Swimming against local rivals brought out some of the best times of the year for the Wiscasset High School varsity swim team.

The Wolverines hosted swimmers from Boothbay Region and Lincoln Academy on Jan. 9 at home.

Wiscasset (Amanda Marcus, Julia West, Jenna Bickford and Maeve Carlson) finished third in the girls 200-yard medley relay behind Lincoln and Boothbay.

The boys 200-yard medley relay team (Aidan Carlson, Ryan Medina, Ridge Barnes and Sam Storer) finished second behind Lincoln.

West had an especially successful day; the senior was first in both the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly.

Marcus finished sixth in both the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle.

Maeve Carlson was third in the girls 100-yard freestyle and fourth in the girls 100-yard backstroke.

Bickford finished fourth in the girls 200-yard individual medley and fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke.

Like West, Storer had a strong showing: he was first in the boys 100-yard butterfly and the 100-yard backstroke.

Barnes finished third in the boys 200-yard freestyle, third in the 100-yard breaststroke and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle.

Aidan Carlson finished second in the boys 50-yard freestyle and third in the 100-yard breaststroke, while Medina (fourth) and Kyle Viele (fifth) competed in the 50-yard freestyle race. Medina and Viele finished fifth and seventh, respectively, in the boys 100-yard freestyle.

Wiscasset swims up the Kennebec

On Jan. 6, the Wiscasset High School varsity swim team “swam” up the Kennebec River ... to Gardiner YMCA, where the Tigers held a swim meet.

Wiscasset was dominant in many races, including the relay races, in particular.

In the girls 200-yard medley relay, the team of Amanda Marcus, Julia West, Jenna Bickford and Maeve Carlson finished first in 2:32.09, while the boys 200-yard medley relay team of Kyle Viele, Aidan Carlson, Sam Storer and Ridge Barnes finished first in 2:20.55.

In the boys 200-yard freestyle, Storer finished first with a time of 2:18.24, while in the girls 200-yard individual medley West was first wit a 2:34.83.

Maeve Carlson (32.95 seconds) and Bickford (35.27) finished second and third, respectively, in the girls 50-yard freestyle while Aidan Carlson (28.85) and Viele (37.96) finished first and second respectively in the boys 50-yard freestyle.

Bickford was first in the girls 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:39.55.

Maeve Carlson was second in the girls 100-yard freestyle, while Marcus finished third in the same race. Storer was first in the boys 100-yard freestyle and Viele was second.

In the girls 200-yard freestyle relay, Wiscasset (Maeve Carlson, Marcus, Bickford and West) edged Gardiner by two seconds.

The boys 200-yard freestyle team (Ridge Barnes, Aidan Carlson, Medina and Storer) also finished first.

Marcus finished second in the girls 100-yard backstroke, while Barnes finished first in the boys race.

West was first by a wide margin in the girls 100-yard breaststroke while Aidan Carlson and Medina finished first and second, respectively in the boys 100-yard breaststroke.