City-County Swim Meet

December 5, 2011
Star staff reports

WINCHESTER- Millbrook won the combined team title at the City-County Relays at Jim Barnett Park on Saturday.

The Pioneers won with 140 points, and Sherando (113) followed in second. James Wood (95) took third, and Handley (74) came in fourth.

The Pioneers boys' medley relay team of Joe Patterson (backstroke), Nick Patton (breaststroke), Thomas Northrup (butterfly) and Michael Span (freestyle) won with a state-qualifying time of 2 minutes, 1.49 seconds. Span also posted a state time in the 50 free (26.28) portion of Millbrook's 200 free relay team (of Patterson, Hunter Doherty and Northrup) that won with a time of 1:50.96. Millbrook's mixed 200 breaststroke relay team of Patton, Chris Otoya, McKenzie Schrank and Rachel Baker (2:44.98) and the Pioneers mixed 200 fly relay team of Span, Sydney Walton, Abby McClellan and Northrup (2:12.27) also won. The Pioneers' 400 free relay team of Span, Doherty, Patterson and Northrup (4:13.09) also took first place.

Sherando's mixed 200 free relay team of Rei Sturm, Kaylie Herron, Andrew Summers and Kelsey Dingman (1:58.89), and the Warriors' mixed 200 backstroke relay team of Alexis English, James Williams, Amber Lapsley and Sturm (2:20.35) took first place. The Warriors' girls' 400-meter free relay team of English, Lapsley, Christina Lee and Dingman (4:44.24) also came in first.

James Wood girls' 200 medley relay team of McKenzie McNemar, Kaye Whitacre, Catherine Legge and Alex Lew took first with a time of 2:19.53. The Colonels' mixed 200 medley relay team of Connor Babington, Whitacre, Lew and Chad Schott also won in 2:14.65, and Wood's girls' 200 free relay team of Whitacre, Molly Farinholt, McNemar and Lew also won with a time of 2:05.98.

Handley's mixed 200 free (8x25) relay team of Daniel Flax, Carter Black, Alex Day, Sparkle Kitchin, Alexis Grzywacz, Ethan Volinsky, Elizabeth Harris and Troy Bergin took first in 2:01.48.