MI boys swim wrap against Redmond

The Islanders topped the Mustangs in six of the meet’s 12 events.

Mercer Island boys swim and dive wrapped its regular season with a win over Redmond Thursday, Jan. 29 at Redmond Pool. The Islanders topped the Mustangs in six of the meet’s 12 events.

Mercer Island won the 200 medley relay, with the team of Teddy Larkin, Andrew Fukuda, Ian Caldwell and Oliver Hoff finishing in 1:46.56. The team of Caldwell, Connor Vacca, Jimmy Markwith and Ford Witman won the 200 freestyle relay at 1:36.51.

Caldwell won the 50 free with an all-state time of 22.66 and was fifth in the 100 backstroke (1:03.04). Hoff won the 200 free (1:53.11), and Fukuda won the 100 butterfly (1:00.89).

Other top finishers for the Islanders included Jack Larkin finishing third in the 200 IM (2:16.46). Ricardo Pelle finished fourth in the diving event (171.3), Vacca finished fourth in the 100 free (53.23) and Nathaniel Nichol was fifth in the 500 free (5:41.29).

Mercer Island will begin KingCo tournament preliminaries at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 at Mary Wayte Pool. Tournament finals will be at 3:45 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7 at the UW Swimming Pool.