SPARTAN RDP: Spartans swim past Lumberjacks

The Superior High School girls swimming and diving team defeated Cloquet-Esko-Carlton 93-74 Thursday evening in the SHS pool.

The Spartans won 10 of 12 events.

Individual winners were Grace Elonen, 200 free; Tori Johnson, 200-yard individual medley and 500 free; Kaitlin Heinen, 50 free; Karrigan Grimstad, diving; Kesley Hansen, 100 backstroke; and Nicole Hansen, 100 breaststroke.

Superior also won three relays, the 200 medley (Kaitlin Heinen, Nicole Hansen, Kelsey Hansen and Kacie Heinen); the 200 free relay (Kelsey Hansen, Elonen, Kaitlin Heinen and Johnson) and 400 free relay (Kacie Heinen, Kjersten Lisak, Kaitlin Sanders and Elonen).

“The meet was close until we went 1-2 in the 500 free and 1-2-3 in the 100 breaststroke,” SHS coach George Lehman said.

The Spartans are back in action with the Duluth East Greyhound Invitational at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Morgan Park Pool.

Superior 93, CEC 74

(Winners and SHS results)

200 medley relay—1. SHS (Kaitlin Heinen, Nicole Hansen, Kelsey Hansen, Kacie Heinen), 2:05.96; 2. CEC, 2:14.93; 4. SHS B (Hannah Nelson, Savannah Berthiaume, Maria Drolson, Ashley Kittleson), 2:42.08; SHS C (Julie Snyder, Kaitlyn Corbett, Brianna Jensen, Alyssa Mentzel), 2:44.13.

200 free—1. Grace Elonen, SHS, 2:16.89 (personal best time); 2. Kayla Whipple, CEC, 2:21.35; 3. Kjersten Lisak, SHS, 2:24.22; 6. Steph Hansen, 2:29.29 (PBT); 8. Maria Drolson, 2:53.03 (PBT); 11. Ali Scott, 2:57.66 (PBT); 12. Paige Barnard, 3:09.20.

200 individual medley—1. Tori Johnson, SHS, 2:35.69; 2. Cori Pelletier, CEC, 2:52.81; 3. A. Kittleson, 3:14.04; 7. Hannah Nelson, 3:37.62.

50 free—1. Katilin Heinen, SHS, 26.34 (PBT); 2. K. Erickson, CEC, 28.26; 5. Kacie Heinen, 29.40; 6. Nicole Hansen, 31.19; 9. B. Bergstrom, 33.35; 10. Kaitlyn Corbett, 35.20; 12. Berthiaume, 36.89.

Diving—1. Karrigan Grimstad, SHS, 139.45; 2. Kaitlyn Mergen, SHS, 116.75.

100 butterfly—1. W. Wysocki, CEC, 1:14.39; 2. Kelsey Hansen, 1:15.08; 5. Drolson, 1:49.83; 6. Hannah Nelson, 1:45.07.

100 free—1. Kayla Whipple, CEC, 1:03.43; 2. Kacie Heinen, 1:03.58; 3. Lisak, 1:05.62; 5. Julie Snyder, 1:15.45; 10. Nicole Dzikonski, 1:19.86; Musea Broberg, 1:20.37; Berthiaume, 1:20.87.

500 free—1. Johnson, SHS, 6:19.85 (PBT); 2. Sanders, 6:25.05 (PBT); 4. Kittleson, 7:08.01.

200 free relay—1. SHS (Kelsey Hansen, Elonen, Kaitlin Heinen, Johnson), 1:48.26; 2. CEC, 1:53.22; 5. SHS B (Dzikonski, Alyssa Mentzel, Hannah Nelson, Ali Scott), 2:27.93; 6. SHS C (Berthiaume, Broberg, Corbett, Barnard), 2:31.61.

100 backstroke—1. Kelsey Hansen, SHS, 1:12.90; 2. Lexus Wysocki, CEC, 1:15.41; 5. Sanders, 1:20.28; 6. Steph Hansen, 1:20.37; 8. Britta Bergstrom, 1:34.77.

100 breaststroke—1. Nicole Hansen, SHS, 1:17.89 (PBT); 2. Kaitlin Heinen, 1:19.73 (PBT); 3. Elonen, 1:26.63 (PBT); 6. Corbett, 1:39.93.

400 free relay—1. SHS (Kacie Heinen, Lisak, Sanders, Elonen), 4:16.39; 2. CEC. 4:19.25; 4. SHS B (Bergstrom, Julie Snyder, Drolson, Kittleson), 5:10.44; 6. SHS C (Scott, Dzikonski, Broberg, Mentzel), 5:33.41.

Cross country

The Spartan boys and girls cross country teams competed in the Hibbing Rotary Cross Country Meet Thursday, with the Superior girls placing second as a team and the boys placing fifth.

Superior junior Leah Holmes won the girls race in 15:18.6, coming in almost a full minute ahead of the second-place finisher.

For the Spartan boys, Evan Walpole finished in third, six seconds behind first-place Ryan Davis of Duluth East.

Hibbing Rotary Cross Country Meet

Hibbing Municipal Golf Course

Thursday, Oct. 6

Varsity AA Girls

Team Results

1. Duluth East, 34; 2. Superior, 58; 3. Grand Rapids, 80; 4. Hermantown, 92; 5. Duluth Denfeld, 136; 6. Cloquet, 142; 7. Hibbing, 175.

Individual results

(Top 5 plus SHS)

1. Leah Holmes, Superior, 15:18.6; 2. Natalie Stauber, Hermantown, 16:11.7; 3. Nikki Roach, Hermantown, 16:23.0; 4. Alyssa Hess, Duluth East, 16:34.9; 5. Chelsey Youngberg, Duluth East, 16:39.4; 9. Malley O’Brien, Superior, 16:58.1; 12. Rachel Dixon, Superior, 17:15.0; 13. Natalie Kintop, Superior, 17:25.0; 23. Kali Krivinchuk, Superior, 17:42.6; 24. Catie Albrecht, Superior, 17:48.2; 36. Maggie Dahl, Superior, 19:00.5.

Varsity AA Boys

Team Results

1. Grand Rapids, 40; 2. Duluth East, 51; 3. Cloquet, 108; 4. Hermantown, 110; 5. Superior, 116; 6. Duluth Denfeld, 117; 7. Hibbing, 144.

Individual results

(Top 5 plus SHS)

1. Ryan Davis, Duluth East, 17:22.0; 2. Matt Lepisto, Duluth Denfeld, 17:27.8; 3. Evan Walpole, Superior, 17:28.5; 4. Erik Swanson, Cloquet, 17:54.9; 5. Ryan Kero, Hermantown, 17:55.0; 16. Chris Carey, Superior, 18:44.1; 17. Brandon Westmoreland, Superior, 18:44.5; 39. Mason Stien, Superior, 19:54.7; 41. John Nowicki, Superior, 19:56.6; 43. Brandon Byrnes, Superior, 20:11.2; 44. Selth Felton, Superior, 20:14.6.

Boys soccer

The Spartans lost to Duluth Denfeld 4-2 Tuesday night at Public Schools Stadium.

Connor Andreson and Bryan Wines (penalty kick) scored for the Spartans.

Superior wrapped up its regular season Thursday night with a 2-1 loss at Ashland.

The Spartans received the No. 15 seed for the upcoming WIAA tournament and will play at No. 2 seed Chippewa Falls at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Superior 1 1 — 2

Duluth Denfeld 2 2 — 4

First half — 1. DD, Nick Forbort (Tyler Ames), 7th minute; 2. DD, Sergei Hanka (Steven Bradshaw), 21st; 3. S, Connor Anderson (Dylan Semborski), 23rd.Second half — 4. DD, Bradshaw, 43rd; 5. DD, Bradshaw (pk), 58th; 6. S, Bryan Wines (pk), 67th.Saves — Zach Brosdal, S, 3; Ben Campbell, DD, 6; Max Tollefson, DD, 1.

Volleyball

The Spartans came up short Thursday night at Duluth East losing to the Greyhounds 3-1 (25-18, 25-17, 17-25, 25-22) in a non-conference match.

For the Spartans, Ali Wainionpaa had 30 set assists and nine digs; Dani Magdzas had 13 kills and two blocks; Jessica Lindstrom had 12 kills, two block and 11 digs; Ally Keute had five kills and 10 digs; Taylor Johnson had two blocks and 15 digs; and Maddie Keute chipped in with 10 digs.

For East, Elena Lushine had 21 kills and three blocks; Sadie Kunst had nine kills, 15 digs and three ace serves; Cassie Chruscielski had nine kills, 13 digs and two ace services; Faye Lafferty had 23 digs and Amanda Stromback had 41 set assists.

The Spartans, now 19-5-1 on the season, hosts Hermantown at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

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