With the season winding down, the Emery Spartan swim team made the trip to Moab on Friday to face the Grand Red Devils, along with the Carbon Dinos and Vanguard Academy. Just a couple of weeks remain in the regular season before the regional tournament at Carbon on January 30th. At Grand, both the Emery boys and Lady Spartans finished in first place.

The Spartans will take most of the week off, but will head to Cedar City this Friday and Saturday for the Cedar Invitational. They will follow that up the following week with the Last Chance Invitational at Carbon, and then, on January 30th, the regional tournament will also be at Carbon, before the state championships begin on February 13th and 14th at Brigham Young.

In the girls’ division, it was Emery claiming the top spot with 480 points. Carbon and Grand both tied with 380.

Relays have been kind to the Lady Spartans this season. In the 200 medley relay, the team of Jesse Childs, Hallie Frandsen, Illyria Mason, and Brooklyn O’Neil swam to a first-place finish in 2:06.83, and in the 400 free, it was Childs, Frandsen, Mason, and Annie Johansen taking first place with a time of 4:16.06. The Lady Spartan team of Johansen, O’ Neil, Grace Allen, and Hadley Meccariello swam to a second-place finish in the 200 free relay.

Individually, Mason claimed two first-place finishes, starting in the 200 IM with her time of 2:41.74 and then in the 100 breaststroke with her time of 1:20.88. Frandsen also took first place in the 50 free with a time of 27.77 and finished second in the 500 free.

The Lady Spartans also claimed several second-place finishes. Childs took second in the 50 free and the 100 free. Johnson finished second in the 200 free and the 100 fly, and Sydney Lake finished second in the 100 backstroke. O’Neil also earned a second-place finish in the breaststroke.

The Emery boys turned in a dominating performance, taking first place with 517 points. Carbon came in second with 405.5. Grand had 220 and Vanguard 215.5 to round out the field.

Emery claimed two first-place finishes and one second-place finish in the relays at Grand. In the 200 medley, Thomas Black, Jamison Christiansen, Reve Mason, and Trek Petersen claimed the top finish with 1:45.87, and in the 400 free, it was Black, Christiansen, Mason, and Petersen swimming to another first-place finish in a time of 3:37.61. The Spartans also grabbed second-place finishes in the 200 free with a team of Brekker Bunnell, Tyler Daley, Kamron Hanson, and Zander Robinson; the same team also finished second in the 400 free.

The Spartans were also very successful in individual events, claiming six top finishes. Black earned a first-place finish in both the 100 free with his time of 53.68 and the 100-yard backstroke with his time of 57.50. Mason took first place in the 100-yard breaststroke with his time of 1:11.48. He would go on to take second in the 500 free. Jacob Morris went first in the 200 IM with a time of 2:31.50 and claimed second in the 100 fly. Peterson earned two top finishes in the 50 free at 24.04 and in the 100 fly at 1:02.24.

Other Spartans taking top finishes were Christiansen in the 50 free and the 100 back, where he placed second in both events, and Daley, who took second in the 100 free.

Emery will now take the majority of the week off before they head to Cedar City on Friday and Saturday for the Cedar Invitational.