The Siloam Springs swimming teams hosted their final home meet of the 2016-17 season on Thursday at the Hub White Pool inside the Walton Lifetime Health Complex at John Brown University.
The boys team finished third overall with 345 points, while the girls finished eighth with 80 points for a combined score finish of 435 points.
Bentonville won the overall meet with 1,273.5 points, followed by Fayetteville 808, Siloam Springs 435, Rogers 343.5, Bentonville West 326, Fort Smith Southside 302, Springdale Har-Ber 295, Alma 169, Clarksville 153, Rogers Heritage 113, Mountain Home 72, Fort Smith Northside 48, Van Buren 35, Shiloh Christian 20, Springdale 19 and Greenwood 12.
The Panthers and Lady Panthers participated in the meet despite missing head coach Stephanie Goddard, who was out Thursday for the birth of her granddaughter.
"We missed Stephanie, but everything ran great with the great parents and helpers we had," said assistant swim coach Debbie Sharp. "It's awesome how schools pull together to help each other out to help meets run smoothly -- officials, starters timers, etc. (Stephanie) did a ton of work on the front end so everything went great."
The highlight of the match for Siloam Springs came at the very end when the boys 400-yard freestyle relay team of Brittan Butler, Landon Cottrell, Stephen Grant and Will O'Hare raced to a finish of 3 minutes, 36.13 seconds for the Panthers' only first-place finish of the day. Also in the 400-yard relay, the team of Lee Thompson, Ethan Andrus, Chase Kruger and Hayden Moore finished ninth at 4:12.63, while the team of Harrison Losh, Quade Greening, Luke Markovich and Sean Jeppsen was 12th at 5:06.42.
"We finished the night with an awesome race in the 400 free relay," Sharp said. "Each race was neck and neck, and we out-touched them at the finish."
Siloam Springs opened the meet with a ninth-place finish in the 200-yard girls medley relay from the team of Baleigh Butler, Catherine Donner, Caroline Farine and Shayla Enlow with a time of 2:21.04. The team of McKenzie Blanchard, Britain Castagna, Tabitha Eiland and Chandler Losh took 12th at 2:36.25.
The team of Kruger, Cottrell, Moore and Grant finished fifth in the 200-yard boys medley relay with a time of 1:55.98. The team of Andrus, Zachary Becan, Thompson and Ethan Davis was eighth at 2:12.38, while the team of Nick Woodard, Markovich, Harrison Losh and Greening placed 12th at 2:18.18.
Steven Walls placed 13th in the boys 200-yard freestyle at 2:42.82, while Andrus was 14th at 2:56.05.
Cottrell placed fifth in the boys 200-yard individual medley at 2:21.71, while Greening was 14th at 2:59.24, Jeppsen 15th at 3:04.23 and Harrison Losh 16th at 3:09.58.
Farine placed 14th in the girls 50-yard freestyle with a time of 29.30, while Enlow was 26th at 31.80, Eiland 30th at 33.06 and Hailey Dorsey 58th at 41.01.
Ryke Beever placed third in the boys 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.86, while Grant was sixth at 24.74, Moore 11th at 25.44, Stephen Smalley 33rd at 30.05 and Becan 38th at 31.01.
Donner finished 12th in the girls 100-yard butterfly at 1:21.64, while Chandler Losh was 18th at 1:35.57.
Brittan Butler finished second in the boys 100-yard butterfly at 57.38, followed by O'Hare in fifth at 58.84, Thompson in 11th at 1:04.27, Woodard 18th 1:23.35, Jeppsen 19th 1:42.22 and Walls 21st at 1:46.37.
Farine placed 13th in the girls 100-yard freestyle at 1:06.86.
Moore finished 12th in the 100-yard freestyle at 57.72.
Ethan Davis placed eighth in the boys 500-yard freestyle at 7:02.37.
In the girls 200-yard freestyle relay, the team of Enlow, Eiland, Dorsey and Farine placed ninth at 2:11.91. The team of Chandler Losh, Blanchard, Baleigh Butler and Castagna placed 13th at 2:19.62.
The boys 200-yard freestyle relay team of Beever, Brittan Butler, Grant and O'Hare placed second at 1:36.26, while the team of Thompson, Woodard, Davis and Kruger was ninth at 1:50.03. The team of Harrison Losh, Markovich, Greening and Andrus placed 14th at 1:59.71, while the team of Smalley, Walls, Jeppsen and Becan was 18th at 2:07.38.
Baleigh Butler placed 16th in the girls 100-yard backstroke at 1:26.54.
O'Hare finished sixth in the boys 100-yard backstroke at 1:07.18, and Kruger was 12th at 1:13.36.
Donner placed 14th in the girls 100-yard breaststroke at 1:31.35, while Blanchard was 17th at 1:36.06 and Castagna 19th at 1:30.10.
Brittan Butler placed fifth in the boys 100-yard breaststroke at 1:08.02, while Cottrell was seventh at 1:09.44, Markovich 18th at 1:25.83 and Becan 19th at 1:25.93.
The girls 400-yard freestyle relay team of Blanchard, Baleigh Butler, Castagna and Chandler Losh finished 11th with a time of 5:43.30, while the team of Enlow, Eiland, Dorsey and Donner placed 13th at 6:10.71.
Sports on 01/21/2017