Samantha Shines at Speedo Round One

 


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Swindon
Dolphin opened
their 2007/8 National Speedo League – Western Premier Division campaign with a fourth
place finish in a competitive gala at the Pyramids Leisure Centre in

Exeter

.  In third spot behind favourites Plymouth
Leander and City of

Cardiff

at the half way point, they were overhauled by Bridgend in the final stages.      

It
was the Dophin youngsters that caught the eye on the night.  Samantha
Berry was the most successful Dolphin swimmer with
2 individual wins (10-11 year 50m backstroke and 50m butterfly) and 2 relay successes
in the girls’ 9-11 year age group. 

Berry

and team mates Charlotte
Pitts, Victoria
Jennings and Charlotte
Gardo dominated their age group relays and were unbeaten
in both the 4x50m freestyle and medley.  Not
to be outdone by the girls, the boys’ 9-11 year medley relay quartet of Jack
Janicki, Niall
Westman, Craig
Lofts and Matthew
Sambrook were also triumphant. 

Samantha Berry

Dolphin’s
other first place finishes both came in the 100m breaststroke, with victories for James
Clark in the boys’ u13 event and Chris
Jones in the men’s open. 

Other
impressive individual displays saw second place finishes for Niall
Westman (u11 50m Breaststroke), Matthew
Sambrook (u11 50m freestyle), Jon
Audis (men’s 100m backstroke) and Chris
Jones (men’s 200m individual Medley).  Dolphin
also came second in the boys’ 9-11, 4x50m freestyle relay and the men’s open 6x50m
freestyle and 4x50m medley relays.

Dolphin,
who finished third in the Western Premier division last year, will be looking for
greater consistency in the second round.     

Result:

1. Plymouth
   Leander – 260
   

2. City
   of
   
   Cardiff
   
   – 206
   

3. Bridgend
   – 172
   

4. 
   
   Swindon
   
   Dolphin – 163
   

5. City
   of
   
   Exeter
   
   – 146
   

6. 
   
   
   Truro
   
   
   City
   
   
   – 100
   

 Source: Swindon Dolphin Press
Team