Lincolnshire  Senior League Round 2

Scartho Road - Grimsby

Round 2 of the Lincolnshire League took place on the 8^th May at Grimsby.  CASA had 2 teams taking part of which CASA Green was made up entirely of Scunthorpe swimmers and CASA White being the B team for Cleethorpes.   Other competing clubs were Lincoln Vulcans A and B teams, City of Lincoln Pentaqua  B team and Grantham.

The first event saw Aisley Leeman return back to competition after a years break.  In the open 100m freestyle he raced to victory in a time of 56.45, winning by over a second.  This was mirrored by Jasmin Kirk in the girl’s event gaining six more valuable  points.

The next four events were all relays.  The boys 10 year free relay swam a good race against Vulcans to come in 2^nd and the girls managed a good 3^rd place. The boy’s 14/u medley relay team had a great battle against CASA White pushing them into 3^rd place,  a great result as 11 year old Scott Zimmerman was swimming up an age group in this event to join Adam Vaughan, Josh Jones and Kieran Skinner.  The girl’s 14U team also had 11 year old Ellie Chafer swimming in their relay and came in a commendable 5^th.

Individual events followed, with Jack Cowling and Ellie Chafer achieving pb’s in the 50 backstroke, coming in 2^nd and 3^rd.  Steve Vaughan and Lauren York both brought in more points for CASA Green, finishing 2^nd and 1^st  respectively.  The 10 years 50 fly followed with Travis Johnson  in 2^nd place and Amy Baker who has been working hard on her fly technique  winning the event by an incredible 8 seconds.  Josh Jones and Becci Foster were our representatives in the 14/under 100 metre freestyle and both swimmers had good pb’s which was particularly impressive for Becci as she had been competing at Ponds Forge, Sheffield earlier in the day and returned back especially to take part in the gala.  Scott Zimmerman and Yasmin Callaghan were the 12 year individual breaststroke swimmers and finished 3^rd and 5^th.

More relays followed with the men’s open freestyle team of Scott Strong, Alan Snowden, Steve Vaughan and Aisley Leeman having a good battle against the Vulcan team.  The girls open relay team followed with Emma Sanderson, Rhiannon Haber, Lauren York and Jasmin Kirk having a comfortable win.  The boys 10 years relay team saw William East, Jonathan Manchester, Travis Johnson and newcomer Ryan Connor come in third position and the girls team of Amy Baker, Eve Mcgrory. Lauren Gwynne and India Cowell all pushing CASA White into 2^nd place midway through the gala .

Josh Jones and Lauren Callaghan followed with the 100 backstroke, with Lauren swimming a good pb and Josh taking maximum points for his swim.  Alan Snowden managed a 3^rd place for his 100 fly and Lauren York took 1^st place and a new pb for her swim in the same event.  Kieran Skinner won the 14/under 100 breaststroke by a massive 10 seconds and Finley Fox also took maximum points in the 12/under 50 fly and a new pb  much to his delight.  Eve Mcgrory took second place in the 50 metre breaststroke and a new pb for her.  Kieran Skinner  then took part in his favourite event, 100 fly and once again took maximum points for the club with a 5 second win over the nearest Vulcan swimmer.  Becci Foster took 3 seconds off her time for the same event to get 3^rd place and 3 more points.  Sven Schygiol narrowly missed out on 1^st place in the 50 freestyle coming in on a great time of 32.91 seconds.

The men’s medley relay proved the closest of the evening with a nail biting race from the first leg and a great swim on the final leg.  Scott Strong had a good start, but at the final takeover CASA green were 3 seconds behind the Vulcan team.  We were not to be defeated though and Aisley dived in and flew down the pool chasing his opponent,  the gap was just too much though and Vulcans were awarded 1^st place by just  0.1 of a second.  However the girls replied with an exciting race against Grantham leaving Rhiannon Haber swimming the  last 50 metres to bring the team home to a victory. 

More first places were to go to Travis Johnson and Amy Baker in their 50 metre backstroke and also to the boys 12/under medley relay team.    The final event of the evening saw our 12/under girl medley team finish in 4^th place. 

Coach Dave Leeman was extremely pleased with all the swimmers and the 2^nd place finish secures CASA Green a place in the final for the 3^rd round.