Lacking all of its most experienced performers in its opening home meet, against Cascade Friday, the Sweet Home boys swim team still came out ahead in the Huskies’ first scoring meet of the season, winning 88-53.
“Cascade is always a pretty good team – but to see us get off to a start like we did was sort of a surprise to me,” said Coach Doug Peargin, who has coached the Huskies for 35 years.
“We had 14 boys in the meet and all 14 had a PR in at least one event,” he said. “We had a few swims from our new swimmers that were fast enough that they would have placed in last year’s district meet.”
The girls’ shortage of swimmers took its toll as Cascade outswam Sweet Home 94-58.
“On the girls side, we are short on depth,” Peargin said. “Our girls won five out of 11 races but we were outpointed mostly because of Cascade’s depth.”
That doesn’t mean the Huskies didn’t swim well – eight of the 10 Sweet Home girls had a PR in at least one event, he said.
It’s been double days for Sweet Home’s swimmers since mid-November and the Huskies are tired, he said, but “this type of conditioning plays a big part of our success.”
“I was pleased with the way they competed,” Peargin said, noting that all 24 swimmers for Sweet Home scored points for the team.
Individual event winners for the boys were freshman Cory Martin in the 200 IM and the 500 freestyle, Rob Callagan in the 200 freestyle, and Holden Greene in the 100 backstroke. For the girls, Sami Webb won the 100 butterfly and the 200 IM, Laura Gourley took the 100 backstroke and Niccole Simmonds won the 500 freestyle.
Next up for the Huskies is another home meet on Thursday at 4 p.m.
Boys Results
Sweet Home 88, Cascade 53
200 Medley Relay – (1) Cascade 2:01.13; (2) Sweet Home “A” (Byron Sanders, David Buck, Cory Martin, Alex Stupin) DQ; (3) Sweet Home “B” (Kyle Lewis, Derek Jaques, Brandon Courteau, Justin Wales) DQ.
200 Freestyle – (1) Rob Callagan (SH) 2:08; (2) Byron Sanders (SH) 2:25; (3) Selander (C) 2:27; (4) Brandon Courteau (SH) 2:41.
200 Individual Medley – (1) Cory Martin (SH) 2:45; (2) Alex Stupin (SH) 2:49; (3) Ishii (C) DQ; (4) Bryce Roberts (SH) DQ.
50 Freestyle – (1) Selander (C) 25.4; (2) Dakotah Keys (SH) 25.9; (3) Holden Greene (SH) 26.7; (4) Derek Jaques (SH) 29.l8; (5) Phelps (C) 29.9; (6) Davidson (C) 31.2.
100 Butterfly – (1) Bishop (C) 1:08.
100 Freestyle – (1) Selander (C) 56.0; (2) Rob Callagan (SH) 56.2; (3) Dakotah Keys (SH) 1:05; (4) David Buck (SH) 1:08; (5) Phelps (C) 1:11; (6) Donovan Rockstead (SH) 1:13.
500 Freestyle – (1) Cory Martin (SH) 6:33; (2) Alex Stupin (SH) 6:39; (3) Selander (C) 7:06.
200 Freestyle Relay – (1) Sweet Home “A” (Dakotah Keys, Byron Sanders, Holden Greene, Rob Callagan) 1:46; (2) Cascade “A” 1:47; (3) Sweet Home “B” (David Buck, Bryce Roberts, Derek Jaques, Brandon Courteau) 2:20; (4) Cascade “B” 2:25; (5) Sweet Home “C” (Kyle Lewis, Justin Wales, Donovan Rockstead, Jake Johnson) 2:26.
100 Backstroke – (1) Holden Greene (SH) 1:17; (2) Bryce Roberts (SH) 1:22; (3) Kyle Lewis (SH) 1:31; (4) Wilson (C) 1:48; (5) Swindle (C) 2:05.
100 Breaststroke – (1) Bishop (C) 1:14; (2) Ishii (C) 1:20; (3) David Buck (SH) 1:24; (5) Jeschke (C) 1:41; (5) Derek Jaques (SH) DQ.
400 Freestyle Relay