Will C. Wood teams swim to wins

On Wednesday at Armijo High School, the Will C. Wood boys downed the Royals in swimming, 57 to 20.

For the Wildcats, Eliya Andrsh placed first in the 100 fly. James Torres finished first in the 100 and 200-meter freestyle. Aaron Lee placed first in the 100 back and 100 breast, and Robert Strang finished second in the 200 freestyle 50 freestyle.

Girls swimming WILL C. WOOD 75, ARMIJO 24 >>

Wood’s Alex Reeves was first in the 100 free, while teammates Karin Irwin placed first in the100 back, and Alison Schonauer was first in the 200 free and second in the 100 breast.

Diana Luu placed first for the Wildcats in the 50 free, while teammate Stephanie Coral finished second in the 50 freestyle and backstroke, and teammate Rebecca Pearson placed second in the 100 freestyle.

Volleyball VANDEN 3, WILL C. WOOD 0 >>

Vanden High, at home on Wednesday, defeated Will C. Wood 25-18, 25-12, 25-15 to improve to 2-1 in Monticello Empire League play.

“Our offense and defense started coming together tonight,” said Vanden assistant coach Christopher Co. “We were able to settle our nerves and play as a unit.”

Mora Braggs had eight blocks to go along with 9-for-10 serving. Francesca King was 19-for-19 serving with an ace and 16 assists,

Rachel Lin had seven kills and a block and went 9-for10 serving.

“Serve receive got us and we had to play a lot of out of system tonight,” said Wood head coach Paige McConlogue. “Alycia Tarango served well for us off the bench with five aces and Kennedy Morgan contributed 20 assists.”

JV volleyball VANDEN 2, WILL C. WOOD 0 >>

The Vikings improved to 3-0 in MEL play with a 2515, 25-15 sweep of the Wildcats.

Vanden’s Breanna Davis was 17-for-17 serving with four aces, nine assists and three digs. Jada Cuffie was 2-for-2 serving with eight kills and two blocks. Taya Kelly went 6-for-6 serving with two aces, and Makenzie

Lovell was 3-for-3 serving with 14-for-14 serve-receive passing and two digs.

“Our JV game today against a strong Vanden team had many ups and downs,” said Wood coach Andrew Randolph. “Our girls fell short during the first part of the first set, but were able to turn it around and play consistently for the remainder of the first set and the entirety of the second. We are a team that plays well when we work together and have fun doing it. I think that was evident in the latter part of our game today. Despite falling short to Vanden in two games, we had two solid service runs by Francesca Sandoval and Mia Carr, along with all-around great play by Gwen Duncan.”