PILOT MOUNTAIN — The Surry Central girls swim team went out on a high note in its final regular season match Thursday at the Armfield Civic Center.

While the Golden Eagles lost the overall team competition to West Stokes 310-285, Central along Mount Airy swimmers made their presence known.

The Central girls took the overall girls’ win with a final score of 186, better than second place Mount Airy (162) and third place West Stokes (125).

Central girls won all but four of the 11 events Thursday, with Mount Airy swimmers taking three of the remaining four.

Central won three of four relays, with the Granite Bears eeking out an exciting comeback win in the girls’ 400-yard freestyle relay, defeating the West Stokes relay team by just more than two seconds and the top Central team by nearly the same margin.

Central’s Kirstin Gardner (200 freestyle, 100 freestyle) and Lyncee Kowalcik (50 freestyle, 100 backstroke) and Mount Airy’s Abby Bledsoe (100 butterfly, 100 breastroke) were Thursday’s multiple girls’ individual winners.

In the boys’ overall competition, West Stokes (185) ran away from Central (99) and Mount Airy (88) to take the win.

Central’s Granath Musson won both the 100 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke, while teammate Jesse Martin won the boys’ 50 freestyle by .38 seconds over Mount Airy’s Matus Kriska for the only individual wins of the night for both the Golden Eagles and the Bears.

The Northwest 1A/2A Conference championships will be Jan. 23 at the Armfield Center beginning at 4 p.m.