Moses Lake's Camacho breaks record in team's win
MOSES LAKE — Daniel Camacho could have starred in his own movie sequel on Tuesday night at the Moses Lake High School swim pool — “Holiday Break 2: Setting Records.”
Camacho gave himself and his Chiefs teammates a belated Christmas present by posting a score of 208 points over six dives to break the school record for one-meter diving in Moses Lake’s 127-58 win.
“All I do is come to practice, do my best, and listen to my coach,” Camacho said. “It’s like putting all the pieces together of a puzzle. Everything was just feeling good. My diving was perfect and I was on.”
Moses Lake team coach Tony St. Onge said he saw this night coming.
“Daniel is a junior that is loaded with talent and we’ve been waiting for this for the last year,” Moses Lake coach Tony St. Onge. “We are still hoping for more consistency and there is a guy, Braxton Ford (who finished second), who is right there with him. We have two of the better divers in the district this year.”
The Chiefs came out flying through the water to record the resounding win over West Valley to kick start the 2010 half of this season’s campaign.
“We came out strong after Christmas Break,” Chiefs coach Tony St. Onge said. “Those athletes that trained hard during the break competed very well this meet. We came out and looked tough against West Valley with the entire team getting in on the scoring action.”
In the relay events Moses Lake swept the 200-yard medley — 1st place (Colby Byington, Evan McFarland, Reuben Huddleston, and Dominic Cacchiotti), 2nd place (Cody Wilson, Brandon Emerson, Parker Merkley, and Skyler Gallaway), 3rd place (Ian Isherwood, Jacob Price, Will Monlux, and Nick Reed) — took first (McFarland, Dominic Cacchiotti, Kyle Reeder, and Huddleston) and third (Damian Cacchiotti, Reid Jackson, Gallaway, and Daniel Noteboom) in the 200-yard freestyle medley, and second (Noteboom, Jackson, Byington, and Reeder) and third (Reed, Wilson, Merkley, and Damian Cacchiotti) in the 400-yard freestyle medley.
Moses Lake swimmers also dominated in individual events. Noteboom and Jackson took second and third respectively in 200-yard freestyle, Reeder and Merkley did the same in the 200-yard individual medley, while Huddleston, Dominic Cacchiotti, and Gallaway went 1-2-3 in the 50-yard freestyle.
Other individual events results include: 100-yard butterfly: McFarland (first) and Merkley (second); 100-yard freestyle: Huddleston (second) and Dominic Cacchiotti (third); 500-yard freestyle: Reeder (first), Jackson (second), and Noteboom (third); 100-yard backstroke: Byington (first), Garrett Rice (second), and Wilson (third); and 100-yard breaststroke: McFarland (first) and Emerson (third).
“Our returning as well as our new swimmers looked tough at the end our races and we won most close races,” St. Onge said. “The divers worked on their degree of difficulty during the break and ripped up the water during the competition.”
St. Onge said the performance was a good tune up for this weekend’s trip to Federal Way for the Kentridge Invitational.
So far this season the Chiefs have qualified 16 competitors for the district meet including, Miles Hanson, Braxton Ford, Colby Byington, Cody West
Ian Isherwood, Daniel Noteboom, Reid Jackson, Parker Merkley, Evan McFarland, Reuben Huddleston, Kyle Reeder, Dominic Cacchiotti, Damian Cacchiotti, Skyler Gallaway, Nick Reed, and Camacho.
“A team goal is to get a few more qualified and work hard towards the championship phase of the season which is only a few weeks away,” St. Onge said.