A pair of top-four individual finishes and two more medals in the relays was quite a haul for Union’s Sam Empey, yet the sophomore left Saturday’s 4A boys state swimming championships wanting more.
Prep highlights: Empey, Gallo leads Union boys to swimming win over Camas By Columbian staff
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Sam Empey won two events and Jack Gallo won another to lead the Union boys swimming team to a narrow win over Camas in an 12-team invitational meet at Kelso.
Union won the team title with 460 points. Camas was second with 453.
Empey won 200-yard freestyle in 1 minutes, 52 seconds and the 100 butterfly in 53.69 seconds. Gallo won the 500 freestyle in 4:56.12.
Skyview’s Jace Creech and Mountain View’s Justin Xue also won two events each. Creech won the 200 individual medley (2:02.57) and the 100 backstroke (54.08), while Xue finished first in the 50 freestyle (21.69) and 100 breaststroke (59.60).