Swim teams get wins, meet again tomorrow

Swim teams

get wins, meet again tomorrow

The McIntosh

Chiefs and Lady Chiefs both scored wins in a dual swim meet against Fayette

County High School last Friday at the Kedron Aquatic Center. The boys

won 160-109 and the girls won 156-120.

The following

Lady Chiefs achieved first-place finishes: Schaefer Abercrombie, 200 free

(2:32.99); Tiffany Grant, 50 free (28.27); Lindsey Lochridge, 500 free

(6:21) and 100 breast (1:18.43); and Julie White, 10 back (1:13.56).

First place

winners for the Chiefs were Chris Lee, 200 IM (2:18.19); Thomas Lucak,

100 butterfly (59.14) and 100 back (1:01.36); Robert Hawkins, 500 free

(6:52.88) and Chris Koperniak, 100 breast (1:09.59). Two relay teams also

finished first: the 200 yard medley relay team of Lucak, Koperniak, Lee

and Jeb Beard (1;51.89) and the 400 yard free relay team of Koperniak,

Lucak, lee and riki Otaki (3:54.00).

"This

was a hard fought meet with several very close races," said Coach

Tommy Stockdale. "I'm happy to have both teams bring home a win this

week."

McIntosh will

take on Sandy Creek and Lovejoy this afternoon and will travel to Athens

for the Athens-Oconee Invitational tomorrow.

The Starr's

Mill Panther swim team traveled to Woodward Academy on Jan. 14 to battle

it out in the pool. Starr's Mill lost to Woodward with the girls team

gathering 121 points to Woodward's 179, and the boys team finishing with

100 points to Woodward's 176.

Even though

several key swimmers were absent due to illness, the team carried on and

had some good swims.

Coach J.B.

Campbell reported that freshman Georgia Highsmith made a state qualifying

time in the 100 yard backstroke (1:05.95). She joins four other individual

qualifiers from the Panther team heading to the Georgia High School State

Championships in February. Highsmith also was second in the 200 IM. Junior

Britttany Stevens won the 100 butterfly and improved her state qualifying

time (1:00.43). She also placed first in the 50 free (26.06).

Freshman Mackensie

Garrot was first in the 200 IM (2:26.96) and second in the 100 breastroke(1:13.64).

Freshman Heather Highsmith won the 500 free (6:12.87) and freshman Katie

Ham placed second in the same event (6:14.90).

In the girls

relay events G. Highsmith, Garrot, Stevens and senior Samantha Hudson

placed second in the 200 medley relay (2:00.72). Garrot, Hudson, senior

Laurel Surratt and Stevens were second in the 200 free relay (1:51.90).

For the boys team Starrs Mill finished first through third in both the

100 backstroke and the 100 breaststroke. Freshman Scott Adams was first

in the 100 back (1:09.06), junior Paul Daniel second (1:14.32) and senior

Joshua Jiricek third (1:22.13). The winner of the 100 breast was Chris

Frederick (1:12.40), senior Jared Siri second (1:17.24) and sophomore

Bradley Morris third (1:27.45).

Senior Josh

Strickland was second in the 100 butterfly (1:03.24) and fourth in the

200 IM (2:22.60). Freshman Michael Burmeister finished fourth in the 200

free (2:09.56). The boys 400 free relay team of Frederick, sophomore Kris

Pretzer, junior Haynes Finney and Strickland placed first with a time

of 4:00.56.

Coach Campbell hopes to qualify more swimmers this coming

Saturday for the state meet when the Panthers travel to Athens for the

Oconee Invitational held at UGA.

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