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EHS swim team hosts RCB, NDHS

ELKINS — The Tigers swim team was back at work in the water on Wednesday while playing host to Robert C. Byrd and Notre Dame high schools at Davis & Elkins College.

Elkins High School picked up one combined score victory 136-106 versus RCB. Notre Dame won the overall meet with the best total scores added up from the girls and boys events. The Irish bested the hosts 148-116 and topped the RCBHS Flying Eagles 142-102.

The EHS boys 200-yard medley relay team of Peyton Shields, Alex Rosencrance, Hayden Long and Will Crumm took second with a 2 minute and change time, just under 3 seconds away from ND at 1:57.13.

In the girls 200 freestyle event, Elkins sophomore Mara Looney-Sanders blasted the field with almost a 10-second margin of victory when the clock stopped at 2:28.98. The current EHS school record in that event is held by WVU sophomore Sam Hall with a mark of 1:59.50.

Rosencrance and Daniel Rubianto took the top spots in the boys 200 free. Rosencrance nearly reached Hall’s time by posting a 2:01.06. The Tigers boys team school record in that event is still held by Jared Varner who put up a 1:46.47 in 2007.

Sanders placed third in the 50-yard free, and Elkins juniors Kaylea Simmons and Kasey Corley garnered improving times as well. Long finished with a solid third place on the boys side with a 25.29 that was less than a second slower than first place by ND senior Joe Folio at 24.49.

In 100 yard events, Shields inked first at 1:11.72 in the fly stroke. Sydney Oldaker shined as an 11th grader for the Lady Tigers in the 100 yard freestyle by slicing through the chop for first when she clocked it in at 1:11.37. Fellow junior Grace Caldwell finished fourth, and sophomore Mikayla Goins grabbed seventh.

Rosencrance took first in the boys 100 free at 53.74, while edging Folio who was at 55.63. Another of Varner’s Elkins school bars to reach for is a record of 48.81 in that event. Crumm recorded a second spot with a 1:18 in the 100 breast stroke, while Notre Dame’s Kevin Nguyen took first with a 1:17.

Elkins and Robert C. girls teams faced off in the 400 yard free relay, where the Lady Eagles took first in 4:54. The Lady Tigers pulled out a second place 5:01.56, off the efforts from Sanders, Caldwell, Goins and Oldaker.

The orange and black water warriors will get a school day in today, and look to rest well for one of their biggest meets of the season at the Clarksburg YMCA on Saturday. Competition begins early, and most all of the local prep swimming community is expected to be on hand.

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