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Eagle swimming has strong showing on senior night
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Eastside Swimming Eagles Team Captain Trey Hanson had a perfect night last Friday with four first place events but it wasn’t enough as the Eastside swim team placed fourth overall at the Eastside Eagles Invite held at Johnson Park.
This was Eastside’s Senior Night recognizing six seniors for the swimming Eagles: Bailey Stewart, Cameron Cole, Laderro Leonard, Dylan Weathersby, Max Mayfield and Hanson.

Team Scores were as follows:

Girls - Team Scores

1 Rockdale County High School 207
2 Morgan County High School Swim 194
3 Heritage High School Swim Team 104
4 Ola High School 70
5 Eastside High School Eastside High School 42
Total 617.00

Boys - Team Scores

1 Heritage High School Swim Team 205
2 Rockdale County High School 164
3 Morgan County High School Swim 131
4 Eastside High School 120
5 Alcovy High School Tigers 6
Total 626.00

Combined Team Scores

1 Rockdale County High School 371
2 Morgan County High School Swim 325
3 Heritage High School Swim Team 309
4 Eastside High School Eastside High School 162
5 Ola High School 70
6 Alcovy High School Tigers 6
Total 1,243.00

Event Highlights are as follows:
Boys 200 Medley Relay – Eastside (Dylan Weathersby, Billy Allen, Cameron Cole and Trey Hanson) took first place with a time of 1:52.11 and missed qualifying for state by 1.11 seconds. Morgan County was second with a time of 1:55.57 and Heritage was third with a time of 1:58.52.

Boys 400 Freestyle Relay – Eastside (Dylan Weathersby, Cole Bruns, Cameron Cole and Trey Hanson) came from behind in the most exciting race of the night to win with a time of 3:47.45 over a tough Heritage team who had a time of 3:47.51. The margin of victory was just .06 second. third place was Rockdale with a time of 4:21.23. Eastside missed qualifying for state in this event by a margin of 2.45 seconds.

Trey Hanson from Eastside took first place in the Boys 200 yard Freestyle with a time of 2:11.47 and he also place first in the Boys 100 Butterfly with a time of 1:02.55. He was also the team points leader with a perfect 20 points for the night.

Cameron Cole took second in the Boys 50 freestyle and third in the boys 100 freestyle

Dylan Weathersby took third in the boys 500 freestyle and fourth in the boys 200 IM.

Billy Allen took second place in the Boys 100 Breaststroke and second in the boys 200 Freestyle.