Swim teams in full stride at Beaumont meet

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Swim teams in full stride at Beaumont meet

Tommy Mann, Jr. The Orange Leader

BEAUMONT — Swimmers representing the two Orange County swim teams found points harder to come by at the most recent competition.

The City of Orange Swim Team (COST) and Vidor Area Swim Team (VAST) traveled to Beaumont on June 19 for the second meet of the season, and the first to be held at the Beaumont Country Club.

Rylan Odom led the COST boys with three first-place victories, while Paige Perales led the girls with two wins.

Odom, 11, won first place in the Boys 11-12 100 Yard Individual Medley with a time of 1:32.99. He also won the Boys 50 Yard Butterfly in 41.48 seconds and the Boys 50 Yard Backstroke in 44.03 seconds for the same age group.

Meanwhile, Perales claimed first place out of 18 swimmers in the Girls 13-14 50 Yard Freestyle in 28.60 seconds and added another first place victory in the Girls 50 Yard Backstroke in 36.78 seconds.

Four other COST swimmers earned first place victories at the Beaumont meet.

Nicholas Anthony won the Boys 9-10 25 Yard Freestyle in a time of 17.33 seconds, while Olivia Basinger demolished the field in the Girls 11-12 25 Yard Butterfly in 18.94 seconds.

Michael Dupre did the same in the Boys 13-14 50 Yard Butterfly in 34.07 seconds, more than 3.5 seconds ahead of the runner-up, and Chase LeDoux claimed victory in the Boys 11-12 50 Yard Breaststroke in 49.37 seconds.

COST also added several second-place finishes to add to its team point total for the day.

Abby Gautreaux placed second in the Girls 11-12 25 Yard Butterfly, behind Basinger, with a time of 21.68 seconds, while teammate Joshua Howard finished second in the Boys 11-12 25 Yard Butterfly in 21.49 seconds.

Perales added a second place finish to go along with her pair of victories on the day in the Girls 13-14 50 Yard Butterfly with a time of 33.15 seconds.

Ricki King added a pair of runner-up finishes to the COST total. She placed second in the Girls 7-8 25 Yard Backstroke in 24.37 seconds, and claimed second in the Girls 7-8 25 Yard Breaststroke in 33.65 seconds.

COST’s Kaghan Odom placed second in the Boys 7-8 25 Yard Backstroke with a time of 24.06 seconds, and teammate Abbi Gayle LeDoux finished second in the Girls 15-16 50 Yard Backstroke in 45.02 seconds.

Emily Blanke claimed second in the Girls 15-16 50 Yard Breaststroke for COST with a time of 1:01:36.

The COST relay team of Elijah Vigil, Madison Driskell, Tiana Williamson and Nicholas Anthony placed second in the Mixed 10 and Under 100 Yard Freestyle with a time of 1:20.45, while the Mixed 12 and Under team of Joshua Howard, Olivia Basinger, Chase LeDoux and Rylan Odom claimed second with a time of 1:03.96 in its age group.

In the Mixed 14 and Under 100 Yard Medley Relay, it was the team of Jordan Dodson, Tricia Newman, Michael Dupre and Paige Perales which finished in second place with a time of 1:05.87, narrowly missing first place by 1.58 seconds.

Although no swimmers won multiple races for VAST, the swim team collected nine wins in all.

Timothy Bahl won the Boys 7-8 50 Yard Freestyle in 50.90 seconds, while his sister defeated 10 other swimmers to claim the win in the Girls 9-10 50 Yard Freestyle in 36.70 seconds.

Hunter Heidleberg roared to a first place finish in the Boys 11-12 25 Yard Butterfly in 18.82 seconds, 3.6 seconds ahead of the runner-up, while Jessica Cameron won the Girls 15-16 50 Yard Backstroke in 44.98 seconds.

VAST swimmers accounted for the majority of its medals in the Breaststroke competition as the team walked away with five victories.

Raylynn Carreon placed first in the Girls 9-10 25 Yard Breaststroke in 24.95 seconds. Carly Bessire claimed her first victory of the year, after seven second-place finishes in other races over the last two weeks, with a time of 42.86 seconds in the Girls 11-12 50 Yard Breaststroke.

Bailey Rogers won the Girls 13-14 100 Yard Breaststroke in 1:33.08, while Lucas Wolfe of VAST did the same in the boys division in 1:39.94. Victoria Richardson added the final win of the day for VAST with a time of 1:35.90 in the Girls 15-16 age group.

Bessire added three runner-up finishes to the VAST point total on June 19 as she placed second in the Girls 11-12 100 Yard IM in 1:23.21. She also finished in second place in the same age division in the Girls 50 Yard Freestyle in 31.50 seconds, missing out on first by 1.15 seconds, and second in the Girls 50 Yard Butterfly.

Wolfe added a second place finish to the team total in the Boys 13-14 50 Yard Freestyle in 30.06 seconds, while teammate Richardson did the same in the Girls 15-16 age group in 32.39 seconds.

Zoe Bahl finished in second place in the Girls 9-10 100 Yard IM in 1:39.92, and again in the Girls 25 Yard Breaststroke in 26.54 seconds.

Eddie Dyess finished in second place in the Boys 11-12 50 Yard Breaststroke in 50.57 seconds, only 1.20 seconds behind the winner.

[spoonbill]

any updates on the meet at the orange natatorium on 06/26/10? hopefully the orange county swimmers had a better showing there.