Baylor School Downs St Xavier 191-124 in National Top Ten Match Up

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, November 24. THE Baylor School of Chattanooga, Tenn., boys varsity swim team downed St Xavier of Louisville, Ky., 191-124 in a match up of the number one and number nine ranked independent schools in the country according to Swimming World Magazine for 2007-08.

Baylor broke two Baylor Aquatic Center records and posted three automatic all American times. The Baylor 200 medley relay of Reese Shirey, Spencer Rowe, Greg Roop and Josh Sosna raced to a new pool record and Automatic All American time of 1:35.92, a mere .03 faster than the prior record of 1:35.95 set by Baylor last year.

Senior Martin Grodzki won the 500 yard freestyle an automatic All American time of 4:31.86. Grodzki also won the 200 freestyle in a winning time of 1:43.16. The combination of Grodzki, Roop, Nathan Vredeveld and Matt Limerick won the 400 freestyle relay in a new pool record and Automatic All American time of 3:11.11.

Additional event winners for Baylor School were: Jordan Mauney 1 meter diving 289.65 Spencer Rowe 100 breastroke 59.44 Reese Shirey 100 freestyle 47.58 Josh Sosna 50 freestyle 22.00 Event Winners for Saint Xavier were: Maclin Simpson 200 IM 1:57.34, 100 butterfly 52.08 Lee Duggins 100 backstroke 53.03

"Our boys raced very well today," said Baylor head coach Dan Flack. "For the most part our more experienced kids did their job, but I was very pleased with the way some of our freshman and sophomores were up to this challenge. We had a very emotional meet last night, and I wanted this meet to simulate a prelim-final championship setting. Young kids like Christian Carbone and Evante Gibson really were tough and grew up a lot today."

Special thanks to Baylor for contributing this report.

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