthuis, Rawlins Lupoli, Brandon Vasfaret, Tanner Goble) 1:55.24.
200 Freestyle – (1) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 2:09.23; (2) Chris Linton (Stay) 2:09.64; (3) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 2:13.47**; (4) Nathan Hager (SH) 2:17.91**; (5) Adam Barber (SH) 2:28.44 (**swam race as 200 IM).
50 Freestyle – (1) Nathan Hager (SH) 24.59; (2) Jaeger Howatt (SH) 24.79; (3) Rawlins Lupoli (SH) 25.03; (4) Tanner Goble (SH) 26.51; (5) Ryan Yon (SH) 28.11; (6) Wesley Parker (SH) 29.29*.
100 Butterfly – (1) Rowland Lupoli (SH) 1:01.07*; (2) Jonathan Luz (Sis) 1:05.52; (3) Shawn Horton (Sis) 1:10.16; (4) Jun Kaneyama (SH) 1:23.00*.
100 Freestyle – (1) Jaeger Howatt (SH) 54.34; (2) Rawlins Lupoli (SH) 54.60; (3) Craig Hansen (SH) 1:03.41*; (5) Wesley Parker (SH) 1:10.18*.
500 Freestyle – (1) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 5:28.91; (2) Chris Linton (Stayton) 5:51.81; (3) Grant Jones (SH) 6:10.04*; (5) Adam Barber (SH) 6:53.62*.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Rawlins Lupoli, Rowland Lupoli, Jaeger Howatt, Nathan Hager) 1:38.65; (2) Sisters 1:52.30; (3) Sweet Home “B” (Jun Kaneyama, Tanner Goble, Adam Barber, Grant Jones) 1:54.79; (4) Sweet Home “C” (Craig Hansen, Nick Tolman, Wesley Parker, Jacob Harden) 2:03.01.
100 Backstroke – (1) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 1:06.95*; (2) Rowland Lupoli (SH) 1:07.15; (3) Nick Tolman (SH) 1:37.65*.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Jonathan Luz (Sis) 1:18.10; (2) Ryan Yon (SH) 1:21.76; (3) Grant Jones (SH) 1:22.76; (4) Jun Kaneyama (SH) 1:29.31.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sisters 4:40.23; (2) Sweet Home (Tanner Goble, Adam Barber, Sean Wolthuis, Ryan Yon) 4:07.30.