Boys swimming sectional action kicks off Thursday with preliminaries at 20 sites.
Columbus East, Columbus North and Trinity Lutheran will compete in the North Sectional, with prelims beginning at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Jennings County will be in the Floyd Central Sectional, with prelims starting at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Diving prelims at both sites begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. Swimming consolations and finals start at 1 p.m., with the top 16 divers making their final three dives at the normal spot within the swimming finals.
The sectional champion in each swimming event, along with anyone else making the state cut automatically advance to next weekend’s state finals at IUPUI’s Indiana University Natatorium. If that adds up to less than 32 around the state, the next-fastest swimmers are added until the field reaches 32 in an event.
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The top four divers from the North and Floyd Central Sectionals advance to Tuesday’s Bloomington South Diving Regional. From there, the top eight qualify for state.
North won the sectional last year, snapping a four-year run by Bloomington South. The Bull Frogs have won 36 boys swimming sectional titles, which ranks second in the state behind Munster’s 49.
Joining East, North and Trinity in the North Sectional are Batesville, Bloomington North, Bloomington South, East Central, Edgewood, Greensburg, Lawrenceburg, Milan, Oldenburg Academy and South Dearborn. Here are the top four seeds in each swimming event for that sectional:
200 medley relay: 1. Columbus North 1:41.45; 2. Bloomington South 1:44.95; 3. East Central 1:45.00; 4. Bloomington North 1:46.43.
200 freestyle: 1. Jack Kocega (BN) 1:49.29; 2. Jackson Ketcham (EC) 1:50.17; 3. Denton Coffelt (BN) 1:50.32; 4. Evan Halloran (BS) 1:51.83.
200 individual medley: 1. David Fry (CN) 2:09.20; 2. Tristen Cook (CN) 2:09.82; 3. Blake Hatcher (BN) 2:10.94; 4. Ray Krider (EC) 2:11.00.
50 freestyle: 1. Christopher Lee (CN) 21.62; 2. Jakob Mumper (BN) 21.65; 3. Nick Weber (EC) 21.91; 4. Antonio Hamilton (BN) 22.21.
100 butterfly: 1. Alexi Raglin (BN); 2. Daniel Utterback (CN) 55.79; 3. Matthew Badinghaus (EC) 56.76; 4. Pablo David (L) 56.90.
100 freestyle: 1. Mumper (BN) 47.62; Weber (EC) 47.99; 3. Hamilton (BN) 49.54; 4. Koceja (BN) 50.23.
500 freestyle: 1. Coffelt (BN) 5:01.92; 2. Ketcham (EC) 5:30.30; 3. Aidan McAlister (CN) 5:05.88; 4. Hatcher (BN) 5:09.86.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Columbus North 1:29.75; 2. Bloomington North 1:29.89; 3. Bloominton South 1:34.55; 4. Columbus East 1:36.69.
100 backstroke: 1. Lee (CN) 53.21; 2. Raglin (BN) 54.19; 3. Connor Brinkley (BS) 58.95; 4. Krider (EC) 59.69.
100 breaststroke: 1. Garrett Williams (BN) 1:03.75; 2. Fry (CN) 1:05.28; 3. Halloran (BS) 1:06.19; 4. Benjamin Moster (B) 1:06.27.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Bloomington North 3:20.59; 2. East Central 3:25.00; 3. Columbus North 3:31.06; 4. Bloomington South 3:31.44.
