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In their last
meet before District Championships February 10 and 11 in Albany, a
reduced group of Outlaw swimmers got a taste of the strength and
depth that Cascade, North Marion, Stayton and Mollala have to
offer. The Cascade Cougars won 10 of 22 events with North Marion
achieving the winning times for six races. The rest of the teams
split the remaining competitions.
 Brittany
Baldessari was again victorious
in the 100 meter backstroke and touched the wall behind North
Marion’s Jessica Garinger in the 100 meter freestyle for second
place. Baldessari
also led the medley relay “A” in a personal record split of 30.4
seconds in the backstroke, followed by
Allie Opsahl’s
PR of 39.1 in the breaststroke,
Jessie Swaner in the butterfly
and Cammile Pederson
in the freestyle for a third place finish. Their converted yard
time of 2:17.6 is a season best in this event and put the Outlaws
behind Cascade and North Marion.
Of the 12 entered
medley relays, the Outlaws’ second group earned a respectable 8th
place overall, with freshman
Cammie Patterson swimming the
butterfly leg in a stunning 37.6 seconds.
Aubyn Geser’s
first ever breaststroke segment showed
great promise and Tori Carlson
and Aria Garau
completed the foursome.
The same group of
girls competed again in the 200 meter freestyle relay. The “A”
team of lady Outlaws left eleven other relay teams behind and
clocked a converted yard time of 2:01.5 for second place overall.
The “B” team finished in seventh place with a combined time of
2:13.
On the boys’ side,
freshman backstroker Drew Herron
led the only medley relay with
 a
personal best of 40.4 seconds, followed by
Justin Dean’s
PR in the breast. Clifton Williams
swam a very good butterfly stretch and freshman
Dylan Stuwe
anchored. Their time of 2:34.5 put them in fifth place.
In different order
the same swimmers raced the 200 meter freestyle “A” relay to a
fifth place, followed by Joe
Mantecon,
Luke Glick,
Jake Scott
and Eric Brown.
Everyone in the second group pulled off a personal best in their
50 meter sprints.
“The biggest
improvement of the meet was undoubtedly freshman
Luke Glick’s 200 meter freestyle
swim”, coach Hedemark. Having swum that distance only once
before, Glick
dropped almost 18 seconds from his previous time and decided to
follow in his sister Rikki’s
footsteps and make that event his
specialty.
Other top ten
results include Jessie Swaner’s
fourth in the breaststroke and
among 19 entries, she placed
fifth place in the 100 meter freestyle sprint.
Swaner
executed each turn with precision and improved last year’s
freestyle time by almost five seconds.
Camille
Pedersen added two eighth place
finishes in the 50 and 100 meter freestyle and
Drew Herron
(8th) and Eric Brown
(7th) raced the 100 meter backstroke in the same heat.
“The strokes are looking very good, the turns still need quite a
bit of work”, coach Hedemark.
Allie
Opsahl and
Justin Dean
were ninth in the breaststroke. |
