FAYETTEVILLE — Lumberton’s Jack Stephenson won the 50-yard freestyle title and the Pirates found the medal stand four other times en route to a third-place finish in the United-8 Conference boys swimming championships held Wednesday at Fayetteville State University.
Purnell Swett’s boys finished fourth, earning 53 points based on their finishes in each event. Lumberton’s 245 points came in behind first-place Jack Britt with 407 and second-place Cape Fear with 328.
In the girls team standings, Purnell Swett was fifth with 61 points and Lumberton sixth with 34. Cape Fear beat runner-up Jack Britt for the girls team title.
Stephenson swam the 50-yard freestyle in 24.73 seconds, beating Jack Britt’s Aiden Marshall by 0.16 seconds to win gold. Purnell Swett’s Seth Woods took fifth in the event at 27.46 and Lumberton’s Carson Stephenson was sixth at 27.64; Lumberton’s Ethan Stevens at 28.90, Aiden Mulroy at 29.06, Dixon Davis at 29.24 and Josiah Schultz at 36.38 each competed in the preliminaries.