High School State Championships: California Northern Boys, Girls Masters

REDDING, California, November 3. THE top swimmers from the northeastern part of California were invited to compete at the CIF Northern Section Championships, held Oct. 29. Swimmers were selected based on their placings at the CIF Northern Division 1 and 2 Championships, held Oct. 26 and 27 in Cottonwood. All three meets were contested in short course yards.

Chico High School, winners at the Division 1 meet, repeated their first-place finish at Masters with 448.5 points, as did runner-up Pleasant Valley with 327 points. Division 2 victor West Valley came in third with 205 points. Shasta, the third-place finisher in Division 1, was fourth with 166 points. In fifth was Division 2 runner-up University Prep with 149 points.

All of the event champions repeated their triumphs from the Division 1 meet, except for the 200 IM. Pleasant Valley freshman Keely Johnson and Chico sophomore Cydni Aird switched places, with Johnson touching first in 2:17.79 to Aird's 2:21.73.

Pleasant Valley junior Gracie Hernandez repeated her double triumphs in the 200 free (1:59.68) and 500 free (5:18.79), as did Chico junior Maddie Johnson in the 100 breast (1:10.93) and 100 fly (1:00.93). Aird took charge of the 100 back with her 1:01.80. Shasta freshman Ariella Aung defeated Chico sophomore Paige Treff in the 50 free, 25.12-25.14. And Chico senior Kathleen West repeated her 100 free victory with the same time as her Division 1 win (54.94).

Chico relays captured all three of the women's relays. Aird, Johnson, Treff and West topped the 200 medley relay with their 1:53.52 and came together for the 200 free relay as well (1:42.49). Freshman Annabelle Hopkins, sophomore Elizabeth Keane and juniors Kassandra Graham and Sami Sanders combined for a 3:56.60 triumph in the 400 free relay.

The boys squad from Pleasant Valley repeated as champions from their Division 1 meet, scoring 376 points at the Masters meet. The top two teams from Division 2, Winters and West Valley, had a tough battle for second with Winters emerging on top, 256-244. Shasta and Chico, second and third in Division 1, were fourth and fifth at Masters, amassing 172 and 165 points, respectively.

Foothill sophomore Noah Burrell captured the 200 IM in 2:04.89 over Division 2 victor D.J. Tice, 2:04.89-2:05.25, and the 500 free in 5:00.92. Other repeat winners from Division 1 included Pleasant Valley junior Cormac Hotmer in the 50 free (22.84), Enterprise senior Jaxon Williams in the 200 free (1:50.43), and Paradise sophomore Andrew Hasek in the 100 breast (1:03.52).

Winters sophomore Colten Montgomery snagged a couple of titles as he did at the Division 2 meet. In the 100 free, he defeated Williams, the Division 1 champ 47.98-49.84. Montgomery then swam away from the Division 2 runner-up, Pleasant Valley sophomore Ben Sanders, 55.95-58.54. Winters senior D.J. Tice concluded his high school career with a victory in the 100 fly (55.09) and finished runner-up to Burrell in the 200 IM with his 2:05.25.

Montgomery, plus juniors Justin Nitzkowski and Holden Philbrook, joined Tice for victories in both the 200 medley (1:43.81) and 400 free (3:22.96) relays. Pleasant Valley used seniors Zack Williamson and Nick Lee-Seely, along with sophomore Jonny Borg and Hotmer, for their 200 free relay victory with

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