Edwardsville boys’ swim team has solid finishes at Normal meet

Jan 13, 2015 3:51 PM

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Edwardsville’s boys swim team had an impressive showing this past weekend in the Boys Iron Invite Swim Meet at Normal Community.

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The Tigers finished in third place with 284 points, behind winner Normal West.

Edwardsville coach Christian Rhoten said this was a great competitive mid-season meet for his team.

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“The level of competition was higher than we've seen all year which pushed the guys to go in-season best times,” he said. “ Jake Gremaud and Peter Byers both had great meets. Zac Ballossini and Michael Taplin both dropped a lot of time individually and our relays proved they can compete with some of the best south of I-80.”

Some of the top performances included a seventh place finish by the boys freshman-sophomore 200 medley relay of Taplin, Ballossini, Robert Brown and Kenneth Stryker with a time of 1:08.59.

The 200 varsity medley relay of Graham Peterson, Spencer Sholl, Michael Johnson and Matthew Grove was fourth with a time of 1:59.44.

Jake Gremaud won the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:47.45; Tyler Morris was second in the 50 freestyle (22.99). Gremaud was second in the 100 free (49.29. Brian Baggette was third in the 500 free with a time of 5:11.70. Morris, Baggette, Byers and Gremaud were third in the 200 relay with a time of 1:32.68. Byers won the 100 breast in 1:02.56; the 400 freestyle relay of Morris, Baggette, Byers and Gremaud won with a time of 3:22.81.

Edwardsville returns to action on Jan. 22 with a home dual meet at 5:45 p.m. against O’Fallon.

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