HOOSIER HERITAGE CONFERENCE-BOYS

The other day, I put together a list of the Top 10 girls performances so far this season in the Hoosier Heritage Conference. Now, it's the boys' turn for a little analysis with only 17 days to go before the HHC Meet finals at New Palestine.

This is by no means a complete analysis--the Top 12 placers score points at the conference meet, not just those in the 1st through 10th positions. The biggest variable will be the lineups--who will capture those crucial mid-place positions that pile up so many points for a team (and will likely determine the outcome in January)?

But for the sake of starting the conversation, here you go:

200 Medley Relay--1. Yorktown 1:41.00, 2. Greenfield-Central 1:45.79, 3. Pendleton Heights 1:48.57, 4. New Palestine 1:49.58, 5. Mt. Vernon 1:50.64, 6. Delta 1:53.19, 7. Shelbyville 1:56.26, 8. Rushville 2:14.87.

200 Free--1. Adam Voss (Y) 1:46.49, 2. James Young (GC) 1:52.43, 3. Jacob Childress (PH) 1:53.82, 4. Cody Wilburn (GC) 1:58.13, 5. Grant Gish (NP) 1:58.44, 6. Michael Heavilon (Y) 1:59.93, 7. Patrick Stutz (GC) 2:00.25, 8. tie-Scott Heavilon (Y) and Zachary Martin (S) 2:01.74, 10. Erik Kile (GC) 2:02.98.

200 IM--1. Adam Voss (Y) 2:02.09, 2. Bryan Forbes (GC) 2:05.94, 3. Michael Heavilon (Y) 2:08.69, 4. Jon McCormick (GC) 2:10.60, 5. Patrick Stutz (GC) 2:11.82, 6. David Hantz (MV) 2:14.68, 7. Jacob Frazee (S) 2:14.73, 8. Bailey Willoughby (GC) 2:16.21, 9. Austin Parrish (PH) 2:17.13, 10. Logan Kisinger (PH) 2:20.06.

50 Free--1. Hunter Hoffman (Y) 21.41, 2. Patrick Stutz (GC) 23.14, 3. Austin Wilburn (GC) 23.24, 4. James Young (GC) 23.38, 5. Andrzej Kedziora (PH) 23.78, 6. Philip Webster (NP) 23.89, 7. Bryan Forbes (GC) 24.07, 8. Garland Ivy (D) 24.12, 9. Wes Gustin (Y) 24.26, 10. Drew Weiler (MV) 24.57.

1-Meter Diving--1. Nathan Graber (GC) 279.60, 2. David Cochran (MV) 273.95, 3. Matthew Dickerson (GC) 255.65, 4. Tyler Donges (Y) 199.25, 5. Ben Bryan (S) 196.20, 6. Zach Nagel (NP) 166.35, 7. Landon Carpenter (162.05, 8. Adam Spille (GC), 9. Jonathon Shreves (S) 92.35, 10. Cody Hayes (MV) 90.65.

100 Fly--1. Adam Voss (Y) 52.42, 2. James Young (GC) 56.77, 3. Bryan Forbes (GC) 57.29, 4. Jon McCormick (GC) 59.78, 5. Josh Cummins (GC) 59.95, 6. Garland Ivy (D) 1:00.48, 7. Austin Wilburn (GC) 1:00.72, 8. Jacob Frazee (S) 1:01.21, 9. Luke Steigerwalt (NP) 1:01.86, 10. Andrew Christman (D) 1:02.39.

100 Free--1. Hunter Hoffman (Y) 48.67, 2. Michael Heavilon (Y) 51.38, 3. Patrick Stutz (GC) 52.23, 4. Andrzej Kedziora (PH) 52.51, 5. Jacob Childress (PH) 52.63, 6. Cody Wilburn (GC) 52.73, 7. Austin Wilburn (GC) 52.75, 8. Wes Gustin (Y) 53.15, 9. Grant Gish (NP) 53.20, 10. Scott Heavilon (Y) 53.59.

500 Free--1. Adam Voss (Y) 4:52.81, 2. Michael Heavilon (Y) 5:10.94, 3. Zachary Martin (S) 5:18.96, 4. Austin Parrish (PH) 5:20.86, 5. Bryan Forbes (GC) 5:23.14, 6. Jon McCormick (GC) 5:23.45, 7. Erik Kile (GC) 5:26.59, 8. Spencer Young (GC) 5:31.83, 9. Cody Wilburn (GC) 5:32.68, 10. Logan Kisinger (PH) 5:36.73.

200 Free Relay--1. Yorktown 1:31.21, 2. Greenfield-Central 1:32.81, 3. Pendleton Heights 1:37.06, 4. Mt. Vernon 1:41.51, 5. Delta 1:41.62, 6. Shelbyville 1:45.17, 7. New Palestine 1:48.86, 8. Rushville 1:49.97.

100 Back--1. Adam Voss (Y) 55.81, 2. Jacob Childress (PH) 56.86, 3. Austin Wilburn (GC) 59.86, 4. Bailey Willoughby (GC) 1:00.10, 5. Bryan Forbes (GC) 1:00.92, 6. David Hantz (MV) 1:01.13, 7. Michael Heavilon (Y) 1:01.29, 8. Josh Cummins (GC) 1:01.30, 9. Andrzej Kedziora (PH) 1:02.47, 10. Alex Zimmerman (D) 1:04.89.

100 Breast--1. Hunter Hoffman (Y) 1:01.15, 2. Jon McCormick (GC) 1:06.58, 3. Austin Parrish (PH) 1:08.56, 4. Kenny Gilpin (MV) 1:09.73, 5. Jonathan Lindman (MV) 1:10.07, 6. Alec Booth (S) 1:10.67, 7. Patrick Stutz (GC) 1:10.91, 8. Stephen Dickerson (GC) 1:11.84, 9. Jake Uppfalt (NP) 1:12.17, 10. Bryan Forbes (GC) 1:12.51.

400 Free Relay--1. Yorktown 3:19.85, 2. Greenfield-Central 3:26.80, 3. Pendleton Heights 3:47.72, 4. Mt. Vernon 3:47.79, 5. Shelbyville 3:48.20, 6. New Palestine 3:49.77, 7. Delta 3:50.01, 8. Rushville 4:26.01.

Yorktown appears to have just enough strength to contend for the boys championship--YHS has the best performance of the season in ALL 11 swimming events. But their margin could be razor thin, because athletes are limited to participating in either three relays and one individual event, or two and two. And their victory is definitely not a certainty, because Greenfield-Central has a load of potential scoring depth. I'd go so far as to call the Cougars the favorites, and here's why.

Take a look at how many points GC stands to haul in if they choose to load up in their individual events and "settle" for 2nd in all three relays. The Cougars could very well put three swimmers in the top four in the 200 IM, the 50 free and 100 fly. That would be the rough equivalent of winning two of the relays and scoring well in the third--without using up the swimmers to do it.

In fact, this year's Greenfield-Central boys team is eerily similar to the Mt. Vernon girls team that won the HHC title two seasons ago. They don't have many great swimmers, but they have a ton of very good ones. MV won only ONE event in the 2009 meet, the 200-yard freestyle relay, but used superior scoring depth in the other events to capture the championship by 23.5 points.

It appears Yorktown will have to have at least one of its best swimmers (and perhaps two) forgo an individual event to fortify the Tigers' relay squads. That's gonna be a tough call for the boys and head coach Matt Routh to make, because it would require individual sacrifices from SENIORS for the sake of the team. But IF Yorktown can win all three relays (worth double the points of an individual event) and ALSO make a clean sweep of all the individual events in which they'll probably be seeded first, they just might pull this off.

Either way, Saturday, January 15th promises to be one VERY INTERESTING day. See you there, YHS fans.

GO TIGERS!