Westfield girls swimming opens with Kristen Rice Invitational victory

The Westfield girls swim team opened its season by winning its own Kristen Rice Invitational on Saturday.
The Shamrocks scored 605 points for the victory and won six events. Freshman Macy Hoaglan took two individual events, the 200 freestyle and the 500 free, then joined Katie Hand, Lauren Martin and Kerry Effinger to take the 400 freestyle relay.
Earlier, Hand won the butterfly, while Effinger was first in the backstroke. Both swimmers were also part of the first-place medley relay, along with Mia Herzog and Lily Hunter.

Team scores: Westfield 605, Yorktown 506, Jay County 399, Roncalli 369, Herron 157, Winchester 25, Union City 18.
200 medley relay: 1. Westfield “A” (Kerry Effinger, Mia Herzog, Katie Hand, Lily Hunter) 1:56.66, 4. Westfield “B” (Macy Howe, Elle Herzog, Maddie DiFlora, Riley Howe) 2:03.12.
200 freestyle: 1. Macy Hoaglan 2:06.37, 4. Kendall Wilkes 2:13.43, 6. Lauren Rowe 2:14.71.
200 individual medley: 2. Hand 2:14.90, 3. Ellie Ketchan 2:24.06, 7. Olivia Kielty 2:31.39.
50 freestyle: 2. Hunter 26.30, 3. M. Herzog 26.58, 13. Emily Lesniewski 31.55.
100 butterfly: 1. Hand 1:00.07, 6. Ava Friedman 1:09.32.
100 freestyle: 2. Effinger 56.71, 3. Hunter 58.69, 8. Howe 1:02.18.
500 freestyle: 1. Hoaglan 5:40.30, 2. Lauren Martin 5:49.67, 5. Lauren Todd 6:04.30.
200 freestyle relay: 3. Westfield “A” (M. Herzog, Howe, DiFlora, Rowe) 1:50.60, 4. Westfield “B” (Friedman, E. Herzog, Todd, Martin) 1:54.10.
100 backstroke: 1. Effinger 1:04.37, 3. M. Herzog 1:05.20, 5. Howe 1:09.31.
100 breaststroke: 3. E. Herzog 1:15.24, 4. Ketchan 1:17.31, 7. DiFlora 1:22.59.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Westfield (Hand, Hoaglan, Martin, Effinger) 3:53.05, 4. Westfield “B” (Friedman, Wilkes, Ketchan, Rowe) 4:09.73