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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Crawfordsville junior Victoria Fairfield won the 200-yard freestyle and
100 butterfly in Saturday’s Montgomery County girls swim meet. |
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| Girls swimming
Saturday
Montgomery County meet
At Crawfordsville HS
Crawfordsville 287,
North Montgomery 204, Southmont 187
200
medley relay: 1:59.04 Crawfordsville (Shelby Conrad, Sarah Robertson,
Victoria Fairfield); 2. 2:02.59 Southmont (Hilary Mishler, Kelsey
Bowman, Emily Jarvis, April Detro); 3. 2:05.02 North Montgomery (Lakyn
Riley, Jana Amstutz, Emily McIlrath, Erin Redmaster); 4. 2:14.31
Crawfordsville (Holly Hunt, Cassie Brainard, Annie Stewart, Tori
Gregory); 5. 2:15.38 Southmont (Victoria Burkhart, Jessika Zachary,
Cassie Parker, Susan Ward); 6. 2:23.00 North Montgomery (Samantha
Copeland, Alyssa Copeland, Alexis Gephart, Jessica LeJeune); 7. 2:45.07
Crawfordsville (Kayla Sturm, Priscilla Kidwell, Sam Morgan, Bekah
Simmons); 8. 2:45.58 Southmont (Lilly Lamaster, Shelby Etcheson,
Kaitlyn Cody, Nicollette Padakowski); 9. 2:48.23 North Montgomery
(Bekah Riley, Erin Harper, Brittany Jensen, Anna Redmaster). 200
freestyle: 2:05.54 Victoria Fairfield; 2. 2:19.65 Hunt C; 3. 2:19.75
Abby Dove S; 4. 2:31.09 Amanda Feller NM; 5. 2:31.37 Shaley Furr C; 6.
2:33.89 Kaitlyn Cody S; 7. 2:39.68 Katie Mathison S; 8. 2:44.14 Shelby
Etcheson S; 9. 2:59.42 Adrienne Wilcox NM. 200 IM: 2:13.91 Hilary
Mishler S; 2. 2:23.19 Becca Howland C; 3. 2:24.37 Sarah Robertson C; 4.
2:33.30 Jarvis S; 5. 2:40.94 Kelly Thompson NM; 6. 2:41.76 Brainard C;
7. 2:53.68 A. Copeland NM; 8. 2:55.19 Rebecca Priebe NM; 9. 3:00.75
Parker S. 50 freestyle: :25.64 Emily McIlrath NM; 2. :27.61 Detro S; 3.
:27.69 Kelly Menzel C; 4. :27.82 E. Redmaster NM; 5. :27.86 Burkhart S;
6. :28.06 Taylor Simpson NM; 7. :29.67 Susan Ward S; 8. :30.40 Gregory
C; 9. :31.23 Lizzy Guinter C. Diving: 179.30 Bekah Simmons C; 2. 167.35
Morgan C; 3. 151.90 Calli Patton C; 4. 139.95 Alli Hudson NM; 5. 123.30
Talia Bannon NM; 6. 96.30 Emily Bedwell NM.
100 butterfly:
1:00.55 Victoria Fairfield C; 2. 1:01.48 McIlrath NM; 3. 1:06.93 Menzel
C; 4. 1:08.52 Dove S; 5. 1:09.99 Amstutz NM; 6. 1:16.60 Annie Stewart
C; 7. 1:18.21 Ward S; 8. 1:21.79 Parker S; 9. 1:32.27 Gephart NM. 100
freestyle: :56.07 Missy Robinson C; 2. :59.38 Detro S; 3. 1:01.14
Simpson NM; 4. 1:02.45 E. Redmaster NM; 5. 1:04.18 Thompson NM: 6.
1:07.11 Gregory C; 7. 1:08.13 Furr C; 8. 1:08.68 Rachel Reffett S; 9.
1:09.35 Bowman S. 500 freestyle: 5:42.60 Becca Howland C; 2. 5:53.48
Conrad C; 3. 6:13.73 Jarvis S; 4. 6:53.36 Feller NM; 5. 6:53.86 Cody S;
6. 7:01.26 Zachary S; 7. 7:03.03 A. Copeland NM; 8. 7:20.04 A.
Redmaster NM; 9. 9:39.78 Kidwell C. 200 freestyle relay: 1:47.47
Crawfordsville (Missy Robinson, Sarah Robertson, Kelly Menzel, Becca
Howland); 2. 1:52.28 North Montgomery (L. Riley, Amstutz, E. Redmaster,
Simpson); 3. 1:57.46 Southmont (Parker, Jarvis, Ward, Dove); 4. 2:02.86
Crawfordsville (Guinter, Brainard, Furr, Simmons); 5. 2:03.21 North
Montgomery (Mathison, Marie Long, Whitney Smith, LeJeune); 6. 2:14.00
Southmont (Padakowski, Bowman, Etcheson, Reffett); 7. 2:22.96 North
Montgomery (Jensen, A. Redmaster, Harper, Tiffanie Borta); 8. 2:36.77
Crawfordsville (Sturm, Morgan, Patton, Kidwell). 100 backstroke: :58.79
Hilary Mishler* S; 2. 1:05.67 Conard C; 3. 1:08.48 Burkhart S; 4.
1:09.12 Hunt C; 5. 1:14.81 Guinter C; 6. 1:19.25 L. Riley NM; 7.
1:20.42 S. Copeland NM; 8. 1:20.89 Reffett S; 9. 1:20.92 Priebe NM. 100
breaststroke: 1:05.86 Missy Robinson C**; 2. 1:12.82 Robertson C; 3.
1:17.63 Amstutz NM; 4. 1:22.23 Brainard C; 5. 1:22.52 Bowman S; 6.
1:25.59 LeJeune NM; 7. 1:36.44 Gephart NM; 8. 1:38.17 Zachary S; 9.
1:40.52 Etcheson S. 400 freestyle relay: 3:56.88 Crawfordsville (Becca
Howland, Missy Robinson, Shelby Conrad, Victoria Fairfield); 2. 3:57.61
Southmont (Burkhart, Dove, Detro, Mishler); 3. 4:17.16 North Montgomery
(Simpson, Thompson, L. Riley, McIlrath); 4. 4:31.05 Crawfordsville
(Hunt, Gregory, Guinter, Furr); 5. 4:50.64 North Montgomery (Feller,
Long, S. Copeland, Smith); 6. 4:58.91 Southmont (Cody, Lamaster,
Zachary, Reffett); 7. 5:19.53 Crawfordsville (Morgan, Kidwell, Patton,
Simmons); 8. 5:34.56 North Montgomery (Bekah Riley, A. Redmaster,
Borta, Jensen).
* = Montgomery County meet record
** = Montgomery County meet and pool record
Records: Crawfordsville 9-0, North Montgomery 7-4, Southmont 4-5
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Reprinted courtesy of:
The Paper of Montgomery County
www.thepaper24-7.com
By John Groth
Sports Editor
Crawfordsville’s junior class took over the pool in waves.
Victoria Fairfield, Missy Robinson and Becca Howland kept the Athenians’ Montgomery County meet streak safe.
No matter what event the trio of girls swam, it always ended with the same outcome – a win.
Robinson
won her first individual county meet titles and set a county-meet and
pool record, Fairfield won two individual events for the second
consecutive year and Crawfordsville’s girls swim team splashed their
way to an eighth-straight county championship Saturday afternoon.
Crawfordsville
won eight of 12 events and scored 287 points to capture this year’s
girls swimming title at Crawfordsville High School. North Montgomery
(204) finished second with Southmont (187) was third.
“They’re
a great group,” Crawfordsville coach Mark Hesse said. “To see Victoria
win her [200-yard freestyle] race at the beginning and they want to get
their opportunity. Missy and Becca swam great.”
With her
victories in the 200 freestyle (2:05.54) and 100 butterfly (1:00.55),
Fairfield now has four individual county titles and seven titles
overall, including relays, in the past two years.
This year,
she swam on the Crawfordsville’s winning 200 medley and 400 freestyle
relays along with earning wins in both of her individual events.
Heading into Saturday’s meet, Robinson had a resume of significant accomplishments.
But the Indiana High School Athletic Association State and U.S. Junior Nationals qualifier had never captured a county title.
She
took care of that with a 100 freestyle victory (56.07 seconds) and then
added another – the 100 breaststroke – setting a county meet and pool
record in the event for good measure.
Robinson finished the
100 breaststroke in 1:05.86, breaking her own pool record set in 2008
by .32 seconds and the county record by more than one and a half
seconds set in 2007 by North Montgomery’s Emily McIlrath.
Considering she injured one of her shoulders weightlifting earlier in the week, Robinson was in good spirits.
“I
really wanted the 100 freestyle [record], too,” said Robinson, who also
swam on the first-place 200 and 400 freestyle relays. “I should have
been faster. It’s pretty good considering where I was earlier in the
week.”
Howland also defended her county title in the 500
freestyle, finishing in 5:42.60, just over half a second better than
her seed time, and senior Bekah Simmons won the diving competition.
Meanwhile,
Southmont senior Hilary Mishler had another impressive meet – breaking
a county meet record for the third-consecutive year.
After two
years of setting new 50 freestyle records, Mishler broke the 100
backstroke record, finishing the event in 58.79 seconds and shattering
former Southmont swimmer Brittany Sayler’s record set in 2002
(1:00.05).
Mishler also won the 200 individual medley, taking it in 2:13.91. Both swims were lifetime bests.
“We’re
pretty happy with that,” Southmont coach Kevin Hedrick said. “She’s
working hard and we expect her to continue to get faster through the
year.”
North Montgomery had only one county champion – senior Emily McIlrath.
Although
she didn’t break the school record like she had hoped, she moved
closer, finishing in 25.64 seconds. She’s less than a half second off
the Chargers’ all-time record.
North Montgomery coach John Walker said McIlrath, along with the other Chargers’ swimmers, need to work on their endurance.
“We need to get stronger and develop more endurance and speed at the end of races,” he said. |
