A quartet of talented athletes from Merritt Secondary School put in some great performances at the B.C. High School Swimming Championships in Kamloops on the weekend.
Competing at the Canada Games Pool in the Tournament Capital City, the team of Jensen Cavaliere, Haley Zabek, Jamie Neill and Laura Lefebvre placed in the consolation final of two girls relay events.
The foursome finished 13th out of 26 teams in the 200-metre medley relay competition with a time of 2 minutes, 30.53 seconds — two seconds faster than their qualifying time earlier in the day.
The same group of girls also improved their qualifying time by two seconds in the 200-metre freestyle event (2:13:19) to place 14th in the final.
In the only individual event for any of the four swimmers, Neill swam to 23rd place in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 42.20 seconds.
All four MSS swimmers are also members of the local Merritt Otters Swim Club that competes in the summer.
Junior Volleyball
The MSS junior girls volleyball team wrapped up their very successful season with a three-set loss to Sa-hali Secondary in the first round of the West Zone playoffs last week.
After winning the first set 25-15, the Panthers fell victim to the host Sabres’ strong serving game, losing 25-19 and 15-10.
The junior girls squad will return nearly all its players next year.
Target Sports
The first weekend in November saw a pair of young Merritt target shooters compete at the George Hutchison Memorial Air Gun Match in Richmond.
Nineteen-year-old Dakota O’Donovan was a winner in the junior men’s air pistol division with a score of 1,593 points, while his younger sister Sunshine, 15, took first place in the sub-junior ladies’ air rifle competition with a personal-best total of 869 points.
