Samantha Shines at Speedo Round One
Date: Saturday 13
October 2007
Location: Pyramids
Leisure Centre,
Exeter
Event:National
Speedo League – Western Premier Division, Rd 1
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Swindon
Dolphin opened
their 2007/8 National Speedo League – Western Premier Division campaign with a fourth
place finish in a competitive gala at the Pyramids Leisure Centre in
Exeter
. In third spot behind favourites Plymouth
Leander and City of
Cardiff
at the half way point, they were overhauled by Bridgend in the final stages.
It was the Dophin youngsters that caught the eye on the night. Samantha Berry was the most successful Dolphin swimmer with 2 individual wins (10-11 year 50m backstroke and 50m butterfly) and 2 relay successes in the girls’ 9-11 year age group. Berry and team mates Charlotte Pitts, Victoria Jennings and Charlotte Gardo dominated their age group relays and were unbeaten in both the 4x50m freestyle and medley. Not to be outdone by the girls, the boys’ 9-11 year medley relay quartet of Jack Janicki, Niall Westman, Craig Lofts and Matthew Sambrook were also triumphant.
Samantha Berry
Dolphin’s
other first place finishes both came in the 100m breaststroke, with victories for James
Clark in the boys’ u13 event and Chris
Jones in the men’s open.
Other
impressive individual displays saw second place finishes for Niall
Westman (u11 50m Breaststroke), Matthew
Sambrook (u11 50m freestyle), Jon
Audis (men’s 100m backstroke) and Chris
Jones (men’s 200m individual Medley). Dolphin
also came second in the boys’ 9-11, 4x50m freestyle relay and the men’s open 6x50m
freestyle and 4x50m medley relays.
Dolphin,
who finished third in the Western Premier division last year, will be looking for
greater consistency in the second round.
Result:
Plymouth Leander – 260
City of Cardiff – 206
Bridgend – 172
Swindon Dolphin – 163
City of Exeter – 146
Truro City – 100
Source: Swindon Dolphin Press
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