Fletcher tops in 100-yard backstroke

• Homer swimmers tune up for regional meet Friday at Skyview

by Aaron Selbig
Homer Tribune
With only days left until the all-important regional swim meet at Skyview High – where state qualifiers will be decided and the seasons of many swimmers will end in disappointment – the Homer Mariner swim team could have been forgiven for slacking off at last weekend’s Peninsula Invitational.
But slack off they did not.
Swimming in their own pool against teams from Seward, Skyview and Soldotna high schools, several Mariners again registered personal best times in their events – and a few of them won.
“It’s not that we’re pushing them at this point,” said Homer Head Coach Anna Borland-Ivy. “It wouldn’t have bothered me to have the weekend off, but they swam really well.”
Marie Schmidt led the way for the Homer girls, placing first in the 200-yard freestyle with a personal best time of two minutes, 6.36 seconds. She also took first in the 500-yard freestyle.
Katherine Spence, Dana Olesch and Donna McNulty all had first place finishes, as well, in the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard breaststroke respectively.
For the Mariner boys, Alder Fletcher took a full five seconds off his personal best in the 100-yard backstroke, and scored an easy win with a blazing time of 1:02.33.
“Alder is just lighting the pool on fire every time he swims these days,” said Borland-Ivy.
Until the team takes off for Skyview on Thursday, Borland-Ivy has just one simple instruction – rest.
“I told them not to go out and play soccer or anything,” she said.

Aaron Selbig - Homer's Garrett Hall competes in the one-meter diving event at the Peninsula Invitational swim meet held on Oct. 24 at Kate Kuhns Aquatic Center.a

Girls
Team scores – 1. Soldotna, 149; 2. Homer, 115; 3. Skyview, 30.

Relay results
200-yard medley relay – 1. Soldotna, 1:59.91; 2. Homer, 2:15.04; 3. Soldotna, 2:17.90; 4. Skyview, 3:00.01.
200 freestyle relay – 1. Homer (McNulty, Schmidt, Spence, Olesch), 1:50.83; 2. Soldotna, 1:54.05; 3. Homer, 1:59.67; 4. Soldotna, 2:12.72; 5. Skyview, 2:19.67.
400 freestyle relay – 1. Soldotna, 3:55.80; 2. Homer, 4:05.20; 3. Soldotna, 5:07.33; 4. Skyview, 7:01.80.

Individual results (Homer)
200 freestyle – 1. Marie Schmidt, 2:06.36; 2. Donna McNulty, 2:10.87; 4. Dana Olesch, 2:13.38.
200 individual medley – 3. Kathryn Schmidt, 2:45.12.
50 freestyle – 1. Katherine Spence, 27.06; 3. Katie Kirsis, 28.80.
100 butterfly – 1. Dana Olesch, 1:07.07; 3. Sara Bitterman, 1:12.41; 4. Lydia Arndt, 1:12.86.
500 freestyle – 1. Marie Schmidt, 5:34.25.
100 backstroke – 1. Katherine Spence, 1:10.64; 4. Katie Kirsis, 1:19.22.
100 breaststroke – 1. Donna McNulty, 1:12.55; 4. Emily Schmidt, 1:22.60; 5. Kathryn Schmidt, 1:22.80.

Boys
Team scores – 1. Soldotna, 121; 2. Homer, 107; 3. Skyview, 34; 4. Seward, 24.

Relay results
200-yard medley relay – 1. Soldotna, 1:51.33; 2. Homer, 1:54.01; 3. Soldotna, 2:11.98; 4. Homer, 2:13.85; 5. Skyview, 2:22.73.
200 freestyle relay – 1. Homer (Martishev, Reekie, Reid, Lovett), 1:50.67; 2. Soldotna, 1:51.65; 3. Skyview, 1:58.58.
400 freestyle relay – 1. Soldotna, 3:44.25; 2. Homer, 3:51.39; 3. Soldotna, 4:31.73.

Individual results (Homer)
200 freestyle – 4. James Reid, 2:32.50.
200 individual medley – 2. Richard Ginter, 2:19.34; 3. Miron Martishev, 2:51.34.
50 freestyle – 3. Kyle Wentz, 24.93; 6. Tyler Wentz, 26.43.
1-meter diving – 2. Garrett Hall, 174.30; 3. Davey Baird, 161.80.
100 butterfly – 2. Alder Fletcher, 58.19.
100 freestyle – 2. Andre Lovett, 59.39; 5. Miron Martishev, 1:02.13.
500 freestyle – 1. James Reid, 6:25.97.
100 backstroke – 1. Alder Fletcher, 1:02.33; 2. Tyler Wentz, 1:06.95; 6. Justin Reekie, 1:24.27.
100 breaststroke – 2. Richard Ginter, 1:08.88; 3. Kyle Wentz, 1:12.56.

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