Swimmers Fall to Margaretta

The boys and girls swim teams pulled in six wins between them, but fell to Margaretta last week.

For the girls, the 200 medley relay team that included Emily Ineson, Alli Slocum, Julia Martello and Courtney Hart won the event (2:10.46), while Martello added a win in the 100 fly (1:07.09) and a second place in the 100 back (1:14.20).  Slocum won the 100 breast (1:18.18) and took second in the 200 IM (2:32.18) and Hart took a second in the 50 free (28:65) and third in the 100 free (1:05.38).  Kayla Hamilton took second in the 100 fly (1:25.52) and joined Martello, Slocum and Hart to placed second in the 200 free relay (1:55.02).  Sammy Hebert took a pair of third place finishes in the 100 back (1:19.93) and as part of the 400 free relay team (4:48.72) that also included Megan Maley, Roosa Mannonen and Morgan Mize.

The boys 200  medley relay team of Stephen Tomczyk, Matt Buckingham, Kevin Tomczyk and Ryan Brownell won the event (1:53.98), while the team of Josh Battiste, Brennen Cockrell, Jon Turner and Ikki Tanaka placed third (2:14.41).  Matt Buckingham won the 100 breast (1:10.64) and took third in the 200 IM (2:30.41).  Second place finishes were won by K. Tomczyk in both  the 200 free (2:07.11) and the 500 free(5:36.24), and by Turner in the 200 IM (2:27.09) and 100 fly (1:06.58).  The 200 free relay team of Tomczyk, Tomczyk, Tanaka and Brownell also won second (1:40.47), as did the 400 free team of Turner, Battiste, Buckingham and Cockrell (4:09.10).  Cockrell added a third in the 100 breast (1:15.13).

Coach Adam Warner said of his Tiger swimmers, “We put up some very impressive times in the middle of our season.  We are at the peak of our practicing and for the kids to come off a couple hard practices in a row and swim some good times was very good to see.”