Park Hill South’s Isaac Dierker and Roman Lewis look back at the big screen to see their times in the 200-yard freestyle preliminaries IM in the Kansas City Suburban Conference Silver Division Meet at the Gladstone Community Center on Oct. 27.
GLADSTONE – Park Hill South ended the regular swim season with a conference title – and Park Hill took fifth place – at the Gladstone Community Center on Oct. 27 and 28.
The Kansas City Suburban Conference Silver Division Meet took two days and Park Hill South dominated with 487 points, which was 146 points more than runner-up Liberty. Park Hill ended with 234 points.
There were only three relay races and the Panthers won all of them to help solidify themselves as conference champions. Gentry Comstock, Jack Francis-Cummins, Alex Briggs and Drew Franklin won the 200-yard medley relay in 1:37.7.
Comstock, Briggs and Franklin were all in one more relay joined by others. Roman Lewis, Matt Henderson and Grady Burns teamed up with Franklin in the 200-yard freestyle, winning with a time of 1:28.26.
Park Hill South earned its third relay victory with a 3:13.56 finish in the 400-yard freestyle. Briggs, Comstock, Henderson and Lewis teamed up for that relay.
Briggs was the runner-up in the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly. He ended the freestyle in 1:47.12 – which was 1.07 behind the winner – and completed the butterfly in 52.65 seconds.
Lewis and Isaac Dierker were right behind Briggs in the 200, earning third and fourth places with times of 1:48.38 and 1:50.86, respectively. Dierker earned fourth place in the 500-yard freestyle in 5:05.38.
Lewis took second in the conference in the 100-yard freestyle in 47.78 seconds. Comstock was one spot behind him in 48.29 seconds. Francis-Cummins took second place in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 58.87 seconds.
For Park Hill, Raphael Realina led the way not only as an individual, but also in the relays. Realina was the lead leg in the fourth-place 400-yard freestyle relay – followed by Jack Vaden, Elijah Osborne and Jack Stanley – in 3:28.45.
Raphael finished in second place in the 200-yard individual medley when he ended in 1:56.81, which was 2.78 seconds shy of first place. Stanley finished four spots later with a time of 2:01.53.
Realina was the runner-up in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:55.76. Vaden finished that race in 5:19.88, earning seventh place.
Stanley had an impressive outing in the 100-yard backstroke, ending the race in second place in 53.54 seconds. Osborne ended in seventh place in 58.73 seconds.
Park Hill and Park Hill South will have district diving on Nov. 4. After that, state will be on Nov. 10 and 11.