Sweet Home Coach Doug Peargin had a healthy respect for the visitors at his team’s Sweet Home Invitational on Thursday, Dec. 18.
With both Madras and Philomath, both with placewinners at last year’s state meet, in the field, “I was a little worried,” he admitted.
Turned out there was nothing to be concerned about, as ta strong, deep Huskies demolished the competition by large scoring margins.
Sweet Home won the girls meet by a nearly 100-point margin and the boys won by some 60 points, both over the White Buffaloes of Madras, which is new to the region that the Huskies compete in.
The Huskies won 22 of 20 events, stacking two or three swimmers in the top five spots in many races.
It was the home debut for several freshmen with club swimming experience, including Mia Davis and Rawlins Lupoli, who won two races each, and Lauren Yon, who won one.
“We had so many big swims that I’m not even going to mention names,” Peargin said. “We’re getting tougher from top to bottom. Even our new swimmers are coming in and fighting for points during the meets.”
The swims are fast, too, he said.
“In 19 of the 22 events the winning time was fast enough that it would have qualified for last year’s state meet.”
The Huskies have been battling various bugs and Peargin said the Christmas break should allow them to get healthier, though their workouts will continue.
Sweet Home’s next outing is at the Stayton Invitiational on Jan. 2.
“If these kids want to really get after it for the rest of the season, we could be a stronger team than last year in both the boys and girls,” Peargin said. “I see potential for some big-time swims in the district and state meets.”
Sweet Home Invitational
Girls Results (Individual Top 3 and Sweet Home Finishers)
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 149; (2) Madras 51; (3) Philomath 40; (4) Stayton 36; (5) Corbett 32.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Makayla Nelson, Lauren Yon, Elea Hewitt, Esther Gunselman) 1:59.97; (2) Philomath 2:12.22; (3) Madras 2:12.77l (4) Stayton 2:20.80; (5) Corbett 2:21.67; (6) Sweet Home “B” (Natasha Benson, Milah Weld, Sierrah Owen, Megan Oberg) 2:29.91.
200 Freestyle – (1) Mia Davis 2:09.97; (2) Aleya Hill (Stay) 2:12.73; (3) Natasha Benson (SH) 2:40.79; (4) Maddee Hawken (SH) 2:42.65.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Lucie Davis (SH) 2:19.37; (2) Sophia Gemelas (Madras) 2:20.83; (3) Dana Erickson (Corbett) 2:33.78; (6) Kristen Adams (SH) 3:11.91; (7) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 3:17.55.
50 Freestyle – (1) Lauren Yon (SH) 25.51; (2) Jessica Coates (SH) 26.59; (3) Kendra Sheeder (Phil) 27.02; (16) Milah Weld (SH) 34.46; (17) Megan Oberg (SH) 34.70; (29) Carolann Ross (SH) 38.83; (38) Kendyl Stutzman (SH) 44.78; (41) Loka Eksa (SH) 56.05.
100 Butterfly – (1) Jessica Coates (SH) 1:01.54; (2) Sophia Gemelas (Madras) 1:02.57; (3) Esther Gunselman (SH) 1:09.83; (4) Elea Hewitt (SH) 1:14.19.
100 Freestyle – (1) Lauren Yon (SH) 56.07; (2) Makayla Nelson (SH) 57.07; (3) Sadie Mak (Stayton) 1:03.02; (9) Megan Oberg (SH) 1:17.63.
500 Freestyle – (1) Mia Davis (SH) 5:43.05; (2) Kady Halen (Corbett) 6:06.95; (3) Kendra Sheeder (Phil) 6:24.81; (4) Livvie Hindmarsh (SH) 7:20.80.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Makayla Nelson, Lauren Yon, Jessica Coates, Lucie Davis) 1:47.45; (2) Madras 1:55.46; (3) Sweet Home “B” (1) Mia Davis, Maddee Hawken, Elea Hewitt, Esther Gunselman) 1:59.09; (4) Corbett 2:00.83; (5) Philomath ”B” 2:07.54; (6) Stayton 2:09.79; (7) Sweet Home “C” (Kristen Adams, Milah Weld, Livvie Hindmarsh, Megan Oberg) 2:14.04; (8) Philomath “C” 2:23.33; (9) Madras “B” 2: 24.03; (10) Sweet Home “C” (Carolann Ross, Sierrah Owen, Kendyl Stutzman, Hope Fears) 2:29.83; (11) Philomath “D” 2:32.34; (12) Corbett “B” 2:50.06; Philomath “A” DQ.
100 Backstroke – (1) Makayla Nelson (SH) 1:04.95; (2) Lucie Davis (SH) 1:09.46; (3) Caitlyn Linton (Stay) 1:10.63; (6) Kristen Adams (SH) 1:26.53.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Dana Erickson (Corbett) 1:18.78; (2) Elea Hewitt (SH) 1:22.78; (3) Mikayla Weinke (Madras) 1:29.69; (5) Maddee Hawken (SH) 1:30.97; (6) Milah Weld (SH) 1:32.45.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (1) Mia Davis, Esther Gunselman, Jessica Coates, Lucie Davis) 4:04.80; (2) Stayton 4:22.32; (3) Philomath “A” 4:48.03; (4) Sweet Home “B” m(Natasha Benson, Livvie Hindmarsh, Kristen Adams, Maddee Hawken) 5:00.24; (5) Madras 5:30.42; (6) Philomath “B” 5:”45.48; )(7) Sweet Home “C” (Carolann Ross, Hope Fears, Sierrah Owen, Kendyl Stutzman) 5:54.27.
Boys Results
Team Scores – (1) Sweet Home 139; (2) Madras 85; (3) Philomath 55; (4) Corbett 12; (5) Stayton 8.
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Brandon Vasfaret, Rawlins Lupoli, Nathan Hager, Jaeger Howatt) 1:48.57; (2) Philomath “A” 1:52.89; (3) Madras “A” 1:54.87; (4) Madras “B” 2:03.74; (5) Sweet Home “B” (Ryan Yon, Jun Kaneyama, Sean Wolthuis, Tanner Goble) 2:09.73; (6) Corbett 2:11.78; (7) Philomath “B” 2:15.11.
200 Freestyle – (1) Nathan Hager (SH) 2:00.08; (2) Sean Wolthuis 2:07.73; (3) Clay Youker (Phil) 2:08.01; (7) Adam Barber (SH) 2:28.13.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Rawlins Lupoli (SH) 2:13.59; (2) Rowland Lupoli (SH) 2:16.35; (3) Brady Tucker (Madras) 2:16.63; (5) Grant Jones (SH) 2:50.61.
50 Freestyle – (1) Jaeger Howatt (SH) 24.00; (2) Clay Youker (Phil) 25.00; (3) Bryce Williams (Madras) 25.43; (4) Tanner Goble (SH) 26.77; (7) Ryan Yon (SH) 27.34; (15) Craig Hansen (SH) 32.12; (19) Wesley Parker (SH) 33.99; (20) Nick Tolman (SH) 34.56; (21) Jacob Harden (SH) 35.20.
100 Butterfly – (1) Jaeger Howatt (SH) 1:06.15; (2) Vance Scheirling (Madras) 1:10.72; (3) Seth Reynolds (Corbett) 1:14.47.
100 Freestyle – (1) Patrick Williamson (Phil) 51.12; (2) Nathan Hager (SH) 54.21; (3) Bryce Williams (Madras) 55.73; (6) Rowland Lupoli (SH) 57.26; (7) Tanner Goble (SH) 1:06.07.
500 Freestyle – (1) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 5:33.48; (2) Sean Wolthuis (SH) 5:59.35; (3) Vance Scheirling (Madras) 6:28.76; (5) Grant Jones (SH) 6:43.06.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Rowland Lupoli, Brandon Vasfaret, Nathan Hager, Jaeger Howatt) 1:37.79; (2) Philomath “A” 1:40.90; (3) Madras “A” 1:42.65; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Adam Barber, Grant Jones, Jun Kaneyama, Ryan Yon) 1:52.42; (5) Madras 1:45.60; (6) Philomath “B” 1:58.25.
100 Backstroke – (1) Brandon Vasfaret (SH) 1:05.73; (2) Chris Linton (Stay) 1:13.64; (3) Ryan Goss (Madras) 1:14.67.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Rawlins Lupoli (SH) 1:06.68; (2) Garret Webb (Madras) 1:09.62; (3) Keaton Hartman (Madras) 1:15.69; (7) Jun Kaneyama (SH) 1:30.25; (9) Craig Hansen (SH) 1:33.96.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Rowland Lupoli, Sean Wolthuis, Ryan Yon, Rawlins Lupoli) 3:54.09; (2) Philomath “A” 3:57.90; (3) Madras 4:19.29; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Adam Barber, Tanner Goble, Jun Kaneyama, Grant Jones) 4:24.80; (5) Sweet Home “C” (Jacob Harden, Craig Hansen, Wesley Parker, Nick Tolman) 5:38.59.