FEDERAL WAY — Port Angeles junior swimmer John Macias earned two fifth-place finishes as the 2A state swimming and diving meet at King County Aquatic Center.
Macias placed fifth in the 200-yard individual medley (two minutes and 2.08 seconds) and in the 100-yard backstroke (56.07 seconds) to lead the Roughriders to a 12th-place finish with 77 points.
Macias advanced to the finals with a second-place finish in the 200 individual medley and fourth in the 100 back.
Jay Liang added an eighth-place showing for Port Angeles in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:06.47.
Wei-Yan Fu took 12th in the 100 butterfly (56.92 seconds) and Tristin Butler finished 14th in the 500 freestyle (5:22.32).
The Riders had a pair of top-10 relay finishes. Macias, Liang, Fu and Butler took ninth in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:47.19.
Those four also teamed up to place 10th in the 400 freestyle relay (3:31.43).
Preliminaries – Top 16 advance
Friday
200 medley relay: John Macias, Jay Liang, Wei-Yan Fu, Tristin Butler (PA), ninth, 1:47.04.
200 IM: John Macias (PA), second, 2:02.15; Eric Prosser (Sequim), 20th, 2:18.69; Tristin Butler (PA), 23rd, 2:20.08.
50 free: Wei-Yan Fu (PA), 23rd, 0:24.77.
1-meter diving: Colton Olson (PA), 19th, 268.55 points; Scott Methner 96.65 points.
100 butterfly: Wei-Yan Fu (PA), 12th, 0:56.70.
500 free: Tristin Butler (PA), 13th, 5:24.98; Karsten Hertzog (PA), 13th, 5:50.86.
100 back: John Macias (PA), fourth, 0:56.17; Eric Prosser (Sequim), 20th, 1:03.11; Cole Urnes (PA), 21st, 1:03.54.
100 breast: Jay Liang (PA), seventh, 1:05.97.
400 free relay: Jay Liang, Wei-Yan Fu, Tristin Butler, John Macias (PA), 13th, 3:35.13.
Finals
Saturday
200 medley relay: John Macias, Jay Liang, Wei-Yan Fu, Tristin Butler (PA), ninth, 1:47.19.
200 IM: John Macias (PA), fifth, 2:02.08.
100 butterfly: Wei-Yan Fu (PA), 12th, 0:56.92.
500 free: Tristin Butler (PA), 14th, 5:22.32.
100 back: John Macias (PA), fourth, 0:56.07.
100 breast: Jay Liang (PA), eighth, 1:06.47.
400 free relay: Jay Liang, Wei-Yan Fu, Tristin Butler, John Macias (PA), 10th, 3:31.43.
