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Lady Warriors take second in league girls swim standings

200-yard freestyle relay team wins league championship

Fallbrook High School's girls swim team finished second in the final Valley League standings, and the Lady Warriors won the 200-yard freestyle relay league championship.

The standings are based on the six teams' positions from dual meets and from their positions at the league meet. Fallbrook had a 4-1 record during league dual meet competition, losing only to San Marcos, and finished second behind the Knights at the league meet.

"I'm happy with second. I always want to win the league title, but this year I thought the girls did a fabulous job overcoming all the different situations we had," said Fallbrook Coach Sean Redmond.

In the league meet, San Marcos obtained 485 position points. Fallbrook accumulated 248 points. Mission Vista had the third-place total of 207 points; Valley Center earned 98 points; Escondido received 94 points, and Ramona had 73 points.

San Marcos is new to the Valley League this year. "I like the competition," Redmond said.

The league diving competition is always on a different day than the league swim meet, and this year the diving took place April 13 at Ramona High School. Fallbrook sophomore Payton Wilson had the second-place score of 192.20 points. Fallbrook freshman Ava Papoulias accumulated 153.60 points for sixth place. Fallbrook's only senior girl diver, Kassidy Ewig, scored 142.80 points for seventh. Each school is allowed four participants for each individual event at the league meet, and Fallbrook sophomore Arden Baur took eighth place with 140.40 points.

The swim portion of the league meet normally includes preliminary heats and event finals which have both championship races and consolation races. Due to the requirement to create distance this year Escondido, Mission Hills, and Valley Center swam April 14 at the Washington Park pool in Escondido while Fallbrook, Ramona, and San Marcos used the Fallbrook High School pool April 15. The meet dispensed with separate preliminaries and finals races, so the times for the two days combined were used to determine the position points.

The student-athletes who swam April 15 were not told of the previous day's times, so any advantage the April 15 swimmers had involved an extra day of practice. "For this year it is hard to say," Redmond said of such an advantage. "I would just say another day of practice."

Fallbrook's swimmers didn't taper as they have done in past years. "We tapered a little bit," Redmond said.

Although up to four swimmers from each team are allowed in an individual event, each school had only one scored quartet for each relay race. The 200-yard freestyle relay team with senior Paris Dowden, freshman Ava Dowden, junior Grace Goode, and junior Jocelyn Jones won that event with a time of 1:45.82. The second-place team from San Pasqual had a time of 1:46.47. "It was a really good race," Redmond said.

Fallbrook's 200-yard medley relay team of sophomore Samantha Hanlon, freshman Kela Kendall, sophomore Stephanie Hanlon, and Jones had the third-place time of 2:09.48. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Stephanie Hanlon, Goode, Ava Dowden, and Paris Dowden completed their laps in 4:04.15 for third place.

Jones finished second in two individual races, completing the 50-yard freestyle in 25.66 seconds and the 100-yard freestyle in 56.35 seconds. Paris Dowden had the third-place time of 56.47 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle while Papoulias was ninth in that event with a time of 1:04.09. Goode finished fifth in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 27.79 seconds and junior Brooklyn Van Norstam took eighth place with a 28.50-second performance.

Paris Dowden was third in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:15.47 while Ava Dowden finished fourth at 1:15.95. Kendall had the ninth-place time of 1:22.68.

The Warriors took four of the top 12 finishes in the 200-yard freestyle. Goode was seventh and completed her laps in 2:17.25, freshman Marissa Pearce finished in 2:21.80 for ninth place, Samantha Hanlon had the 10th-place time of 2:29.54, and junior Erin Burnett gave Fallbrook 11th-place points with a 2:38.01 performance.

Stephanie Hanlon had a sixth-place result in the 500-yard freestyle which took her 6:07.92. Burnett was 10th in that event and finished in 6:57.22.

Ava Dowden swam the 200-yard individual medley and posted the eighth-place time of 2:30.52. Kendall took 10th place and touched her final wall 2:41.85 after the start of the race.

Samantha Hanlon had a 100-yard backstroke time of 1:17.02 for eighth place while senior Emma Goode finished in 1:21.93 for ninth place.

A time of 1:15.29 gave Pearce ninth in the 100-yard butterfly. Stephanie Hanlon finished that event in 1:15.50 for 10th place.

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Joe Naiman, Writer

Joe Naiman has been writing for the Village News since 2001

 

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