Sweet Home ‘s girls won a five-way meet Thursday, Dec. 28, featuring competition the Huskies don’t see regularly outside of the state meet – Newport, Seaside, Taft and Toledo.
The boys were second, with 259 points behind host Newport (459), and ahead of Taft (241), Seaside (73) and Toledo (43).
Sweet Home’s girls scored 424 points, ahead of Newport (325), Seaside (181), Taft (180) and Toledo (80).
Coach Doug Peargin said the experience of Newport’s new $9 million aquatic center, with an eight-lane pool, made the trip worth it for his young swimmers. The facility, completed a year ago, features an electric starting and timing system in which one end wall of the pool is a read-out clock, along with printouts of every swimmer’s and team’s performances at the end of the meet.
“Our pool equipment is so old that all of the above is not only done by volunteer parents, but also manually,” Peargin said. “Over half of our team had never been in an environment quite this nice and they were really excited about it.”
The Huskies were actually “pretty sick” with colds, going into the meet, he said, “but they still competed pretty well, considering.”
Newport, he said, has “started to become very competitive since they put in their new pool, but our girls, even being sick, still got the job done.”
Newport’s boys are ranked No. 1 in the 4A-3A-2A-1A Division.
“We knew how tough Newport was going to be but we wanted to see how we would stack up against a team with that much talent,” Peargin said. “After we graduated half of our entire team last year, most of the teams aren’t looking at us near as hard as they did last year. I still consider us a trophy team in district and state.”
He said Sweet Home, which is halfway through its season, will really start concentrating on district and state.
Next up for the Huskies is the Lebanon Invitational at noon Saturday, Jan. 6. It will feature the No. 1-ranked North Bend girls, along with Bend, Lebanon and South Albany.
“We can see where we stack up at this point against (North Bend) and going against these larger schools will give our boys a chance to see how we stack up there,” Peargin said.
Newport Invitational
Sweet Home Girls Scorers
200 Medley Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” Isabel Rodriguez, Lauren Yon, Mia Davis, Ella Parker) 1:06.1; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Torree Hawken, Milah Weld, Lizz Adams, Samantha Coats) 2:24.7.
200 Freestyle – (1) Megan Hager 1:59.8; (3) Mia Davis 2:06.5; (7) Brook Womack 2:34.6; (8) Torree Hawken 2:27.7.
200 Individual Medley – (2) Ella Parker 2:47.7; (4) Milah Weld 3:00.9; (5) Samantha Coats 3:02.6.
50 Freestyle – (1) Lauren Yon 26.2; (2) Moira Curtis 29.5; (4) Lizz Adams 32.1.
100 Butterfly – (1) Mia Davis 1:04.6; (5) Isabel Rodriguez 1:26.9.
50 Butterfly (JV) – (3) Maren Weld 38.5.
100 Freestyle – (1) Magan Hager 55.0; (3) Moira Curtis 1:04.7; (6) Samantha Coats 1:09.6; (7) Hikari Kawai 1:14.0.
500 Freestyle – (5) Brook Womack 7:04.1.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Moira Curtis, Megan Hager, Sarah Hewitt, Lauren Yon) 1:51.1; (2) Sweet Home “B” (Milah Weld, Torree Hawken, Ella Parker, Samantha Coats) 2:04.7.
100 Backstroke – (3) Isabel Rodriguez 1:18.7; (4) Torree Hawken 1:21.6; (7) Maren Weld 1:32.9.
50 Backstroke (JV) – (2) Olivia Martineau 44.1; (3) Hikari Kawai 44.7; (4) Laruen Taber 45.1.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Lauren Yon 1:10.7; (4) Lizz Adams 1:31.7; (5) Milah Weld 1:33.2.
50 Breaststroke (JV) – (3) Lauren Taber 50.9.
400 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Moira Curtis, Mia Davis, Sarah Hewitt, Megan Hager) 4:04.5; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Brook Womack, Isabel Rodriguez, Hikari Kawai, Lizz Adams) 4:50.9; (8) Sweet Home “C” (Olivia Martineau, Maren Weld, Annaleea Shuttlesworth, Lauren Taber) 5:53.5.
Sweet Home Boys Scorers
200 Medley Relay – (2) Sweet Home “A” (Bradley Wolthuis, Rawlins Lupoli, Rowland Lupoli, Seth Wright) 1:49.8.
200 Freestyle – (3) Seth Wright 2:13.2; (4) Dakota Seward 2:13.3.
200 Individual Medley – (3) Cameron Taber 2:28.5.
50 Freestyle – (1) Rowland Lupoli 23.4; (4) Stewart Curtis 24.4.
100 Butterfly – (3) Bradley Wolthuis 1:04.7.
100 Freestyle – (2) Stewart Curtis 54.5; (3) Seth Wright 57.9.
500 Freestyle – (4) Cameron Taber 5:52.2; (6) Dakota Seward 5:56.7.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Bradley Wolthuis, Rawlins Lupoli, Stewart Curtis, Rowland Lupoli) 1:36.7; (4) Sweet Home “B” (Zech Brown, Cameron Taber, Dakota Seward, Noah Dinsfriend) 4:50.9; (8) Sweet Home “C” (Carlos Galvez, Hayden Deatherage, Hunter Calderwood, Evan Davis) 5:53.3.
100 Backstroke – No Sweet Home competitors.
50 Backstroke (JV) – (1) Hayden Deatherage 40.3; (2) Carlos Galvez 42.1; (3) Zech Brown 44.0; (5) Evan Davis 51.0.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Rawlins Lupoli 1:06.4.
400 Freestyle Relay – (2) Sweet Home “A” (Bradley Wolthuis, Rawlins Lupoli, Stewart Curtis, Rowland Lupoli) 3:40.9; (*5) Sweet Home “B” (Zech Brown, Cameron Taber, Dakota Seward, Noah Dinsfriend) 4:08.5; (7) Sweet Home “C” (Carlos Galvez, Hunter Calderwood, Hayden Deatherage, Evan Davis) 5:14.8.