Shorthanded swimming Fishermen topped by Tillamook

Shorthanded swimming Fishermen topped by Tillamook

Published 11:30 am Sunday, February 1, 2026

Defeating Tillamook was going to be a tough job for Astoria’s swimming this season. According to Fishermen head coach Paul Gascoigne, the Cheesemakers are the workforce to beat going into this week’s Cowapa League Championships. Thursday gave Astoria one final likelihood to check themselves towards the league’s greatest workforce and regardless of being shorthanded, they’d some good performances.

Due to sicknesses working all through the workforce, the Fishermen had been with out 4 of their high swimmers. Sam Reid and Toby Thomas had been absent for the boys, whereas twins Ruby and Lili Smith weren’t current for the ladies. This gave youthful swimmers an opportunity to swim totally different occasions and others the chance to face out.

The total outcomes favored Tillamook tremendously as each the ladies and boys workforce managed proceedings. The ladies rating was 110-57 in favor of Tillamook and the boys rating was 94-71 Cheesemakers.

Emery Young and John Ero had been the standouts for Astoria on Thursday as they had been the one members of Astoria’s workforce to win particular person occasions. Young received each the 200-yard particular person medley and 100-yard butterfly and Ero received the 200- yardindividual medley. Both of them additionally had private greatest relay splits because the anchors for each the 200-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard freestyle relay. Young additionally swam a private greatest in each of her particular person occasions.

Other swimmers to clock private greatest for the Fishermen included: freshman Vivien Bizzell, junior Elena Delgado, sophomore Elizabeth Knap, sophomore Brody Giles, junior Tristan Schauermann, junior Rio Batsukh, junior Paige Kindred, freshman Turner Boslar, senior Cruz Garcia, sophomore Roarke Struve, sophomore Raeya Wallace and Konrad Struve.

Bizzell led house a contingent of swimmers within the 200-yard freestyle with a private greatest of three:17.01. This was over seven seconds sooner than her earlier private greatest. Delgado additionally swam a private greatest in the identical occasion with a 5 second enchancment and Knap accomplished a milestone. According to the Fishermen teaching employees she was one of many new swimmers who couldn’t even swim at first of the season and now she’s within the pool making laps for the Fishermen. Giles, Schauermann and Rio additionally had large private bests within the boys 200-yard freestyle. Giles swam a private greatest, shaving off 4 seconds, from a 2:33 to a 2:29. Schauermann improved from 2:38 to 2:30 and Batsukh improved from 3:05 to 2:50. Schauermann would later set a private greatest within the 100-yard breaststroke and Batsukh additionally set a private greatest within the 50-yard freestyle.

Kindred and Nolasco each swam private greatest instances within the freestyle occasions. Kindred clocked a brand new private document within the 50-year freestyle and Nolasco improved barely within the 100-yard freestyle. Boslar and Garcia each swam a private greatest within the 100-yard butterfly. Boslar completed third and dropped his time down from 1:36 to 1:31, whereas Garcia improved from 1:44 to 1:35. Finally, twins Konrad and Roarke Struve each had highschool greatest swims. Konrad had a two and a half second enchancment within the boys 100-yard backstroke and Roarke improved by almost 9 seconds within the boys 500 yard freestyle.

The Fishermen will hope to get their full squad again for this week’s Cowapa League championships in Tillamook. Then the Fishermen return house Valentine’s weekend for the District Championships.