Emery Swim teams to host region meet on Thursday at Aquatics Center

Last week the two Emery High swim teams hosted two meets at the Emery County Aquatic Center, the Lady Spartans won twice and the boy’s team won on Tuesday but lost a close one on Thursday. The Lady Spartans scored 415 points on Tuesday and edged the Lady Dinos from Carbon High who scored 370 points.  North Sanpete scored 97 points and South Sevier scored 49 points.  On Thursday the Ladies scored 462.5 points to overwhelm North Summit, Gunnison Valley and Wasatch Academy. North Summit scored 322.5 points followed by Gunnison with 105 points and Wasatch Academy with 90 points.
The Emery boys’ team scored 374 points on Tuesday followed by Carbon with 269 points, North Sanpete with 105 points and South Sevier with 91 points. On Thursday, North Summit edged the Emery boys 410 points to 393 points.  Last season Emery defeated North Summit for the 2-A state title.
Wasatch Academy scored 157 points and Gunnison Valley scored 90 points. Emery and North Summit each won five races and Wasatch Academy won the other.
Individual winners on Tuesday for the girls were BriAnne Bass in the 200-yard freestyle, Kaelee Hooley in the 100-yard free and Hayley Guymon in the 100-yard breaststroke. Also winning was the 200-yard medley relay team consisting of Sydney Terwilleger, Guymon, Hooley and Alexis Johansen along with the 200-yard freestyle relay team consisting of Hooley, Angelina Migliori, Johansen and Bass.
 Winners on Thursday were Hooley in the 200-yard freestyle, Bass in the 50-yard freestyle and in the 500-yard free, Guymon in the 100-yard fly and Migliori in the 100-yard breaststroke.  All three relay teams won with the same team in the 200-yard medley wining, the team of Migliori, Guymon, Terwilleger and Bass won the 200-yard free and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Bass, Hooley, Migliori and Johansen won.
 Individual winners on Tuesday for the boys were Asher Beagley in the 200-yard free, Gage Jensen won the 200-yard Individual medley, Keldan Guymon won the 50-yard free and the 100-yard fly in back-to-back races, and Deegan Minchey won the 500-yard free.  The 200-yard medley team of Beagley, Minchey, Guymon and Allen Durrant won as did the 200-yard free relay team consisting of Jonathan Seely, Guymon, Beagley and Minchey.  The final event of the day also went to the Emery boys as Durrant, Levi Olsen, Eli Beagley and Seely won the 400-yard free relay.  On Thursday Minchey won the 200-yard free, Guymon won the 200-yard IM and the 100-yard backstroke and Parker Stilson won 500-yard free.  The relay team of Guymon, Asher Beagley, Stilson and Minchey won the 200-yard free.
The Emery High swim teams will host region this Thursday at the Emery County Aquatic Center in Castle Dale with the 3-A Utah State meet following two weeks later at the Wasatch Aquatic Center in Heber City. The state meet was moved this year due to construction at BYU.
Emery hosted their final meet of the regular season last Tuesday as 4-A Payson High along with Grand and American Leadership Academy came to town.  The Emery girls scored 345 points to defeat second-place Payson with 249 points.  Grand finished in third place with 180 points and ALA came in last with 110 points.  The girls’ team finished first in five of the 11 events with Payson finishing first in four events and Grand won the final two races.  The Payson boys took first with 316 points while Emery was second with 283 points followed by Grand with 244 and ALA with 114.  Payson won six races while Emery won three and Grand won two.
Keldan Guymon won both the 200-yard IM and the 100-yard breaststroke to be Emery’s sole individual winner and the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Guymon, Asher Beagley, Parker Stilson and Deegan Minchey also finished first.
For the ladies, Kaelee Hooley also won events, the 200-yard IM and the 100-yard freestyle and the ladies won all three relay races.  The 200-yard medley relay team consisted of Hooley, Sydney Terwilleger, Hayley Guymon and Alexis Johansen.  The 200-yard freestyle relay team consisted of BriAnne Bass, Angelina Migliori, Guymon and Terwilleger.  The 400-yard freestyle relay consisted of Johansen, Bass, Migliori and Hooley.
The Emery girls showed lots of depth as they had 23 girls place in the top six spots of the non-relay races.  Their best race was the 200-yard IM where beside Hooley as the winner, Raquelle Simmons was third, Abigail Olsen was fourth, Makyan Nielson was fifth and Brynne Urie was sixth.  Emery placed in 23 of 44 spots.  The Emery boys placed just 13 individuals in the top 47 spots of the eight races that were non relay events.