CHS SWIMMING: Lady Cats roll to team title in triangular

TAOS — The Clovis High girls swimming team piled up 469 points to capture first place in a triangular swimming meet on Saturday.

Taos won the boys division of the meet with 272 points, just two more than the Wildcats. Monte del Sol was the third team in the meet.

“We swam very well today; we had a good meet,” CHS swimming coach Vincent DeMaio said. “Our times today were very good.”

The Lady Wildcats captured seven wins in the meet, with Katelyn Jeffs winning the 200 and 500 freestyle events. Claire Simpson, Amber Espinoza and Portia Gibbons were also individual winners while Clovis also won the 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay.

The boys won the 200 and 400 freestyle relays. They also had three individual second-place finishes, two by miles Ware and one by Nick DeMaio.

Coach DeMaio said his squads have already qualified seven events for state competition in February, including Ware in three events. “It’s certainly our best start ever,” he said of the three-year-old program.

Taos triangular

Saturday

Boys

Team standings: 1. Taos 272; 2. Clovis 270; 3. Monte del Sol 186.

Clovis results

200 freestyle: 2. Miles Ware 1:59.21. 50 freestyle: 3. Josh Bussen 26.96. 100 freestyle: 3. Bussen 1:03.50. 200 freestyle relay: 1. Ware, Bussen, Landon Dalley, Nick DeMaio. 100 backstroke: 2. DeMaio 1:09.32. 100 breaststroke: 2. Ware 1:11.64. 400 freestyle relay: 1. DeMaio, Dalley, Bussen, Ware 4:00.00.

Girls

Team standings: 1. Clovis 469; 2. Taos 278; 3. Monte del Sol 53.

Clovis results

200 medley relay: 1. Amber Espinoza, Katelyn Jeffs, Portia Gibbons, Claire Simpson 2:11.58. 200 freestyle: 1. Jeffs 2:19.70. 50 freestyle: 1. Simpson 27.67. 100 butterfly: 1. Espinoza 1:07.96. 500 freestyle: 1. Jeffs 6:24.10. 200 freestyle relay: 2. Jill Southard, Jeanette Soto, Chelsey Carter, Gibbons 2:07.57. 100 backstroke: 1. Gibbons 1:14.24. 100 breaststroke: 2. Southard 1:36.12. 400 freestyle relay: 1. Espinoza, Soto, Jeffs, Simpson 4:19.46.