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
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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
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preliminaries, was disquali-
fied in the finals.
“We actually broke two
school records in the 400
relay,” said Singleton. “Lydia
swam the first 100-yard leg
faster than any Outlaw ever,
and then our final time as a
team also broke the previous
record.”
For Singleton, in her first
year as head coach, it was a
perfect in to a successful sea-
son for the program.
“We had a record num-
ber of kids out for the team,
which made the season more
fun than ever, and then see-
ing these four fantastic
girls pull together such a
great season finale was very
satisfying.”
Harrer is the lone senior,
so juniors Robillard and
Mandal, along with sopho-
more Bartlett, will give
Singleton a solid foundation
again for next year.
The state trophy was the
third of the year for a Sisters
girls team this year as the vol-
leyball squad, led by Harrer,
won the state title, and the
cross country team earned a
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