The Wildcat swim team hosted their only home meet at the P.I. Indoor Pool against Caribou High School and Foxcroft Academy. The Presque Isle boys were victorious over both schools: Presque Isle 456 and Caribou 28 and Presque Isle 43 and Foxcroft 32. The Presque Isle girls beat Caribou 75 to19 , but lost to Foxcroft 54 to 40.
Eleven seniors were honored: Allison Young, Ryan Jones, Lucas Richards, Matt Dunn, Warren Zubrick, Dustin Graham, Jordan Francke, Desiree Higgins, Emilee Currie, Paige MacEachern and Karrie Brawn.
Matt Dunn qualified for states in the 100 yard backstroke. Two other swimmers qualified for states: Erica Hemphill in the 100 yard girls’ butterfly and Kyle Gilson in the 50 yards boys’ freestyle.
In the girls’ 200 yards medley relay, Young, Brawn, Hemphill and E. Currie placed second(2:18.15), and Shae Alder, Divya Bisht, Dara Raymond and Higgins fourth (2:36.99).
In the boys’ 200 yard medley relay, Dunn, Jacob Brawn, Stephen Goulet and Kyle Gilson were first (2:10.77).
In the girls’ 200 yards freestyle, Raymond took second (2:44.02) and Higgins third (3:02.55). In the boys’ 200 yards freestyle, Goulet was third (2:50.87) and Aaron Biggs fourth (2:55.03).
In girls’ 200 individual medley Hemphill finished second (2:51.34) and E. Currie fourth (3:03.25). In the girls’ 50 yard freestyle, Brawn placed second (29.85), Rilee Currie Elliott third (31.95) and McEachern eighth (39.34).
In the boys’ 50 yard freestyle, Gilson placed second (27.47), Dunn fourth (28), Brawn eighth (30.49), Zubrick ninth (30.69), Richard eleventh (30.78), Francke twelfth (31.59), Jones thirteenth (36.49) and Ethan York fourteenth (36.98). In the girls’ 100 yard freestyle, Young finished second (1:07.42), Alder third (1:10.84) and McEachern eighth (1:37.35). In the boys’ 100 yards freestyle, Gilson was first (1:13.05), Zubrick seventh (1:25.59), Richards sixth (1:1351), York tenth (1:28.27) and Jones eleventh (1:33.22).
In the girls’ 500 yards freestyle, R. Elliott was second (7:20.25) and Alecia Palmer fifth (8:37.52). In the boys’ 500 yards freestyle, Locke Robbins came in second (7:36.70) and Biggs fourth (8:18.45).
In the girls’ 200 freestyle relay, Brawn, Young, Alder and Raymond placed first(2:02.90) and Higgins, Bisht, Palmer and R. Elliott third (2:23.78). In the boys’ 200 yard freestyle relay, Gilson, Brawn, Dunn, and Goulet were first (1:56.90), Richard, Francke, Zubrick and Biggs third (2:09.46), and Graham, Ryan Jones, York, and Robbins fourth ( 2:20.32). In the girls’ 100 yard backstroke, Young third (1:21.11) and Alder (1:24.93). In the boys’ 100 yard backstroke, Dunn was first (1:13.12) and Robbins fourth (1:35.63). In the girls’ 100 yards breaststroke, Brawn was third (1:26.89) and Palmer fifth (1:37.02). In the boys’ 100 yard breaststroke, Brawn finished second (1:28.31) and Graham fourth (2:32.44).
In the girls’ 400 yard freestyle relay, Hemphill, R. Elliott, Currie and Raymond placed second (4:46.90) and McEachern, Higgins, Palmer and Bisht fourth (5:55.91).
In the boys’ 400 yard freestyle relay, Jones, York , Graham and Biggs were second (5:55.51).
The Presque Isle swim team meets with Caribou again on Friday in Limestone.
Staff photo/Abigail Hunt
AT THE INDOOR POOL, Wildcat swimmer Jacob Brawn leads Presque Isle in the boys’ 200 yard medley relay at Saturday’s swim meet. Brawn, along with Dunn, Goulet and Gilson, finished first in the relay, ahead of both Caribou and Dover-Foxcroft.
