Big Spring finishes first in home Double Dual Swim Meet on Saturday at YMCA
The Big Spring Swim Team participated in their third meet of the season last weekend at the Big Spring YMCA. The schools that participated were Abilene High, Abilene Cooper, and Big Spring. It was a great day in the pool for the Steers as a team with the boys and the girls finishing first against both schools, which meant a victory in the combined category as well. The next time that this group will enter the pool will be Oct. 31 in Monahans for a Tri-Meet.
Big Spring's boys defeated Abilene High by four points when the Steers collected 72 going head-to-head against Abilene High. They were also able to defeat Abilene Cooper by 13 points (72.00-59.00). The girls also won their matchup against Abilene by scoring 85 points (85.00-62.00) and crushed Abilene Cooper (97.00-35.00). In the combined scores, Big Spring defeated Abilene (157.00-130.00) and Abilene Cooper (169.00-94.00).
Here are the results for Big Spring's swimmers from the home Double Dual this past weekend at the Big Spring YMCA:
In the Girls' 200-yard medley relay, the quartet of sophomore Malaki Vaughn, freshman Arely Cruz-Garcia, sophomore Naomi Reyes, and sophomore Brooklynne Heffle finished in first place out of the three schools with a time of 2:31.40.
In the Boys' 200-yard medley relay, the group of freshman Christian PantojaStrickland, sophomore David Summers, senior Manuel Castillo, and sophomore Ismael Castillo finished in third place with a total time of 2:16.76.
In the Girls' 200-yard Freestyle, freshman Katherine Greene finished in firstplace by breaking the three-minute mark (2:58.34). Her teammate, sophomore Jayda Overton, placed second (3:01.08).
Manuel Castillo was victorious in the Boys' 200-yard Freestyle (2:16.95) and sophomore Toby Phillips finished in third (2:52.46).
In the Girls' 200-yard IM, Cruz-Gacia put up a great fight and placed in second (3:02.38).
Sophomore David Summers also finished in second place (2:56.31) in the Boys' 200 Yard IM, which is his fastest time of the season in that race.
Sophomore Malaki Vaughn finished in first-place in the Girls' 50 Yard Freestyle with a final time of 30.71 seconds. Her teammates Sapphire Martinez (4th, 35.75) and Steffany Pina Arment (7th, 42.19) also finished as top performers for that specific race.
In the Boys' 50 Yard Freestyle, Ismael Castillo (3rd, 31.94) was the top Steer finisher. Sophomores Toby Phillips (4th, 33.34) and Carson Millsap (5th, 34.25) also placed in the Top 5.
Sophomore Naomi Reyes finished in second place (1:23.83) in the Girls' 100 Yard Butterfly. Freshman Katherine Greene (3rd, 1:38.40) was the lone other Big Spring swimmer to take place in that event.
Senior Manuel Castillo finished in firstplace (1:03.45) in the Boys' 100 Yard Butterfly, with sophomore Morgan Griffith finishing behind him in third-place (1:36.45).
Sophomore swimmer Jayda Overton (1:19.76) finished in second-place of the Girls' 100 Yard Freestyle. Her teammates Brooklynne Heffle (3rd, 1:23.99), Sapphire Martinez (5th, 1:31.06) and Steffany Pina Arment (7th, 1:36.08) placed in the Top 10.
Carson Millsap finished fourth in the Boys' 100 Yard Freestyle with a final time of 1:19.34. His teammate, freshman Ethan Barker, finished fifth with a time of 1:35.25.
Arely Cruz-Garcia placed first (7:28.34) in the Girls' 500-Yard Freestlye. Christian Pantoja-Strickland finished in third on the Boys' side of the same event with a time of 7:00.13.
The group of Naomi Reyes, Malaki Vaughn, Jayda Overton, and Arely CruzGarcia took home first-place in the Girls' 200 Yard Freestyle Relay with a total time of 2:06.93.
Big Spring also finished third in the Boys' 200 Yard Freestyle Relay with the grouping of Manuel Castillo, Morgan Griffith, Christian Pantoja-Strickland, and David Summers (1:57.69). Ethan Barker, Matthew Nieves, Carson Millsap, and Toby Phillips finished in fourth with a time of 2:35.16.
Malaki Vaughn finished in first-place in the Girls' 100 Yard Backstroke with a time of 1:20.51. Heffle finished directly behind her in second (1:36.23). On the boys' side, Pantoja-Strickland (1:20.78) placed third while Griffith finished in sixth (1:38.33).
Naomi Reyes finished in first-place and was the only Lady Steer to place in the Girls' 100-Yard Breaststroke (1:30.19). On the Boys' side, Summers (3rd, 1:32.61) and Ismael Castillo (4th, 1:34.09) finished in the Top 5.
Lastly, the grouping of Greene, Heffle, Overton, and Pina Arment finished in first-place in the Girls' 400 Yard Freestyle Relay (5:42.27). On the boys' side, the quartet of Ismael Castillo, Griffith, Millsap, and Phillips finished in second place out of two groups (5:23.93).
Shawn Moran is the sports writer at the Big Spring Herald. To contact him, e-mail sports@bigspringherald.com or call 432-263-7331.
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