Big Walnut sweeps Northridge Viking Splash meet

By GARY HENERY

News Man­ag­ing Editor

The Golden Eagles opened their 2012–13 swim sea­son with a splash.

Big Wal­nut cap­tured both the boys and girls team titles at the John­stown North­ridge Viking Splash waged Sat­ur­day at the New Albany Pool. The Golden Eagle boys scored 87 points to out­dis­tance run­nerup Mar­ion Pleas­ant by 26 points while the girls tal­lied 120 points to fin­ish 53 points ahead of sec­ond place Spartans.

In the boys divi­sion, Big Wal­nut was led by sopho­more Carter Marsch who scored wins in both the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 0:57.18 sec­onds and the 100-yard breast­stroke in 1 minute, 12.10 sec­onds as well as swim­ming legs on the vic­to­ri­ous 200-yard med­ley and freestyle relays.

In the Golden Eagles’ two relay vic­to­ries, Ben Ste­fa­niak, Jens Paglialunga, Justin Beyer and Marsch teamed to cap­ture the 200 med­ley in 2:02.37 while Brant Weiss, Joel Win­dle, Marsch and Paglialunga com­bined to take the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:41.52.

Golden Eagle win­ners in the girls divi­sion included sopho­more Michelle Ste­fa­niak in both the 50 freestyle and 500 freestyle in respec­tive times of 0:26.37 and 5:54.54, sopho­more Katie Von Hollen won the 200-yard freestyle in 2:32.17 and sopho­more Jes­sica Osburn in the 100 freestyle in 1:01.83.

In the relay races, Big Wal­nut was led by Claire Chat­ter­ton, Osburn, Von Hollen and Ste­fa­niak in the 200 med­ley with a win­ning time of 2:08.57 and by Josie Sweeney-Rogers, Alayna Small, Osburn and Ste­fa­niak in the 200 freestyle in 1:54.06.

The Golden Eagle boys notched two sec­onds with Paglialunga fin­ish­ing behind Marsch in the 100 freestyle (0:58.55) and the quar­tet of Sean Con­ley, Win­dle, Weiss and Ste­fa­niak (4:09.52) trail­ing Mar­ion Pleas­ant in the 400 free relay. They added a trio of thirds with Caleb McDon­ald in the 200 freestyle (2:39.0), Jacob Wat­son, Matt Hei­den, Justin Beyer and Con­ley in the 200 free relay (1:55.08), and Ste­fa­niak in the 500 free (6:40.98).

Big Walnut’s girls added two sec­onds and six thirds. Tak­ing sec­onds were Sweeney-Rogers in the 100 but­ter­fly (1:10.97) and the quar­tet of Ali­son Hager, Chat­ter­ton, Small and Sweeney-Rogers in the 400 freestyle relay (4:38.91). Thirds were scored by Bethany Ran­nebarger in the 200 free (2:43.53), Chat­ter­ton in the 50 free (0:29.21) and 100 back­stroke (1:18.49), Sweeney-Rogers in the 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley (2:39.74), Osburn in the 100 breast­stroke (1:17.28) and by Aria Dock­ham, Jen­nifer Hupp, Ran­nebarger and Von Hollen in the 400 free relay (4:50.10).

Big Wal­nut, which com­peted in the Mar­ion Pleas­ant Quad­ran­gu­lar on Wednes­day, will com­pete in the Mount Ver­non Invi­ta­tional on Sat­ur­day at 10 a.m. at Kenyon College.

Posted by Gary Henery on Dec 12 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.