DANE FUELLING
WZBD.com
UNIONDALE – Logan Whitacre captured his third consecutive conference diving title with a career-best performance, dominating competition and delivering enough points to the Bellmont Braves to secure the team a runner-up finish at the NE8 conference meet at Norwell Saturday.
Hudson Krull also claimed a conference title with a sensational performance in the individual medley. Krull’s time was the best of any Adams County swimmer in at least the past five years.
Krull and Whitacre then teamed up with Ben Goble and Samuel Juengel to cruise to victory in the 200 Free Relay, winning by 1.71 seconds over Leo. It was the best attempt by the BHS team this season, and the best of any Adams County team this year.
Krull was also the champion in the breaststroke, setting a new personal mark for his career with a finish of 1:04.03. He’ll have a few more attempts to break 1:04 before sectional, where the winner the past two years has come in just under 1:02.
Notes & Times:
-Whitacre also swam the anchor leg of the medley relay team’s efforts, which gave the Braves third-place points. He teamed up with the eventual conference breaststroke champ, Hudson Krull, and Zayne Roop and Oliver Werling to swim a team season-best time of 1:49.27, beating the time recorded at Norwell earlier in the season by 2.33 seconds.
-Bellmont had two more outstanding performances in the 200 Free. Ben Goble and Samson Owens took third and fifth, respectively, with Owens notching a significant cut to his career best.
-Along with Krull’s incredible performance in the IM, teammates Oliver Goble and Oliver Werling also had season bests in the event.
-Whitacre followed up his third diving title with a new career best in the 50, adding ten more team points for the Braves with his 24.82 fifth-place finish.
-Owen Garcia’s time in the Fly was his career best, as was the time of Zayne Roop.
-Samson Owens made a big jump on his season best and came in two seconds faster than his career best in the 500 to claim third place.
-Zayne Roop claimed runner-up honors by a clear margin in the backstroke with his season-best time. His time was .14 better than last year’s season best in the A Final at the sectional.
-The 400 Free Relay team of Owen Garcia, Ben Goble, Oliver Werling and Zayne Roop swam a team and Adams County best to claim third place.
Team Scores: 1st-Hunt. North 300.5; 2nd-Bellmont 257.5; 3rd-Norwell 251; 4th-Columbia City 143; 5th-Leo 122; 6th-East Noble 120; 7th-DeKalb 96
1M Diving
1. Logan Whitacre-B 424.40
2. Ben Peterson-N 303.65
200 Medley Relay
1. Huntington North 1:42.81
2. Norwell 1:45.95
3. Bellmont 1:49.27
Werling-Krull-Roop-Whitacre
200 Free
1. Rylan Heyerly-N 1:57.40
2. Lucas Alwine-HN 2:00.92
3. Ben Goble-B 2:04.61
5. Samson Owens-B 2:07.73
8. Emmett Rumschlag-B 2:12.98
200 IM
1. Hudson Krull-B 2:12.39
2. Vincent Niemann-HN 2:13.56
4. Oliver Werling-B 2:21.77
8. Oliver Goble-B 2:30.38
50 Free
1. Nate Cole-EN 22.84
5. Logan Whitacre-B 24.82
12. Owen Garcia-B 26.46
14. Gavin Short-B 26.59
100 Fly
1. Colten Strunk-N 57.93
8. Zayne Roop-B 1:02.68
15. Maddux Miller-B 1:29.06
100 Free
1. Nate Cole-EN 49.92
8. Ben Goble-B 56.24
11. Samuel Juengel-B 56.97
17. Gavin Short-B 1:02.44
500 Free
1. Reed Alexander-CC 5:27.75
3. Samson Owens-B 5:46.70
4. Emmett Rumschlag-B 5:48.25
8. Oliver Goble-B 6:00.49
200 Free Relay
1. Bellmont 1:37.57
Juengel-BGoble-Whitacre-Krull
2. Leo 1:39.28
100 Back
1. Isaac Kowalski-HN 58.22
2. Zayne Roop-B 1:01.35
5. Oliver Werling-B 1:04.73
9. Samuel Juengel-B 1:08.45
100 Breast
1. Hudson Krull-B 1:04.03
2. Vincent Niemann-HN 1:04.88
18. Hayden Whittenbarger-B 1:32.89
400 Free Relay
1. Huntington North 3:31.46
2. Norwell 3:36.59
3. Bellmont 3:42.47
Garcia-BGoble-Werling-Roop
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