Swimming: Packers finish fifth in Big Nine meet

Published 7:48 am Monday, February 23, 2015

The Austin boys swimming and diving team finished in fifth place at the Big Nine meet in Rochester Saturday.

The Packers finished with a team score of 208.5 and Rochester Century won the meet with a 364.

Austin’s Craig Heimark took second in the 50-yard freestyle and third in the 200-yard freestyle, Isaac Christopherson was fifth in the 200-yard freestyle, Ben Walker was fifth in the 100-yard butterfly and Sawyer Myers took fourth in the 500-yard freestyle

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The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Heimark, Seth Clasen, Christopherson and Myers took third and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Heimark, Christopherson, Walker and Myers took fourth.

Heimark, Myers, Christopherson, Seth Clasen and Ben Walker were all named to the All Big Nine team.

AUSTIN RESULTS

200-medley relay: Sam Clasen, Matthew Knoll, Ben Walker, Seth Clasen (eighth, 1:48.08)

200-freestyle: Isaac Christopherson (fifth, 1:50.68); Joshua Snee (26th, 2:04.31); Ethan Thompson (29th, 2:05.68)

200-individual medley: Sawyer Myers (seventh, 2:08.84); Mitch Mayer (19th, 2:15.91); Giancarlo Marconi (29th, 2:30.02)

50-freestyle: Craig Heimark (second, 22.33); Seth Clasen (11th, 23.23); Matthew Knoll (21st, 24.41)

Diving: Riley Norton (21st, 104.60)

100-butterfly: Ben Walker (fifth, 55.01); Seth Clasen (sixth, 55.71); Mitch Mayer (21st, 1:01.20

100-freestyle: Craig Heimark (third, 48.65); Sam Clasen (25th, 56.18); Zach Newman (32nd, 56.84)

500-freestyle: Sawyer Myers (fourth, 5:04.78); Isaac Christopherson (sixth, 5:09.51); Ethan Thompson (20th, 5:32.23)

200-freestyle relay: Craig Heimark, Seth Clasen, Isaac Christopherson, Sawyer Myers (third, 1:30.42)

100-backstroke: Matthew Knoll (19th, 1:11.18); Zach Newman (29th, 1:16.67); Holden Ourada (31st, 1:17.53)

400-freestyle: Craig Heimark, Isaac Christopherson, Ben Walker, Sawyer Myers (fourth, 3:22.25)