At the Kansas City Suburban Conference Silver Division Boys’ Swimming Meet, Park Hill South came out on top, and Park Hill finished in seventh place at the Gladstone Community Center on Oct. 29.
The Panthers finished the conference meet with 520 points and the Trojans ended with 266 points. Park Hill South used the relays to its advantage, winning a pair of them.
Henry Snider, Jack Francis-Cummins, Alex Briggs and Jacob Duckworth were on the 200-medley relay team. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Derek Long, Gentry Comstock, Roman Lewis and Briggs closed out the meet with a win with a time of 3:16.07, while Park Hill’s relay team took fourth place in 3:25.03.
In the 200-yard freestyle, Long was the first of four consecutive Panthers as he took second place. Lewis finished in third place, Isaac Dierker ended in fourth place and Lucas Nichols earned fifth place.
Snider and Briggs took first and second places in the 200-yard individual medley, while Francis-Cummins was the fourth swimmer to complete the race. Park Hill’s Jack Stanley finished in fifth place with a time of 2:02.99.
Stanley also collected third place in the 100-yard backstroke in 55.76 seconds, right ahead of Park Hill South’s Gentry Comstock who ended in fifth place in 56.52 seconds. Park Hill’s Elijah Osborne and Drew Franklin finished in eighth and ninth places, respectively.
In the 500-yard freestyle, Derek Long took first place in 4:38.08 and Dierker finished in fifth in 5:06.77 and Nichols earned eighth place in 5:15.83 for the Panthers. The Trojans had a top-4 finisher with Raphael Realina taking fourth place with a time of 5:03.68.
Park Hill South impressed in the 100-yard breaststroke with four of the top seven – with Park Hill’s Realina taking sixth place – starting with Snider in second place with a time of 59.8 seconds. Duckworth, Francis-Cummins and Nick Maris finished in three out of four spots from fifth to seventh places.
Left to right: Park Hill’s David Keighyler and Park Hill South’s Derek Long and Isaac Dierker dive into the water to compete in the prelims for the 200- yard freestyle at Gladstone Community Center on the opening day of the Kansas City Suburban Conference Silver Division Boys’ Swimming Meet on Oct. 28.
The Panthers took advantage in diving with four of the first six places in the 1-meter dive. Cooper McQueen won, followed by Atreyu McCauley in third place, Brendan Anderson in fifth place and Henry Dorothy in sixth place.
Briggs won the 100-yard butterfly in 52.89 seconds and Lewis took second place in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.74 seconds. In the 50-yard freestyle, Duckworth finished in third place, while Matt Henderson, Grady Burns and Drew Franklin ended in three consecutive spots from sixth to eighth places.