Seuferer wins 4 blue ribbons in dual win over Wabash

Bode, Beall, Riffle win 3 blue ribbons in girls meet rout

BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS

Sports Editor, RTC

Swimming

Rochester 117, Wabash 17 (girls, Dec. 22)

Rochester 122, Wabash 44 (boys, Dec. 22)

Elena Bode, Makenna Beall and Bella Riffle won three blue ribbons each as the Rochester girls swimming team returned from a 17-day hiatus to beat host Wabash at the Wabash County YMCA Dec. 22.

Beall won the 50 freestyle and 100 breaststroke and swam a leg on the victorious 400 freestyle relay team. Bode won the 200 and 500 freestyles and joined Beall, Ellie Shank and Riffle on the 400 freestyle relay.

Riffle was also on the 200 freestyle relay team with Madilyn Calloway, Elizabeth Swango and Kendyll Bradley, and she also took the 100 butterfly.

Shank won the 200 individual medley, and Bradley won the 100 freestyle. Girls diving was not contested.

In the boys meet, Zebra swimmers won nine of the 12 events contested. Jake Seuferer won four blue ribbons, taking both the 200 individual medley and 500 freestyle individually and swimming a leg on the victorious 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays.

Other RHS individual event winners included Dylan Steininger in the 200 freestyle, Kadin Kelly in diving, Anthony Peterson in the 100 freestyle and Layne Backus in the 100 backstroke.

Ethan Brady, Wes Steininger and Backus joined Seuferer on the 200 medley relay. Brady, Dylan Steininger and Backus joined Seuferer on the 400 freestyle relay team. R.J. Keranko joined Peterson, Dylan Steininger and Wes Steininger on the 200 freestyle relay team.

GIRLS RESULTS: ROCHESTER 117, WABASH 17

Scoring on 6-4-3-2-1 basis for individual events and 8-4-2 basis for relays

Winners plus all RHS scorers

200 medley relay

1. Rochester (Ashlyn Hudkins, Bella Riffle, Madilyn Calloway, Melody Hisey) – 2:44.88, 2. RHS (Ellie Shank, Makenna Beall, Elena Bode, Kendyll Bradley) – 2:51.65

200 freestyle

1. Elena Bode (RHS) – 2:20.66, 2. Kendyll Bradley (RHS) – 2:34.96

200 individual medley

1. Ellie Shank (RHS) – 2:54.04, 2. Elizabeth Swango (RHS) – 2:55.92, 3. Madilyn Calloway (RHS) – 3:04.62

50 freestyle

1. Makenna Beall (RHS) – 27.1 seconds, 3. Araceli Ochoa (RHS) – 38.9, 4. Ashlyn Hudkins (RHS) – 42.8

100 butterfly

1. Bella Riffle (RHS) – 1:18, 2. Ellie Shank (RHS) – 1:28, 3. Lola Brady (RHS) – 1:39

100 freestyle

1. Kendyll Bradley (RHS) – 1:09, 2. Araceli Ochoa (RHS) – 1:23

500 freestyle

1. Elena Bode (RHS) – 6:21.17, 2. Melody Hisey (RHS) – 6:52.84

200 freestyle relay

1. RHS (Madilyn Calloway, Elizabeth Swango, Bella Riffle, Kendyll Bradley) – 2:09.82, 2. RHS (Ashlyn Hudkins, Lola Brady, Araceli Ochoa, Melody Hisey) – 2:30.48

100 backstroke

1. Bruss (WAB) – 1:09.33, 2. Elizabeth Swango (RHS) – 1:26.46, 3. Madilyn Calloway (RHS) – 1:26.82, DQ. Ashlyn Hudkins (RHS)

100 breaststroke

1. Makenna Beall (RHS) – 1:16.84, 3. Lola Brady (RHS) – 1:40.17, 4. Melody Hisey (RHS) – 1:47.64

400 freestyle relay

1. RHS (Ellie Shank, Elena Bode, Bella Riffle, Makenna Beall) – 4:28.58

BOYS RESULTS: ROCHESTER 122, WABASH 44

Scoring on 6-4-3-2-1 basis for individual events and 8-4-2 basis for relays

Winners plus all RHS scorers

200 medley relay

1. Rochester (Jake Seuferer, Ethan Brady, Wes Steininger, Layne Backus) – 1:58.86, 3. Rochester (Anthony Peterson, R.J. Keranko, Peyton Hiatt, Jake Freeman) – 2:20.10

200 freestyle

1. Dylan Steininger (RHS) – 2:11.56, 2. R.J. Keranko (RHS) – 2:23.50, 3. Ethan Brady (RHS) – 2:23.51

200 individual medley

1. Jake Seuferer (RHS) – 2:21.23, 2. Layne Backus (RHS) – 2:39.30, 3. Anthony Peterson (RHS) – 2:41.47

50 freestyle

1. Cordes (WAB) – (no time listed), 2. Jake Freeman (RHS) – (no time listed), 3. Peyton Hiatt (RHS) – (no time listed), 4. Tanner Reese (RHS) – (no time listed)

Diving

1. Kadin Kelly (RHS) – 204 points, 2. Braxton Jimenez (RHS) – 189, 3. Bradley Bickle (RHS) – 177

100 butterfly

1. Blossom (WAB) – 56 seconds, 2. Dylan Steininger (RHS) – 1:09

100 freestyle

1. Anthony Peterson (RHS) – 59.98 seconds, 3. Ethan Brady (RHS) – 1:02.47, 4. Lane Shank (RHS) – 1:12.01

500 freestyle

1. Jake Seuferer (RHS) – 5:27.74, 2. Wes Steininger (RHS) – 6:10.84, 4. Tanner Reese (RHS) – 7:31.93

200 freestyle relay

1. RHS (R.J. Keranko, Anthony Peterson, Dylan Steininger, Wes Steininger), 3. RHS (Peyton Hiatt, Jake Freeman, Lane Shank, Tanner Reese) – 2:08.16

100 backstroke

1. Layne Backus (RHS) – 1:11.55, 3. Peyton Hiatt (RHS) – 1:35.33, 4. Lane Shank (RHS) – 1:40.01

100 breaststroke

1. Blossom (WAB) – 1:06.61, 2. Wes Steininger (RHS) – 1:20.97, 3. R.J. Keranko (RHS) – 1:26.28, 5. Jake Freeman (RHS) – 1:46.84

400 freestyle relay

1. RHS (Ethan Brady, Dylan Steininger, Layne Backus, Jake Seuferer) – 3:52.90

Girls basketball

RHS adds Bremen, drops NorthWood: The Rochester girls basketball team has added Bremen to its schedule. Game time is 6 p.m./7:30 p.m. (JV/Varsity) Jan. 5 at RHS.

RHS added the game after finding out earlier Monday that NorthWood had canceled its game with the Lady Zs scheduled for Jan. 6 due to a coronavirus-related quarantine.

Like RHS, Bremen won its Class 2A sectional last year.