Swimmers ‘Seal’ impressive victory

As this was the last home gala of the season the Ballymena team was bigger than usual with some new or less familiar faces included in the team.

The first race of the evening, a medley relay, had both teams screaming encouragement.

Ballymena won comfortably and by the end of the relays had a 16 point lead.

In the individual events Ballymena continued to pile up the points and although Swilly started a fight back in the freestyle and Individual Medley events, the damage had been done and Ballymena consolidated the win, taking five of the final eight relays to score 600 points to Swilly’s 541.

A total of 48 PBs were shared amongst 32 Ballymena swimmers.

Best performance was by Roisin Ferris who had a clean sweep of five PBs in fierce competition with an excellent Swilly adversary.

Robbie Anderson recorded four, narrowly missing a fifth in Breast stroke by 0.12sec.

Peter Meehan had three and Emma Walsh, Amy Barr, Erin Barr, Zara Jane Melody, Lynsie Darragh, Adam Lamont and Jack Higgins had two each.

Ballymena’s next gala is away to Dungannon on 26th January.