Western Boone Jr. - Sr. High School

The Western Boone swim teams faced Tri-West on Thursday night in their third meet of the season. The girls came away with a win against the Bruins, only losing two events and ending with a score of 118-62. The medley relay team of Rashel Anderson, Adelaide Jones, Arianna Stieber, and Katherine Aliff kicked off the meet with a 17-second lead. Aliff kept the momentum going into the individual events with a win in the 200-yard freestyle, followed by Kaitlyn Crowley and Rebecca Rustin in third and fourth. Jones earned another win for the Stars in the 200-yard IM, with Twitty close behind in third. Stieber ran away with the 50-yard freestyle, winning by a large margin of two seconds in the short race; Lindsey Steimel and Lilly Maners also placed fourth and fifth. The Star divers had another great night in the pool, placing 1-2-3. Leelah Fettig won the diving event with a school-record breaking 275.85 points, shattering the record by over twenty points and beating second place by a 125-point margin. Maisa Kent-Doolan and Cara Hanna took second and third places. Hannah Hayden and Steimel placed second and third in the 100-yard butterfly. Anderson earned a first-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle, followed by Aliff in second and Maners in fourth. Crowley and Hayden placed second and third in the 500-yard freestyle, followed by Rustin in fifth. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Anderson, Twitty, Hayden, and Aliff earned a win for the Stars; the team of Steimel, Rustin, Maners, and Crowley placed third. The Stars placed 1-2-3 in the 100-yard backstroke, with Jones taking the win and Anderson and Twitty following in second and third. Stieber won the 100-yard breaststroke; Hanna also placed fourth. Ending the meet in the 400-yard relay was the winning team of Stieber, Crowley, Hayden, and Jones. The team of Maners, Rustin, Twitty, and Steimel also placed third. The boys fell to the Bruins with a score of 105-71, but had a lot of good swims. The medley relay team of Tanner Weakley, Jude Balke, Wyatt Barnett, and Ethan Barnett started the meet with a second-place finish. Weakley followed with another second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle, followed by W. Barnett and Chase Collier in fourth and fifth. Jacob Norman won a close 200-yard IM race; Malachi Catterson also placed fourth in the event. Isaac Threlkeld and Andrew Johnson placed second and third in the 50-yard freestyle, followed in sixth place by Isaac Garringer. Xander Rouse placed second for the boys’ diving event. Weakley placed second in another close 100-yard butterfly race; Threlkeld also placed third and Catterson took fifth. In the 100-yard freestyle, W. Barnett earned third, Zach Connors placed fifth, and Artie Milliser took sixth place. Collier earned a third-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Milliser, Norman, Connors, and Threlkeld placed second, followed by the other Star relay team of Garringer, Balke, Johnson, and Catterson. Norman and E. Barnett placed second and third respectively in the 100-yard backstroke. Balke rounded out the individual events for the evening with a third-place finish in breaststroke. Ending the meet with a win for the Stars was the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Weakley, Norman, W. Barnett, and Threlkeld. The team of Collier, E. Barnett, Catterson, and Milliser also placed third. Photograph compliments of Will Willems of the Lebanon Reporter