Posted: 2/1/06
Swim team making waves with busy schedule
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The Forest Lake High School boys swimming and diving team placed 10th at the State True Team Meet at the University of Minnesota last Friday. Lakeville won the meet with 1773.5 points. The Rangers had 727.5 points.
The Rangers were lead by Dillon Hudalla who finished first in diving. Hudalla set the new True Team State meet record by scoring 241.70 points, topping the previous record of 207.5 he set last year. The Rangers other three divers, Jason Carr, Jeff Isaacson and Connor Florand, placed eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth respectively, finishing the event with a total of 127 points.
This point total was surpassed only by the 130 points obtained by the four Lakeville divers.
Other top twenty finishes by the Rangers included a fourth place finish by the 200 yard freestyle relay team of John Goossens, Elijah Miller, Mark Sandager and Sam Gort, ninth place finishes by Gort in the 500 yard freestyle and Sandager in the 100 yard backstroke, a 10th place finish by the 400 yard freestyle relay team of Goossens, Miller, Sandager and Gort, a 12th place finish by Sandager in the 100 yard butterfly, a 15th place finish by Gort in the 200 yard freestyle, a 17th place finish by Miller in the 100 yard breaststroke, an 18th place finish by Goossens in the 50 yard freestyle, and a 20th place finish by Miller in the 200 yard individual medley.
The Rangers improved their dual meet record to 4-1 last Thursday with a 96-89 win at Hastings.
The Rangers depth prevailed in a meet where they only took first place in four of the 12 events.
The Rangers first place finishes came from Hudalla in diving as he set a new school record of 271.65 points, Goossens in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle and Gort in the 500 yard freestyle.
Second place finishes for the Rangers included Gort in the 200 yard freestyle, Sandager in the 200 yard individual medley and 100 yard butterfly, Waskey in the 50 yard freestyle and 100 yard breaststroke, Isaacson in diving and Miller in the 100 yard backstroke.
The Rangers 200 yard medley relay team of Sandager, Matt Elden, Miller and Gort, the 200 yard freestyle relay team of Goossens, Sandager, Miller, and Gort, and the 400 yard freestyle relay team of Scott Isaacson, Waskey, Tyler Sperry, and Goossens all also recorded second place finishes.
Third place finishes were provided by Miller in the 100 yard butterfly, John Gavanda in the 100 yard backstroke, the 200 yard medley relay team of Gavanda, Sperry, Mike Bahr and Josh Stomberg, the 200 yard freestyle relay team of Frank OíNeil, Peter Sandager, Waskey and Scott Isaacson, and the 400 yard freestyle relay team of Stomberg, Clint Krummi, Peter Sandager, and Matt Elden.
The Rangers then went 1-1 in dual meet action this past week. The team is now 5-2 overall in dual meet competition and 3-2 in Suburban East Conference competition with two conference meets remaining. The Rangers beat Irondale last Tuesday 94-79, but then lost to Mounds View last Thursday 102-78.
In the Irondale meet the Rangers had first place finishes in 11 of the 12 events. First place finishes were by Gort in the 200 and 500 yard freestyle, Miller in the 200 yard individual medley and the 100 yard backstroke, Mark Sandager in the 50 yard freestyle, Isaacson in diving, John Goossens in the 100 yard freestyle, Elden in the 100 yard breaststroke, the 200 yard medley relay team of Mark Sandager, Sperry, Waskey and Gavanda, the 200 yard freestyle relay team of Sandager, Goossens, Miller and Gort, and the 400 yard freestyle relay team of Gavanda, Goossens, Miller and Gort.
The Rangers had second place finishes from Goossens in the 200 yard individual medley, Waskey in the 50 yard freestyle, Connor Florand in diving, Sperry in the 100 yard butterfly and 100 yard breaststroke, Peter Sandager in the 100 yard freestyle and Mark Sandager in the 500 yard freestyle.
Mounds View came to Forest Lake last Thursday as the fifth rated team in AA competition and the Rangers needed everything they had to be competitive. The Rangers entered the meet missing three of its top swimmers and its top diver due to illness or other school related commitments. The result was that Mounds View handled the Rangers as the Rangers handled Irondale earlier in the week.
Mounds View ended up with first in 11 of the 12 events. Missing from the meet were diver Hudalla, who also missed the Irondale meet, Gort, Miller and Goossens.
The Rangers lone first place finish was by Mark Sandager in the 100 yard backstroke. The Rangers second place finishes were also limited and included Sandager in the 200 yard individual medley, Jeff Isaacson in diving, and the 200 yard medley relay team of Sandager, Elden, Sperry and Isaacson.
The Rangers remaining two dual meets are at Stillwater today, Thursday, and Senior Night at the Southwest Junior High pool against Woodbury Feb. 9.
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