Quality vs. depth--it's the age old debate in swimming, and it was renewed again Tuesday night at Anderson High School as two teams put on powerful displays. The Yorktown girls won every event on their way to a whopping 140-44 victory over the Lady Indians, while the AHS boys combined high-end talent with superior depth for a 108-77 win over the previously unbeaten Tigers.
The women in green hammered their way through the AHS lineup, throwing down 1-2-3 sweeps in the 100-yard, 200-yard, and 500-yard freestyles. The Lady Tigers also went 1-2 in the 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay. It was a very impressive performance--in fact, the YHS girls are AVERAGING 124 points during their four-meet winning streak over Delta, New Palestine, Pendleton Heights and Anderson.
Yorktown had three individual double winners on the night--junior Larah Beaver in the 100-yard backstroke (1:00.22) and the 100-yard butterfly (1:03.41), the latter a drop of nearly four seconds from her previous lifetime best; junior Brooke Sigler in the 200-yard freestyle (2:12.26) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:51.15), the latter yet another time drop in the 500; and sophomore Jessica Extine in the 200-yard IM (2:22.60) and the 100-yard freestyle (56.74).
Other individual winners for the Tigers included sophomore Caroline Grasso in the 50-yard freestyle (26.84), junior Sam Mahon in diving, and sophomore Kersea Gable in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:17.59). Gable showed the heart of a racer coming home in the breast, surging in the last 25 to nip her Anderson rival by just six hundredths of a second. Way to hang tough, Kersea!
The girls also brought home the gold in all three relays. The 200-yard medley relay quartet of Grasso, Gable, Beaver and Extine posted a 1:57.34; the 200-yard freestyle relay combo of Grasso, Gable, sophomore Ashley Sexton and senior Gabby LaVoie went 1:51.92; and in the 400-yard freestyle relay, the squad of Extine, Sexton, Sigler and Beaver reached the wall in 4:03.30.
Yorktown built a narrow 33-29 lead through the evening's first four events for the boys. But Anderson capitalized on YHS' lack of competitors in diving to go 1-2-4 and take a 41-36 advantage into the second "half" of the meet. Yorktown managed to keep the deficit at five points after the butterfly, but the Indians widened their lead in each of the next four events to put the clamps on the Tigers.
The boys meet was evenly split in terms of event winners, with both the Tigers and Indians taking six blue ribbons. The difference in the boys competition was depth, or more accurately, scoring depth. Anderson finished no worse than 2nd and 3rd behind every Yorktown event winner; the Indians went 2-3-4 in the 100-yard backstroke.
Two YHS boys were double individual winners--senior Adam Voss captured the 200-yard freestyle (1:49.14) and the 100-yard butterfly (53.14), while fellow senior Hunter Hoffman was the top dog in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.11) and the 50-yard freestyle (in a season-best sizzling 21.61)! Yorktown has had two state champions in the 50 free (Kyle Routh and Eric Mattingly), and Hoffman is showing signs that he has what it takes to make a serious bid to become the third one in February.
Senior Michael Heavilon was the other Tiger to pick up a 1st place finish, topping the field in the 100-yard backstroke (52.23). The only other Yorktown victory came in the 200-yard medley relay (1:42.41).
Anderson's boys served notice last night that they will be a force to be reckoned with at the Fishers Sectional in February. Anyone taking them too lightly will be making a big mistake.
Next up for Yorktown is Saturday's Homestead Invitational in Ft. Wayne. The meet is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. But get there way before that, because seats go fast for one of the best meets of the season anywhere in Indiana.
GO TIGERS!
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