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Decisive win for Islander girls at Swim MIHS volleyball and Dive SeaKing District championship wins district title By Joseph Livarchik
By Joseph Livarchik
The Mercer Island girls swim and dive team captured the SeaKing District 2 championship Saturday, Nov. 9. Mercer Island won with a team score of 263. Bainbridge finished second with a score of 231, followed by Lakeside at 218. There were plenty of Islander highlights throughout the meet, beginning with the Islanders placing second in the 200 yard medley relay behind their relay team of Caitlin Cox, Sabrina Kwan, Sofija Raisys and Alex Seidel. Bainbridge took first with a time of 1:49.82. In the 200 yard freestyle, Maeve Murdoch finished fifth with a time of 1:59.13. Leah Fisk placed seventh and Audrey Hixon finished ninth. For the 200 yard individual medley, Emily Olsen finished eighth, while Esther Choe finished 11th. Sabrina Kwan finished seventh in the 50 yard freestyle, while Heather Robinson finished 10th, Rachel Hecker 11th. In the one meter diving competition, Hadley Michaels placed fourth with a score of 316.95. Emily Lightfoot placed eighth, and Kayla Varney placed ninth. In the 100 yard butterfly, Sabrina Kwan placed second with a time of 57.00. Alex Seidel finished seventh, and
Islanders’ primary focus for the district finals was to After surviving a scare block well, something she from their matchup with said the Islanders didn’t do Eastside Catholic earlier in against Eastside Catholic. the day, the Mercer Island Mercer Island adjusted High School volleyball quickly, with 15 blocks team rolled past Seattle against Seattle Prep, their Prep 3-1 to win the District highest total all season. The Islanders came out 2 3A KingCo Tournament firing, winning the first Saturday, Nov. 9. “That was a mentally two sets 25-14 and 25-20. huge win going into the The Panthers respondstate tournament,” Coach ed winning the third set Susan McKay said in a 25-20 before the Islanders phone call. “We definitely pulled away, winning the learned from our match fourth set 25-20 and securagainst Eastside Catholic, ing the district title. Mercer Island will face and it gave us a huge Kennedy Catholic in the amount of first round confidence of the state and excitetournament.” m e n t . Despite W h i l e b e i n g M c K a y down 2-1 called the to Eastside Catholic Coach Susan McKay L a n c e r s “a good after three s t r o n g sets and trailing 12-11 in the decid- team,” she also said that the ing fifth set, the Islanders Islanders have unfinished stormed back to close business when it comes out the Crusaders 15-12, to a state championship, advancing to the cham- mentioning last year’s first pionship round. Sarah round loss to Prairie. “There’s a sense of a Lindquist had 25 kills and 3 blocks for the Islanders, second chance, and the and Jemma Yeadon had 22 players are ready to finally kills and 3 blocks. Natalie accomplish this goal that Robinson had 47 assists we haven’t been able to while pitching in 3 aces. before,” said McKay. Mercer Island will play Brooke Behrbaum had 7 kills and 4 blocks, and Kennedy Catholic at 1:30 Olivia Hughes added 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 at St. Martin’s University in blocks and 5 aces. McKay said the Lacey, Wash. jlivarchik@mi-reporter.com
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“The players are ready to finally accomplish this goal.”
Joseph Livarchik / Staff photo
Members of the Mercer Island girls swim team, cheer on their teammate sduring the SeaKing District 2 championships Saturday, Nov. 9 at Mary Wayte Pool. The Islanders won with a team score of 263. Emily Koksu came in 11th. For the 100 yard freestyle, Maeve Murdoch placed fourth with a time of 55.50. Sabrina Steinhauer followed in fifth place, Emily Olsen in sixth and Rachel Hecker finishing seventh. In the 500 yard freestyle, Leah Fisk placed third with a time of 5:12.17. Angela Riggins placed eighth, and Audrey Hixon came in ninth. For the 200 yard freestyle
relay, Mercer Island came in third with a team of Leah Fisk, Sabrina Kwan, Rachel Hecker and Erin McAllister with a time of 1:41.23. They finished behind Lakeside and Bainbridge. Caitlin Cox finished second in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 58.81. Alex Seidel finished fourth, and Kristin Jradi finished 11th. In the 100 yard breaststroke, Sofija Raisys finished ninth, while Michelle
Na finished 11th. Mercer Island closed out the meet winning the 400 yard relay behind the team of Alex Seidel, Caitlin Cox, Maeve Murdoch and Leah Fisk. The 2013 girls swim and dive 3A state meet will begin with preliminaries Nov. 15 at 4:45 p.m. at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. The 3A state finals will be Nov. 16 at 6:30 p.m.
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