Packer swimmers finish third in the Big Nine meet
Published 9:26 am Sunday, February 9, 2014
The Packers finished in third place at the Big Nine boys swimming and diving meet in Mankato Saturday.
Austin tallied a score of 271.5 points, Faribault took second with a 277 and Rochester Century won the meet with a score of 400.
Austin’s Craig Heimark took second in the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyles, Ian Christopherson took third in the 50-yard freestyle and Alec Anderson took second in diving.
The Packer 200-yard freestyle relay team of Heimark, Seth Clasen, Sawyer Myers and Ian Christopherson finished third and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Heimark, Isaac Christopherson, Myers and Ian Christopherson took fourth.
Anderson, Ben Carroll, Ian Christopherson, Isaac Christopherson, Heimark and Myers were All-Big Nine for the Packers and Ben Walker was honorable mention.
AUSTIN RESULTS
200-medley relay: Ben Walker, Matthew Knoll, Seth Clasen, Ben Carroll (seventh, 1:50.42)
200-freestyle: Craig Heimark (second, 1:47.58); Isaac Christopherson (sixth, 1:53.67); Joshua Snee (34th, 2:11.66)
200-individual medley: Sawyer Myers (sixth, 2:10.99); Ben Carroll (eighth, 2:11.85); Mitchell Mayer (22nd, 2:23.57)
50-freestyle: Ian Christopherson (third, 22.55); Seth Clasen (24.12); Matthew Knoll (19th, 24.44)
Diving: Alec Anderson (second, 377.05); Jacob Browning (16th, 172.50)
100-butterfly: Ben Carroll (sixth, 57.57); Ben Walker (seventh, 58.89); Seth Clasen (eighth, 58.91)
100-freestyle: Craig Heimark (second, 48.65); Ian Christopherson (seventh, 51.23); Sam Clasen (23rd, 56.60)
500-freestyle: Sawyer Myers (sixth, 5:12.15); Isaac Christopherson (seventh, 5:15.63); Joshua Snee (20th, 5:48.85)
200-freestyle relay: Craig Heimark, Seth Clasen, Sawyer Myers, Ian Christopherson (third, 1:31.50)
100-backstroke: Ben Walker (12th, 1:02.86); Sam Clasen (15th, 1:04.42); Kaleb Blaser (21st, 1:07.93)
100-breaststroke: Matthew Knoll (17th, 1:14.11); Andrew Baker (19th, 1:14.74); Zach Newman (24th, 1:18.18)
400-freestyle relay: Craig Heimark, Isaac Christopherson, Sawyer Myers, Ian Christopherson (fourth, 3:24.17)