Swimming wins 10 occasions, falls to the Loggers in Tacoma

TACOMA, Wash. — Linfield males’s and girls’s swimming opened the weekend street journey on Friday night towards the Puget Sound Loggers, the place each groups got here up quick towards the hosts. Linfield males fell 134-69, whereas the ladies fell 128-76.
 
To kick off the meet, the staff of Samuel Postlewait, Ivan Tontchev, Rocco Velie, and Carson Washburn earned a three-second win within the 400-yard medley relay, due to Washburn anchoring the ultimate stretch. Kai Laitinen saved the momentum going for the Wildcats, dominating the boys’s 1000-yard freestyle, posting a time of 10:26.6, over 20-seconds quicker than the very best Logger. Laitinen’s time places him fourth within the convention for the occasion. 
 
Kirsti Keppo bought the ladies’s squad within the win column, and he or she claimed the 1000-yard free title as properly with a six-second victory; additionally marking the second-fastest time within the NWC this season. The senior went back-to-back, additionally successful the 200-yard freestyle race, simply beating the quickest Puget Sound swimmer by three-tenths of a second. The Loggers males’s staff bought on a roll, though Washburn earned a top-three end within the 50-yard dash race. 
 
Caley Haydu swam as shut of a race because it will get within the girls’s 50-yard freestyle, posting a 25.66, simply 0.01 seconds forward of the quickest Logger; her time locations her fifth within the convention. Velie gave the ‘Cats one other win within the 200-yard IM, with a 2.5-second edge on Puget Sound, posting the third-best time within the convention. Postlewait’s subsequent look got here within the 100-yard freestyle, cruising to a win, forward of 4 different UPS athletes. Haydu defended her freestyle dash within the 100-yard, additionally narrowly successful the occasion by six-hundredths of a second, and incomes yet one more high convention mark.
 
Sarah Arpag earned a top-three end within the girls’s 200-yard backstroke, taking second with a time of two:19.5. Velie and Keppo swept the 500-yard freestyle titles, every successful by over a five-second margin. Puget Sound was in a position to win every of the ultimate 4 occasions, sufficient to carry onto their lead, and hand each Linfield groups their first losses of the season. 
 
Although the Wildcats gained 10 of twenty-two occasions within the meet, the Loggers depth offered them the sting within the staff scoring. Linfield girls’s swimming took their first loss, 128-76, whereas the boys’s staff fell 134-69 within the weekend opener. 
 
The Wildcats are again in motion tomorrow morning at Pacific Lutheran, taking up the Lutes within the weekend finale at 11 a.m.
 
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