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Position points give Warrior girls swim victory over Santa Fe Christian

Joe Naiman

Village News Reporter

For each of the eight individual swim events at a high school meet, up to three swimmers from each school can compete and six team position points are given to the school of the first-place swimmer, four points are awarded for second, third place is worth three points, fourth place provides two points, and the fifth-place swimmer earns one point. A school can enter up to three quartets in each of the three relay races although only two can be scored with first place providing eight points, second place being worth six points, and third place garnering two points.

When Fallbrook High School’s girls hosted Santa Fe Christian on March 15, the Warriors only took first place in four of the 11 events, but position points provided Fallbrook with a 97-65 victory. “It was a team effort,” said Fallbrook coach Sean Redmond. “The first part of the meet we were behind, and our girls kept swimming well and kept getting those third, fifth-place points that helped us.”

The Warriors actually began their season March 4 at home against La Costa Canyon. The Mavericks won that meet by a 91-75 margin and had first-place points in 10 of the 11 events. Fallbrook’s lone event victory was in the 400-yard freestyle relay, which is the final race of a meet. Kela Kendall, Ava Papoulias, Grace Goode, and Ava Dowden had a time of 4:08.56, which is a consideration qualifying time for the CIF meet.

This year’s Fallbrook team has approximately 25 girls, although six of them are divers only with another three engaged in both swimming and diving. A swimmer or diver is limited to no more than four events at a meet and no more than two individual events, so at least 12 girls are needed to fill out all lanes. The Fallbrook program also included a junior varsity squad.

The number of Fallbrook girls limits Redmond’s ability to have three relay quartets. “Some of the relays I can get three in,” he said.

If only one team has a diver the diving is not included in the team score although the divers are scored for CIF qualifying purposes. The meet against Santa Fe Christian included Payton Wilson scoring 201.75 points on six dives for an automatic qualifying score.

Fallbrook had the top three finishing positions in the 100-yard butterfly. Dowden had the winning time of 1:12.33; Marissa Pearce swam her four laps in 1:14.77, and Kendall touched her final wall 1:15.31 after the starter’s gun was fired.

Dowden also won the 100-yard breaststroke with a consideration time of 1:19.23. Kendall finished second in that race at 1:21.13.

The Warriors won the 200-yard freestyle relay. The consideration time of 1:51.60 was achieved by Dowden, Grace Goode, Papoulias, and Pearce.

The 400-yard freestyle relay gave Fallbrook 12 of the 14 position points. Stephanie Hanlon, Goode, Kendall, and Papoulias won the race in 4:12.85. Second place was achieved by Arden Baur, Alexis Fieri, Tatum Brown, and Katja Young, whose time was 4:40.96.

 

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