Edwardsville girls swim team takes Iron Invite crown

Sep 17, 2017 9:19 AM

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NORMAL – Edwardsville's girls swimming team came away with the team title in Saturday's Iron Invite meet at Normal Community, scoring 350 points and defeating the host Iron by 16 points.

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Normal was second at 334 points, followed by Metamora (317), New Lenox Lincoln-Way East (301.5), Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin (215.5), Normal West (205), Galesburg (163) and East Moline United (143). Lincoln-Way East won the freshman-sophomore team crown with 347 points, while EHS finished third with 328 points.

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The Tigers did not win a varsity event on the day, but got seconds from Taylor Selheimer in diving (334.40 points), Josie Bushell in the the 200 freestyle (2:00.92) and 100 freestyle (55.25 seconds), Emily Webb in the 500 freestyle (5:26.10) and the 4x100 freestyle relay (Phoebe Gremaud, Webb, Savannah Grinter and Bushell in 3:48.63); thirds from Savannah Grinter in the 200 free (2:05.30), Gremaud in the 200 individual medley (2:19.61, equal with SH-G's Elizabeth DeSalle), Sahar Rabiei in the 50 free (25.85 seconds) and the 4x50 free relay (Bushell, Autumn Grinter, Olivia Ramirez and Rabiei in 1:44.52).

Fourths for the Tigers came from the 4x50 medley relay (Gremaud, Ramirez, Allison Naylor, Rabiei in 1:58.85), Autumn Grinter in the 50 free (26.17 seconds) and 100 butterfly (1:05.77) and Gremaud in the 100 backstroke (1:02.94).

Naylor gave the Tigers a win in the frosh-soph 50 free (26.32), their only win of the day.

Next up for the Tigers is a 11:15 a.m. Sept. 23 home meet against Springfield and Sacred Heart-Griffin.