{"id":235058,"date":"2026-01-13T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235058\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:42:08","slug":"mens-and-womens-swim-teams-take-down-wheeling-in-hickory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/235058\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s swim teams take down Wheeling in Hickory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     HICKORY, NC\u00a0&#8211; The Lenoir-Rhyne swim teams were on fire on Saturday, as they combined to take down Mars Hill 335-169\u00a0at the Shuford Pool. The men won 167-87 while the woman won 168-82.<\/p>\n<p>For the men, <a href=\"https:\/\/lrbears.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/levi-mcrea\/9008\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9008\" target=\"_blank\">Levi McRea<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lrbears.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/christopher-forsey\/8999\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8999\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Forsey<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lrbears.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/wyatt-herger\/9003\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9003\" target=\"_blank\">Wyatt Herger<\/a> combined for six first-place finishes while <a href=\"https:\/\/lrbears.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/ben-swetckie\/9011\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9011\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Swetckie<\/a> collected two second-place finishes in the Men&#8217;s 100-Yard Backstroke and Men&#8217;s 200-Yard Backstroke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lrbears.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/ella-penny\/9022\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9022\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Penny<\/a> led the way for the women&#8217;s team, producing three first-place finishes in the women&#8217;s 200-Yard Backstroke, 200-Yard Freestyle, and 200-Yard IM. The Women&#8217;s team combined for 10 first-place finishes, seven second-place finishes, and seven third-place finishes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third straight year\u00a0Lenoir-Rhyne and Wheeling have competed with the Bears swept the Cardinals in both genders in all three meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Individual Event Winners&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t1000 Yard Freestyle&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t200 Yard Freestyle&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t100 Yard Backstroke&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t100 Yard Breaststroke&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t200 Yard Butterfly&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t100 Yard Freestyle&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t200 Yard Backstroke&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t200 Yard Breaststroke&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t500 Yard Freestyle&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t100 Yard Butterfly&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t200 Yard IM&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Lenoir-Rhyne will compete against Converse this Friday at home for senior day. The meet is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. in the Shuford Pool.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; HICKORY, NC\u00a0&#8211; The Lenoir-Rhyne swim teams were on fire on Saturday, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-235058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}