Getting tossed into the pool has become a common occurrence for Bend High swimming coach Brandon Powers.

It happens when your team wins a big meet. It happened Friday evening in the pool at Juniper Swim & Fitness Center after the Lava Bears won the Bend City Meet.

“My goal is to get thrown into the pool at districts,” Powers said. “And my goal is to get thrown into the pool at state.”

In the final meet before the Intermountain Conference district meet, the Lava Bears girls team contributed to 707 of the team’s combined 931 points, giving them the edge over last year’s Bend City Meet champions Summit (756), and ahead of Caldera (738) and Mountain View (409).

A good sign for the Lava Bears as the district and state meets are next on the docket.

“I’ve been very happy with the team, especially not being able to get in the water because of the snow,” Powers said. “Really happy to see us get those first, second and third places so we could get those extra points.”

With a dominant showing in all the relays, the Bend girls, last year’s Class 5A state champions, are once again primed to make another run at another state title. At last year’s state meet, the Lava Bears set state records in two of the three relays.

This year, they are attempting to add their name to the 200 medley relay record books after breaking the 200 and 400 freestyle relay records last year.

“Everyone is really excited about the relays,” said Bend sophomore Maddie Thornton. “We are hoping to get the medley relay as well this year. I feel like we are capable of doing it. We just need to focus when the time comes.”

It wasn’t just the three relays where the Lava Bears flexed their muscles in the pool. The Lava Bears won six of the eight individual events. Junior Kamryn Meskill (200 freestyle, 2:01.67), junior Hadley Hayes (200 IM, 2:17.72 and 100 breaststroke, 1:09.68), Thornton (100 butterfly, 59.65 and 100 freestyle, 54.14) and freshman Rebekah Williams (500 freestyle, 5:22.36) all won individual events.

Thornton, Hayes, sophomore Emma Bronson and Meskill made up Friday’s winning 200 IM relay team (1:49.55). Rebekah Williams, freshman Ayla Vodak, sophomore Olive Shatting and senior Elizabeth Williams made up the winning 400 freestyle relay team (3:54.58). While senior Ella Herron, Elizabeth Williams, White and senior Jacquelyn Horning won the 200 freestyle relay (1:52.28).

“I’m feeling really good about the team,” Thornton said. “Everyone is really excited about the championship season. We are going to sit down and talk about which events we are going to do because we want to try and win as many events as possible.”

Breaking up the Lava Bear sweep in the events was Summit’s sophomore Adeline Bennett (50 freestyle, 25.62) and Mountain View’s senior Sienna LeFeber (100 backstroke, 1:01.77).

The boys team race proved to be more highly contested than the girls.

Despite Summit winning the majority of the races, Caldera came away with the most points, with 509 to Summit’s 383.

Junior Campbell McKean won two individual events (200 IM, 1:52.08 and the 100 breaststroke, 59.39) and senior Laken Hollingsworth won the 100 backstroke (1:04.92).

Summit would claim victory in both the 200 medley and the 400 freestyle relays, while getting individual wins from junior Landon Egeland (200 freestyle, 1:54.60), sophomore Brecken Egeland (100 butterfly, 56.67) and junior Holden Short (500 freestyle, 5:06.96).

Mountain View sophomore Logan Gose won both the 50 freestyle (24.03) and the 100 freestyle (54.53).

The Storm won two relays. The quartet of senior Hunter McGrane, sophomore Ethan Chao, Brecken Egeland and Short won the 200 medley relay (1:50.60). Brecken Egeland, Landon Egeland, freshman Rafael Maloney and Short won the 400 freestyle relay (3:32.68).

The team of junior Teague Myers, junior Matthew Defrang, sophomore Ian Waters and McKean won the 200 freestyle relay (1:39.31) for Caldera.

The IMC district meet, where swimmers qualify for the state meet, will be held Feb. 9-10 at Juniper Swim & Fitness Center.