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McCague Takes 11th At State Swim Meet

St. Louis Park junior places third in consolation heat of 100-yard butterfly.

St. Louis Park's Erik McCague swam his way to an 11th-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly at the Class AA state championship meet on Saturday night at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center.

McCague, who took 12th in the preliminary round, finishing in 53.98 seconds on Friday night, sliced more than a half-second off his time to place third in the consolation heat with a time of 53.40. First- through eighth-place was decided during the championship heat Saturday.

The Orioles took 33rd in the state standings with six points based solely on McCague's one-man efforts.

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