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Lady Warriors swim team tops Escondido

Fallbrook High School's girls swim team improved its Valley League season record to 1-1 April 11 with a 110-60 home victory against Escondido.

The Warriors had opened league competition March 20 at home against Classical Academy, but the Caimans returned home with a 103-80 victory.

"Classical has quite a few more year-round swimmers than we do," said Fallbrook coach Sean Redmond.

A school may enter up to three swimmers in each of the eight individual events and up to two quartets in each of the three relay races. Scoring for individual events gives six points to the winner's team, four points for second place, three points for third place, two points for second place, and one point for fifth place.

The winning relay squad earns eight points for the team while second place is worth four points and third place provides two points. Fallbrook swept the top three 100-yard freestyle positions and the top two 200-yard medley relay finishes in the meet against Escondido while finishing first and second in the 200-yard freestyle, and although the Cougars won three of the 11 events, a Fallbrook swimmer took second place in all of those.

If only one school in a dual meet has a diver the diving is not included in the team score although the scores of individual divers can be counted for CIF meet qualifying purposes. Escondido does not have a diver. Fallbrook varsity divers Chiara Curnow and Kelly Hanlon missed the April 11 meet due to a dance performance which was part of a class requirement, and sophomore Cassidy Ewig formally dove on behalf of Fallbrook's junior varsity squad.

A high school meet begins with the 200-yard medley relay. The winning time of 2:03.76 was posted by sophomore Cindy Buenrestro, junior Gabby Vazzana, junior Natalie Wood, and freshman Paris Dowden. Fallbrook's quartet of sophomore Maggie Walker, senior Ella Hearn, sophomore Sophia Wallace, and junior Vanessa Dalton had the second-place time of 2:23.47.

Dowden won the 200-yard freestyle race in 2:08.50 and junior Kaitlyn Callagher placed second with a time of 2:16.13. Dowden also took first place in the 50-yard freestyle, which she completed in 26.51 seconds.

The CIF meet consideration standard for the 100-yard freestyle is 1:01.00, and Callagher earned provisional status by winning the race in 1:00.04. Wallace was second at 1:02.89 and junior Kendra Donoghue gave Fallbrook third-place points with a 1:02.92 swim.

Vazzana had a winning time of 2:29.10 in the 200-yard individual medley. Wood needed 1:09.09 to win the 100-yard butterfly. Dowden, Donoghue, Callagher, and Wood had a winning time of 1:50.72 in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Wallace, Callagher, Donoghue, and Wood won the 400-yard freestyle relay in 4:19.31.

Escondido junior Maya Reid won the 500-yard freestyle in 6:16.12, and Vazzana was second with a time of 6:19.28. The 100-yard backstroke winner, Escondido senior Hannah Blanscet, completed her four laps in 1:14.94, while Walker took second at 1:18.45. A time of 1:16.80 gave Escondido junior Claire Saalgeld first place in the 100-yard breaststroke while Donoghue's time of 1:19.36 gave Fallbrook the second-place points.

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Joe Naiman, Writer

Joe Naiman has been writing for the Village News since 2001

 

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