Mercersburg Academy’s boys’ and girls’ swimming and diving teams both outlasted the rival Hill School in a dual meet December 15 in the Flanagan Pool in Mercersburg. The Blue Storm girls earned a 109-75 victory, while the boys posted a 100-83 win.

Full meet results:

The Mercersburg girls won 11 of 12 events, and the Storm boys posted victories in nine of 12 events. Mandolin Nguyen (200-yard individual medley/100 breaststroke) and Jade Matthias (50 freestyle/100 freestyle) won two individual events apiece and teamed for a pair of relay victories as well. For the boys, Ford Blaylock and Hugh Robey captured a pair of individual events each and combined with two teammates for a win in the 400 free relay.

Individual event winners for Hill included Robert Twombly (boys’ one-meter diving), Alfonso Mestre (boys’ 100 butterfly), John Nelligan (boys’ 100 freestyle), and Alexandra Zelinske (girls’ 100 backstroke).

Girls

• 200-yard medley relay (Mercersburg): Jade Matthias, Mandolin Nguyen, Kiersten Donnelly, Morgan Krepp (1:52.20)
• 200 freestyle (Mercersburg): Krepp (1:59.09)
• 200 individual medley (Mercersburg): Nguyen (2:06.10)
• 50 freestyle (Mercersburg): Matthias (25.31)
• 1-meter diving (Mercersburg): Meghan Scott (189.10)
• 100 butterfly (Mercersburg): Donnelly (1:00.60)
• 100 freestyle (Mercersburg): Matthias (55.16)
• 500 freestyle (Mercersburg): Krepp (5:20.70)
• 200 free relay (Mercersburg): Matthias, Sophia Czaja, Isabella Van Ess, Nguyen (1:42.09)
• 100 backstroke (Hill): Alexandra Zelinske (1:00.07)
• 100 breaststroke (Mercersburg): Nguyen (1:04.30)
• 400 free relay (Mercersburg): Krepp, Donnelly, Czaja, Van Ess (3:48.78)

Boys

• 200-yard medley relay (Mercersburg): Andrew Yuen, Jack Kothari, Andy Armbruster, Peem Pibuldham (1:40.16)
• 200 freestyle (Mercersburg): Ford Blaylock (1:44.05)
• 200 individual medley (Mercersburg): Hugh Robey (1:55.56)
• 50 freestyle (Mercersburg): Eli Williams (21.78)
• 1-meter diving (Hill): Robert Twombly (115.80)
• 100 butterfly (Hill): Alfonso Mestre (51.49)
• 100 freestyle (Hill): John Nelligan (47.49)
• 500 freestyle (Mercersburg): Blaylock (4:33.20)
• 100 backstroke (Mercersburg): Robey (53.03)
• 100 breaststroke (Mercersburg): Kothari (1:03.11)
• 400 free relay (Mercersburg): Robey, Blaylock, Tag Curwen, Williams (3:11.42)
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The Blue Storm swimmers and divers are back in action Saturday, January 19, with another dual meet against a longtime foe when the Peddie School comes to town. The meet in the Flanagan Pool begins at 1 p.m.