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SWIMMING: Indians crush King City, Cravens wins at Herrin

Posted July 25, 2011 11:00 pm

Doug Daniels

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The Swimming Indians dominated the King City Flippers (Mt. Vernon) 437-213 in Du Quoin last Thursday night and 10-year-old Olivia Cravens took home high point honors in the girls 9-10 group at Saturday's 14th Annual Herrin All-Stroke Invitational.

Cravens, a winner of three events against Mt. Vernon on Thursday, swam to victories in the girls 25y freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly in Herrin on Saturday. She also set a meet record in the freestyle with a time of 13.63 seconds, breaking an 11-year old mark.

Paxton Higgerson (boys 9-10 25y breaststroke), William Galik (boys 13-14 50y backstroke) and Jerry Kuhnert (boys 15-16 50y breaststroke) also won for Du Quoin at the Invitational.

Several Swimming Indians won three individual events in Thursday's meet with the Flippers. In addition to O. Cravens (girls 9-10 25m freestyle, 25m backstroke, 100m individual medley), Lauren Heape (girls 7-8 50m freestyle, 25m breaststroke, 25m butterfly), Lauren Cravens (girls 9-10 50m freestyle, 25m breaststroke, 25m butterfly), Grace Gomes (girls 15-18 100m backstroke, 50m butterfly, 100m IM), Jacob Harsy (boys 7-8 25m freestyle, 25m breaststroke, 25m butterfly), Joshua Heape (boys 9-10 50m freestyle, 25m backstroke, 25m butterfly), Nicholas King (boys 11-12 50m freestyle, 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke) and Trevor Jones (boys 13-14 50m freestyle, 50m backstroke, 100m IM) also won three times.

Addi Darnell (girls 6&un 25m freestyle, 25m backstroke), Jakob Eaton (boys 6&un 25m freestyle, 25m backstroke), Higgerson (boys 9-10 25m freestyle, 25m breaststroke), Cody Bailey (boys 13-14 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly) and J. Kuhnert (boys 15-18 100m backstroke, 100m breaststroke) won two events on Thursday. J. Kuhnert also improved his own team record in the 100m IM to 1:07.98.

Quinn Kirkpatrick (girls 11-12 50m backstroke), Miranda Payne (girls 15-18 100m breaststroke), Tyler VanZandt (boys 7-8 50m freestyle), David Gomes (boys 7-8 25m backstroke), Shamar Adams (boys 9-10 100m IM) and Matthew Galik (boys 13-14 50m breaststroke) were also winners.

Team marks were also set in the girls 9-10 100m medley relay (1:20.28 by Rachel Gomes, O. Cravens, L. Cravens, Josie Bailey) and 11-12 200m freestyle relay (2:20.83 by Haley Kuhnert, Alexandria Gossman, Emily Beutow and Quinn Kirkpatrick). The 9-10 100m medley team broke a time that had stood since 1996 (1:20.47).

The boys 13-14 200m medley relay team (W. Galik, M. Galik, C. Bailey, Jones) put their names in the record books too, better the 2010 time of 2:14.78 with a 2:14.47.

A more complete list of results from both meets appears on Page 7 of today's newspaper.

The Swimming Indians have wrapped up the regular season and will next compete this Saturday at Marion in the SISL Championships.

Du Quoin swimmers on the 2011 Championship roster are: Addie Darnell, Ellee Green, Malayna Russell, Jakob Eaton, Gage Green, Cooper Rice, Emma Fischer, Lindsey Gossman, Lauren Heape, Maya Russell, Reagan Whitley, David Gomes, Jonathon Gomes, Jacob Harsy, Tre Horn, Tyler Van Zandt, Josie Bailey, Elizabeth Bird, Lauren Cravens, Olivia Cravens, Maddison Dorsey, Rachel Gomes, Bobbi Ann Hamlin, Shamar Adams, Ethan Bellamy, Jacob Green, Josh Heape, Paxton Higgerson, Garret Morgenstern, Emily Buetow, Alex Gossman, Maddie Harsy, Quinn Kirkpatrick, Haley Kuhnert, Ike Fennell, Nicholas King, Aaron Korbar, Bailey Leonard, Logan Whitley, Chris Zuck, Tori Cavitt, Madeleine Cravens, Charlee Furlow, Courtney Rudloff, Shelby Simmons, Michelle Van Zandt, Cody Bailey, Matthew Galik, Will Galik, Caleb Gomes, Trevor Jones, Grace Gomes, Melaina Harsy, Miranda Payne, Taylor Stanhouse, Zach Cavitt, Collin Dorsey, Jerry Kuhnert, and Caseton Luthy.

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