Warrior Swimmers Sweep Wawasee Invitational Titles

Posted Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:25 pm

Staff Report-

SYRACUSE – Paige Miller was a double winner for the Lady Warriors, and Brady Robinson won twice for the Warriors as Wawasee won both the boys and girls divisions of its own invitational Saturday. The Lady Warriors outdistanced Rochester 365-260, while the boys team won 311-272 over runner-up South Bend St. Joseph.
Miller took the 200 IM and 500 freestyle races. Shelby Adams won the 200 free, Mikala Mawhorter the 50 free, and Kayla Hershberger took the 100 backstroke. The Lady Warriors also won the 200 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay.
Robinson won gold in the 200 IM and 100 backstroke. Logan Brugh won the 500 freestyle.
Both teams will resume Northern Lakes Conference competition Tuesday in Nappanee at NorthWood.
WAWASEE INVITATIONAL
Girls Team Results – 1. Wawasee 365, 2. Rochester 260, 3. East Noble 209, 4. Columbia City 177, 5. Bremen 122, 6. Angola 116, 7. Tippecanoe Valley 79, 8. Wabash 54

Diving – 1. Morgan Tyler (R) 327.30, 2. Hannah Rhoades (Waw) 194.05, 3. Belle Beason (B) 183.35, 5. Caitlyn Bailey (TV) 160.25, 9. Rachel Starrett (Waw) 125.95, 10. Riley Kunkle (Waw) 144.35; 200 medley relay – 1. Wawasee (Kayla Hershberger, Shelby Adams, Mikala Mawhorter, Paige Miller) 1:59.83, 2. Rochester 2:01.54, 3. East Noble 2:07.85, 9. Tippecanoe Valley 2:16.94; 200 freestyle – 1. Adams (W) 2:06.40, 2. Alyssa Koch (Waw) 2:10.28, 3. Maddy Sailors (R) 2:13.07, 6. Kenzie Prater (TV) 2:23.69, 7. Zoe White (Waw) 2:30.03; 200 IM – 1. P. Miller (Waw) 2:13.16, 2. Kate Watkins (A) 2:25.11, 3. Mykaela Crowell (CC) 2:29.83, 8. Lea Stouder (TV) 2:44.42, 10. Ryane Beaman (Waw) 2:45.12; 50 freestyle – 1. Mikala Mawhorter (Waw) 26.87, 2. Hannah Henning (EN) 26.94, 3. Emma Feldman (R) 27.28, 4. Katie Gunter (TV) 29.05, 7. Tessa Freel (Waw) 30.49, 12. Caitlin Kingery (Waw) 31.22; 100 butterfly – 1. Ashley Nichols (EN) 1.11.70, 2. Kaitlin Yelaska (B) 1:07.16, 3. Adriann Shepard (R) 1:11.34, 4. Mawhorter (Waw) 1:11.70, 5. Gunter (TV) 1.12.24, 8. Elizabeth Brugh (Waw) 1:15.42, 12. Beaman (Waw) 1:21.13; 100 freestyle – 1. Kate Watkins (A) 56.37, 2. Kayla Hershberger (Waw) 57.67, 3. Sailors (R) 58.54, 4. Madison McBride (Waw) 1:00.62, 10. Kingery (Waw) 1:14.55, 14. Julia Pomeroy (TV) 1:17.77; 500 freestyle – 1. P. Miller (Waw) 5:06.94, 2. Nichols (EN) 5:56.20, 3. Feldman (R) 6:05.72, 6. Brugh (Waw) 6:23.11, 7. Prater (TV) 6:25.38, 10. Freel (Waw) 6:48.44; 200 freestyle relay – 1. Rochester (Abbie McCarter, Maria Hunting, Feldman, Sailors) 1:48.56, 2. Wawasee 1:51.90, 3. East Noble 1:52.88, 6. Tippecanoe Valley 2:04.73; 100 backstroke – 1. Hershberger (Waw) 1:04.49, 2. McCarter (R) 1:06.91, 3. Yelaska (B) 1:06.73, 4. Koch (Waw) 1:07.05, 9. Macie Stuckman (Waw) 1:19.29; 100 breaststroke – 1. Crowell (CC) 1:14.13, 2. Adams (W) 1:15.19, 3. McCarter (R) 1:15.31, 4. McBride (Waw) 1:18.31, 11. White (Waw) 1:24.34, 12. Stouder (TV) 1:29.25; 400 freestyle relay – 1. Wawasee (Mawhorter, McBride, Adams, P. Miller) 3:59.54, 2. Columbia City 4:23.76, 3. Rochester 4:26.49, 7. Wawasee 4:46.40.

Boys Team Results – 1. Wawasee 311, 2. SB St. Joseph 272, 3. Rochester 197, 4. Columbia City 185, 5. Bremen 155, 6. East Noble 126, 7. Angola 91, 8. Wabash 48

Diving – 1. John Kral (SJ) 215.90, 2. Noah Hartman (B) 190.95, 3. Austin Dunithan (Waw) 175.60, 6. Hunter Hlutke (Waw) 135.95, 7. Brady Claasen (Waw) 124.85; 200 medley relay – 1. SB St. Joseph (Chris Achkar, Luke Barrett, Peter Jachim, John Harmon) 1:47.48, 2. Wawasee 1:49.41, 3. Columbia City 1:50.81, 7. Wawasee 1:58.71; 200 freestyle – 1. Eli Pugh (R) 1:48.24, 2. Logan Brugh (Waw) 1:48.88, 3. Will Serf (B) 1:51.40, 8. Brett Willaman (Waw) 2:03.06, 10. Isaiah Metcalf (Waw) 2:05.26; 200 IM – 1. Brady Robinson (Waw) 2:00.94, 2 Tim Grici (SJ) 2:02.43, 3. Jachim (SJ) 2:07.65, 5. Jared Krugman (Waw) 2:09.70, 9. Aaron Troutman (Waw) 2:24.74; 50 freestyle – 1. Cole Short (SJ) 22.26, 2. Jace Bixler (R) 23.04, 3. Anthony Phan (EN) 23.73, 6. Ethan Chupp (Waw) 24.57, 9. Chase Ritter (Waw) 25.71, 11. Eric Park (Waw) 27.08; 100 butterfly – 1. Cole Short (SJ) 53.73, 2. Jachim (SJ) 54.17, 3. Nathan Bourne (A) 55.80, 7. Jake Cowan (Waw) 1:02.44, 8. Spencer Naugler (Waw) 1:03.35, 12. Metcalf (Waw) 1:06.38; 100 freestyle – 1. Harmon (SJ) 50.80, 2. Matt Webber (CC) 51.72, 3. Serf (B) 51.88, 7. Knepp (Waw) 51.71, 10. Ritter (Waw) 59.26, 13. Benjamin Butcher (Waw) 1:02.12; 500 freestyle – 1. Brugh (Waw) 4:55.47, 2. Pugh (R) 5:00.30, 3. Ryan Devito (CC) 5:16.32, 5. Willaman (Waw) 5:33.76, 6. Troutman (Waw) 5:37.32; 200 freestyle relay – 1. SB St. Joseph (Jachim, Short, Greci, Mike Godfrey) 1:35.63, 2. Rochester 1:36.48, 3. Bremen 1:37.97, 6. Wawasee 1:43.81, 8. Wawasee 1:5 .73; 100 backstroke – 1. Robinson (Waw) 56.66, 2. Aaron Fix (CC) 59.07, 3. Jeff Ruppert (R) 59.77, 4. Jake Cowan (Waw) 1:06.80, 5. Naugler (Waw) 1:06.82; 100 breaststroke – 1. Greci (SJ) 1:01.07, 2. Barrett (SJ) 1:01.58, 3. Bourne (A) 1:05.05, 5. Krugman (Waw) 1:07.90, 8. Owen Donahoe (Waw) 1:12.61, 10. Krugman (Waw) 1:13.14; 200 freestyle relay – 1. SB St. Joseph (Short, Harmon, Barrett, Greci) 3:24.41, 2. Wawasee 3:34.32, 3. Rochester 3:36.33, 8. Wawasee 4:03.93

Ponsler 5-0 in Merrillville
Wawasee’s Tristin Ponsler went 5-0 in the tournament, while Ronny Shortt and Braxton Alexander went 4-1 for the day at the Tom Cameron Invitational in Merrillville Saturday.
The Warrior team finished 1-4 in the meet, beating John Glenn and losing to Kankakee Valley, Hammond Morton, Harrison and South Bend Clay.
“We will use today as a wake-up call to refocus and get back to the basics of wrestling, scoring one point at a time and being tough,” head coach Frank Bumgardner said.
The Warriors will visit NLC foe Concord on Thursday.

Lady Warriors Edge SB Adams
Wawasee made just seven field goals but went 23-26 from the free throw line in a 39-34 win over visiting South Bend Adams.
Aubrey Schments and Kylee Rostochak each made all six of their free throws, while Kabrea Rostochak went 9-12 from the line for all of her team-high points.
Next up for the Lady Warriors, now 3-7 on the season, is a game in Waterford Mills against Bethany Christian at 7 p.m. Tuesday. There will be no junior varsity contest.
WAWASEE 39, SB ADAMS 34
A 8 8 7 11 - 34
W 18 7 4 10 - 39
Adams – A. Ellison 1 0-0 2, S. Jamkowski 5 0-0 12, K. Parker 1 1-4 3, K. Kyle 3 -1 7, S. Malone 0 0-2 0, R. Columbus 1 2-3 4, L. Taylor 2 0-0 4, T. Beman 1 0-0 2. Totals 14 4-12 34.
Wawasee – Kabrea Rostochak 0 9-12 9, Hannah-Marie Lamle 4 0-0 8, Casey Schroeder 0 0-0 0, Hannah Haines 0 0-0 0, Aubrey Kuhn 2 0-0 6, Kylee Rostochak 1 6-6 8, Erin Wiktorowski 0 2-2 2, Aubrey Schmeltz 0 6-6 6. Totals 7 23-26 39.
Three-pointers – Adams 2 (Jamkowski 2), Wawasee 2 (Kuhn 2); Fouls – Adams 20, Wawasee 17; Fouled out – Kuhn; Records – Adams 6-4, Wawasee 3-7
JV – Wawasee 34, Adams 31

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