Swim team headed to divisionals

The Malta Swim team is headed to Sidney for the 2017 Montana Federation of Swimmers East Divisional meet this weekend.

Malta’s team is expected to field 26 swimmers in a meet that determines who will make it to the state meet.

The event starts at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 29 and will conclude on Sunday, July 30.

In last weekend’s meet at Roundup, the team had 16 swimmers, which was a bump up from their previous two meets.

“The meet went well,” Coach Pratt said. “It went pretty quickly even though there was a ton of kids there.”

She went on to say that the numbers were up becau...