Milner three-peat; Glacier boys second at state swim

GREAT FALLS — Flathead’s Lily Milner capped off her high school swimming career with two wins at the All-Class State swim meet Saturday.

Milner won titles in the 100 backstroke (55.13 seconds) and the 100 freestyle (50.30) which makes her a three-time champion in both events. Milner will continue her swimming career at the University of Utah.

The Glacier boys swim team took home some hardware as well, placing second in the team race thanks to strong performances by the relay teams, 30 points behind winner Missoula Sentinel, who scored 207 points.

The Pack won the 220 free relay (Isaac Keim, Derek Smith, Jakob Sonderegger, and Xander Stout), the 200 medley relay of Keim, Stout, Sonderegger, and Joseph Tierney finished finished second and the 400 freestyle relay of Smith, Drew Bouda, Sonderegger, and Tierney finished fourth.

Individually, Smith placed second in the 200 free and third in the 100 free. Smith’s teammate Keim got a second in the 50 free and third in the 100 back. In the 500 free, Bouda was third, and Stout came in fifth in the 100 butterfly.

Flathead senior Ayden Strobbe-Berry swam to fifth in the 50 free.

For the Glacier girls, Madeleine McGoughy was six in the 500 free and Olivia Gibbons came in fourth in the 50 free.

Great Falls won and C.M. Russell was runner up for the AA girls title. Glacier was fourth with 105 points.

In Class AB, the Whitefish girls placed second behind Billings Central, who swept the boys and girls titles. The Columbia Falls girls were fifth. Whitefish’s boys were also second and Columbia Falls boys were third.

Whitefish’s Sydney Macintyre was second in the 200 free and fourth in the 200 individual medley, an event that her teammate Ada Qunell won.

Qunell was a double winner, also earning a title in the 500 free.

Another Bulldog, Jack McDaniel, took second in the 100 fly, and Logan Botner swam to a second in the 100 free and won the 100 back.

State Swim Meet

Great Falls High Pool

A Girls: 1, Great Falls 203. 2, Great Falls CMR 179. 3, Billings Skyview 160. 4, Kalispell Glacier 105. 5, Missoula Sentinel 98. 6, Missoula Big Sky 97. 7, Billings West 90. 8, Helena 88. 9, Bozeman 72. 10, Missoula Hellgate 71. 11, Kalispell Flathead 69. 12, Billings Senior 36. 13, Belgrade 6. 14, Butte 4. 15, Helena Capital 2.

AB Girls: 1, Billings Billings Central 115. 2, Whitefish 48. 3, Bigfork 46. 4, Hardin 36. 5, Columbia Falls 22. 6, Havre 3. 7, Polson 2.

AA Boys: 1, Missoula Sentinel 207, 2, Kalispell Glacier 177. 3, Great Falls, 141. 4, Billings West 118. 5, Bozeman Gallatin 117. 6, Missoula Hellgate 110. 7, Bozeman 81. 8, Missoula Big Sky 62. 9, Butte 53. 10, Helena 48. 10, Billings Skyview 48. 12, Kalispell Flathead 33. 13, Helena Capital 31. 14, Great Falls CMR 28. 15, Billings Senior 26. 16, Belgrade 23.

AB Boys: 1, Billings Billings Central 85. 2, Whitefish 65. 3, Columbia Falls 38. 4, Hardin 35. 5, Polson, 26. 6, Havre 23.