Years from now, the fans and swimmers at the Gettysburg College's College Union Building pool may remember the humidity ... or the score clock with the broken timer for the fifth lane.

However, long after people forget the split of meets between Gettysburg High and Susquehanna Township, the 2010 Warrior graduates will remember the early -- very early -- senior night.

"It's so weird," Gettysburg senior Emily Weaner said. "Everyone today in school was like, 'Are you kidding me? You guys just got started.' But that's how it's always been here at the college."

But not in Tuesday's setting as the Warriors, whose girls beat the visiting Indians 113-56 and whose boys lost 105-65, will move down the street next season to the college's new natatorium at the Center for Athletics, Recreation and Fitness.

"Lots of butterfly ... lots of butterfly workouts," Gettysburg head coach Amanda Turner said of her principal memory at the College Union Building, where she swam for Gettysburg College in the unusual second-floor pool which hosted its final event on Tuesday.

Thanks to sophomore Emily Ondrizek, the same stroke paid off for the Warrior girls. Her victory in the 100-yard race was one of her four victories to share meet honors with Weaner.

"She's improving a lot. You can definitely seen her dedication and love of the sport, which is very exciting," Weaner, who was heading off to West Shore YMCA swimming practice after the meet, said of her teammate. "You'd love to leave

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the program knowing there are other people who are going to keep the program going and winning the division championships."

So far, the Warrior girls (5-1), who won Tuesday without Mid-Penn Class AAA 100-yard breaststroke champion Emily Beamer, are unbeaten in three Mid-Penn Keystone meets and Turner said the toughest challenges lie ahead now on the road. Beamer, who is on a holiday trip, will return for those meets.

"The girls are watching Palmyra and Red Land, Palmyra more so because that was such a close meet last year," Turner said. "We've already talked about that."

That talk begins in earnest after Tuesday and after the defending division champion Warriors led from the outset. In addition to the team's two four-event winners, it got three wins each from Eileen Curley and Courtney Kraus.

Susquehanna Township was paced by Erica Clancy, who won two events.

Meanwhile, Susquehanna Township's boys also led their meet from the start and coasted behind four-event winners Matt Falgoust and Nate Smith.

However, the Warrior boys (2-4, 0-3) won the day's best race, the 200 freestyle relay. Sophomore Phineas O'Brien-Milne overtook the Indians' Jeremy Wilkerson in the third leg and then senior Max Kalinkin anchored the win in 1 minute, 37.88 seconds, a Hanover area season best.

Turner said, "That group of boys has their eye on our high school record. It's 1:37.49 and they got point-88 today. They were hoping to get it today, being senior night and their last home meet and we had a good crowd. They were really close, so now we're sure that, by Mid-Penns, we can get it."

O'Brien-Milne also won the 200 freestyle.
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