Owls dominate, sweep home invitational

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Each December, at its home invitational, the Seymour swimming and diving team dominates the competition.

The 2017 meet proved no different.

Both the Owls’ boys and girls swept the competition at the annual “S” Invitational — going 6-0 — by defeating Salem, Switzerland County, Scottsburg Silver Creek, Southwestern and South Ripley on Saturday.

On the boys’ side, the Owls took 10 first place finishes.

Kyle Pfaffenberger was the winner for Seymour in the 200 individual medley in 2 minutes, 28 seconds.

Harrison Cottrill took the 50 freestyle in 27.7 seconds, Dalton Polley won the 100 free in 52.8 and Dillon Polley placed first in the 500 free in 5:52.91.

Luke Turner was victorious in the 100 butterfly (1:03.87) and Devin Ramsey scored 291.30 in the diving well for the top score.

SHS swept the relays for both the boys’ and girls’ races.

The 200 medley relay team of Pfaffenberger, Eric Blacklidge, Brady Westfall and Turner were meet champs in 1:58.65.

Westfall, both Polleys, and Pfaffenberger combined for 1:44.75 to win the 200 freestyle relay.

The Polleys, Turner and Westfall had the fastest time in the 400 freestyle relay at 3:53.34.

In the girls’ competition, the Owls won seven events.

The Owls’ four of Elizabeth Hartman, Molly Hayes, Abby Boyt and Sandra Cerino clocked 2:12.40 to win the 200 medley relay.

Katie Turner placed first in the 200 freestyle (2:13.80), Cernio won the 100 free (28.10) and Hayes took the 50 free (28.10).

In the diving well, Breanna Hammond won by totaling 155.48 points.

Turner, Alexa McKinney Marcegui Vasquez and Matti Hague combined for 1:55.76 to take the 200 freestyle relay.

Mary Kate Pritchett, Amelita Vasquez, August Hunt and Haley Williams had a time of 4:37.47 to close end the meet with a win.

Owls coach Dave Boggs said he had his swimmers compete in a variety of events.

“We experimented a little bit,” he said. “We’re progressing well. We’re correcting silly mistakes, and only getting better. We try different things at this meet. We’re trying to find surprises, and find some breakthroughs.”

The Owls will swim at Jennings County on Saturday, and then will not compete again until Jan. 6.

“We will add some more yardage before the holidays,” Boggs said. “We’re going to try to add some more intensity and work on the details. We want to polish off some things.

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