As the weather cools, the Wiscasset High School swim team will look to turn up the heat with a pair of early-year meets.

Although the team has several meets under its cap already, the busy part of the schedule is coming in early January as Wiscasset will again look to fill its state meet roster.

The team will travel up Route 27 to Gardiner on Tuesday, Jan. 6 to swim at the Kennebec Valley YMCA in Augusta at 7 p.m. The team won't have a long layoff: it swims again at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9 when Boothbay Region and Lincoln Academy come to visit the Wiscasset Community Center.

The Wolverines are coming off a successful trip to Bath, in which the hometown Morse Shipbuilders won each event during the Dec. 19 meet.

Despite Morse's dominance, Wiscasset was able to cross the finish line with several strong individual and team performances.

In the boys 200-yard medley relay, the Wiscasset team of Kyle Viele, Ryan Medina, Sam Storer and Ridge Barnes finished fourth with a total time of 2 minutes and 25.19 seconds.

In the girls 200-yard freestyle, sophomore Jenna Bickford claimed a seventh-place finish with a time of 2:55.03.Bickford also finished eighth in the girls 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:20.07.

In the boys 200-yard freestyle, Kyle Viele scored a fourth-place finish with a time of 3:14.04, while in the girls 200-yard medley, Maeve Carlson finished fifth when she finished with a time of 3:07.58. Carlson finished fourth in the girls 100-meter breaststroke when she completed the circuit in 1:35.70.

Amanda Marcus finished seventh in the girls 50-yard freestyle with a time of 35.47 seconds. Marcus also finished seventh in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:31.94.

Barnes finished fifth in both the boys 50-yard freestyle with a time of 32.92, and the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:13.91. Storer finished second in the boys 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:05.74 and Medina was fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:37.64.

The boys relay team of Storer, Barnes, Medina and Viele also finished fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay.