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Saline’s boys’ swim and dive team won first place in the annual Zeeland Invite held Dec. 28 at Zeeland High School.
The meet traditionally features some of the best teams in the state.
The Hornets won with ease, finishing with 562.5 points. Holland West Ottawa finished with 452 points, good for second. Zeeland was third with 372 points in the 10-school meet.
Junior Diego Valdes won the 100-yard fly, Isaac Adanin won the 100-yard breast and Ethan Bull, Adanin, Valdes and Jonah Bentley won the 200-yard yard medley relay as Saline swam to victory despite not bringing their divers along.
Saline’s depth was on display in 200-yard medley relay. Not only did Bull, Adanin, Valdes and Bentley win in 1:39.78 - narrowing defeating Zeeland, Saline’s B team of Ty Lauritzen, Connor Lauritzen, Nick Twigg and Nathanyel Sarmet took fourth.
Valdes won the 100-yard fly in 51.94 - easily besting the field. Hornet Nick Twigg placed second in 54.16. Alex Fruth was ninth and Jason Oyemba was 15th.
Saline’s other victory came in the in the 100-yard breast, in which Adanin finished in 1:00.95. Connor Lauritzen was second in 1:01.59.
In the 200-yard IM, Valdes was second in 1:58.88. Adanin was third in 2:02.36 and Connor Lauritzen was fourth in 2:04.29.
Senior Deniz Ozil finished second in the 200-yard free (1:47.89). Jack Mallon was seventh, Thomas Gunnerson was 10th and, Braylen May was 12th.
Twigg took second in the 100-yard backstroke in 55.77 seconds. Bull was third (56.22), Ty Lauritzen was fourth (56.41), and Alex Fruth was 11th.
Jonah Bentley took third in the 50-yard freestyle. Bentley swam the race in 22.52 seconds. Sarment was ninth, Will Loveland was 10th and Elijah Ames was 13th.
Ozil was third in the 500-yard free, finishing the swim in 4:59.67. Mallon was fourth in 5:01.08 and Gunnerson was seventh in 5:12.24. May was 12th.
Sarment was fourth in the 100-yard free (50.25). Bentley was seventh in 50.8. Bull was ninth and Loveland was 11th.
Saline’s “A” team of Bentley, Valdes, Sarment and Ozil was third in the 200-yard free relay (1:31.67). The “B” team of Loveland, Connor Lauritze, Adanin and Gunnerson was sixth,
In the 400-yard free relay, the team of Ozil, Twigg, Gunnerson and Bull was third (3:22.1). The ”B” team of Ty Lauritzen, Mallon, May and Fruth finished seventh.
Sunny, with a high of 66 and low of 32 degrees. Sunny in the morning, clear overnight.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,