RIPON – Ripon High senior Ty Wells had his swan song Saturday, and he closed out his participation in the Ervin Zador Invitational in grand style.

Swimming in his fourth Zador Invitational in his home pool and already having qualified for the Sac Joaquin Section Championships for a jaw-dropping fourth year in a row, Wells brought home four gold medals from the meet named for his mentor. 

“This meet is named for Ervin Zador,” Wells said. “I really take the time to remember what Ervin did for me even though I was with him for only a short time. I met Ervin in Sept. 2011,  and he passed away the following January. He was like no other coach I have ever had, except for maybe his son Eric.

“This is one of my favorite meets to go to – swimming at home in an invitational with teams we don’t usually swim against. It is nice to swim against teams from different areas to see where I am at compared to Turlock and Stockton.”

Wells won the 200-yard individual medley (1 minute, 59.83 seconds), 100 breast (1:00.05), was on the winning 200 medley relay (1:45.91) and 200 free relay (1:33.62) with Noah Esenwein, Lucas Esenwein and Connor Self.

Ripon’s Mallory Brubaker won the 200 free (2:03.09), 500 free (5:20.95) and was third in the 200 free relay (1:52.17) with Madyson Valencia, Kate Villegas and Emma Ayers and fifth in the 400 free relay (4:30.57) with Amy Bacay, Molly Burton and Eleanor Tran.

“It has been an honor to swim in this meet for four years,” Brubaker said.

“I was a little off of my goal times for today. I did what my coach asked me to do and that was kind of the plan.”

A perennial powerhouse due to talented swimmers, the Indians have an infusion of freshman that is affording Ripon depth it has not normally enjoyed. Both the boys and the girls Indians won the team portions of the invitational.

“We are looking pretty good this year” Ripon coach Erik Zador said. “We are pretty deep.

“We have always had some high-end swimmers but we have never had the depth. And this year we have a lot of talented freshmen coming in so we have the depth which is really great so we get to compete a little bit better with some of these better teams.”

Ripon’s Amber Scheid was on the winning 200 free relay (1:46.80) with Chloe Winter, Elizabeth Wenner and Ashtyne Topie, second in the 100 breast (1:14.08) and third in the 200 free (2:07.44).  The B 200 Medley Relay of Ashstyne Topie, Burton, Tran, Madyson Valencia finished third (2:09.48). Wenner won the 100 back (1:04.59), Topie was second in the 50 free (27.64),  Bacay was second in the 100 back (1:06.27) and 100 free (59.25), Tran was second in the 200 individual medley (2:25.84), Wenner was second in the 100 fly (1:03.63) and Burton was third in the 100 free (1:01.54). 

Lucas Eisenwein won the 50 free (22.61) and 100 free (49.96) and Noah Esenwein was third in the 50 free (23.56). Other Ripon boys placers were Maika West (second, 500 free, 5:23.35;  second, 200 free, 2:01.22) , Kai West (third, 500 free, 5:25.03; third, 200 free, 2:02.64) and Self (third, 100 back, 1:06.13).

Ripon Christian’s Emma Magnussen won the 200 individual medley (2:21.95) and 100 fly (1:00.92) with teammate Rylee Biedleman winning the 100 breast (1:13.35) and 100 free (56.77). 

Sierra’s Nicholas Brink won the 200 free (1:57.27) and 500 free (5:10.55) and teammate Erik Enriquez was second in the 100 fly (1:00.35). 

Manteca’s Alyssa Trejo finshed third in the 100 fly (1:06.11).

Track and Field

Glen Poole Invitational

ROSEVILLE – The Sierra girls took first place Saturday at Oakmont High School and the Timberwolves boys were seventh. 

Jasmine Correa and Megan Oblin both nabbed a pair of gold medals for the Timberwolves with Correa winning the 200-meter dash (26.54 seconds) and 400 (58.35) and Oblin taking the 800, 2:22.86; first, 1600, 5:29.60). Correa added a silver medal in the 4x100 relay (51.36) along with Danielle Cesante, Jaida Franklin and Raiann Prieto.

Miranda Miller won the triple jump (32 feet, 11 inches) and was third in the long jump (15-5) and Britney Spivey was second in the shot put (31-4).

Jesse Hurtado took home two gold medals for the Timberwolves boys in the 800 (2:01.16) and in the 4x400 relay (3:32.18) along with David Correa, Jerardo Salcedo and Nicholas Stanley.

Volleyball

Sierra Tournament

Lathrop went 2-2 in the tournament Saturday and the Spartans were missing a few players.

“We had two tough losses to start the tournament,” Lathrop coach Heather Anderson said. “But it was a good opportunity for our team to see some things that we need to work on as we continue to prepare for league completion.”

The Spartans opened with a three-set 21-25, 25-23, 10-15 loss to Ripon Christian. Tyler Riggleman had 10 kills and eight digs, Ysrael Gutierrez had 12 assists and Mark Fabian had 20 digs. Lathrop followed that with another three-set loss, falling to Los Banos 25-19, 25-27, 9-15.

Riggleman had 14 kills and three aces, Adrian Corona had six kills and two aces, Gabe Gutierrez had 23 assists and two kills and Mark Fabian had 17 digs.

The Spartans swept their next two matches, defeating Ripon 25-16, 26-24 (Riggleman eight kills, four assists; Gabe Gutierrez five kills, four assists and two aces and Fabian 15 digs) and Sierra 25-13, 25-20 (Tyler Riggleman seven kills; Corona had four kills, ace; Rael Carmesis 14 assists, five digs, ace and Anjru DeLeon three digs, ace).

Ripon lost to Patterson 20-25, 9-25; Kimble 11-25, 23-25 and Lathrop 15-25, 25-27 and defeated Sierra 25-23, 25-21. 

“Dylan Sexton and Michael Winters played well all tournament long leading our team, helping everyone, motivating them to play to the best,” Indians coach Rod Wright said.