New Palestine High School

Two New Palestine swimmers set school records Thursday night in the preliminaries of the New Palestine sectional. Reese Cox broke the school record in the 200 IM (2:02.84), while Jake Myers broke it in the 100 butterfly (53.88). The Dragons advanced 14 swims to Saturday's championship finals and nine more to the consolation finals, including sending three swimmers to the championship final in the 50 freestyle. Cox (3rd, 200 IM) & Myers (2nd, 100 fly and 3rd, 50 free) will be the highest individual seeds. All three relays also finished third in the prelims. The diving preliminaries will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday. The swimming and diving finals will be at 1 p.m. Saturday. Advancing to sectional final (1-8 to final race, 9-16 to consolation final) 200MR: Reese Cox, Blake Hurts, Jake Myers, Sam Dobbins 3rd (1:42.40) 200 free: Max Watson 10th (1:56.90) 200 IM: Reese Cox 3rd (2:02.84), Blake Hurst 7th (2:08.16), Parker Hurst 12th (2:18.70) 50 free: Jake Myers 3rd (22.62), Jalen Thompson 5th (23.12), Luke Bartusek 6th (23.50) 100 fly: Jake Myers 2nd (53.88), Aaron Lake 9th (1:02.66), Parker Hurst 11th (1:05.13) 100 free: Jalen Thompson 3rd (51.47), Max Watson 6th (52.42), Luke Bartusek 10th (54.15) 500 free: Sam Dobbins 10th (5:17.73), Benjamin Edwards 16th (5:52.05) 200FR: Reese Cox, Blake Hurst, Jalen Thompson, Jake Myers 3rd (1:34.43) 100 back: Reese Cox 4th (57.46), Sam Dobbins 7th (59.53), Hudson Hughes 13th (1:04.34) 100 breast: Blake Hurst 4th (1:02.03), Tyler Schmidt 10th (1:04.97), Landon Parks 12th (1:11.44) 400FR: Parker Hurst, Max Watson, Sam Dobbins, Jalen Thompson 3rd (3:32.11)