PAGE B4, KEIZERCIMES, FEBRUARY 2, 2018
McNary swimmers
win fi nal dual meet
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
SALEM—Before McNary
senior Grant Biondi’s fi nal
high school meet at the Kroc
Center, head coach Casey
Lewin asked him to pick two
events he didn’t normally
swim.
Biondi chose the 200-yard
individual medley and 100
butterfl y.
That decision paid off as
Biondi won the 200 IM in
2:24.75 and 100 fl y in 1:06.70
on Tuesday, Jan. 30 against
North Salem.
Biondi, who hadn’t swam
the 200 IM since he was a
sophomore, set a personal re-
cord in the event by nearly
fi ve seconds.
“It was kind of emotional
because this is my last meet,”
Biondi said.
“It was fun to cheer on all
my best friends.”
Biondi was also motivated
to make sure he had a spot on
the Celtics district relay teams.
“Our coach made us swim
hard this meet because there
are a bunch of guys who are
like tenths of a second apart,”
Biondi said. “For our relays,
we have to swim out fastest.”
Biondi, Wyatt Sherwood,
Jabez Rhoades and Harrison
Vaughn won the 200 free re-
lay in 1:40.14. Biondi, Collin
Wentworth, Jack O’Connor
and Kyle Hooper won the
400 free relay in 3:50.50
Vaughn, Rhoades, Sher-
wood and Brock Wyer took
presented by
NICOLETTE PARRA
McNary High School wrestler
McNary sophomore Nicolette Parra fi nished second
at the girls wrestling state qualifi er at Churston
High School on Jan. 26-27. Parra’s weight class,
135, meatured 47 girls mrom across the state. She
advanced to the fi nals with fi ve pins, three in the fi rst
period and two in the second. Sarah Conner, a USA
Freestyle national champion, won the tournament.
Parra will wrestle in the fi rst OSAA-sanctioned girls
state tournament on Feb. 16-17 in Portland.
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McNary junior Hannah Corpe won the 500-yard mreestyle in 6:28.18 on Cuesday, Jan. 30 at the
Kroc Center in Salem.
fi rst in the 200 medley relay
in 2:01.53.
“We had a handful of third
and fourth varsity spots that
were up in the air, especially
on the relays,” Lewin said. “I
have six or seven guys for four
spots that really any given day
anyone of the guys can step
up. I’ve got some work ahead
of me. I’m very pleased.”
McNary’s boys easily de-
feated North Salem as a team,
129-32.
Hooper won the 100 free
in 53.36 and the 100 breast-
stroke in 1:09.31. Vaughn took
fi rst in the 100 backstroke in
1:09.91. Wyer had the fastest
time in the 200 free, fi nish-
ing in 2:22. Rhoades won the
50 free in 25.99. O’Connor
touched the wall fi rst in the
500 free in 6:28.14.
Biondi wasn’t the only Mc-
Nary swimmer to compete in
different events.
Hannah Corpe swam the
girls 500 free for the fi rst time,
easily winning the event in
6:28.18.
“With that time, she might
be doing that at the district
meet and she knows that,”
Lewin said. “She wasn’t being
paced. It was just kind of on
feel and she had more in the
tank.”
The Lady Celts outscored
North Salem as a team, 104-
63.
McNary won two relays as
Alex Beard, Bella Beard, Em-
ily Alger and Haley Debban
opened the meet by winning
in the 200 medley relay in
2:05.33. Alex, Bella, Debban
and Alyssa Garvey then won
the 200 free relay in 1:51.03.
Alger had the fastest time
in the 100 fl y, fi nishing in
1:18.29, a seven second PR.
Bella won the 200 IM in
2:31.88 and Alex touched the
wall fi rst in the 100 backstroke
in 1:09.84.
Madyson Trammel won the
100 breaststroke in 1:25.88.
McNary will compete in
the Greater Valley Conference
district meet on Feb. 9-10
at the McMinnville Aquatic
Center.
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