On Saturday, it was Seymour High School’s turn to host the Hoosier Hills Conference boys swimming and diving championship.

The Owls totaled 161 points to finish fourth in the eight-team event, which was won for a third straight year by Floyd Central (383).

Jeffersonville was runner-up (198) and Bedford North Lawrence took third (193). Columbus East (137), Jennings County (111), Madison (78) and New Albany (61) rounded out the bottom four placings.

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“It went pretty well. After you run the outdoor meet in the summer with 700-plus swimmers, this seems pretty simple,” Seymour coach Dave Boggs said. “It ran well, and the kids performed well. It was a good barometer to gauge where we’re at going into sectional.”

First places garnered All-HHC status, while runner-up finishes earned honorable mention status.

Owls senior diver Devin Ramsey won his third conference crown while also setting a pair of records.

Ramsey’s score of 516.35 beat both the HHC (507.02) and pool (458.65) diving records. The HHC record was set in 2002, and the pool mark was recorded in 1975.

The new mark set by Ramsey was off only 10 dives.

On his second-to-last dive, a disturbance on the pool deck led Ramsey to not attempt his dive after he had already hit the board. After the judges consulted, it was determined Ramsey would not get a chance to redo the dive, resulting in a failure.

Ramsey bounced back on his final dive, scoring all 8s and 9s for a score of 69.

“It feels great ending my senior year by winning it here,” Ramsey said. “It feels really great to have the conference record. It took a long time. It was a lot of training to get to this point.”

While he didn’t get to break his own school record of 533, set at last year’s sectional meet, Ramsey saw the day as a learning experience.

“I was doing a 107c, and in my mind, I was ready for it,” Ramsey said. “I wasn’t ready for the sound that came out of nowhere, which is OK. Stuff happens. We have to move away from it. It’s a learning block for sectional coming up.”

Boggs said Ramsey, who is looking at a possible state championship crown in the coming weeks, is diving at an extremely high level.

“Devin is just on another level,” he said. “He had one bad dive and didn’t let it bother him. His last dive, he went up and just nailed it.”

The Owls’ Jackson Carpenter was third (342.30) and Kevin Lopez took eighth (289.15) in diving.

Trevor Layne received HHC honorable mention status for the Owls by finishing second in the 100 breaststroke, clocking 1 minute, 3.04 seconds. Floyd’s Noah McIntire was champion in 1:02.80.

Dalton Polley was fifth in both the 200 freestyle (1:54.00) and 500 free (5:15.30) for SHS.

Daniel Hartman took seventh in the 100 butterfly (57.95) and eighth for the 200 individual medley.

Brady Westfall placed was 11th in both the 50 (22.68) and 100 (56.69) freestyles, and Lee Freeman was ninth in the 100 backstroke (1:05.36).

Dillon and Dalton Polley, Layne and Hartman placed third in the freestyle relay (1:37.71) and fourth for the 400 free relay (3:38.98).

The SHS 200 medley relay team of Eduardo Zarate, Layne, Westfall and Freeman was sixth in 1:54.44.

Boggs said he was pleased with the team’s effort.

“There weren’t any ugly swims,” he said. “We swam about as well as we could for this day with where we’re at in our training. Now, we taper and fine-tune for three weeks.”