Allegan and St Joe

With the season beginning to wind down over the last few weeks our girls have had to endure some emotional highs and lows. Although our Trojans performed well against Allegan on Oct 14^th things did not go exactly as planned. Allegan was primed, ready and I believe well rested. They had their eyes on a victory this night even if it meant sacrificing some end of the season time drops to do so. Allegan swam well and deserved the win by out touching us in a few key races that ultimately made the difference. Allegan 96 Plainwell 90.

Even though Plainwell came in beat up, sick, and short on numbers gutsy performances were evident everywhere. In the medley relay Ernst, Gauthier, Nyberg and Seiler finished 2^nd.  L. Jones took 2^nd in the 200 free and Abby Ernst came away with 1^st place in the IM. Aaryn Jewell just got touched out in the 50 free finishing in 2^nd and Kim Jones walked away with the top spot in diving. The butterfly event was another close race with Aaryn Jewell grabbing second While Abby Ernst also took 2^nd in the 100 free. Our 200 Free relay team of L Jones, Gauthier, Ernst and Jewell earned a hard fought 1^st and Emma Seiler cruised to 1^st in the 100 back. The breaststroke event was also close with Karlee Gauthier finishing in 2nd and our relay team of Jones, Jewell, Nyberg and Seiler would end the night with a second place showing in the 400 free relay event.

Two days later and coming off a very emotional Allegan meet PHS would take on visiting St. Joe. It would have been easy for our girls to lay down for this strong division two opponent but that’s not who they are and they proved it by reaching deep and performing well all night. When we look back on this season I believe the St Joe meet will be viewed as the meet and win that showed our girls true heart. Well done Trojan Swim & Dive!  Plainwell 100      St. Joe 86

PHS v. St Joe Results

200 Medley: 1^st Ernst,Gauthier,Nyberg,Seiler/ 3^rd Brignall,Sing,Hills,Jones/ 5^th Oaks,Havenaar,Havenaar,Hillmann

200 Free: 2^nd L. Jones/ 4^th V. Klein/ 6^th M. Betz

200 IM: 2^nd A. Ernst/ 4^th A. Singh/ 5^th M. Havenaar

50 Free: 1^st A. Jewell/3^rd E. Seiler/5^th C. Keator/ 7^th K. Havenaar

Diving: 1^st K. Jones/4^th E. Zimmer/6^th J. Clemens

100 Fly: 1^st A. Jewell/3^rd J. Nyberg/5^th C. Hills

100 Free: 2^nd L. Jones/3^rd E. Seiler/4^th K. Oakes

500 Free: 2^nd K. Gauthier/3^rd V. Klein/6^th K. Havenaar

200 F Relay: 2^nd Seiler,Jones,Jewell,Gauthier/3^rd Singh,Keator,Oakes,Klein/5^th Havenaar, Brignal, Havenaar,?

100 Back: 1^st A. Ernst/3^rd J. Nyberg/6^th C. Hills

100 Breast: 3^rd K. Gauthier/4^th A. Singh/5^th M. Havenaar

400 F Relay: 1^st L. Jones, Ernst,Nyberg,Jewell/ 3^rd Keator,Brignall,Oakes,Klein/ 5^th     Havenaar,Betz,Hills,?