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NER competes at sectionals

Keith Vandervort
Posted 11/17/21

REGIONAL – The Northeast Range High School girls swim team finished the 2021 season last weekend with a top-10 finish at the Section 7A sectional meet held at Duluth East High …

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REGIONAL – The Northeast Range High School girls swim team finished the 2021 season last weekend with a top-10 finish at the Section 7A sectional meet held at Duluth East High School.
“While no Nighthawks advanced to state, we swam another great meet,” said Head Coach Cheri DeBeltz. “Overall as a team we placed ninth, and we broke four team/school records.”
In the 200 medley relay, Morgan McClelland, Lily Tedrick, Anna Larson, and Kelly Thompson, posted a time of 2:04.48 for seventh place at the preliminaries on Saturday. That same team placed sixth in the 200 freestyle relay on Saturday with a time of 1:48.50.
Tedrick swam the 200 individual medley to a fourth-place finish in 2:25.88. She also placed seventh in the 100 butterfly with a time of 1:05.49.
Other Nighthawks’ results from the sectional meet included:
• McClelland placed 15th in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:16.87. She placed 14th in the 500 freestyle, with a time of 6:15.47.
• In the 400 freestyle relay, Esther Anderson, Lauren Olson, Tuuli Koivisto, and Cylvia DeBeltz placed 11th with a time of 4:35.52.
Grand Rapids took first place in the sectional meet with 510.5 points, followed by Mesabi East, 330.5, Hibbing, 289, Duluth Denfeld, 184, Proctor/Hermantown, 183, Rock Ridge, 174, Cloquest/Esko/Carlton, 167, International Falls, 124, Northeast Range, 94, Two Harbors, 76, and Chisholm, 70.