Liberty sweeps County Classic at OWU lassic

News Staff Reports

A trio of Patri­ots set records as Lib­erty won both divi­sions of the sev­enth annual Delaware County Swim­ming and Div­ing Clas­sic held Sat­ur­day after­noon at Ohio Wes­leyan University’s Meek Aquat­ics and Recre­ation Center.

The Patriot girls won with 499 points while Olen­tangy fin­ished sec­ond with 391 and Hayes smoothed out the top three with 350. West­er­ville Cen­tral (316), Orange (237), Big Wal­nut (145) and Vil­lage Acad­emy (62) rounded out the scoring.

Liberty’s boys, mean­while, won with a com­bined score of 429 — more than enough points to top second-place West­er­ville Central’s score of 399 and third-place Olentangy’s 349. Hayes fin­ished fourth with 287 while Orange’s 199, Big Walnut’s 174 and Vil­lage Academy’s 125 wrapped up the scor­ing summary.

While the Patri­ots were pro­duc­tive in the pool, divers pow­ered them as Olivia Ball set a meet and pool record in the girls’ div­ing event with a score of 296.70 and Cameron Thatcher set a meet record in the boys’ div­ing com­pe­ti­tion with a 288.05. Lib­erty also fin­ished sec­ond in both events as Brit­tany Men­ninger and Alex Kowal nabbed runner-up hon­ors in their respec­tive divi­sions with efforts of 234.05 and 241.05.

The Lib­erty boys’ 200 med­ley relay team (Jack Saczawa, Tom Daw­son, Matthew Lennon and Nicholas Tracewell) posted a record-setting show­ing, too, set­ting a meet and pool record en route to a first-place fin­ish in its event, tak­ing top hon­ors in 1:45.17.

Plenty of other records dropped, too. The Olen­tangy girls’ 400 freestyle relay team — Ellie Nebraska, Erika Pol­ing, Abbey New­man and Mara Nebraska — set a meet and pool record, win­ning their event in 3:44.81; Ellie Nebraska tied a meet record in the 200 freestyle after win­ning in 2:01.95; the Hayes girls’ 200 med­ley relay quar­tet of Regan DeWitt, Brit­tany Puthoff, Lind­sey Nor­ris and Saman­tha Curtin set a meet record of 1:52.68 in a win­ning effort; the Pac­ers’ Cameron Hack­ett set a pool record in the 500 freestyle after win­ning his sig­na­ture event in 4:57.68; and West­er­ville Cen­tral broke a trio of marks while win­ning the boys’ 400 freestyle relay, the girls’ 100 freestyle and the boys’ 200 freestyle.

In the girls’ divi­sion, other local first-place fin­ishes belonged to DeWitt, who won the 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley in 2:17.51 and 500 freestyle in 5:24.60; Ellie Nebraska, who won the 100 back­stroke in 1:01.58; Mara Nebraska, who won the 200 breast­stroke in 1:10.31; and the Olen­tangy 200 freestyle relay team of New­man, Maura Parker, Carly Wolfe and Ally Fomich, which picked up a win in 1:46.57.

As for the boys’ divi­sion, other local win­ners included Vil­lage Academy’s Reed McGraw, who won the 200 IM in 2:05.17 and 100 breast­stroke in 1:03.78; and Olentangy’s Keanan Fomich, who won the 100 back­stroke in :56.27.

Posted by Gary Henery on Dec 26 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.