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DQs costly in girls loss to Wabash, but Brown sees improvement
BY VAL TSOUTSOURIS
Sports Editor, RTC
Kylie Haselby won two blue ribbons, but the Rochester girls swimming team lost 78-76 to visiting Wabash at the Rochester Middle School pool on Dec. 5.
Meanwhile, Rochester won the boys meet 87-76 even though Wabash won seven of the 11 events.
Haselby won the diving competition, and she also swam the opening leg on the 400 freestyle relay, which ran unopposed. Jenna Seuferer, Ava Thomas and Skyla Mitchell swam the other three legs.
Wabash won the other 10 girls events.
Rochester coach Stephanie Brown reported 15 personal bests, and that came three days after 17 personal bests at the Warsaw Invitational.
Disqualifications were costly for the Lady Zs in both the 200 medley relay and 400 freestyle relay. Had Rochester simply finished both races legally, they would have gained an additional six points in a meet they lost by two.
“It was a fun meet,” Brown said. “Like I said, we had some DQs. We probably would have won the meet if we hadn’t. But they had at least one DQ on their end also, so you just never know.”
In the boys meet, Rochester winners included Wes Steininger, who took the 200 freestyle in 2:14.58; Jake Seuferer, who won the 200 individual medley in 2:08.42; and Tanner Reese, who won the 500 freestyle in 5:55.59 and beat the field by 37 seconds.
Steininger, Seuferer and Reese also teamed up with Reece Johnson to win the 400 freestyle relay in 3:54.13.
Steininger said his goal in the 200 freestyle was merely to win the race. He said he has done little distance training. He was also third in the 100 breaststroke in 1:15.37, another unfamiliar event.
“The 200 free has never been my event,” Steininger said. “I am by far a sprinter, so I think the fastest I ever went was 2:12 in that, and that was like freshman year since I never race that event,” Steininger said. “So I’ll take a 2:14 for sure with how much distance work I am doing. … A majority of what I do is stroke work, so IM stuff and sprint stuff. I’m not focusing on endurance in the freestyle.”
Brown told the kids to keep the meet times in perspective given how hard they are working in practice.
“And like we tell the kids, when we swim two meets a week, you’re not going to swim faster every time you swim. It just doesn’t work that way. Yesterday was a really tough practice. … Last night’s workout kind of beat them up a little bit.”
GIRLS RESULTS: WABASH 78, ROCHESTER 76
Scoring on 6-4-3-2-1 basis for individual events and 8-4-2 basis for relays
Winners plus all Rochester scorers
200 medley relay
1. Wabash (Hipskind, Myers, N. Higuera, Coffman) – 2:21.35, 2. Rochester (Audrey Widman, Kaedra Shook, Payton Moore, Aubrey Miller) – 3:09.48, DQ. Rochester (Kylie Haselby, Lily Chipps, Skyla Mitchell, Seanna Gudas)
200 freestyle
1. N. Higuera (WAB) – 2:30.35, 2. Ava Thomas (RHS) – 2:49.21, 3. Aubrey Miller (RHS) – 3:37.72
200 individual medley
1. Myers (WAB) – 2:47.43, 3. Skyla Mitchell (RHS) – 3:38.99, 4. Payton Moore (RHS) – 3:54.57
50 freestyle
1. Hipskind (WAB) – 30.23 seconds, 3. Jenna Seuferer (RHS) – 36.60, 4. Kaedra Shook (RHS) – 37.62
Diving
1. Kylie Haselby (RHS) – 124.40 points
100 butterfly
1. Hipskind (WAB) – 1:23.14, 2. Ava Thomas (RHS) – 1:40.16, 3. Jenna Seuferer (RHS) – 1:43.97
100 freestyle
1. Ryder (WAB) – 1:14.62, 2. Seanna Gudas (RHS) – 1:19.70, 3. Kaedra Shook (RHS) – 1:26:23, 4. Lily Chipps (RHS) – 1:39.04
500 freestyle
1. N. Higuera (WAB) – 6:57.19, 2. Kylie Haselby (RHS) – 7:31.77, 3. Audrey Widman (RHS) – 9:09.16
200 freestyle relay
1. Wabash (Myers, N. Higuera, Coffman, Hipskind) – 2:02.51, 2. Rochester (Aubrey Miller, Seanna Gudas, Jenna Seuferer, Ava Thomas) – 2:26.70, 3. Rochester (Audrey Widman, Audrey Tobin, Kaedra Shook, Payton Moore) – 2:43.69
100 backstroke
1. Myers (WAB) – 1:12.85, 2. Skyla Mitchell (RHS) – 1:30.27, 3. Aubrey Miller (RHS) – 1:51.52
100 breaststroke
1. R. Higuera (WAB) – 1:27.47, 3. Lily Chipps (RHS) – 1:52.61, 4. Seanna Gudas (RHS) – 1:57.39, DQ. Audrey Tobin (RHS)
400 freestyle relay
1. Rochester (Kylie Haselby, Jenna Seuferer, Ava Thomas, Skyla Mitchell) – 5:29.00, DQ. Rochester (Payton Moore, Lily Chipps, Audrey Tobin, Audrey Widman)
BOYS RESULTS: ROCHESTER 87, WABASH 76
Scoring on 6-4-3-2-1 basis for individual events and 8-4-2 basis for relays
Winners plus all Rochester scorers
200 medley relay
1. Wabash (McCann, Howard, Perkins, Jones) – 1:49.59, 2. Rochester (Jake Seuferer, Wes Steininger, Tanner Reese, Spencer Backus) – 1:54.37, 3. Rochester (Brevin Nicholson, Rabuor Tindi, Lane Shank, Seth Flenar) – 2:24.29
200 freestyle
1. Wes Steininger (RHS) – 2:14.58, 2. Lane Shank (RHS) – 2:16.36, 5. Noah Riffle (RHS) – 2:32.78
200 individual medley
1. Jake Seuferer (RHS) – 2:08.42, 3. Tanner Reese (RHS) – 2:30.01, 5. Brevin Nicholson (RHS) – 3:11.59
50 freestyle
1. Perkins (WAB) – 24.81 seconds, 2. Reece Johnson (RHS) – 27.23, 5. Grant Bailey (RHS) – 34.14
100 butterfly
1. Perkins (WAB) – 1:00.34, 2. Jake Seuferer (RHS) – 1:01.14, 4. Brevin Nicholson (RHS) – 1:35.82
100 freestyle
1. Howard (WAB) – 56.64 seconds, 2. Spencer Backus (RHS) – 56.73, 3. Lane Shank (RHS) – 58.82 seconds, 5. Noah Riffle (RHS) – 1:05.84
500 freestyle
1. Tanner Reese (RHS) – 5:55.59, 2. Reece Johnson (RHS) – 6:32.63, 5. Seth Flenar (RHS) – 7:10.31
200 freestyle relay
1. Wabash (McCann, Jones, Howard, Perkins) – 1:40.50, 2. Rochester (Spencer Backus, Noah Riffle, Lane Shank, Reece Johnson) – 1:45.29
100 backstroke
1. McCann (WAB) – 59.31 seconds, 2. Spencer Backus (RHS) – 1:11.26, 3. Seth Flenar (RHS) – 1:30.56, 4. Grant Bailey (RHS) – 1:45.59
100 breaststroke
1. Howard (WAB) – 1:08.49, 2. Wes Steininger (RHS) – 1:16.61, 3. Rabuor Tindi (RHS) – 1:31.12
400 freestyle relay
1. Rochester (Tanner Reese, Reece Johnson, Wes Steininger, Jake Seuferer) – 3:54.13, 3. Rochester (Seth Flenar, Brevin Nicholson, Noah Riffle, Grant Bailey) – 4:49.85
NOTE: Boys diving was not contested.
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