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Wednesday, February 21, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Swimming quartet takes trophy at state By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent By the narrowest of mar- gins the Sisters High School girls swim team brought home some hardware at the 4A/3A/2A/1A OSAA State Championships held February 16 and 17 at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham. The Outlaws’ strong fin- ish in the final event of the day, the 400-meter free relay, pushed them one point ahead of the Tillamook Cheesemakers to claim fourth place, good enough for a trophy. North Bend took top team honors with 66 points, fol- lowed by Sweet Home (57), and Catlin Gabel (52). Sisters scored 34 points for fourth place behind record-setting performances from the four qualifiers representing the Outlaws. Hawley Harrer, Brook Robillard, Meredith Mandal and Lydia Bartlett qualified in three relays together and each also com- peted in one individual event. The top six finishers advance from the preliminaries to the finals. After getting all but one of its qualifiers into the finals on Friday — Mandal finished seventh in the 500- yard free in the prelims to miss the finals by one place — the Outlaws got the scor- ing underway in the first event of the day on Saturday as they took fifth in the 200- yard medley relay in a time TIME FOR INSIDE PROJECTS Table Saw Wallpaper Steamer of 1:56.79. Catlin Gabel won the event in 1:47.23. It was Bartlett’s fast finish that vaulted the Outlaws into fifth place in the race, one place ahead of Tillamook, which would turn out to be the difference between the two teams in the final stand- ings by the end of the day. The time set a new Sisters High School record, which turned out to be the first of five the girls set before the day was finished. Harrer kept the scoring going in the 50-yard free, finishing fourth in a tight race with a time of 25.56 to earn three more points for the Outlaws. Vianka Hoyer of North Bend won the race in 24.39. Bartlett set the next school record and came within a whisker of being the state champion in the 500-yard freestyle, touching the wall just .25 seconds behind league rival Lauren Yon of Sweet Home, who won the race in 5:04.52 to Bartlett’s 5:04.77. The pair finished nearly seven seconds ahead of the third-place finisher. “That race couldn’t have been more exciting,” said Bryn Singleton. “Yon started out very quickly, but Lydia just kept with it and really closed in the final three laps.” The Outlaws had another runner-up finish and school record in the 200-yard free- style relay, finishing 1.3 sec- onds behind the team from North Bend 1:40.64 to 1:41. 94. Lydia Bartlett got the Outlaws to an early lead, but North Bend chipped away to claim the win. In the 100-yard back- stroke, Brooke Robillard battled to fifth place with a time of 1:11.43 and another school record. The winner, Eva Carlson of Catlin Gabel, set an all-time state record for 4A/3A/2A/1A with a time of 1:03.39, six full seconds ahead of second place. The 400-meter freestyle relay secured the trophy for the Outlaws as the four- some placed a solid second with a time of 3:45.81. The Huskies of Sweet Home won the race with a fine time of 3:37.67. Catlin Gabel, which had swum 3:41 in the NEED IT, RENT IT! 506 N. Pine St. 541-549-9631 Men indicted following Central Oregon wildfire BEND (AP) — Three men authorities say started a Central Oregon wildfire by shooting at exploding targets are facing felony charges. Lake County District Attorney Sharon Forster tells The Bulletin in a story on Friday that a grand jury indicted Elijah Dyer, Gary Bigelow, and David Evans. Each is facing charges of felony manufacturing of a destructive device, felony criminal conspiracy, and six counts of reckless burning. 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