SHS swimmers win, volleyball team ousted from playoffs

The Superior High School girls swimming team defeated Proctor-Hermantown 92-78 Thursday night at the Superior pool.

The Spartans took first place in eight of the 11 events swam.

“I knew we’d take a lot of firsts, but the question was would we have enough depth,” said George Lehman, SHS head coach.

Superior’s depth came through in the relay races, where Superior A won all three events and Superior B took third in two races and fourth in the other.

Lehman also praised the performance of Julie Snyder on the 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams.

“She’s not usually on those relays, but she stepped up and helped us win,” Lehman said.

Individually, Kaitlin Heinen won the 200 individual medley with a new pool record of 2:19.64. Heinen’s time was just off the SHS record time of 2:19.56 set by Tricia Nye in 2002. Susanne Olson of Eau Claire Memorial set the previous 200 IM record for the SHS pool during the 1995 sectionals.

Heinen also won the 500 freestyle; Grace Elonen won the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly; and Tori Johnson won the 100 backstroke.

On Tuesday night the Spartans lost at Duluth East 102-80.

Heinen won the 200 IM and 100 freestyle and was a member of the winning 200 free relay along with Elonen, Kjersten Lisak and Victoria Johnson.

Superior’s Elonen, Julie Snyder, Britta Bergstrom and Lisak also teamed up to win the 400 free relay.

Superior hosts Grand Rapids at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Superior 92,

Proctor-Hermantown 78

(Winner plus SHS)

200 medley relay — 1. Superior A (Victoria Johnson, Nicole Hansen, Kaitlin Heinen, Julie Snyder), 2:03.19; 4. Superior B (Nicole Dzikonski, Kaitlin Sanders, Britta Bergstrom, Lauren Magnuson).

200 freestyle — 1. Megan Mensinger, Proctor, 2:13.87; 2. Tori Johnson, SHS, 2:17.58; 3. Kjersten Lisak, SHS, 2:18.45; 5. Bergstrom, SHS, 2:31.78.

200 individual medley — 1. Heinen, SHS, 2:19.64; 4. Hansen, SHS, 2:44.24.

50 freestyle — 1. Grace Elonen, SHS, 27.17; 4. Magnuson, 29.43; 5. Ashley Kittleson, SHS, 30.85.

100 butterfly — 1. Elonen, SHS, 1:13.7; 5. Savannah Berthiaume, SHS, 1:35.75.

100 freestyle — 1. Nicole Stern, Proctor, 1:02.00; 2. Lisak, SHS, 1:03.04; 3. Sanders, SHS, 1:05.44; 4. Snyder, SHS, 1:06.26.

500 freestyle — 1. Heinen, SHS, 5:21.22; 5. Kittleson, SHS, 6:52.36.

200 freestyle relay — 1. Superior A (Elonen, Lisak, Snyder, Heinen), 1:50.99; 3. Superior B (Hansen, Keileen Gall, Bergstrom, Magnuson), 2:00.55.

100 backstroke — 1. Johnson, SHS, 1:06.78; 4. Dzikonski, SHS, 1:18.93.

100 breaststroke — 1. Alyssa Aamodt, Proctor, 1:15.50; 2. Hansen, SHS, 1:17.18; 3. Sanders, SHS, 1:19.00; 5. Lorena Wicklund, SHS, 1:31.47.

400 freestyle relay — 1. Superior A (Lisak, Elonen, Snyder, Johnson), 4:10.28; 3. Superior B (Kittleson, Dzikonski, Magnuson, Bergstrom), 4:32.63.

Duluth East 102, Superior 80

200 individual medley relay — DE (Cora Knauss, Kayla Nyenhuis, Alissa Marlow, Kelly Punyko), 2:00.30.

200 freestyle — Sydney Nelson, DE, 2:12.71.

200 individual medley — Kaitlin Heinen, Sup, 2:19.80.

100 butterfly — Punyko, DE, 1:05.13.

100 freestyle — Heinen, Sup, 56.29.

500 freestyle — Knauss, DE, 5:46.71.

200 freestyle relay — Superior (Heinen, Grace Elonen, Kjersten Lisak, Victoria Johnson), 1:49.74.

100 backstroke — Knauss, DE, 1:05.40.

100 breaststroke — Nyenhuis, DE, 1:15.71.

400 freestyle relay — Superior (Elonen, Julie Snyder, Britta Bergstrom, Lisak), 4:32.02.

Volleyball

The season came to an end for the Superior High School volleyball team with a 3-1 loss at Stevens Point in the opening round of the WIAA playoffs Thursday night.

The Spartans won the opening game 26-24 but then dropped the next three by scores of 25-11, 25-9 and 25-7.

The Panthers will now play at Chippewa Falls on Saturday.

The Spartans wrapped up their regular season with a 3-1 (19-25, 25-19, 25-18, 25-22) win at Duluth Denfeld Tuesday night.

Junior Jessica Lindstrom returned to action for Superior with 19 kills. Illness has forced the junior to miss a couple of matches.

The Spartans also got 12 kills and seven digs from Taylor Johnson and 39 set assists from Alison Wainionpaa.

For Denfeld, Dakoah Timm had nine kills and six blocks; Rebekah Overby nad nine kills and 13 digs; Kiah Ziells had nine kills and 10 digs; and Ashley Boone had 16 digs.

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