The Austin swimmers had tough luck at the Class ‘A’ state boys meet at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis Friday.

The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Zach Rausch, Jordan Stasi, Eric Lenway, and Jaceb Crews just missed advancing to Saturday’s competition, as did Crews in the 50-yard freestyle.

The relay team took 17th (top 16 advance) as it swam the event in 1:34.69, which was six-tenths of a second slower than the squad’s state-qualifying time. Austin missed advancing to the consolation on Saturday by five-tenths of a second, as a team from Perham took 16th with a time of 1:34.18.

A team from Breck/Blake had the fastest time in Class ‘A’ Friday at 1:29.14.

In the 50-yard freestyle, Crews finished 17th in the preliminaries missing Saturday’s consolation round by .05 seconds. Crews, a senior, swam a season-best time of 23.05 seconds, but was edged out by Red Wing’s Tyler Moulton, who swam the event in 23 seconds.

Tim Walker of D/C/Litch had the best Class ‘A’ time on Friday at 21.51 seconds.