The Siloam Springs swimming team hosted its first swim meet of the season this past Thursday at the Hub White Pool inside the Walton Lifetime Health Complex on the campus of John Brown University.
Siloam Springs finished fourth overall in both the boys and girls divisions.
Bentonville won the boys division with 630 points, followed by Fayetteville 529, Bentonville West 374, Siloam Springs 275 and Springdale Har-Ber 87.
Bentonville also won the girls division with 618 points, followed by Fayetteville with 470, Bentonville West 351, Siloam Springs 222 and Har-Ber 210.
"It was a fun meet," said SSHS head coach Stephanie Goddard. "When you are swimming against the top two teams in the state, fourth was the expected finish. The kids stepped up and I was super proud of them."
The girls 200-yard medley relay team of Kate Gryder, Claudia Manning, Caroline Farine and Isabelle Pennick opened the meet with a fifth-place finish of 2 minutes, 18.84 seconds and scored 27 points. The team of Baleigh Butler, McKenzie Blanchard, Abigail Haak and Camyrn Kendrick placed eighth and scored 22 points with a time of 2:33.27.
The boys 200-yard medley relay team of Hayden Moore, Landon Cottrell, Lee Thompson and Chase Kruger placed fourth and scored 30 points with a mark of 1:54.82. The team of Ethan Andrus, Owen Thomas, Harrison Losh and Sean Jeppsen placed eighth and scored 22 points at 2:12.87.
Pennick placed eighth and scored 11 points in the girls 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:41.42.
Cottrell placed fifth in the boys 200-yard individual medley with a finish of 2:19.56.
Gryder placed third in the girls 50-yard freestyle and scored 16 points with a time of 28.01, while Farine was fourth and scored 15 points at 28.32. Kendrick was 18th at 35.41, followed by Hanna Joy Morgan in 22nd at 37.79 and Jenna Weilnau in 25th at 52.65.
Moore led the Panthers with a third place finish in the boys 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.14 and scored 16 points, while Kruger was fifth at 26.03 and scored 14 points. Andrus finished ninth at 27.05 and scored nine points, while Losh was 14th at 29.37 and scored three points and Javan Brewer 19th at 32.69.
Manning placed eighth in the girls 100-yard butterfly and scored 11 points with a finish of 1:23.79.
Thompson placed fourth in the boys 100-yard butterfly and scored 15 points at 1:02.23, while Jeppsen was 11th at 1:28.93 and scored six points.
Gryder placed fourth in the girls 100-yard freestyle at 1:03.22 and scored 15 points, while Farine was 11th at 1:07.16 and scored six points.
Moore finished seventh in the boys 100-yard freestyle at 58.43 and scored 12 points.
The team of Pennick, Haak, Butler and Kendrick placed sixth in the girls 200-yard freestyle relay, scoring 26 points.
The team of Thompson, Thomas, Andrus and Kruger placed fifth and scored 28 points in the boys 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:49.97. The team of Jeppsen, Brewer, Tyler Sharp and Losh placed eighth and scored 22 points with a time of 2:07.34.
Butler placed seventh in the girls 100-yard backstroke at 1:24.99, scoring 12 points.
Thomas finished seventh in the boys 100-yard backstroke at 1:11.67 and scored 12 points.
Manning placed 11th and scored six points in the girls 100-yard breaststroke. Blanchard was 14th and scored three points at 1:36.79, while Haak was 15th and scored two points at 1:37.20.
Cottrell placed second in the boys 100-yard breaststroke and scored 17 points with a time of 1:08.15. Sharp placed 14th and scored three points at 1:41.59.
In the girls 400-yard freestyle relay, the team of Gryder, Pennick, Manning and Farine placed fifth and scored 28 points with a time of 4:45.15. The team of Butler, Morgan, Haak and Kendrick placed eighth and scored 22 points with a finish of 5:41.34.
The boys 400-yard freestyle relay team of Moore, Kruger, Thompson and Cottrell placed fifth at 3:56.57 and scored 28 points. The team of Andrus, Jeppsen, Losh and Thomas placed seventh at 4:34.03 and scored 24 points.
The swim teams are off until Nov. 30 when they compete in the Bentonville Invitational at the Bentonville Community Center.
Sports on 11/15/2017