Breakers Earn Laguna’s First Swim Crown

Boys Are CIF Champs!

Laguna swimmers saved their best for last, set a new school record in the 4 x 100 relay and vaulting the team to their first CIF title in 54 years last Saturday, May 16, at Riverside City College.

The title is the school’s 41^st Southern Section sports banner since earning their first section championship for football in 1946.

Breakers returned this year to the much more competitive Division 2 level after six years at Division 3 and pulled off the swim crown with a squad of eight swimmers. Laguna coaches Beth Weber and Kari Damato have turned around results despite Laguna’s antiquated facilities and tradition.

Boys Results:

200 Medley Relay: 2^nd – (Juliusson, Larkoska, Morgan, Del Toro) 1:34.38 **

200 Individual Medley : 2nd – Erik Juliusson 1:48.16 **, 5 – Cameron Karkoska 1:52.94, 7 – Max Morgan 1:55.41

50 Free : 11^th – Cade Baldridge 21.77

200 Free Relay: 7^th – (Del Toro, Renner, Dodson, Baldridge) 1:27.66 **

100 Back: 3^rd – Erik Juliusson 50.43

100 Breast: 3^rd – Max Morgan 57.75 **, 5 – Cameron Karkoska 58.39

400 Free Relay: 1^st – (Karkoska, Morgan, Baldridge, Juliusson)**

** – New School Record

Team Scoring: 1 – Laguna Beach 219, 2 – Murrieta Valley 181, 3 – Redlands 147, 4 – Los Osos 143, 5 – Redlands East Valley 134, 6 – Westlake & Lakewood 118, 8 – Santiago/Corona 111, 9 – South Pasadena 108.5, 10 – Arroyo Grande 108, 11 – Crescenta Valley 100, 12 – El Toro 88, 13 – La Canada 73.5, 14 – Laguna Hills & Calvary Chapel 73

The girls squad was missing Aria Fischer and finished 16^th in Division 2.

Diving: 2 – Liv Mitchell 469.00 **, 17^th – Mackenzie Peasley 339.15

200 Medley Relay: 15^th (Dix, Cohn, Karkoska, Whitelock) 1:53.70

100 Fly: 5^th – Kasey Karkoska 56.75

100 Back: 4^th – Kasey Karkoska 57.12

** – New School Record