BW boys claim DII Sectional swim title

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Big Wal­nut, com­pet­ing as the only Divi­sion II squad at Saturday’s OHSAA Cen­tral Dis­trict Sec­tional Tour­na­ment at Thomas Wor­thing­ton High School, scored 395 points.

The Golden Eagles were led by the double-winning per­for­mances of Car­son Chat­ter­ton in both the 100 but­ter­fly in 0:58.38 and 100 freestyle in 0:56.91 sec­onds; and Sean Con­ley, in the 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley in 2:48.80 and 100 breast­stroke in 1 min­utes, 19.11 seconds.

Also col­lect­ing indi­vid­ual wins for the Red & Gold were Ben­jamin Ste­fa­niak in the 200 freestyle in 2:15.58 sec­onds, Carter Marsch in the 50 freestyle in 0:24.91; Bret Stacy in the 100 back­stroke in 1:22.09; and Andrew Klam­forth in the 500 freestyle in 7:21.43.

Big Wal­nut added the relay events to its day’s work, cap­tur­ing the 200 Med­ley in 1:56.87, the 200 Freestyle in 1:42.39 and the 400 Freestyle in 3:59.37.

The Golden Eagles advance to Friday’s Dis­trict Tour­na­ment which is sched­uled for 2:30 p.m. at the McCorkle Cen­ter on the cam­pus of The Ohio State University.

GIRLS DII SECTIONAL

Delaware Hayes swam its way to a top-three show­ing dur­ing Saturday’s Divi­sion I Cen­tral Dis­trict Sec­tional Tour­na­ment at Thomas Wor­thing­ton High School. The Pac­ers secured, secured 187 points to place third behind the host first-place Car­di­nals who won the meet wiuth 311 points. New Albany was sec­ond with 239 points.

Pacer stand­outs included Regan DeWitt, who won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 59.36 sec­onds and the 500 freestyle in 5:15.88; Brit­tany Puthoff, who won the 100 breast­stroke in 1:09.37; and the quar­tet of Lind­sey Nor­ris, Saman­tha Curtin, DeWitt and Puthoff, who com­bined to secure second-place points in the 200 med­ley relay in 1:52.97. Hayes also closed sec­ond in the 200 freestyle relay (Susan Thom­son, Puthoff, DeWitt and Curtin) with a time of 1:43.01.

Other top Divi­sion I team scores included Gahanna, fourth with 163, Wor­thing­ton Kil­bourne fifth with 120, West­er­ville South sixth with 107 and Watkins Memo­r­ial sev­enth with 103 points. Big Wal­nut placed eighth with 76 points.

Round­ing out the Sec­tional stand­ings were Mount Ver­non (37), Buck­eye Val­ley (32) Teays Val­ley (26), Colum­bus North­land (14) and Newark (8).

Posted by Gary Henery on Feb 12 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.