The state swimming and diving meets are two-day events.
Preliminary races are held Friday with the finals on Saturday.
The boys from Erie Mason-Ida left the pool after Day 1 feeling like champions. The second day was just a bonus.
Coach Andy Mosley’s team captured seventh place in the Division 3 finals at Holland Aquatic Center on Saturday, March 14.
“Yesterday was emotional,” the coach said of the opening day. “We got all our events but one through to the finals. Everyone used everything they had. We broke four school records.”
David Mills broke the oldest record on the board, going :47.86 on the opening leg of the 400 freestyle relay. He eclipsed a standard set by Randy Schardt in 1989.
Mosley now owns the oldest school record with a time he recorded in the individual medley in 1995.
Mills also broke records in the 500 freestyle (4:46.77) and was part of record-setting medley (1:39.58) and 400 freestyle (3:14.97) relays.
“It was awesome for David,” Mosely said.
Mason finished three places ahead of Riverview, which beat the Eagles in the Southeast Michigan Independent Swimming League finals last weekend.
“We finished above pretty much everyone in Southeast Michigan except (champion Cranbrook) Kingswood,” Mosely said.
Division 3 at Holland
HOLLAND – Mills placed in the top five for all four of his events.
Individually, he was fourth in the 500 and fifth in the 200 (1:44.52). He was part of the medley and 400 relays that both wound up fifth.
Jared Tunison was on both of those relays. Bowie Jacobs and Brandon Tross completed the medley quartet and Brenner Nelson and Mason Reynolds swam the 400.
Reynolds, Tross, Jacobs and Nelson were 11th in the 200 relay.
Tunison (2:02.72 in individual medley) and Nelson (:48.67 in 100) posted eighth-place finishes. Nelson also was 15th in the 50 and Tunison 16th in the breaststroke.
Tross placed 13th in the butterfly and 22nd in the 50.
Reynolds was wound up 19th in the butterfly and 26th in the backstroke and Jacobs captured 22nd in the backstroke and 23rd in the individual medley.
Dundee’s JR Hess reached the finals in the 50-yard freestyle where he placed eighth in :21.78.
Teammate Aaron Brewer checked in at 11th in diving with a score of 311.1
Chandler Gossiaux noched a 36th-place finish in the breaststroke.
Milan put all three relays in the top 19.
The medley (Ryan Johnson, Cameron Garcia, Jameson McShane, Dylan Nichols) was 10th in 1:54.4, the 200 (Alec Markham, Tadas Zukovskis, Garcia, Nichols) 16th in 1:32.81 and the 400 (Markham, McShane, Zukovskis, Nichols) 19th in 3:28.47.
An 18th-place showing by Zukovskis in the butterfly was the top individual showing for the Big Reds. He also placed 23rd in backstroke.
Markham, a freshman, was 20th in the 500 and 24th in the 200.
Division 2 at EMU
YSPILANTI – Gibraltar Carlson’s Jace Starll recorded a sixth-place finish in diving, notching a score of 433.95.
Teammate Owen Keith brought home 13th place in the butterfly (:52.99) and 17th in the 50 freestyle (:22.05).
Keith helped the 200 relay finish 22nd and the medley take 24th. Other relay members were Dean Manthei, Owen Lancaster, Jack Dunwoody, Connor Rafferty and Donovan Randazzo.
Bedford’s best individual finishes came from Jackson Andrews (12th in diving 350.25), Andy Nelson (15th in butterfly :53.48), Ryan Sharkus (17th in butterfly :54.08) and Parker Williams (21st in individual medley 2:06.08).
The Mules were 18th in the 400 and 21st in the medley relays with Nelson, Aaron Majewski, Sharkus and Williams. The 200 unit of Nelson, Majewski, Carter Brodzinski and Sharkus) finished 26th.
Division 1 at Oakland University
ROCHESTER – Jayce Hay was the lone representative for Monroe.
He placed 37th in the individual medley at 2:04.49, and 49th in the butterfly at :55.20.
This article originally appeared on The Monroe News: Roundup of Monroe County Region results in state swimming meets
Reporting by Niles Kruger, The Monroe News / The Monroe News
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