INTERNATIONAL FALLS— Junior Anna Larson posted the two highest finishes among NER/Ely swimmers here last Thursday, as she notched a seventh-place and an eighth-place finish against large fields in a meet dominated by much larger schools.
Larson finished seventh among 34 competitors in the 100 butterfly with a time of 1:11.43, just 1.24 seconds off the pace of the second-place finisher. Raini Gibson, of Hibbing, dominated the race with a time of 1:05.52.
Larson notched an eighth-place finish among 45 racers in the 50 freestyle with a time of 27.96, just over two seconds back of the winning pace set by Tresa Baumgartner of Chisholm.
Sophomore Tuuli Koivisto finished 11th among 36 racers in the 500 freestyle with a time of 6:27.84, while the relay team of Larson, Koivisto, and sophomores Alyssa Ice and Via DeBeltz, finished tenth in the field of 36 teams in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:57.75.
The relay team of Larson, Koivisto, Ice, and DeBeltz finished tenth in a field of 36 in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:57.75. The same swimmers finished tenth in a similar field in the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 4:26.02.
Rock Ridge topped the field with a combined team score of 2,196, easily outpacing Mesabi East, which finished second with 1,801 points. NER/Ely finished in eighth place among the 12 teams competing with 964.5 points.