East Burke swimming sweeps West Caldwell

Valdese- The East Burke swimming teams hosted their first Catawba Valley Athletic 2A Conference home meet with West Caldwell at the Jimmy C. Draughn Aquatic Center.

The Cavaliers swept the Warriors 99-14 (boys) and 52-40 (girls).

Tristan Carswell (50 freestyle: 29.82, 100 freestyle: 1:09.35), Landon Lennex (100 butterfly: 1:06.64, 500 freestyle: 5:46.60), and Robbie Stringfield (200 IM: 2:38.02, 100 backstroke: 1:08.46) led the Cavaliers with two individual event wins.

Taylor Lennex (200 freestyle: 2:20.31) and Jeremy Gray (100 breaststroke: 1:26.75) were other individual event winners.

The Cavaliers also captured the 200 medley (2:08.37), 200 freestyle (2:04.45), and 400 freestyle (4:20.87) relays.

The Lady Cavaliers were led by individual event wins from Ella Oxentine (500 freestyle: 9:46.91), Alia Riley (100 backstroke: 1:42.61), and Gracie Stamey (100 breaststroke: 2:20.02).

Oxentine and Stamey joined Grace Hammack and Marabeth Huffman on the winning 200 medley relay (3:08.91).

East Burke is back in action on January 5th at the Lenoir Aquatic Center.