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FAIRBANKS - The Nanooks swim team completed the sweep of the Westmont Warriors on Saturday, Jan. 13 with a 105-100 win; this is the Nanooks' second-straight dual meet win and their second on the year.

Day two consisted of 11 more events and the Nanooks found the win in eight of them. 

The first event of the Saturday morning meet was the 200-yard medley relay. Alaska claimed the victory to open up the day, earning 11 points as a team with a win from a team made up of Charlotte Fletcher-Stables, Dorka Dancsok, Adeline Berry and Lainey Lioi. They posted a winning time of 1:52.14, winning by more than four seconds. Westmont took second and third while the Nanooks also claimed fourth with a 2:03.93. The first individual event of the morning was the 1000-yard freestyle. Tori Shoemaker and Payton Wojciechowicz went one-two in the event, earning nine and four points, respectively. Shoemaker took the win with a time of 11:09.76, winning by nearly nine full seconds. Wojciechowicz followed in second, finishing the 1000 in 11:18.56. Kylee Carter was the final Nanooks racer in the event, taking sixth with a time of 12:42.93. Dorka Dancsok continued the winning for Alaska in the 200-yard freestyle. The freshman claimed the first-place finish with a time of 2:00.82, winning by just under a second as Westmont's Ella Chaisson followed with a 2:01.45. Fletcher-Stables followed in third with a 2:02.82 and rounded out the Nanooks in the 200 free. 

Lainey Lioi led the way for the Nanooks in the 50-yard freestyle, taking fourth and earning a pair of points for Alaska with a time of 26.94. She was followed by Berry, who finished with a 27.65 and earned a point for the Nanooks and Kaidence Sampsel, who finished in 28.43 seconds. Naomi Burgan claimed a victory in the 400-yard IM, winning by more than three seconds with a winning time of 4:53.75 and earning nine points for the Nanooks. Shannon McCallum followed in fourth-place, finishing in 5:11.11 for a pair of points. Adeline Berry cracked the top-three in the 200-yard butterfly, taking home second-place with a time of 2:25.80 on Saturday morning. Finishing just over a second behind in fourth was Mesa Moran (2:26.65). Sampsel rounded out the standings with a sixth-place finish and 2:43.55 time. Dancsok claimed her second win of the day in the 100-yard freestyle as the freshman posted a winning time of 55.68, besting her seed time of 56.41 for nine points. She won by over two seconds as the second-place time was 57.78. Lainey Lioi took fourth with a time of 58.05, earning two points for the Nanooks. Fletcher-Stables got herself a first-place finish on Saturday morning in the 200-yard backstroke, posting a 2:09.07 winning time. She claimed the win by more than a second and led the way for Alaska. Shannon McCallum finished in fifth and posted a time of 2:27.18, besting her seed time of 2:29.75. 

Tori Shoemaker claimed the final individual win for the Nanooks in the 500-yard freestyle. She posted a time of 5:27.00, winning by just over one full second. Payton Wojciechowicz, Meah McCallum and Mesa Moran followed in fourth, fifth and sixth-place with Wojciechowicz posting a time of 5:40.38, McCallum posting a 5:51.10 and Moran finishing in 5:51.57 in an exhibition race. 

In the 200-yard breaststroke, Burgan posted another top-three finish, taking second with a 2:41.44. She trailed the winning time by just over three seconds and earned the Nanooks four points. Kylee Carter took fifth and earned Alaska a point with a time of 3:06.07, besting her seed time of 3:08.03. The two teams went into the 11th and final event tied at 94-94, and just like Friday night's meet, it proved to be the winner-take-all race. The Nanooks grabbed the victory in the 200-yard freestyle relay by less than one second, as a team of Fletcher-Stables, Lioi, Burgan and Dancsok posted a 1:43.42, besting Westmont's 1:44.19. The win in the race gave the 'Nooks a 105-100 dual meet win.

Head coach Ksenia Gromova knew it was a long week for her team, but she was proud of the way they handled themselves with four meets this week, "The team finished the weekend even stronger. We had some exciting races, especially the last relay. The girls did an outstanding job this weekend and this week competing in four meets in one week!" 

Alaska returns to the Patty Center Pool next weekend when they host Western Colorado on Jan. 19-20. 

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