Trio of GHS tankers win NCC titles

By JON KLEINKNECHT

Inquirer Sports Editor

sports@galioninquirer.com

NORTH ROBINSON — Kris­ten Bene­dict, Sam DeN­ero and Car­o­line Shi­fley swam to indi­vid­ual cham­pi­onships in the North Cen­tral Con­fer­ence Swim Meet here last Saturday.

Bene­dict won the girls’ 50-yard freestyle race with a time of 26.48, DeN­ero did the same in the boys’ race with a mark of 22.71; and Shi­fley was best in the girls’ 100-yard but­ter­fly at 1:07.40.

Team scores in the girls’ meet were: Colonel Craw­ford, 273; Galion, 220; Wyn­ford, 207; Ontario, 193; Bucyrus, 140; Upper San­dusky, 71; and Crest­line, 12.

In the boys’ com­pe­ti­tion, it was: Colonel Craw­ford, 326; Ontario, 316; Galion, 186; Wyn­ford, 132; Upper San­dusky, 112; Crest­line, 29; and Bucyrus, 10.

In addi­tion to win­ning the girls’ 50 free, Bene­dict took sec­ond place in the 100 free. Shi­fley was third in the girls’ 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley; while Becca Rig­don was third in the 200 free and 500 free.

In the girls’ 100-meter back­stroke, Galion’s Saman­tha Alt­stadt was sec­ond, and Kennedy Gregg, third.

The quar­tet of Shi­fley, Alt­stadt, Rig­don and Bene­dict gar­ner­ing sec­ond place in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

For the Galion boys, plac­ing sec­ond with a school record time of 1:44.29 was the 200-yard med­ley relay squad of Con­nor Kempf, Chad Karnes, Zane Ekin and DeNero.

Also, Ekin was sec­ond in the 200-yard indi­vid­ual med­ley; Kempf, sec­ond in the 100-yard back­stroke; and Karnes, third in the 500-yard freestyle.

“Con­grats to (Colonel) Craw­ford upon win­ning both NCC cham­pi­onships,” noted Galion head coach Ted Tem­ple. “Our team did pretty darn good, too. Our team is right on sched­ule, hope­fully peak­ing at the sec­tion­als and dis­trict,” “I thought our team swam very well and I was very proud of them.”

He added that out of 61 swims by his troops, 33 were season-best times.

In a NCC meet last Tues­day in Galion, the Lady Tigers swam past the vis­it­ing Lady Rams of Upper San­dusky 64–30 and the Galion boys were 56–37 win­ners over the Rams.

Indi­vid­u­als win­ning two races apiece for the Lady Tigers were: Becca Rig­don, 200 free, 2:21.21, and the 500 free, 6:12.22; Car­o­line Shi­fley, 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley, 2:32.53, and the 100 fly, 1:12.25; and Kris­ten Bene­dict, 50 free, 27.78, and the 100 free, 1:00.31.

Win­ning one race each were Kennedy Gregg, 100 back, 1:08.15; and Liz Valen­tine, 100 breast, 1:26.94.

Also, tri­umphant relay teams were the 200 med­ley squad of Gregg, Shi­fley, Bene­dict and Rig­don, 2:09.68; and the 400 free quar­tet of Shi­fley, Saman­tha Alt­stadt, Rig­don and Bene­dict, 4:25.44.

For the Tigers, double-winning indi­vid­u­als were: Sam DeN­ero, 50 free, 23.19, and 100 free, 54.42; Zane Ekin, 200 indi­vid­ual med­ley, 2:11.88, and the 100 fly, 58.47; plus Chad Karnes, 200 free, 1:59, and 500 free, 5:28.41.

Con­nor Kempf was the top per­former in the 100 back, 58.4.

The 200 med­ley relay team of Kempf, Karnes, Ekin and DeN­ero was best with a mark of 1:50.04; and those same four teamed up to cap­ture first in the 400 free relay at 4:24.4.

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