The boys swimming sectionals began Thursday with preliminaries, and Hamilton County teams had many swimmers advance to Saturday’s finals.
At the Noblesville sectional, defending state champion Carmel qualified all 27 of its swims to the championship heat. The Greyhounds earned the top seed in nine events, including all three relays. Individual top seeds are Jacob Mitchell in the 200 and 500 freestyles, Andrew Rafalko in the individual medley, Alec DeLong in the 50 free, Griffin Hadley in the 100 free and Wyatt Davis in the backstroke.
Westfield advanced all 27 of its swims to Saturday, with 19 going to the championship heat and the other eight into the consolation heat. The Shamrocks’ Cameron Clayton earned two top seeds, in the butterfly and the breaststroke.
The host Millers qualified 13 swims into the championship and 10 swims into the consolations. Jack Wolfred has Noblesville’s highest seed, qualifying second in the 50 free.
Hamilton Heights sent four swims into the championship and five more into the consols. Jared Holder picked up the Huskies’ highest seed, with a second in the backstroke.
Guerin Catholic’s 200 free relay qualified 10th, reaching the consolation final.
At Hamilton Southeastern, both the Royals and Fishers sent all 27 swims into the finals. Southeastern qualified 26 swims into the championship and one into the consolation, while the Tigers advanced 25 to the championship and two into the consols.
The Royals earned six top seeds. Blake Ratliff is seeded first in the IM and backstroke, while Donald Rogers picked up top seeds in the 50 and 100 freestyles. Southeastern is also seeded first in the 200 and 400 free relays.
Fishers will have four top seeds in Saturday’s finals: Tyler Schwertfeger in the 200 free, Drake Stallworth in the butterfly, Aaron Frollo in the 500 free and Cory Jacocks in the breaststroke.
At Lawrence North, University sent seven swims into the championship and five into the consolations. Keegan Priest earned the top seed in the butterfly.
Complete results now follow.
Positions 1-8 qualify for the championship heat, positions 9-16 qualify for the consolation heat, positions 17-18 are alternates.
AT NOBLESVILLE
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel (Wyatt Davis, Andrew Rafalko, Griffin Hadley, Ryan Malicki) 1:36.44, 3. Westfield (Nathanael Brown, Nathaniel Hand, Zane Kaufman, Jack Finnegan) 1:44.46, 5. Hamilton Heights (Jared Holder, Luke Stohler, Eli VanHaaren, Grant Forrer) 1:45.79, 6. Noblesville (Wesley Mathis, Isaac Stephan, Andy Buna, Justin DuBois) 1:46.09.
200 freestyle: 1. Jacob Mitchell (C) 1:41.26, 2. Augustus Rothrock (C) 1:44.02, 3. Brett Calvin (W) 1:46.66, 5. Noah Brauer (W) 1:47.62, 6. Brandon Edwards (C) 1:48.16, 7. Will Huff (N) 1:52.19, 8. Evan Lesniewski (W) 1:52.51, 11. Ty Cox (N) 1:56.67, 12. Casey Akers (N) 1:57.29, 18. Johannes Hoffmann (Guerin Catholic) 2:05.46, 19. Forrer (HH) 2:06.72, 23. Kal Colter (HH) 2:15.94, 27. Aiden Helm (HH) 2:26.07, 29. Jose Quintero (GC) 2:52.18.
200 individual medley: 1. Rafalko (C) 1:58.04, 2. Davis (C) 1:58.58, 3. Nick Beeson (N) 1:59.56, 4. Jota Iwase (C) 2:01.77, 5. Cameron Kramer (N) 2:02.23, 6. Alex Casas (W) 2:03.06, 7. Stephan (N) 2:04.25, 8. Kaufman (W) 2:06.59, 10. Cooper Tinsley (W) 2:10.29, 12. VanHaaren (HH) 2:13.25, 25. Matthew Jones (GC) 2:41.45, 29. Jack Jurewicz (GC) 3:03.26.
50 freestyle: 1. Alec DeLong (C) 21.23, 2. Jack Wolfred (N) 21.40, 3. William Kok (C) 22.16, 5. Patrick Cavanaugh (C) 22.49, 6. Michael Simpson (W) 22.52, 9. Jacob Roberts (W) 23.01, 12. Chandler Luedke (W) 23.46, 19. Aidan Haney (N) 24.08, 20. Stohler (HH) 24.37, 23. Mathis (N) 24.63, 26. Payton Tindal (HH) 27.18, 28. Caleb Russell (GC) 28.01, 30. Aaron Cradick (GC) 29.61, 31. Grant Bricking (GC) 29.80, 32. Ethan Hall (HH) 31.38.
100 butterfly: 1. Cameron Clayton (W) 51.23, 3. Iwase (C) 52.40, 4. Griffin Seaver (C) 52.91, 5. Nolan Kopp (C) 53.58, 6. Huff (N) 53.91, 8. Kaufman (W) 55.84, 10. Roberts (W) 55.94, 12. Buna (N) 58.02, 13. VanHaaren (HH) 58.24, 17. DuBois (N) 1:01.71.
100 freestyle: 1. Hadley (C) 46.99, 2. DeLong (C) 47.15, 3. Holder (HH) 47.36, 4. Wolfred (N) 47.74, 5. Simpson (W) 49.03, 6. Edwards (C) 50.72, 10. Finnegan (W) 51.92, 11. Cox (N) 52.49, 13. Luedke (W) 52.97, 16. Haney (N) 53.44, 18. Joe Ringer (HH) 54.58, 24. Jones (GC) 58.59, 30. Russell (GC) 1:05.65, 31. Drew Monnin (HH) 1:06.58, 32. Bricking (GC) 1:10.65.
500 freestyle: 1. Mitchell (C) 4:37.57, 2. Rothrock (C) 4:51.61, 3. Seaver (C) 4:55.12, 4. Brett Calvin (W) 4:59.74, 5. Kramer (N) 5:01.66, 6. Lesniewski (W) 5:02.51, 7. Brown (W) 5:09.61, 9. Akers (N) 5:15.05, 13. Joseph Gassensmith (N) 5:39.94, 16. Forrer (HH) 5:40.74, 18. Ringer (HH) 5:49.80.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel (Rothrock, Kok, Jacob Pitz, Mitchell) 1:27.77, 3. Noblesville (Wolfred, Huff, Haney, Kramer) 1:32.80, 5. Westfield (Casas, Will Kreag, Lesniewski, Luedke) 1:35.58, 9. Heights (Colter, Josh Snay, Forrer, Ringer) 1:42.50, 10. Guerin Catholic (Hoffmann, Dane Leonard, Russell, Jones) 1:45.27.
100 backstroke: 1. Davis (C) 50.09, 2. Holder (HH) 51.82, 3. Hadley (C) 51.86, 4. Brauer (W) 54.16, 5. Beeson (N) 55.02, 6. Kopp (C) 55.76, 7. Brown (W) 56.11, 10. Finnegan (W) 59.24, 11. Mathis (N) 59.76, 12. Buna (N) 59.92, 26. Aiden Helm (HH) 1:13.76, 28. Colter (HH) 1:16.98, 31. Jurewicz (GC) 1:22.64, 32. Quintero (GC) 1:24.57, 33. Cradick (GC) 1:36.65.
100 breaststroke: 1. Clayton (W) 57.43, 2. Rafalko (C) 59.31, 3. Malicki (C) 1:011.11, 4. Cavanaugh (C) 1:02.22, 6. Casas (W) 1:02.64, 7. Stephan (N) 1:02.81, 9. Hand (W) 1:05.22, 12. DuBois (N) 1:08.43, 16. Stohler (HH) 1:10.31, 17. Hoffmann (GC) 1:11.29, 19. Snay (HH) 1:12.36, 20. Leonard (GC) 1:14.79, 27. Jacob Lotridge (N) 1:22.11.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel (Iwase, Edwards, Rothrock, Mitchell) 3:12.60, 3. Noblesville (Cox, Mathis, Huff, Wolfred) 3:28.03, 5. Westfield (Brown, Kaufman, Tinsley, Finnegan) 3:31.41, 6. Heights (Holder, VanHaaren, Ringer, Stohler) 3:34.79.
AT HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN
200 medley relay: 2. Southeastern (Andrew Christopher, Thomas Reising, Matteo Fontanin, Zack Bostock) 1:40.67, 3. Fishers (Logan Ayres, Reed Beaumont, Alejandro Garcia, Drake Stallworth) 1:41.11.
200 freestyle: 1. Tyler Schwertfeger (F) 1:44.91, 2. Aaron Frollo (F) 1:46.49, 3. Marcus Eden (HSE) 1:47.20, 4. Keegan Streett (HSE) 1:47.83, 5. Evan Sellers (HSE) 1:47.84, 8. Bruno Kitazuka (F) 1:48.79.
200 individual medley: 1. Ratliff (HSE) 1:58.90, 2. Cory Jacocks (F) 2:00.18, 3. Connor Harrison (HSE) 2:01.04, 4. Kyle Ponsler (F) 2:01.29, 6. Nicolas Silviera Silva (F) 2:02.30, 8. Justin Voelker (HSE) 2:06.55.
50 freestyle: 1. Donald Rogers (HSE) 21.42, 2. Trevor Adcock (F) 21.86, 3. Christopher (HSE) 22.63, 5. Nick Bostock (HSE) 23.10, 7. Beaumont (F) 23.52, 9. Sean Deimling (F) 23.89.
100 butterfly: 1. Stallworth (F) 52.00, 2. Adcock (F) 52.55, 3. Harrison (HSE) 52.65, 5. Christopher (HSE) 55.09, 6. Reising (HSE) 55.78, 7. Louis Henderson (F) 56.65.
100 freestyle: 1. Rogers (HSE) 48.10, 2. Z. Bostock (HSE) 49.10, 4. Kitazuka (F) 49.57, 6. N. Bostock (HSE) 50.06, 7. Ayres (F) 50.31, 9. Deimling (F) 52.05.
500 freestyle: 1. Frollo (F) 4:48.02, 2. Sellers (HSE) 4:53.60, 3. Schwertfeger (F) 4:57.09, 4. Ponsler (F) 4:57.97, 5. Streett (HSE) 4:59.62, 8. Alexander Kaminski (HSE) 5:17.43.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Southeastern (Z. Bostock, Eden, Harrison, N. Bostock) 1:28.79, 2. Fishers (Stallworth, Deimling, Schwertfeger, Adcock) 1:31.41.
100 backstroke: 1. Ratliff (HSE) 54.27, 3. Silveira Silva (F) 55.35, 4. Eden (HSE) 55.80, 5. Ayres (F) 55.95, 6. Henderson (F) 56.67, 9. Holden Kesler (HSE) 1:00.00.
100 breaststroke: 1. Jacocks (F) 59.91, 3. Beaumont (F) 1:01.45, 5. Voelker (HSE) 1:02.04, 6. Charles Truxall (HSE) 1:02.35, 7. Reising (HSE) 1:02.56, 8. Garcia (F) 1:03.39.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Southeastern (Fontanin, N. Bostock, Z. Bostock, Eden) 3:18.88, 2. Fishers (Kitazuka, Silveira Silva, Ponsler, Frollo) 3:19.95.
AT LAWRENCE NORTH
200 medley relay: 3. University (Keegan Priest, Cole Reinholt, Cordell Wilson, Hayden Suarez-Davis) 1:45.33.
200 freestyle: 2. Roy Raz 1:48.08, 31. Eli Beheler 2:38.82, 32. Christian Moore 2:50.63.
200 individual medley: 14. Reinholt 2:20.01, 22. Andrew Laramore 2:34.86.
50 freestyle: 18. Suarez-Davis 25.01, 20. Coghlin Kumler 25.10, 23. Austin Clark 25.84.
100 butterfly: 1. Priest 52.78, 13. Wilson 59.15, 15. Asher Whitcomb 1:00.17.
100 freestyle: 17. Kumler 56.15, 18. Clark 56.16, 28. Ethan Bandick 1:04.46.
500 freestyle: 2. Raz 4:52.43, 18. Wilson 5:55.59, 22. Laramore 6:10.26.
200 freestyle relay: 9. University (Kumler, Reinholt, Suarez-Davis, Raz) 1:40.18.
100 backstroke: 2. Priest 53.59, 12. Whitcomb 1:03.47, 22. Gordon Bradley 1:12.57.
100 breaststroke: 5. Reinholt 1:04.05, 19. Ari Atlas 1:13.81.
400 freestyle relay: 5. University (Raz, Suarez-Davis, Kumler, Priest) 3:31.94.
Noblesville senior Jack Wolfred checks his time after a school record breaking 50 freestyle. He is seeded second going into Saturday’s championship finals. (Bret Richardson)
Carmel juniors Wyatt Davis (left) and Nolan Kopp shake hands after the 100 backstroke. Davis is seeded first in the backstroke and second in the 200 individual medley for Saturday. (Bret Richardson)
Westfield’s Cameron Clayton is seeded first in the 100 breaststroke. (Bret Richardson)