The Carbon swim team traveled to Roosevelt on Wednesday for a meet with Ben Lomond, St. Joseph High Schools, and the host school Union. The Cougars claimed the top spot in both the boys’ and girls’ divisions, while the Dinos took second.
For the boys, Union collected first place scoring 646 points, and Carbon landed in second with 360. Ben Lomond scored 199 for third and St. Joseph had 35.
The boy’s team had a pair of second-place finishes and a fifth place in their three relays on Wednesday. In the 200 free and the 400 free the team of Mason Engar, Logan Karanendonk, James Tullis, and Bracken Hanson earned second in both relays. Ky Earl, Caden Steele, Spencer Hawley, and Traxton Jewkes finished fifth in the 200 medley.
Engar finished first in the 200 IM tuning in a time of 2:17.58, he also finished in second in the 100 free, and Hanson claimed first in the 200 free with his time of 2:04.15 and fifth in the 100 fly.
Karanendonk took fourth in the 100 fly, Earl took fifth in the 100 breaststroke and Tullis earned a pair of fifth-place finishes in both the 200 and 500 free.
Union also claimed first place in the girl’s division with 570 points, and the Lady Dinos took second with 413. Ben Lomond had 153, and St. Joseph’s collected 33.
Carbon took first and fourth place in the 200 free as the team of Kanyon Christensen, Rachel Blackburn, Maya Bower, and Lily Thayn grabbed first with a time of 1:59.06 and then the team consisting of Aylen Lyman, Erica Whitmore, Avy Atwood, and Lisa King took fourth. In the 200 medley relay Evie Halk, Lyman, Christensen, and King finished in second. The 400 free relay was another second-place finish behind the team of Lily Thayn, Halk, Blackburn, and Bower, and the team of Baelie Erickson, Kiley Bishoff, Amelia Thayn, and Rozlyn Stowe finished in fourth.
Bower swam the distance to take first in the 500 free with her time of 6:27.47. King earned a top place in the 100 free turning in her time of 1:05.50, and she took second in the 50 free. Lily Thayn finished second in the 500 free, and Blackburn earned a second-place finish in the 100 free.
Halk would swim her way to a third-place finish in the 100 fly and in the 100 backstroke, she would earn a fourth. Lyman finished third in the breaststroke and a fifth-place finish in the 50 free.
Carbon heads back out on the road to the Cedar Invitational on Friday and Saturday.