AKRON – The Tippecanoe Valley boys swimming team competed in its final home meet on Monday evening, defeating Knox 114-55.

Valley had six individual winners and won all three relay events at the meet.

Dakota Prater finished first in the  200-yard freestyle race, hitting the wall in 2:04.87. He also earned a second-place result in the 500-yard free event.

Daniel Alexander won the 200-yard individual medley, Chase Brower received first in the 50-yard free, Grayson Sriver tallied first in the 100-yard backstroke and Chase Brower ended first in the 100-yard breaststroke. 

The 200-yard medley (Mason Stephen, Camden Tucker, Brower, Alexander), 200-yard free (Zach Hodge, Camden Tucker, Tucker Shull, Prater) and 400-yard free relay (Stephen, Alexander, Tucker,  Prater) teams finished first for the Vikings.

Travis Shull scored a 223.05 to earn first in diving for Valley. 

Mason Stephen earned second-place nods at the event in the 50-yard and 100-yard free races.

The boys will be back in the pool on Feb. 15 for the sectional preliminaries at Warsaw Community High School.



Tippecanoe Valley 114, Knox 55

Results (top 3 plus local): 200 medley relay – 1. Valley (Mason Stephen, Daniel Alexander, Camden Tucker, Chase Brower) 1:59.20, 2. Knox 2:00.06; 200 free – 1. Dakota Prater (TV) 2:04.87, 2. Jordan Maynard (K) 2:12.67, 3. Mitch Smith (TV) 2:49.69, 4. Wes Johnston (TV) 305.54; 200 IM – 1. Daniel Alexander 9TV) 2:36.52, 2. Kris Bendt (K) 2:37.93, 3. Jacob McDonald (TV) 3:07.47; 50 free – 1. Chase Brower (TV) :22.28, 2. Mason Stephen (TV) :26.00, 3. Tucker Shull (TV) :26.86; Diving – 1. Travis Shull (TV) 233.05, 2. Daniel Darda (K) 195.85, 3. Devan Himes (K) 195.015, 4. Zach Hodge (TV) 172.15, 5. Johnny Gonzalez (TV) 98.45; 100 butterfly – 1. Logan Berndt (K) :59.58, 2. Daniel Alexander (TV) 1:05.48, 3. Camden Tucker (TV) 1:06.56; 100 freestyle – 1. Jordan Maynard (K) :58.00, 2. Mason Stephen (TV) :58.46, 3. Tucker Shull (TV) 1:08.22, 5. Grayson Srivre (TV) 1:16:09; 500 free – 1. Logan Berndt (K) 5:17.47, 2. Dakota Prater (TV) 5:40.14, 3. Mitch Smith (TV) 7:05.20; 200 free relay – 1. Valley (Zach Hodge, Camden Tucker, Tucker Shull, Dakota Prater) 1:50.48, 2. Knox 2:01.92, 3. Valley 2:17.85; 100 breaststroke – 1. Grayson Sriver (TV) 1:23.78, 2. Jacob McDonald (TV) 1:25.26, 3. Jonah Berndt (K) 1:27.19, 4. Wes Johnston (TV) 2:05.85; 100 breaststroke – 1. Chase Brower (TV) 1:07.31, 2. Camden Tucker (TV) 1:22.28, 3. David Martin (K) 1:23.90; 400 free relay – 1. Valley (Mason Stephen, Daniel Alexander, Camden Tucker, Dakota Prater) 3:58.17, 2. Knox 4:21.88, 3. Valley 5:01.31