Splash edged by O’Fallon Breakers
The Highland Splash summer swim team suffered their first loss of the season in a 254 to 206 defeat to the visiting O’Fallon Breakers on Tuesday of last week at the Highland Community Pool.
O’Fallon opened the meet by taking three of the four medley relays.
Next, the Breakers edged Highland 6-4 in the freestyle races before the Splash battled back to split both of the breaststroke (5-5) and individual medley (4-4) events.
Finally, O’Fallon won seven of the 10 backstroke and eight of the 10 butterfly competitions to go on and beat Highland by 48 points in the final team score..
The freestyle relays to close out the meet were canceled due to inclement weather.
The Splash’s most successful swimmers in the meet against O’Fallon were 15-year-old Victoria Thomae and 13-year-old Trey Stephens, who each won two of their individual events and finished a close second in another.
Thomae won both the girls 15-18 100-meter freestye (1:01.62) and the 100 breaststroke (1:18.60). Thomae came home in second place in the 50 butterfly (32.63) by a mere 0.25 of a second to O’Fallon’s Natalie Edwards (32.38).
Stephens won both the boys 13-14 100 individual medley (1:13.56) and the 50-meter butterfly (31.44). In the 100 freestyle, Stephens (1:03.60) finished just 0.57 of a second behind Michael Meyer (1:03.03) of the Breakers.
The following is the complete results of the point scorers or those who placed in the top three in each event for the Highland Splash against the O’Fallon Breakers:
O’Fallon 254, Highland 206
June 16 at Highland Community Pool
(All distances are competed in meters. There are three in total from both teams combined who score in each individual event, so one team is allowed to score its top two swimmers in any one individual event. Therefore, each team is guaranteed to score at least one point in each and every individual event. This does not include the meet-opening medley relays ore the meet-ending freestyle relays, in which only the winning team scores seven points.)
Medley Relays
(Each swimmer’s age and stroke are listed in parenthesis after the swimmer’s name.)
Girls 12-Under 100 — 2. Ella Drysdale (12, Backstroke), Macy Smith (11, Butterfly), Baylie Wells (9, Breaststroke), Chloe Marti (12, Freestyle), 1:19.97
Boys 12-Under 100 — 1. Ben Walter (12, Backstroke), Gabe Smith (10, Butterfly), Xander Valdez (12, Breaststroke), Cam Range (10, Freestyle), 1:14.81.
Girls 13-18 200 — 2. Emma Drysdale (15, Backstroke), Victoria Thomae, 15, Butterfly), tess Korte (13, Breaststroke), Nora Thiems (13, Freestyle), 2:22.72.
Boys 13-18 200 — 2. Ben Thomae (16, Backstroke), Adam Seger (15, Butterfly), Trey Stephens (13, Breaststroke), Ethan Drysdale (13, Freestyle), 2:07.60.
Freestyle
Girls 8-Under 25 — 2. Lia Kampwerth, 21.46; 3. Ellie Sitton, 22.03.
Boys 8-Under 25 — 1. Sean McGinley, 18.69; 3. Tucker Stephens, 20.80.
Girls 9-10 25 — 2. Baylie Wells, 16.69; Rylee Sitton, 18.00.
Boys 9-10 25 — 2. Cam Runge, 16.40; 3. Patrick McGinley, 17.53.
Girls 11-12 50 — 1. Chloe Marti, 32.40.
Boys 11-12 50 — 2. Galen Kohlbrecher, 34.93; Vince Ermer, 36.25.
Girls 13-14 100 — 2. Tess Korte, 1:14.32.
Boys 13-14 100 — 2. Trey Stephens, 1:03.60.
Girls 15-18 100 — 1. Victoria Thomae, 1:01.62.
Boys 15-18 100 — 1. Gunnar Kohlbrecher, 1:00.25.
Breaststroke
Girls 8-Under 25 — 1. Anna Henke, 24.53; 2. Lia Kampwerth, 29.37.
Boys 8-Under 25 — 1. Tucker Stephens, 28.69.
Girls 9-10 25 — 3. Ella Drysdale, 25.25.
Boys 9-10 25 — 1. Gabe Smith, 22.68; 2. Masyn Smith, 25.84.
Girls 11-12 50 — 2. Bella LaPorta, 44.94.
Boys 11-12 50 — 1. Ben Walter, 40.81; 2. Xander Valdes, 45.22.
Girls 13-14 100 — 2. Tori Lynn, 1:34.65; 3. Nora Thiems, 1:38.38.
Boys 13-14 100 — 4. Ethan Drysdale, 1:45.85.
Girls 15-18 100 — 1. Victoria Thomae, 1:21.01/
Boys 15-18 100 — 3. Adam Seger, 1:18.60.
Individual Medley
Girls 10-Under 100 — 1. Baylie Wells, 1:36.12.
Boys 10-Under 100 — 2. Cam Runge, 1:39.75; 3. Masyn Smith, 1:48.38.
Girls 11-12 100 — 2. Chloe Marti, 1:26.91.
Boys 11-12 100 — 1. Ben Walter, 1:19.39.
Girls 13-14 100 — 2. Nora Thiems, 1:27.60.
Boys 13-14 100 — 1. Trey Stephens, 1:13.56.
Girls 15-18 100 — 3. Alyssa Freimann, 1:21.78.
Boys 15-18 100 — 1. Ben Thomae, 1:07.12; 2. Dylan Galbiati, 1:09.63.
Backstroke
Girls 8-Under 25 — 2. Anna Henke, 26.41; 3. Ellie Sitton, 28.71.
Boys 8-Under 25 — 1. Sean McGinley, 25.22; 2. Ehan Henke, 27.50
Girls 9-10 25 — 1. Girls Ella Drysdale, 21.07; 3. Jackie Barukus, 21.93.
Boys 9-10 26 — 1. Cam Runge, 21.37; 2. Patrick McGinley, 22.20.
Girls 11-12 50 — 2. Chloe Marti, 41.60.
Boys 11-12 50 — 2. Ben Walter, 38.44.
Girls 13-14 100 — 3. Tess Korte, 1:31.03.
Boys 13-14 100 — 2. Peyton Nagel, 1:24.78.
Girls 15-18 100 — 3. Madi Walter, 1:27.45.
Boys 15-18 100 — 2. Ben Thomae, 1:09.46.
Butterfly
Girls 8-Under 25 — 2. Anna Henke, 23.94; 3. Abby Chalfant, 26.25.
Boys 8-Under 25 — 1. Sean McGinley, 24.75; 2. 2. Thank Henke, 25.45.
Girls 9-10 25 — 2. Ella Drysdale, 21.28; 3. Zoe Thiems, 21.30.
Boys 9-10 25 — 2. Patrick McGinley, 21.34; 3. 3. Masyn Smith, 22.81.
Girls 11-12 50 — 2. Abbi Imming, 39.59.
Boys 11-12 50 — 3. Xander Valdez, 41.51.
Girls 13-14 50 — 2. Tess Korte, 36.87; 3. Nora Thiems, 41.27.
Boys 13-14 50 — 1. Trey Stephens, 31.44
Girls 15-18 50 —2. Victoria Thomae, 32.63.
Boys 15-18 50 — 2. Ben Thomae, 30.48.
This story was originally published June 24, 2015 at 7:32 AM with the headline "Splash edged by O’Fallon Breakers."