Roundup: Presswood earns medal

Appeal-Democrat

Brandon Presswood, a freshman at Faith Christian, won a medal at the Sac-Joaquin Section swimming finals at Tokay High in Lodi on Saturday.

Presswood, Faith's first-ever swimmer, finished third in the boys 100-yard backstroke, timing 57.65 seconds. That broke the school record he set in Friday's trials — a 58.4.

Presswood also finished fifth in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:58.2, just missing the record he set Friday of 4:57.32.

Because Faith does not have a swim team, Presswood competed in tri-meets with a Sacramento-area high school during the regular season in order to qualify for the post-season.

From Friday:

BOYS TRACK AND FIELD

Villasenor wins three events

Joey Villasenor took first place in the 800 (2 minutes, 6.92 seconds), 1,600 (4:38.53) and 3,200 (10:54.91) to lead Lindhurst to a third-place finish at the Golden Empire League championships.

Valdez Nelson took first in the 100 (11:45), Kenderick Jones placed third in the triple jump (40 feet, 53⁄4 inches), Nick McCoubrey was third in the 300 hurdles (44.89) and Kenny Teasley placed third in the long jump (19-10).

GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD

Caporale first in discuss

Lindhurst's Ariel Caporale took first in the discuss with a throw of 88-9 and teamed with Jasmine Alston, Keerthinka Kandavelu and Elena Harrison to win the 400 relay (46.27) at the GEL championships.

Danielle Daniel took third in the pole vault (6-3) and Rachel Yanik placed third in the 800 (2:45.98) to lead the Blazers.

SWIMMING

YC relay team sets record

Shelby Guillory, Ektaa Nijjar, Claire Sweeney and Jaime Monsler set a school record in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:52.48 at the Sac-Joaquin Section swim meet. They beat the previous record by .13 of a second.

Harrison Sykes set school records in the 100 (49.63) and 200 free (1:51.32) on Friday.

At the frosh/soph level, Yuba City's Sam Sykes placed 15th in the 100 backstroke at 1:01.94.

River Valley's Tyler Bellenfant placed sixth in the 100 backstroke (58.63) and 15th in the 200 individual medley (2:11.95) and Andrew Sawyer came in 12th in the 100 butterfly (59.60).

Bellenfant, Sawyer, Max Lammert and Connor Lamon came in 15th in the 400 relay with a time of 3:46.14.

JV BOYS TRACK AND FIELD

Lindhurst takes second

Matt Kearns won the 110 hurdles (19.96) and the 300 hurdles (51.04) to lead Lindhurst to a second-place finish at the GEL championships.

Leo Yang took first in the 400 (1:08.41) and teammate Kevin Daniel took second (1:11.08).