Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
CARLSBAD — Clovis High’s girls made a clean sweep of the Artesia Invitational on Saturday. The boys, meantime, settled for a near-sweep.
The Lady Wildcats won all 11 events on the girls side while the boys were first in eight of 11. Clovis won the girls division with 316 points to 195 for Hobbs and took boys team honors with 275 to 214 for the Eagles in a six-team get-together.
Clovis didn’t swim its top swimmers in all events, instead choosing to let them do some different events.
“I thought the kids had a great meet,” CHS swimming coach Vincent de Maio said. “We picked up four new (state-)qualifying times and another three (season-best) times.”
Sophomore Hannah Luscombe led the Lady Cats with a pair of individual wins and legs on two winning relays. Fellow sophomore Nina Mead won the 100 butterfly and also swam on two winning relays, while junior Annie Smith came away with victories in the 200 freestyle and the 100 backstroke.
For the boys, junior James Skuse had two individual and two relay wins, including a state-qualifying time of 5:06.66 to lead a 1-2-3 sweep of the 500 freestyle. Junior Seiji Aponte also had a hand in three wins for the Wildcats — the 100 butterfly and two relays.
CHS squads will compete in their final regular-season meet on Saturday, the Hobbs Invitational. Hobbs will also be the site for district competition the following weekend, with the state meet on tap for Feb. 17-18 at Albuquerque Academy.
SUMMARY
Artesia Invitational
Saturday at Carlsbad
Boys
Team standings: 1. Clovis 275; 2. Hobbs 214; 3. Carlsbad 93; 4. Artesia 76; 5. New Mexico Military 69; 6. Alamogordo 47.
Clovis results
200 medley relay: 1. James Skuse, Brian Nordgren, Ethan Zamora, Seiji Aponte 1:43.83. 200 freestyle: 1. Zamora 1:52.72 (SQ); 3. Barrett Bryant 1:58.83. 200 individual medley: 2. Cade Nordgren 2:15.88; 3. Glen Southard 2:19.39. 50 freestyle: 1. Skuse 22.84; 2. B. Nordgren 23.85; 3. Brandon Mammano 24.96. 100 butterfly: 1. Aponte 59.65; 2. Zamora 1:00.68. 100 freestyle: 1. Bryant 52.51; 2. Mammano 55.21. 500 freestyle: 1. Skuse 5:06.66 (SQ); 2. B. Nordgren 5:18.76 (SQ); 3. Case Smith 5:19.32. 200 freestyle relay: 1. Bryant, Aponte, B. Nordgren, Skuse 1:34.36. 100 backstroke: 2. Aponte 1:00.61; 3. C. Nordgren 1:01.69; 4. Southard 1:04. 61. 100 breaststroke: 3. Alex Aburto 1:15.18. 400 freestyle relay: 1. Bryant, Aburto, Smith, Zamore 3:34.65.
Girls
Team standings: 1. Clovis 316; 2. Hobbs 195; 3. Alamogordo 120; 4. Artesia 71; 5. Carlsbad 58; 6. New Mexico Military 3.
Clovis results
200 medley relay: 1. Bella Zamora, Olivia Reeb, Nina Mead, Anya Hammond 1:58.29. 200 freestyle: 1. Annie Smith 2:06.15; 2. Mya Hammond 2:07.87 (SQ); 3. Katie Kelley 2:14.57; 4. Tabitha May 2:21.25. 200 individual medley: 1. Hannah Luscombe 2:26.21. 50 freestyle: 1. A. Hammond 26.79; 2. Mead 27.41. 100 butterfly: 1. Mead 1:09.59; 2. Katie Reeb 1:12.68. 100 freestyle: 1. O. Reeb 58.46; 2. Zamora 58.81; 3. Kelley 59.80. 500 freestyle: 1. Luscombe 5:35.43. 200 freestyle relay: 1. Zamora, Mead, Luscombe, Smith 1:48.06; 2. Kelley, M. Hammond, May, Eleanor Hardwick 1:58.29. 100 backstroke: 1. Smith 1:04.54; 3. O. Reeb 1:08.45. 100 breaststroke: 1. Zamora 1:16.50; 2. A. Hammond 1:18.41. 400 freestyle relay: 1. Luscombe, O. Reeb, Smith, A. Hammond 3:55.12; 2. Kelley, M. Hammond, K. Reeb, Adra Nordgren 4:08.81.
SQ—new state-qualifying mark.
