Norway junior Marisa Pipp took first in the 100 butterfly in a meet against Manistique and Westwood at the Northern Lights YMCA Dickinson Center pool Tuesday afternoon. It marked her first high school win. (Ron Deuter photo)

IRON MOUNTAIN – Team depth was again on full display for the Kingsford swim team Tuesday afternoon at the Northern Lights YMCA Dickinson Center pool, as the Flivvers powered past Manistique and Westwood and turned in several notable individual performances.

Kingsford’s girls won with 107 points to Westwood’s 30 and Manistique’s 23. The boys team won every single event for 83 points, with Manistique (28) in second and Westwood in third (26).

“We are starting to see a lot of improvement from the whole team top to bottom,” Kingsford head coach Jim Lindstrom said. “Team depth is what wins meets and ours is coming along at a good pace.”

Senior Sam Lamirand, junior Thomas Gibbons and Iron Mountain sophomore Bryce Johnson each claimed two individual wins. On the girls’ side, sophomores Allison Deuter and Aubree Peterson were double winners.

Lamirand swam to victories in the 100 (56.20) and 200 freestyle (2:08.45), his 200 marking a season-best time for the Flivvers. Gibbons easily captured the 200 IM (2:22.25) with a team season-best time, and the 100 breaststroke (1:13.29), and Johnson was a runaway winner in the 100 butterfly (1:02.32) and 100 backstroke (1:02.66).

Deuter won the 50 free (26.65) by four seconds and secured another U.P. qualifying time with a six-second triumph in the 100 backstroke (1:13.80), giving her a sixth event in which she has posted her team’s fastest time this season to go with her team bests in 50, 100 and 500 free as well as the 100 fly and 200 IM.

Peterson hit the pad first in the 200 (2:19.06) and 500 (6:39.77) free.

Senior Marley Dixon added another new U.P. qualifying time for the Flivvers in the 200 IM with a 2:58.59, which was good for fourth on Tuesday.

Junior Ella McLean posted another convincing victory in the 100 breaststroke with a 1:20.76, nearly 16 seconds ahead of the field. Norway junior Marisa Pipp secured her first high school win with a 1:44.34 in the 100 fly.

“She has been dropping time like crazy these last few meets,” Lindstrom said of Pipp.

Junior Orrin Smith, making a mid-season switch from wrestling to swimming, literally put in one swim practice ahead of the meet and posted a 29.05 in the 50 free, an event won by his older brother senior Quinten Smith (25.03).

Kingsford swept the relay events. For the girls it was junior Kailey Matuszewski, McLean, Deuter and Peterson taking the 200 medley with a time of 2:06.71. McLean, seniors Christina Fraker and Chloe Blazer, and junior Olivia Sage won the 200 free in 2:05.42, and Deuter, Dixon, Matuszewski and Peterson took the 400 free by more than 30 seconds, clocking 4:23.51.

Johnson, Gibbons, Lamirand and Quinten Smith posted a 1:56.75 to win the 200 medley. The 200 free was won by Johnson, freshman Michael Covitz, freshman Cooper Meyers and senior David Arcand with a Flivvers’ season best time of 1:52.62. Quinten Smith, Gibbons, Arcand and Lamirand won the 400 free uncontested in 4:03.86.