VW boys 5th, girls 8th at WBL swim meet

VW swim team information

DEFIANCE — The Cougar boys’ and girls’ swim teams traveled to Defiance for the annual Western Buckeye League Championships involving all 10 member schools. The Van Wert boys took fifth place, while the girls finished eighth.

Wapakoneta took first place in both the boys’ and girls’ championships, with Lima Shawnee runner-up for the boys and Ottawa-Glandorf runner-up in the girls’ events. Other schools participating (in order of finish in the boys’ standings) were Celina, Ottawa-Glandorf, Defiance, Elida, Kenton, Lima Bath, and St Marys.

Highlights of the boys’ day included Sam Easley earning a sixth place finish in the 100-yard butterfly. Easley also earned a ninth place finish in the 200-yard freestyle.

Also scoring for the Cougars were Kory Schlatter in the 500-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke, Dalton Heppeard in the 200-yard freestyle, Josh Overholt in the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke, Nathan Ireland in the 100-yard freestyle, Tyler Rex in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle, and Cade Fleming in the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard breaststroke.

The girls scored in all but one event. Scoring for the Lady Cougars were Hannah Stemen in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, Katie Trittschuh in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, Trittschuh in the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, Peyton Fleming in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke, Meagan Jacobs in the 500-yard freestyle, Madison Turnwald in the 100-yard freestyle, Emma Verville in the 100-yard backstroke, and Bethany Fast in the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard breaststroke.

Two boys’ relay teams also scored. The best finishes were fourth place by the 200-yard freestyle relay (Easley, Fleming, Overholt and Rex), and fifth in the 200-yard medley relay (Rex, Fleming, Easley, Overholt).

All three girls’ relay teams scored. The best finish was recorded by the 400-yard freestyle, with Trittschuh, Turnwald, Fleming, and Stemen taking fifth place. The 200-yard medley relay, with Stemen, Fast, Fleming, and Trittschuh, claimed seventh place.  The 200-yard freestyle relay team took ninth place; members were Fast, Chloe Brake, Mackenzie Agler, and Turnwald.

The next meet for the Cougars will be the OHSAA sectional tournament at Ayersville High School on February 14.

Girls Results (all distances in yards)

200 Medley Relay:  7^th (2:11.12 –Hannah Stemen, Bethany Fast, Peyton Fleming, Katie Trittschuh)

200 Freestyle:  8^th (2:16.11 – Hannah Stemen), 18^th (2:32.49 –Madison Turnwald), 19^th (2:34.59 – Olivia Profit), 20^th (2:37.61 –Haley Richardson)

200 Individual Medley:  13^th (2:44.41 –Bethany Fast), 21^st (3:08.61 – Madison Pauquette), 22^nd (3:14.50 –Olivia Mengerink)

50 Freestyle:  16^th (29.27 –Peyton Fleming), 25^th (31.46–Mackenzie Agler), 26^th (31.58 –Jaycie Rickard), 27^th (32.31 –Chloe Brake)

100 Butterfly:  22^nd (1:35.30 –Olivia Mengerink)

100 Freestyle:  10^th (1:05.49 –Katie Trittschuh), 13^th (1:07.09 –Madison Turnwald), 20^th (1:11.05 –Jaycie Rickard), 21^st (1:11.26–Mackenzie Agler)

500 Freestyle:  16^th (6:54.56 –Meagan Jacobs), 17^th – (6:55.03 –Olivia Profit), 20^th (7:04.93 –Haley Richardson), 22^nd (7:12.58 –Jena Rex-LaRue)

200 Freestyle Relay:  9^th (2:02.98 –Bethany Fast, Chloe Brake, Mackenzie Agler, Madison Turnwald)

100 Backstroke:  8^th (1:08.97 –Hannah Stemen), 14^th (1:16.42 –Katie Trittschuh), 16^th (1:19.98 –Emma Verville), 20^th (1:23.28-Chloe Brake)

100 Breaststroke:  12^th (1:22.06 –Bethany Fast) 16^th (1:23.71 –Peyton Fleming), 21^st – (1:28.44 –Rebekah Fast), 27^th (1:37.42 –Madison Pauquette)

400 Freestyle Relay:  5^th (4:19.63 – Katie Trittschuh, Madison Turnwald, Peyton Fleming, Hannah Stemen)

Boys Results (all distances in yards)

200 Medley Relay:  5^th (1:54.13 – Tyler Rex, Cade Fleming, Sam Easley, Josh Overholt)

200 Freestyle:  9^th (2:02.44 – Sam Easley), 15^th (2:28.05 –Dalton Heppeard), 17^th (2:30.55– Joe Linser), 23^rd (2:50.24 –Stephen Hamblett)

200 Individual Medley:  12^th (2:35.54 –Cade Fleming)

50 Freestyle: 5^th (24.68 – Tyler Rex), 18^th (27.69 –Nathan Ireland), 25^th (30.12 –Dalton Heppeard), 30^th (31.52 –Brayden Cox)

100 Butterfly: 6^th (59.78 – Sam Easley)

100 Freestyle: 6^th (56.08 –Tyler Rex), 7^th (57.12–Josh Overholt), 10^th (1:01.35–Nathan Ireland), 18^th (1:06.25–Joe Linser)

500 Freestyle: 11^th (6:15.65 –Kory Schlatter)

200 Freestyle Relay:  4^th (1:38.33 – Sam Easley, Cade Fleming, Josh Overholt, Tyler Rex)

100 Backstroke:  9^th (1:08.94 –Kory Schlatter), 21^st (1:27.16 –Brayden Cox)

100 Breaststroke: 8^th (1:13.49 –Cade Fleming), 11^th (1:16.59 –Josh Overholt), 22^nd (1:34.54 –Stephen Hamblett)