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Oxford swims hosts first sell-out swim meet in Mississippi history – The Oxford Eagle
Oxford swims hosts first sell-out swim meet in Mississippi historical past
Revealed 12:54 pm Sunday, September 18, 2022
- The Oxford Excessive College swimming staff performed host to the primary sell-out swim meet in state historical past on Saturday, ending first within the males’s facet and second within the girls’s facet. (@OxfordSwim)
The Oxford Excessive College swim staff performed host to the primary sellout swim meet in state historical past on Saturday as they completed first within the males’s facet and second within the girls’s facet of the 2022 Oxford Swimming Invitational.
275 swimmers and 500 spectators from throughout the state packed the Turner Middle Natatorium on the College of Mississippi campus within the facility’s largest swim meet since 2009.
The Chargers began the meet off sturdy with a second-place end within the girls’s 200-yard medley relay earlier than Booby Jubera, Landon Schock, William Berry and Knox Legal guidelines claimed first within the males’s facet.
Legal guidelines reached the rostrum once more within the males’s 200-yard freestyle, the place he completed third behind Lewisburg’s Owen Campbell and Tupelo’s Mason Cordell.
Schock and junior Jacob Tulchinsky stole the present on the lads’s facet nonetheless—combining for 4 particular person first-place finishes and three relay victories to assist lead the Chargers to the victory.
Sophomore Brooks Sipes and junior Cole Oyler additionally dominated for Oxford because the pair secured two first-place finishes and two second-place finishes in particular person occasions whereas including two silver medals and a gold within the relays.
Different native colleges had been additionally represented on the meet, with Lafayette securing 4 top-10 finishes and Regents’s Katherine Paine ending fortieth within the girls’s 50-yard freestyle and seventeenth within the girls’s 100-yard breaststroke.
Lafayette’s Ford Atkinson completed ninth total for the Commodores in 100-yard backstroke, whereas JT Moyer completed eighth within the males’s 100-yard freestyle and tenth within the males’s 50-free. Abbagale Bolger secured the one particular person top-10 end for the Commodores on the ladies’s facet—ending eighth within the girls’s 200-yard freestyle.
Oxford and Lafayette will compete in a single last tune-up as they journey to Tupelo for a meet on Sept. 27 earlier than competing within the North Half finals at Delta State on Oct. 14.