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LAKE FOREST - The Newport Harbor High girls swim team took the top

two finishes in the final two meets and won the last relay to hold off

host El Toro in a 89-81 nonleague victory Tuesday. The Sailors’ boys team

easily won, 94-76, taking eight first-place finishes.

The Newport girls squad (5-1) and Chargers (4-4) were tied, 70-70,

after a 1-2 finish in the 100-yard backstroke that included sophomores

Nicole Mackey (58.91 in first) and Mai Tajima (1:03.05).

Newport junior Carly Geehr then won the 100 breaststroke (1:07.92) and

senior Jennifer Arrow provided more points with a second-place finish

(1:10.22).

Geehr, Tajima, Mackey and sophomore Hayley Peirsol earned victory in

the 400 freestyle relay (3:42.05) to secure the win.

Newport Harbor junior Ryan Lean won the 200 (1:45.80) and 500 (4:58.47) freestyle races for the Tars’ boys team (4-2). Harbor sophomore

Andrew Cole was also a double winner with victories in the 100 freestyle

(49.37) and 100 backstroke (54.20), while junior speedster Aaron Peirsol

took first in the 200 individual medley and senior Peter Belden grabbed

first in the 50 freestyle (22.84).

NONLEAGUE

GIRLS

Newport Harbor 89, El Toro 81

200 medley relay - 1. Newport (Mackey, Arrow, Geehr, Peirsol),

1:53.25.

200 free - 1. Mackey (NH), 1:56.19; 2. Jill Kissee (ET), 2:04.42; 3.

Nicholson (ET), 2:06.09.

200 IM - 1. Sandeno (ET), 2:05.57; 2. Peirsol (NH), 2:15.65; 3. Arrow

(NH), 2:22.01.

50 free - 1. Ditto (ET), 25.39; 2. Santana (ET), 26.44; 3. Heggley

(ET), 26.96.

100 fly - 1. Geehr (NH), 1:01.13; 2. Meyer (ET), 1:05.39; 3. Lansing

(NH), 1:07.18.

100 free - 1. Tajima (NH), 56.83; 2. E. Ball (NH), 57.18; 3. Nicholson (ET), 59.32.

500 free - 1. Sandeno (ET), 4:56.92; 2. Peirsol (NH), 5:08.21; 3. Jen

Kissee, 5:36.90.

200 free relay - 1. El Toro, 1:45.55.

100 back - 1. Mackey (NH), 58.91; 2. Tajima (NH), 1:03.05; 3. Ditto

(ET), 1:04.33.

100 breast - 1. Geehr (NH), 1:07.92; 2. Arrow (NH), 1:10.22; 3.

Santana (ET), 1:13.00.

400 free relay - 1. Newport (Geehr, Tajima, Peirsol, Mackey), 3:42.05.

BOYS

Newport Harbor 94, El Toro 76

200 medley relay - 1. Newport (Peirsol, Lean, Cole, Snelgrove),

1:43.61.

200 free - 1. Lean (NH), 1:45.80; 2. Wright (ET), 1:57.19; 3. Weiner

(NH), 1:57.89.

200 IM - 1. Peirsol (NH), 1:57.29; 2. McCleave (ET), 2:09.44; 3.

Stabler (NH), 2:18.60.

50 free - 1. Belden (NH), 22.84; 2. Snelgrove (NH), 23.05; 3. Pearson

(ET), 23.51.

100 fly - 1. Allen (ET), 1:00.55; 2. Vanderweide (ET), 1:00.85; 3.

Danna (ET), 1:04.79.

100 free - 1. Cole (NH), 49.37; 2. Belden (NH), 51.03; 3. Cook (NH),

52.64.

500 free - 1. Lean (NH), 4:58.47; 2. Sinclair (NH), 5:31.34; 3. Dumont

(ET), 5:34.66.

200 free relay - 1. El Toro, 1:35.63.

100 back - 1. Cole (NH), 54.20; 2. Sasso (ET), 1:02.45; 3. Jendrusina

(NH), 1:05.38.

100 breast - 1. Allen (ET), 1:05.52; 2. McCleave (ET), 1:07.45; 3.

Brinser (ET), 1:09.47.

400 free relay - 1. Newport (Lean, Cook, Belden, Cole), 3:30.41.

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