The Chelsea Standard
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Beach faces state's best
By Don Richter, Sports Editor
PUBLISHED: February 8, 2007
Chelsea's Beach Middle School swimming and diving team ended their season last Friday and Saturday participating in the Michigan Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association state invitational at Holt.
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Fifty-seven squads competed for the top 16 places in each event. No team scores were kept.
Beach eight-grader Lauren Dark started things out for Chelsea in the diving event, placing seventh with 158.5 points.
Early in the meet, the Bulldogs' 200 medley relay team was disqualified.
"They would have placed 11th and I know they weren't happy about it, but I knew with as fast as they had swum, we were going to have a good day", said Chelsea coach Dave Brinklow. "I had gone through the program and made some predictions, or more accurately dream times that I hoped they would go and they met or exceeded every one of them."
Chelsea's Andrew Wickens placed 22nd in the 50 freestyle with a personal best time of 27.99.
In the 200 freestyle relay, the Beach foursome of Jacob Bogarin, Ross Argir, Joe Haroney and Wickens combined for an eighth-place finish with a personal best time of 1:52.13.
Haroney placed 11th in the 100 backstroke in 1:09.86.
The last event for the boys was the 400 freestyle relay with Philip Arbogast-Wilson, Bogarin, Wickens and Haroney finishing 10th in 4:12.24.
"This was probably the best perfomance of the day", Brinklow said. "Each member of the relay team dropped at least three seconds from their best time for a total of over 15 seconds off their previous best. That kind of time drop is very unusual and I couldn't be prouder of these guys.
"The girls took off in the afternoon right where the boys left off with some huge time drops of their own."
The 200 medley relay team of Claudia Bravo, Kelly O'Keefe, Hannah Olsen and Jaclyn Murphy dropped five seconds off their best time finishing in 11th place in 2:11.75.
Murphy ended up 15th in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:16.63.
Olsen placed ninth in the 50 butterfly in 30.69, while Bravo was 21st in 32.15.
The highest finish of the meet for Chelsea was in the 200 freestyle relay with Olsen, O'Keefe, Bravo and Murphy finishing fifth in a season best time of 1:55.15.
O'Keefe finished 26th in the 100 breaststroke with a personal best time of 1:25.03.
In the 400 freestyle relay, the group of Olsen, O'Keefe, Bravo and Murphy placed 12th in a season best 4:22.04.
Also last week, Chelsea lost to visiting Tecumseh, 101-69 in a dual meet.
Scoring in the meet was the 200 medley relay team of Haroney, O'Keefe, Olsen and Wickens in second place. Laura Lodewyk, Chris McQuarrie, Bravo and Argir finished fourth, while Alexis Roberts, Katie Frankhart, Mackenzie Cole and Anna Helvey ended up fifth for Beach.
In the 200 freestyle, Murphy was second, Bogarin fourth and Clara Erickson sixth.
Haroney was second in the 100 individual medley, while Bravo was third and Arbogast-Wilson fifth.
In the 50 freestyle, Wickens was fourth, while Argir was fifth and Olsen sixth.
Dark won the diving event, while Colby Wrathall was fifth and Zach Petoskey sixth for the Bulldogs.
In the 50 butterfly, Olsen was second, while Bravo was fourth and Wickens fifth.
Murphy was second in the 100 freestyle, while Bogarin was fourth and Arbogast-Wilson sixth.
The 200 freestyle relay team of Wickens, Olsen, Argir and Murphy placed first followed by McQuarrie, Lodewyk, Helvey and Bogarin in fourth place. Amanda Johnson, Shelby Collins, Kaila Croskey and Sheri Robbins touched fifth for Chelsea.
Haroney was second in the 100 backstroke, while Roberts was fourth and Frankhart fifth.
In the 100 breaststroke, O'Keefe was second, while Argir was third and Katlin Connin fourth.
The 400 freestyle relay team of Bogarin, Bravo, Haroney and Murphy finished first, while Arbogast-Wilson, Helvey, Roberts and Lodewyk ended up second. Kaitlin Jolly, Cole, Erickson and Collins placed third for Beach.
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