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Show Spartans sink Braves; Vikes glide past CHS By DALE J. NEILSON BOUNTIFUL BRAVES BOUNTIFUL Even the name of Murray High's swimming coach, Larry Swim, seemed to be against the Bountiful Braves in Friday's competition in Bountiful. The visiting Spartans "not only out-manned us," lamented Bountiful Boun-tiful coach Jack Senninger, "but they out-qualitied us, as welt" Even with the dismal season each of the Braves' teams is having, there are bright spots, said Senninger. Senn-inger. "Jenny Waterbury is as good as any in the state. Her personal best in the 100-yard breast stroke (established Friday) is 1:09.98, which is also the best in the state. I'd like to have eight of her, because then she'd win every event." Besides winning the 100-breaststroke, 100-breaststroke, Waterbury also swam on the 200-yard medley and 200- Prep Swimming The powerful Murray boys' and girls' teams drilled their hosts by 139-29 and 127-41, respectively. With the losses, the female Braves fell to 2-10 on the season, while the boys record plummeted to 0-12. Meanwhile, the powerful Spartans Spar-tans continue to waltz through their schedule. The boys stand at 11-2, while the girls soared to 14-1. "They're exceeding my expectations, expecta-tions, especially the girls," said the modest Swim, who has won eight state championships. Senninger noted that a major problem for him this season is the lack of swimmers, which was obvious ob-vious Friday. The Braves had only half their eight boys, but all of their girls, which unfortunately numbers five. "We even had to pull our diver, di-ver, Nathan Cook, for the 200-yard medley and the 200-yard freestyle relay," said the coach. He agreed Murray has as many as 30 swimmers, which helps to make it "one of the best, if not the best team in the state." freestyle relay teams. The coach said she would have competed in more events had she not been ill Nathan Cook, a diver, also emerged victorious for Bountiful on Friday. 'He's a state champion and nobody beats him," declared Senninger. Senn-inger. Other highlights for the Lady Braves were wins in the 100-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke. Jenny Cook won the 100-free in 1:06.26, while Cathy Lowe was first in the 100-back in 1:16.28. B ountiful had two s w immers previously qualify for the state meet in February, Michelle Jorgensen and Mark Hall. Jorgensen has qualified in the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard individual medley, while Hall was good enough in the 100-yard backstroke. Senninger hopes Bounti fill's next competition in the Feb. 6-7 region SEE SWIM ON A9 In 100 yard fly competition, Jason Coyle swam his way into first followed by Shelby Skabelund in the 100 yard free. John Harrison won the 500 yard fly then came back to claim the 500 yard free with the breaststroke. The Vikings are gearing up for the Region 1 swim meet Jan. 30-31 at Layton High School. State 4A competition is slated for Feb. 8 and 9 at the University of Utah. The Vikes are led by first-year coach Jeff Vaughn and assistant Bob Jones. Serving as this year's girls' team captains are Christy Huff, Ann ali sa Jex and Kris Erickson. Filling team captain honors for the boys are Sean Dunroe, Andy Williams and Jeremy Archibald. Swim CONTINUED FROM A8 meet will result in more of the Braves qualifying for the state meet on Feb. 15-17. VIEWMONT VIKINGS Viewmont High swimmers dominated the Clearfield Falcons Jan. 17 in a post-holiday, Region 1 matchup. The Lady Vikes out-distanced their Falcon opponents behind the first-place performance of the 200-yard 200-yard medley relay team. The Viemwont relay team consists of Christy Huff, Kris Erickson, Marisa Hills and Annalisa Jex. Sharon Forsberg spearheaded the Lady Vikings' singles effort swimming swim-ming to first place finishes in both the 200 and 500 yard freestyle events. Meanwhile, teammate Annalisa Jex claimed first place in both the 100 yard backstroke and fly. In the 400 yard free style relay, Jex returned to lead Viewmont to another first place finish with relay teammates Emily Christensen, Sharon Forsberg and Marisa Hills. In men's swirnming competition, the Vikes' 200 yard medley relay swam its way to another first place showing. Cade Viegel, Billy Hill, Randy Brown and Bryan Brown make up the medley team. In exhibition 200 yard relay competition, Jeremy Manning, Mark Haslip, Jason Coyle and Jake Thompson took first place. In the 200 yard freestyle relay, Tim Andrus, Andy Williams, Sean Dunroe and Jeremy Archibald used teamwork and talent to beat their Falcon opponents and take first place. Brian Bird, Bodean Pomikala, Billy Hill and Cade Viegel took the 400 yard freestyle relay's first place award. Viewmont earned eight first place finishes in singles competition. competi-tion. Ryan Steed took first in the 200 yard free while teammate Randy Ran-dy Brown earned a first place in the 200 yard intermediate. |
