The first step of the boys swimming post-season began Thursday with the sectional preliminaries, the first of four steps on the journey to crown a state champion.
Carmel has won the last six state titles, and the Greyhounds got off to a good start on their quest for a seventh consecutive big trophy. Carmel advanced all 27 swims to Saturday’s sectional finals at Noblesville, sending 26 to the championship heat and one to the consolation heat.
The ‘Hounds took the top seed in 10 of the 11 events. Griffin Hadley swam the fastest preliminary time in the 200 and 100 freestyles, with Augustus Rothrock pacing the individual medley and the butterfly. Gregg Enoch earned the first seed in the 500 free, Carter Lancaster will be top-seeded in the backstroke and Ryan Malicki paced the breaststroke. Carmel also picked up top seeds in all three relays.
“We’ve got to get to a place where we’re aggressive, where we’re getting after it and swimming our best swims on Saturday,” said Greyhounds coach Chris Plumb.
Carmel finished 1-2-3 in six of the eight individual events.
“I think we’re in a good place,” said Plumb. “I feel good about where we’re at. We’re going to go find out. Can’t wait.”
Host Noblesville advanced 26 of its swims to the Saturday finals, with 13 making the championship heat and the other 13 in the consols. The Millers’ highest seed is in the medley relay, with Sherpard Huff, Mason Snyder, Cameron Cavan and Caleb Mathis finishing third in the prelims.
Two Noblesville swimmers qualified fourth in individual events. Luke Whitlock got the fourth seed in the 500 free, with Aidan Biddle taking fourth in the breaststroke.
Westfield qualified 25 swims on to Saturday, placing 12 in the championships and 13 in the consolation heat. The Shamrocks’ 200 free relay team of Aiden Yonkus, Bennett Morse, Nathaniel Hand and Evan Lake placed third in the prelims, getting Westfield’s highest seed.
Yonkus also qualified fourth in the 200 free, while Cooper Tinsley took fourth in the IM.
Guerin Catholic sent nine swims into the finals, with six qualifying for the championship and three more making the consols. The Golden Eagles’ 200 free relay team of Johannes Hoffmann, Dane Leonard, Grant Bricking and Quinn Sweeney placed fifth in that event, with Sweeney also placing fifth in the IM.
The Noblesville sectional continues today with the diving, which begins at 5 p.m. The swimming finals are set for 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Over at Hamilton Southeastern, both the host Royals and Fishers qualified all 27 of their swims into the Saturday finals. Each school had 25 swims make the championship heat and two reach the consolation heat.
The Tigers earned top seeds in seven events. Kyle Ponsler picked up the first seed in the IM and 500 free, Jackson Carlile qualified first in the 200 free and Reed Beaumont paced the breaststroke. Fishers also got the first seed in all three relays.
Southeastern’s Keegan Streett earned the first seed in the 100 free and the second seed in the 200 free. Logan Hess qualified second in the butterfly and Matthew Truxall was second in the breaststroke.
Hamilton Heights advanced 14 swims to the Saturday finals, qualifying all three relays into the championship heat and 11 individual swims into the consolation finals. The Huskies’ 400 free relay team of Eli VanHaaren, Cameron Wheat, Josh Snay and Owen VanHaaren picked up the highest seed by placing fourth.
Saturday’s sectional finals begin with the diving prelims and semi-finals at 9 a.m., followed by the swimming and diving finals at 1 p.m.
University had two swimmers compete at the Lawrence North sectional. Freshman Neiman Kumler earned championship heat places in two events: The breaststroke, where he qualified seventh in a time of 1:04.00, and the individual medley, where he placed eighth in 2:05.82.
Junior Darian Reed placed 25th in the 50 free in a time of 27.52 seconds.
Swimming finals at Lawrence North start at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Positions 1-8 qualify for championship heat, positions 9-16 qualify for consolation heat, positions 17 and 18 are alternates.
AT CARMEL
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel (Carter Lancaster, Ryan Malicki, Christopher Holmes, William Kok) 1:37.35, 3. Noblesville (Sherpard Huff, Mason Snyder, Cameron Cavan, Caleb Mathis) 1:44.89, 7. Westfield (Gavin Yoakum, Will Kelleher, Corren Brown, Alex Casas) 1:52.67, 10. Guerin Catholic (Riley Madden, Trent Turner, Aaron Cradick, Jose Quintero) 2:07.50.
200 freestyle: 1. Griffin Hadley (C) 1:41.80, 2. Aaron Shackell (C) 1:46.62, 3. Kayden Lancaster (C) 1:49.03, 4. Aiden Yonkus (W) 1:50.22, 5. Evan Lake (W) 1:51.27, 6. Luke Whitlock (N) 1:51.76, 10. Justin DuBois (N) 1:54.65, 12. Yoakum (W) 1:57.00, 14. Liam Westlund (N) 1:58.83, 26. Ethan Nimri (GC) 2:23.76, 29. Jack Schriner (GC) 3:01.05, 30. Jude Huber (GC) 3:05.79.
200 individual medley: 1. Augustus Rothrock (C) 1:54.70, 2. R. Malicki (C) 1:56.85, 3. C. Lancaster (C) 1:57.43, 4. Cooper Tinsley (W) 2:00.73, 5. Quinn Sweeney (GC) 2:01.45, 6. Noah Brauer (W) 2:04.36, 10. Aidan Biddle (N) 2:07.26, 12. Wyatt Wade (N) 2:10.10, 14. Jeremiah Ledwith (N) 2:15.03, 15. Luca Barbosa (W) 2:16.09, 25. Cradick (GC) 2:49,60, 26. Jack Jurewicz (GC) 2:51.75.
50 freestyle: 2. Holmes (C) 21.64, 3. Kok (C) 21.91, 6. Cavan (N) 22.96, 7. Johannes Hoffmann (GC) 23.04, 8. Bennett Morse (W) 23.12, 9. Andrew Robertson (C) 23.56, 10. Tyler Cox (N) 23.69, 11. Mathis (N) 23.83, 15. Will Kreag (W) 24.29, 16. Casas (W) 24.39, 20. Grant Bricking (GC) 25.15, 24. Quintero (GC) 26.37.
100 butterfly: 1. Rothrock (C) 50.83, 3. Holmes (C) 51.32, 4. Kellen Reese (C) 51.45, 5. Sweeney (GC) 53.94, 6. Cavan (N) 54.45, 7. Brauer (W) 55.09, T9. Andrew Wilhite (N) 58.29; DuBois (N) 58.29, 11. Nathaniel Hand (W) 58.36, 19. Brown (W) 1:04.66, 27. Cradick (GC) 1:22.23.
100 freestyle: 1. Hadley (C) 46.81, 2. Sean Sullivan (C) 47.82, 3. Robertson (C) 48.60, 5. Morse (W) 49.77, 6. Yonkus (W) 50.17, 11. Cox (N) 51.99, 13. Wade (N) 52.43, 17. Westlund (N) 55.40, 18. Will Kelleher (W) 55.51, 26. Riley Madden (GC) 1:02.59, 27. Quintero (GC) 1:03.14, 29. Turner (GC) 1:05.73.
500 freestyle: 1. Gregg Enoch (C) 4:45.51, 2. K. Lancaster (C) 4:47.69, 3. Shackell (C) 4:49.70, 4. Whitlock (N) 4:57.37, 5. Tinsley (W) 5:02.13, 6. Lake (W) 5:05.45, 7. Wilhite (N) 5:09.46, 8. Snyder (N) 5:13.14, 11. Barbosa (W) 5:20.22, 15. Bricking (GC) 5:42.30, 23. Nimri (GC) 6:27.16.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel (K. Lancaster, Robertson, Rothrock, Kok) 1:26.99, 3. Westfield (Yonkus, Morse, Hand, Lake) 1:35.19, 5. Guerin Catholic (Hoffmann, Dane Leonard, Bricking, Sweeney) 1:36.11, 6. Noblesville (Mathis, Jonah Setmeyer, Wade, Wilhite) 1:36.28.
100 backstroke: 1. C. Lancaster (C) 51.96, 2. Sullivan (C) 52.57, 3. Connor Lathrop (C) 54.71, 5. Mathis (N) 57.39, 7. Ledwith (N) 57.89, 8. Huff (N) 58.64, 9. Kreag (W) 59.98, 10. Yoakum (W) 1:02.60, 15. Jack Ellis (W) 1:07.18, 17. Madden (GC) 1:08.89, 26. Jurewicz (GC) 1:17.48.
100 breaststroke: 1. R. Malicki (C) 57.61, 2. Brandon Malicki (C) 1:00.84, 3. Reese (C) 1:01.18, 4. Biddle (N) 1:01.65, 8. Hoffmann (GC) 1:04.43, 9. Hand (W) 1:04.87, 10. Snyder (N) 1:07.44, 11. Ben Ice (W) 1:07.78, 12. Casas (W) 1:07.97, 14. Jonah Setmeyer (N) 1:09.31, 16. Leonard (GC) 1:12.04, 24. Turner (GC) 1:24.90.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel (Ethan Johns, Enoch, Hadley, Sullivan) 3:16.48, 5. Noblesville (Wade, Westlund, Huff, Cox) 3:34.68, 7. Guerin Catholic (Sweeney, Bricking, Leonard, Hoffmann) 3:35.95, 9. Westfield (Tinsley, Barbosa, Kelleher, Brauer) 3:36.22.
AT HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN
200 medley relay: 1. Fishers (Logan Ayres, Connor Carlile, Daniel Bennett, Sean Deimling) 1:38.06, 2. Hamilton Southeastern (Ryan Harrison, Matthew Truxall, Jack Waren, Zack Bostock) 1:39.98, 5. Hamilton Heights (Eli VanHaaren, Josh Snay, Grant Forrer, Owen VanHaaren) 1:51.52.
200 freestyle: 1. Jackson Carlile (F) 1:46.89, 2. Keegan Streett (HSE) 1:47.20, 4. Tyler Schwertfeger (F) 1:49.44, 5. Noah Haines (HSE) 1:49.81, 6. Jude Bragdon (F) 1:51.26, 7. Clayton Juffer (HSE) 1:52.52, 9. Snay (HH) 1:57.15, 10. Cameron Wheat (HH) 1:58.90, 19. Aiden Helm (HH) 2:14.84.
200 individual medley: 1. Kyle Ponsler (F) 1:58.20, 2. C. Carlile (F) 1:59.16, 3. Nicholas Viola (F) 2:01.94, 4. Justin Voelker (HSE) 2:03.41, 6. Truxall (HSE) 2:04.23, 7. Waren (HSE) 2:04.63.
50 freestyle: 3. Reed Beaumont (F) 21.84, 4. Bostock (HSE) 22.17, 6. Logan Hess (HSE) 22.28, 8. Keaton Chop (F) 22.81, 9. Skyler Listenfelt (HSE) 22.97, 11. Taichi Kataoka (F) 23.62, 12. E. VanHaaren (HH) 23.67, 16. Blake Blackhurst (HH) 25.59, 24. Teigan Scoles (HH) 27.56.
100 butterfly: 2. Hess (HSE) 53.40, 3. Thomas Reising (HSE) 53.44, 4. Kataoka (F) 55.82, 5. Bennett (F) 56.33, 6. Bragdon (F) 56.41, 8. Waren (HSE) 57.04, 12. Wheat (HH) 1:01.35.
100 freestyle: 1. Streett (HSE) 47.82, 4. Ayres (F) 49.21, 5. Charles Rogers (HSE) 49.33, 6. Chop (F) 49.39, 10. Chouchi Ding (HSE) 51.47, 11. Deimling (F) 51.66, 12. E. VanHaaren (HH) 51.67, 16. O. VanHaaren (HH) 56.69, 19. Alex Knepper (HH) 57.94.
500 freestyle: 1. Ponsler (F) 4:42.71, 2. J. Carlile (F) 4:44.93, 3. Schwertfeger (F) 5:05.12, 5. Haines (HSE) 5:06.21, 6. Juffer (HSE) 5:15.04, 7. Drew Hershman (HSE) 5:19.19, 10. Blackhurst (HH) 5:33.58, 12. Forrer (HH) 5:36.85.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Fishers (C. Carlile, Bennett, Kataoka, J. Carlile) 1:29.23, 2. Southeastern (Owen Armstrong, Voelker, Hess, Listenfelt) 1:31.17, 7. Heights (Helm, Knepper, Blackhurst, Wheat) 1:44.31.
100 backstroke: 2. Ayres (F) 54.32, 3. Harrison (HSE) 54.90, 4. Rogers (HSE) 56.35, 5. Deimling (F) 56.74. 6. Viola (F) 57.19, 8. Hershman (HSE) 59.31, 17. Forrer (HH) 1:09.97.
100 breaststroke: 1. Beaumont (F) 1:00.85, 2. Truxall (HSE) 1:00.89, 3. Voelker (HSE) 1:00.92, 4. Alejandro Garcia (F) 1:01.26, 5. Bennett (F) 1:01.66, 8. Jason Hua (HSE) 1:04.11, 9. Snay (HH) 1:05.54, 15. Knepper (HH) 1:12.42, 20. O. VanHaaren (HH) 1:13.78.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Fishers (Bragdon, Deimling, Ayres, C. Carlile) 3:25.27, 2. Southeastern (Harrison, Dung, Rogers, Truxall) 3:30.33, 4. Heights (E. VanHaaren, Wheat, Snay, O. VanHaaren) 3:38.14.