The Tyrone boys swim team had a slim three-point lead going into the final event against Somerset in the Tyrone Area High School pool. Somerset (6-1) captured both first and second places in the 400 meter freestyle relay to jump over the Golden Eagles to nip Tyrone 88-81, despite a record setting performance by Tyrone junior Ethan Nulton.
\nNulton, who set a school record with a time of 1:56.26 in the 200 freestyle, also won the 500 freestyle and teamed with fellow double winners Dustin Elder and Philip Kreckel and Chris Closson to win both the 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay. Elder won the 200 IM and the 100 backstroke, while Kreckel won both the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle races.
\nSomerset was able to keep the meet close up to the 400 relay, however, despite the Eagles (5-3) winning eight of the 11 events, by scoring a bunch of seconds and thirds. The only seconds for the Tyrone boys were by Closson in the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly and by Allen Hosko in the 100 breaststroke. Somerset received second place points in eight events.
\nThe Tyrone girls dropped a 104-60 decision to the Somerset girls, despite winning performances by Salena Bradigan, Brittany Day and Kelly Pearson.
\nBradigan won the 200 freestyle race and was second in the 100 butterfly. Day won the 100 free and was second in the 500 freestyle. Pearson won the 100 backstroke and was second in the 100 freestyle.
\nBradigan, Day and Pearson also teamed with Christina Brisban to place second in the 200 medley relay and with Abby Cowfer for a a second place finish in the 200 freestyle relay.
\nThe Tyrone girls swept the top three places in the 100 freestyle race with Day, Pearson and Cowfer placing 1-2-3.
\nBoys
\nSomerset 88 Tyrone 81
\n200 Medley Relay – 1. Tyrone (Ethan Nulton, Chris Closson, Dustin Elder, Philip Kreckel) 1:59.44, Somerset 2:10.66, 3. Somerset 2:19.60; 200 Freestyle – 1. Nulton (T) 1:56.25* (new school record), 2. Ware (S) 1:57.05, 3. Roth (S) 2:18.66; 200 IM – 1. Elder (T) 2:31.39, 2. D. Shaffer (S) 2:38.06, 3. Barndt (S) 2:38.81; 50 Freestyle – 1. Kreckel (T) :24,61, 2. Closson (T) :25.55, 3. W. Shaffer (S) :26.38\u2019 100 Butterfly – 1. Hunsberger (S) 1:13.09, 2. Closson (T) 1:15.30, 3. Fey (S) 1:16.98; 100 Freestyle – 1. Kreckel (T) :55.88, 2. W. Shaffer (S) :59.68, 3. Allen Hosko (T) 1:02.31; 500 Freestyle – 1. Nulton (T) 5:25.63, 2. Ware (S) 5:33.42, 3. D, Shaffer (S) 5:53.03; 200 Freestyle Relay 1. Tyrone (Closson, Elder, Kreckel, Nulton) 1:43.73, 2. Somerset 1:46.88, 3. Somerset 1:53.94; 100 Backstroke – 1. Elder (T) 1:10.06, 2. Kaufman (S) 1:10.26, 3. Sanders (S) 1:18.95; 100 Breaststroke – 1. Barndt (S) 1:18.51, 2. Hosko (T) 1:19.63, 3. Sanders (S) 1:25.00; 400 Freestyle Relay – 1. Somerset 4:10.97, 2. Somerset 4:17.80, 3. Tyrone (Ethan Lewis, Dudley McNitt, Randy Wilson, Hosko) 4:19.38.
\nGirls
\nSomerset 104 Tyrone 60
\n200 Medley Relay – 1. Somerset 2:10.69, 2. Tyrone (Kelly Pearson, Christina Brisban, Salena Bradigan, Brittney Day) 2:14.12, 3. Somerset 2:20.42; 200 Freestyle – 1. Bradigan (T) 2:24.17, 2. H. Shaffer (S) 2:24.59, 3. DeVries (S) 2:36.11; 200 IM- 1. Kawchak (S) 2:44.86, 2. Chynna Beisel (T) 2:49.32, 3. Isgan (S) 3:19.66; 50 Freestyle – 1. Mackenzie (S) :27.36, 2. Day (T) :28.29, 3. Abby Cowfer (T) :28.86; 100 Butterfly – 1. Kneeper (S) 1:09.71, 2. Bradigan (T) 1:12.62, 3. Thomas (S) 1:21.92; 100 Freestyle – 1. Day (T) 1:02.66, 2. Pearson (T) 1:04.42, 3. Cowfer (T) 1:05.62; 500 Freestyle – 1. Mackenzie (S) 5:53.57, 2. Beisel (T) 6:30.30, 3. Beachy (S) 7:28.18; 200 Freestyle Relay -1. Somerset 1:55.36, 2. Tyrone (Bradigan, Cowfer, Pearson, Day) 1:58.24, 3. Somerset 2:02.99; 100 Backstroke – 1. Pearson (T) 1:14.64, 2. Kimmel (S) 1:16.49, 3. Howlett (S) 1:24.46; 100 Breaststroke – 1. Knecht (S) 1:24.02, 2. Kawchuck (S) 1:23.12, 3. Brisban (T) 1:25.92; 400 Freestyle Relay – 1. Somerset 4:54.17, 2. Somerset 5:08.05, 3. Somerset 5:10.65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Tyrone boys swim team had a slim three-point lead going into the final event against Somerset in the Tyrone Area High School pool. Somerset (6-1) captured both first and second places in the 400 meter freestyle relay to jump over the Golden Eagles to nip Tyrone 88-81, despite a record setting performance by Tyrone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}