Sauk Prairie’s swimmers shine

It had been two weeks since Sauk Prairie’s girls swimming team had a meet. So when the Eagles got back in the pool on Oct. 6, they were ready to roll. Sauk Prairie won every event and had the top two finishers in 10 of 11 competitions and defeated River Valley/Richland Center, 134-31. “Yes, it was nice to get back to competition after a bit of time off,” Eagles coach Melani Guentherman said. “As it turns out, this was the girls’ last ever home meet in this pool, as the new one should be open next year. The girls did a great job of taking advantage of the opportunity to compete and they raced hard.” The Eagles’ 200-yard medley relay team of Ashley Pape, Trinity Doerre, Grace Orr and Cora Dunnum was first, while the quartet of Carly Coy, Lauryn Drager, Riley Talmage and Savannah Acker was second. Sauk Prairie’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of Camilla Sotero-Garcia, Kassandra Miller, Coy and Amelia Hunter were first, while the foursome of Jade Babcock, Acker, Emily VandeHey and Drager were second. And in the 400-yard freestyle relay, the quartet of Hunter, VadeHey, Doerre and Dunnum were first, while the foursome of Miller, Talmage, Pape and Orr were second. Miller and Hunter were first and second, respectively, in the 200-yard freestyle, while Talmage, Orr and Coy went 1-2-3 in the 200-yard IM. Dunnum, Pape and Doerre went 1-2-3 in the 50-yard freestyle, while Acker, Hunter and Jade Reeves went 1-2-3 in the 100-yard butterfly. Dunnum, Drager and Coy were first, second and third, respectively, in the 100-yard freestyle, while Talmage won the 500-yard freestyle. Acker was first in the 100-yard backstroke, while Doerre and Drager were first and second, respectively, in the 100-yard breaststroke. “Cora Dunnum and Savannah Acker continued to look very strong and both had two decisive individual victories,” Guentherman said.   SAUK PRAIRIE 134, RIVER VALLEY/RICHLAND CENTER 31 200-yard medley relay: Sauk Prairie, (Pape, Doerre, Orr, Dunnum) 2:04.14. 200 freestyle: Miller, SP, 2:08.76. 200 individual medley: Talmage, SP, 2:54.4. 50 freestyle: Dunnum, SP, 25.85. 100 butterfly: Acker, SP, 1:04.23. 100 freestyle: Dunnum, SP, 57.01. 500 freestyle: Talmage, SP, 5:45.63. 200 freestyle relay: Sauk Prairie (Sotero-Garcia, Miller, Coy, Hunter), 1:51.94. 100 backstroke: Acker, SP, 1:02.97. 100 breaststroke: Doerre, SP, 1:19.56. 400 freestyle relay: Sauk Prairie (Hunter, VandeHey, Doerre, Dunnum), 4:05.59. At Sauk Prairie.