Swimming splits dwelling twin in opposition to the Whitman Blues

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — Linfield males’s and girls’s swimming closed out the weekend dwelling stand on Saturday morning, splitting the Saturday twin with the ladies’s staff defeating the Blues, 108-94, and the lads’s staff falling 107-98.
 
The males’s 400 yard medley relay kicked factor off on Saturday, with the Linfield staff of Sam Postlewait, Jack Sappington, Rocco Velie and Nathan Wilson incomes the highest spot with a time of three:38.25, almost eight seconds quicker than the Blues. In the ladies’s 400 medley relay, the staff of Karmen Kendoll, Ruby Bentz, Talia Patterson and Rebecca Colburn completed second to Whitman with a time of 4:47.44.
 
In the 1000 yard freestyle, Kai Laitinen stored the momentum going, securing a seven-second victory within the race, carding a ten:28.32. Kirsti Keppo did the identical to seal 4 wins for Linfield on the first intermission, profitable the ladies’s 1000 free with ease, carding an 11:28.8. Chloe Lazaraton added extra factors for the staff, as she secured second place within the race, with an 11:46.24.
 
Rocco Velie gained the third males’s occasion in a row, posting a 1:47.71 within the 200 yard freestyle. Keppo got here up simply quick within the ladies’s 200 free, falling by one second. Sam Postlewait’s win within the fast 50 yard freestyle was the ‘Cats fourth win of the day, as he put up a 22.48, adopted by Ivan Tontchev who completed second with a 22.54. Caley Haydu additionally took dwelling the quickest time within the ladies’s 50 freestyle, with a 25.50, with Ella Quijano taking third within the occasion as effectively.
 
Prior to the second intermission, the lads’s streak of wins got here to an finish when Jack Sappington completed second within the males’s 200 yard IM. Kira Etheredge gained the ladies’s warmth with a 2:17.92, in the meantime Ellie Schmidt took third within the occasion.
 
Whitman battled again, taking the highest two spots in every of the 200 yard butterfly heats, and likewise profitable the lads’s 100 yard freestyle Caley Haydu claimed the ladies’s 100 free to cease the Blues comeback for a second, carding a 57.06 whereas Annikka Fetro completed third within the occasion.
 
Postlewait returned to the pool to win the 200 yard backstroke over a pair of Blues with a 1:59.33. Logan Mendez completed second within the males’s 500 yard freestyle as effectively. Keppo obtained again within the winners circle simply earlier than the ultimate intermission profitable the five hundred yard free with a 5:26.74 due to some quick closing splits. 
 
Tontchev grabbed one other win for the ‘Cats within the 200 yard breaststroke, carding a 2:18.48 whereas Laitinen additionally completed third. Etheredge additionally helped Linfield within the tema’s rating, taking first within the ladies’s 200 breaststroke with a 2:32.33, adopted shut by Ruby Bentz who took third.
 
In the ultimate two relays of the early afternoon, the lads’s 400 yard freestyle relay was shut all through, with the ‘Cats staff of Velie, Sappington, Wilson and Carson Washburn buying and selling locations with the Blues prime squad. Linfield got here up one-second quick, taking second and third within the closing males’s occasion of the day. Haydu, Lazaraton, Fetro, and Etheredge led the quickest Linfield ladies’s staff within the closing occasion, grabbing an early lead on the Blues. The ‘Cats would maintain the lead from wire to wire, profitable by ten seconds with a time of three:54.95. 
 
The ladies’s staff gained seven of 11 occasions, taking down the Blues, 108-94. Although the lads’s squad gained six of 11 occasions on Saturday, they got here up quick, 107-98.
 

The ‘Cats host senior night time subsequent Friday within the closing dwelling twin meet of the season, set to tackle Lewis & Clark at 5 p.m., honoring 9 seniors previous to the meet.
 
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