The REPORTER
The Carmel boys swim team hosted the sectional preliminaries on Thursday, and everything went according to plan.
The Greyhounds advanced all 27 of their swims to Saturday’s sectional finals. Carmel will have 26 in the championship, or “A” heat and one more in the consolation, or “B” heat.
The Hounds are chasing a 13th consecutive state championship and are well-positioned to qualify several for next week’s state meet. Carmel will be top-seeded in 10 events at the sectional final, including all three relays.
Three Greyhounds earned No. 1 seeds in two events. Allen will be the first seed in the 200 and 500 freestyles, while Zheng is the top seed in the individual medley and breaststroke, and Carter Hadley is seeded first in the 100 free and backstroke.
Jack Street will be first-seeded in the butterfly race for Carmel.
Noblesville also advanced all 27 swims to the finals, with 17 making the “A” heat and the other 10 reaching the “B” heat. Two Millers are seeded second in their events: Drew Setmeyer is the second seed in the 100 free, while Joshua Naas picked the No. 2 seed in the breaststroke.
Westfield qualified 23 swims for the finals, placing 16 in the “A” heat and seven in the “B” heat. Zach Welch is the No. 2 seed in the 200 and 500 freestyles and the Shamrocks also earned the second seed in the medley and 400 free relays.
Guerin Catholic advanced 10 swims to the finals, five in the “A” heat and five in the “B” heat. Sam Holl is the Golden Eagles’ highest seed at fifth in the 500 free, and GC’s medley relay team is also seeded fifth.
Positions 1-8 qualify for championship (“A”) heat, positions 9-16 qualify for consolation (“B”) heat, positions 17 and 18 are alternates.
200 medley relay: 1. Carmel (Andrew Dubois, Yi Zheng, Jack Street, Aiden Jent) 1:35.49, 2. Westfield (Alden Thomas, Will Chambley, Noah Lorincz, Estaban Roussel) 1:38.22, 3. Noblesville (Brayden Wright, Eli Clutch Creakbaum, Jackson Teske, Caden Ellis) 1:40.50, 5. Guerin Catholic (Lucas Morse, Will Ladine, Sam Holl, Adam Jurewicz) 1:44.47.
200 freestyle: 1. William Allen (C) 1:41.82, 2. Zach Welch (W) 1:43.16, 3. Lewis Zhang (C) 1:43.58, 4. Landon Wendel (W) 1:44.45, 5. William Lathrop (C) 1:46.40, 7. Adam Hill (N) 1:51.68, 8. Coleman Codalata (N) 1:52.33, 9. David Naas (N) 1:53.30, 11. Aiden Willig (W) 1:57.33, 16. Blake Durflinger (GC) 2:09.01.
200 individual medley: 1. Zheng (C) 1:52.03, 2. Cory Han (C) 1:53.19, 3. Joshua Naas (N) 1:54.87, 4. Noah Moeller (C) 1:55.92, 5. Garreth Thomas (W) 1:56.42, 6. Chambley (W) 1:57.56, 7. Holl (GC) 2:00.06, 8. Collin Monger (N) 2:00.50, 9. Griffin Barents Froman (W) 2:01.09, 11. Keaton Hoffman (N) 2:11.04, 21. David Cachillo (GC) 2:50.76.
50 freestyle: 2. Donald Zhao (C) 21.76, 3. Drew Setmeyer (N) 21.89, 4. Lukas Biller (C) 22.14, 6. Eddy Zhu (C) 22.18, 8. Brayden Wright (N) 22.30, 11. Jackson Burgess (W) 22.92, 14. Creakbaum (N) 23.12, 15. Lorincz (W) 23.78, 22. Durflinger (GC) 25.54, 26. George Hein (GC) 28.51.
100 butterfly: 1. Street (C) 50.40, 2. Zhu (C) 51.58, 3. Liam Hayward (N) 51.80, 4. Teske (N) 52.08, 5. Thomas (W) 52.13, 6. Moeller (C) 52.32, 8. Lorincz (W) 53.91, 10. Codalata (N) 55.64, 14. Lucas Morse (GC) 1:01.13, 20. Avi Arun (W) 1:09.74.
100 freestyle: 1. Carter Hadley (C) 45.98, 2. Setmeyer (N) 47.75, 3. Biller (C) 47.76, 4. Lathrop (C) 47.78, 5. Ladine (GC) 47.99, 7. Thomas (W) 49.47, 10. D. Naas (N) 51.53, 13. Caden Ellis (N) 52.64, 15. Evan Hess (W) 53.35, 17. Jon Obusek (W) 54.73, 18. Jurewicz (GC) 55.50.
500 freestyle: 1. Allen (C) 4:35.75, 2. Welch (W) 4:37.15, 3. Austin Bruford (C) 4:39.77, 4. Zhang (C) 4:42.85, 5. Holl (GC) 4:49.84, 6. Wendel (W) 4:49.90, 7. Monger (N) 4:52.41, 9. Hill (N) 5:00.76, 10. Willig (W) 5:21.21, 14. Hayden Wong (N) 5:37.63.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel (Lathrop, Zhao, Allen, Biller) 1:27.42, 3. Westfield (Burgess, Roussel, Lorincz, Wendel) 1:31.28, 4. Noblesville (D. Naas, J. Naas, Codalata, Hayward) 1:31.84, 9. Guerin Catholic (Durflinger, Hein, Cachillo, Jurewicz) 1:45.86.
100 backstroke: 1. Hadley (C) 51.15, 2. Street (C) 51.69, 3. Teske (N) 52.07, 4. Wright (N) 52.54, 5. Andrew Allen (C) 52.88, 6. Thomas (W) 53.65, 7. Burgess (W) 55.90, 9. Hoffman (N) 59.68, 10. Hess (W) 1:00.58, 14. Morse (GC) 1:06.85.
100 breaststroke: 1. Zheng (C) 56.46, 2. J. Naas (N) 57.70, 3. Chambley (W) 58.45, 4. Han (C) 58.55, 5. Barents Froman (W) 59.36, 6. Roussel (W) 59.43, 7. Creakbaum (N) 1:00.78, 9. Luke Feller (C) 1:01.62, 10. Ladine (GC) 1:01.78, 11. Ellis (N) 1:06.26, 21. Cachillo (GC) 1:16.06, 24. Hein (GC) 1:26.07.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carmel (Bruford, Zhu, Zhang, Hadley) 3:14.27, 2. Westfield (Wendel, Hess, Thomas, Chambley) 3:21.45, 4. Noblesville (Hill, Setmeyer, Monger, Hayward) 3:27.43, 7. Guerin Catholic (Durflinger, Jurewicz, Ladine, Holl) 3:33.74.