Sweet Home’s swim teams spent the last two weeks cranking out yardage in the pool and it showed Thursday, Dec. 28, when both the boys and the girls came home with championships at the Stayton Invitational.
The meet is held in a metric pool instead of the more typical 25-yard facilities the Huskies usually swim in, which gave them a chance to swim a little further in their races, said Coach Doug Peargin.
“By going meters this time of the year, we are really ready when we get back into our regular schedule and start going to meets that have yards,” said Peargin, who noted that 100 meters is about 110 yards.
The Sweet Home boys got first-place finishes in six of the seven individual events and all three relays to outscore second-place Junction City 165-119. LaSalle was third with 101 points, followed by Stayton (50) and Cascade (36).
The only double winner of the day was senior Cole Stumbaugh, who took first in the 50 freestyle (27.1) and the 100 free (1:00.4).
In the girls competitions, the Huskies won five individual events and one relay to score 144 points. LaSalle was second (111), just ahead of Junction City (110), with Cascade (103) and Stayton (47) finishing fourth and fifth.
The coach said the Huskies have been doing daily doubles for most of the holiday break and some of them will have swum between 60,000 and 72,000 yards during Christmas.
He said his team is “looking forward to skipping a practice and having a meet instead.”
Sweet Home will be back in action Saturday, Jan. 6, at the Junction City Invitational.
Stayton Invitational
Sweet Home Results
Boys
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home A (Jayce Calhoon, Michael Simmons, Brinden Sanders, Kieran Schaefer) 2:06.6; (3) Sweet Home B (David Worthen, Peter VanDerlip, Jon Lemar, Shawn Adams) 2:27.5.
200 Free – (1) Lemar 2:22.0; (4) Worthen 2:41.6.
200 IM – (2) Schaefer 2:36.0; (6) VanDerlip 3:10.5.
50 Free – Cole Stumbaugh 27.1.
100 Butterfly – (1) Brinden Sanders 1:11.5.
100 Free – (1) Cole Stumbaugh 1:00.4.
400 Free – (1) Simmons 4:59.3; (2) Lemar 5:03.5.
200 Free Relay – (1) Sweet Home A (Sanders, Calhoon, Stumbaugh, Schaefer) 1:49.8.
100 Back – (1) Calhoon (1:04.2); (6) Worthen 1:32.6.
100 Breast – (2) Simmons 1:24.1.
400 Free Relay – (1) Sweet Home A (Sanders, Calhoon, Stumbaugh, Schaefer 4:04.0; (3) Sweet Home B (Lemar, Adams, Worthen, Simmons) 4:32.7.
Girls
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home A (Sarah Rosa, Justine Calhoon, Nichole Martin, Alyshia Benzo) 2:24.00; (5) Sweet Home B (Norajean Lemar, Laura Gourley, Staci Grove, Faith Helfrich) 2:41.1.
200 Free – (2) Jessica Trautwein 2:33.4.
200 IM – (1) Calhoon 2:54.3.
50 Free – (2) Rosa 31.5.
100 Butterfly – (1) Rosa 1:19.3; (2) Martin 1:21.2.
100 Free – (1) Trautwein 1:08.4.
400 Free – (3) Gourley 5:50.4.
200 Free Relay – (2) Sweet Home A (Trautwein, Martin, Benzo, Rosa) 2:07.7.
100 Back – (1) Benzo 1:21.4.
100 Breast – (1) Calhoon 1:26.9.
400 Free Relay – (2) Sweet Home A (Trautwein, Martin, Benzo, Calhoon) 4:46.2; (5) Sweet Home B (Grove, Tiffany Traeger, Helfrich, Gourley) 5:29.6.