Swimming Vikings lead individually, swamped by numbers in Ketchikan

Petersburg's Vikings continue to pull ahead of other schools at swim meets, leading in many of the events over Friday and Saturday in Ketchikan.

“The kids swam great, we didn't have a whole lot of competition ― there was only one or two guys that could give us any race,” Coach Andy Carlisle said. “Thunder Mountain (High School) left many of their best kids at home.”

Still, the Viking swimmers were vastly outnumbered at the meet, the weight of larger schools' aggregate points pushing the teams' handful of high scores down in the rankings, he said. “We got outnumbered by Ketchikan. We would take...