Gilroy
– Shaving your legs really can pay off. Just ask the members of
the Gilroy boys’ swim team.
With the aid of the razor, several Mustang swimmers swam their
best times of the season at Friday’s TCAL Finals in Morgan Hill,
helping Gilroy to a third
–place team finish behind Live Oak and Hollister.
Gilroy – Shaving your legs really can pay off. Just ask the members of the Gilroy boys’ swim team.
With the aid of the razor, several Mustang swimmers swam their best times of the season at Friday’s TCAL Finals in Morgan Hill, helping Gilroy to a third–place team finish behind Live Oak and Hollister.
“We had a pretty good shave and taper,” said Gilroy head coach Tom Clark. “It’s that feel you get. You just feel really fast in the water.”
In typical fashion, senior Santiago Maciel led Gilroy, which scored 222 points as a team, with victories in the 200 intermediate medley (2:00.47) and the 200 butterfly (53.84).
“Those two those times he swam, if he swims those this Friday (at the CCS meet), they should at least get him into the consolation finals,” Clark said. “They’re both his best times.”
Scott Castruita also fared well, taking second in the 100 free and fifth in the 100 breaststroke, with times of 52.19 and 1:06.54, respectively, both personal bests in those events.
“Castruita was a surprise,” Clark said. “It was a good job for him.”
In the 100 breastroke, Gilroy’s Lee Walton (1:03.73) was just edged out by Live Oak’s Ryan Gautschi (1:03.02), in almost an exact replay of the race the two had in the April 29 meet between the Mustangs and the Acorns.
Two Gilroy relay teams took second at the meet. The 200 medley relay teams of Austin Gubrud, Walton, Maciel and Sam Whitaker swam a 1:46.04 while the 200 free relay team of Castruita, Whittaker, Walton and Maciel finished in 1:31.89.
Whitaker added a fourth place 23.52 finish in the 50 free and a fifth place 52.98 in the 100 free.
Gilroy will wrap up its season at the CCS finals, which take place this Friday (semis) and Saturday (finals) at Stanford University.
