Swimming: Huron clocks excellent performances against Pioneer

Special to WLAA
October 9, 2020, 4 years ago

By Margaret Baker

The Huron River Rats Swim/Dive team hosted Pioneer on Thursday for another eerily-quiet-in-the-stands but full-of-spirit-on-the-deck meet. The Rats scored 63 points against 123 for the state-champion-hopeful Pioneers and can be very proud of their performance.

Senior/captain diver Annie Costello racked up 283.80 points to take the diving handily over Pioneer junior Alexandra Mercier (238.85). Senior Julie Park (218.55) dove 3^rd for Huron and sophomore Hannah Margolis (195.50), 4^th. Junior Maggie Thomas took 6^th in exhibition (170.35), and junior Sitara Baxendale (126.70) finished 8^th.

In the swimming events, senior/captain Emily Tran had a banner evening, pocketing two D1 state cuts with a win in the 100 Fly (59.92) and a 2^nd place in the 100 Back (1:00.34). Senior/captain Annaliese Streeter also had a good night, finishing 2^nd to Tran in the fly (1:00.51) and also in the 100 Breast (1:06.33), one second fromPioneer’s Lily Cramer (1:05.31). River Rat freshman Jasmine Xu was 2^nd in the 500 (5:33.38), behind Pioneer’s Edwina Jalet (5:23.35), and 4^th in the 200 (2:01.25), and junior Zannah Baker also took a 2^nd place, in the 50 Free (25.20) just behind Pioneer’s Vivian Van Renterghem (25.03), and touched in 4^th in the 100 Free (56.75).

HURON SWIM PHOTO GALLERY VS DEXTER

Other point scorers for Huron included the speedy 200 Medley squad (Tran, Streeter, freshman Sawako Sakamoto, and Baker), ending up 3^rd (1:52.52); junior Kathryn Hemmila, picking up 5^th place points in the 200 Free (2:08.99); the Sakamoto sisters in the 200 IM, with Sawako, 3^rd (2:23.11) and junior Ayaka with 5^th place points (2:35.01); Sawako, also taking 4^th in the 100 Back (1:04.63); junior Emma Kaipainen, 5^th in the 50 Free (26.75) and 4^th in the 100 Breast (1;11.81); senior Ella Szymansky, with 5^th place points in the 100 Free (1:03.51); and senior Clara Bowman, 5^th in the 100 Back (1:07.69).

Huron’s 4 X 100 Relay (Xu, Tran, Baker, Streeter), continuing to zone in on the D1 cut, finished 2^nd (3:47.09) behind Pioneer’s super-fast juniors Van Renterghem, Amelia Weyhing, Lindsay Orringer-Hau, and Autumn Bullinger (3:39.89).

The Rats will face Skyline at Skyline next Thursday, Oct. 15^th.

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