Gruber breaks record; SR swim splits
Maggie Gruber set a Butler pool record with a time of 53.89 seconds in the 100 freestyle to lead the Mars girls swim team to a pair of wins over Knoch (66-35) and Freeport (72-24) in high school swimming and diving action Monday night.
Gruber also won the 50 freestyle and swam the anchor leg of the Planets' winning 400 freestyle relay.
Freeport also made some history. Bria Otwell set a school record with a time of 1 minute, 3.83 seconds in the 100 butterfly, breaking the previous mark of 1:04.05 set by Keil Erickson in 2008.
Over the weekend, Otwell broke two other school records at the Indiana High School Invitational, setting marks in the 200 individual medley (2:12.88) and in the 500 freestyle (5:16.14).
Mars 66, Knoch 35Mars 72, Freeport 24Knoch 61, Freeport 35Girls200 medley relay: 1-Mars (Amanda Alikhani, Kelsey McDonough, Jessica Ott, Hannah Webb) 2:00.60
200 freestyle: 1-Becca Dudek (F) 2:08.28
200 individual medley: 1-Nicole Parrish (M) 2:29.25
50 freestyle: 1-Maggie Gruber (M) 25.44
100 butterfly: 1-Bria Otwell (F) 1:03.86+
1-meter diving: 1-Jenna Plutyk (K) 145.50
100 freestyle: 1-Maggie Gruber (M) 53.89*
500 freestyle: 1-Jessica Ott (M) 5:58.17
200 freestyle relay: 1-Mars (Webb, Phoebe Pierre, Parrish, Torrey Shields) 1:51.26
100 backstroke: 1-Anna Cunningham (K) 1:06.03
100 breaststroke: 1-Shields (M) 1:17.12
400 freestyle relay: 1-Mars (Caroline Pacey, Amanda Alikhani, Shields, Gruber) 4:05.72* Butler pool record+ Team record
BoysKnoch 53, Mars 44Mars 44, Freeport 6Knoch 37, Freeport 2200 medley relay: 1-Mars (Reed McDonough, Thomas Pierre, Kristopher Georgiadis, Francis Folz) 1:48.29
200 freestyle: 1-McDonough (M) 1:56.87
200 individual medley: 1-Pierre (M) 2:07.12
50 freestyle: 1-Folz (M) 23,.87
100 butterfly: 1-Georgiadis (M) 55.55
1-meter diving: 1-Andrew Olczak (K) 78.50
100 freestyle: 1-Pierre (M) 51.83
500 freestyle: 1-Folz (M) 5:21.95
200 freestyle relay: 1-Knoch (Ian Lindsey, Mike Kusinick, Jacob Shoemaker, Matt Wilson) 1:44.22
100 backstroke: 1-McDonough (M) 1:00.34
100 breaststroke: 1-Georgiadis (M) 1:05.38
400 freestyle relay: 1-Mars (McDonough, Pierre, Georgiadis, Folz) 3:32.29
Slippery Rock 89, Titusville 79 (boys); Titusville 89, Slippery Rock 81 (girls) — Zack France, Matt Johnston and Brandon Bridges were all part of multiple wins for Slippery Rock in the boys victory.Kelsey Reott and Katie Antal were multiple winners for the Slippery Rock girls in a close loss.
GirlsTitusville 89, Slippery Rock 81200 medley relay: 1-Slippery Rock (Reott, Fair, Shumway, Lueken) 2:05.70
200 freestyle: 1-Katie Antal (SR) 2:06.86
200 individual medley: 1-Ava Young (T) 2:36.20
50 freestyle: 1-Emily Nottingham (T) 25.76
100 butterfly: 1-Kelsey Reott (SR) 1:02.74
100 freestyle: 1-Nottingham (T) 58.63
500 freestyle: 1-Antal (SR) 5:46.13
200 freestyle relay: 1-Titusville 1:51.04
100 backstroke: 1-Reott (SR) 1:01.28
100 breaststroke: 1-Nikki Fair (SR) 1:15.65
400 freestyle relay: 1-Slippery Rock (Antal, Shumway, Lueken, Reott) 4:00.20
BoysSlippery Rock 89, Titusville 79200 medley relay: 1-Titusville 1:51.97
200 freestyle: 1-Zack France (SR) 1:59.75
200 individual medley: 1-Matt Johnston (SR) 2:22.22
50 freestyle: 1-Adam Bleday (T) 22.79
100 butterfly: 1-Devon Pettit (T) 57.51
100 freestyle: 1-Josiah Leach (T) 55.28
500 freestyle: 1-Brandon Bridges (SR) 1:46.88
200 freestyle relay: 1-Slippery Rock (Johnston, France, Yates, Bridges)
100 backstroke: 1-Bridges (SR) 1:01.01
100 breaststroke: 1-France (SR) 1:10.42
400 freestyle relay: 1-Slippery Rock (France, Griffith, Johnston, Kovacs) 3:37.83
The Butler wrestling team finished second at the 16-team Uniontown Duals over the weekend.Butler won matches over Highlands (75-6), West Greene (60-15), Latrobe (45-25) and Upper St. Clair (57-14) before falling to champion Hampton, 32-20, in the finals.Three Butler wrestlers went 5-0, led by Zach Reges at 132 pounds.Reges' final win of the duals was the 100th of his career.Blake Caudill (120) went 5-0 with three pins and Dakota Collins (145) also was undefeated.<B>Hampton 60, Seneca Valley 13 </B>— Nick Zoria earned a pin at 106 pounds and Anthony Latess won a major decision at 113 pounds for the Raiders.
<B>State College 7, Butler 2 </B>— No other information was available.
