Somers grabbed her second individual win of the meet in the women’s 100 free where she turned in a final time of 51.61.<\/p>\n
Exeter’s\u00a0Hannah Lord<\/strong> and\u00a0Hannah Deschenes<\/strong> turned in a 1-3 finish for the women’s 200 IM. Lord stopped the clock at the 2:12.23 mark, while Deschenes grabbed third with a 2:15.71. Second went to\u00a0Kerry McCann<\/strong> of Bishop Guertin and her time of 2:15.08.<\/p>\n Bishop Guertin’s\u00a0Mark Zoda<\/strong> dashed ahead of the crowd in the men’s 50 free to post a final time of 21.88, finishing 1.33 seconds ahead of the competition. Zoda’s time was only .58 seconds off the state record of 21.30 set in 2001 by\u00a0Justin Zeimetz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Zoda continued his sprint prowess into the 100 free where he finished first with a time of 48.34 to be the only athlete under the 50-second mark.<\/p>\n Taylor Hogan<\/strong> of Timberlane flew ahead of the rest of the 100 fly field finishing with a time of 57.15, more than four seconds ahead of the competition. Hogan later turned in a 57.95 to take first in the 100 back.<\/p>\n It was a race to the finish in the women’s 500 free with the top two finishers touching .06 seconds apart. Sophomores\u00a0Pritthida Chea<\/strong>\u00a0of Nashua South and\u00a0Colleen Mahoney<\/strong> of Dover battled to the finish with Chea getting her hand to the wall first to stop the clock at 5:14.19 over Mahoney’s 5:14.25.<\/p>\n Pinkerton’s\u00a0Christian Arrell<\/strong> grabbed first and succeeded in being the only athlete in the men’s 500 free under the five-minute mark with a final time of 4:56.97.<\/p>\n Zachary Denbow<\/strong> of Pinkerton turned in a sizzling 1:00.93 to finish first in the men’s 100 breaststroke, while teammate\u00a0Bernard Suwirjo\u00a0<\/strong>took second with a 1:04.28.\u00a0Matthew Lashua\u00a0<\/strong>of Bishop Guertin was third with a 1:04.72.<\/p>\n Oyster River claimed the state title for both the men and the women with 295 and 285 points respectively. The men and women of St. Thomas Aquinas rallied to take second on both sides with the men collecting 181 points and the women 151. Third went to Hanover (151) on the men’s side and Lebanon (150) on the women’s.<\/p>\n Kristian Hansen<\/strong> of Hanover delivered a scorching 1:45.46 in the men’s 200 free to claim first. He finished just under two seconds away from the 2005 state record of 1:43.54.<\/p>\n Hansen continued his mid-distance prowess in the men’s 500 free finishing a stunning 19.77 seconds ahead of the competition to stop the clock at a 4:39.47. The junior from Hanover missed\u00a0Brian Livingston’s<\/strong> 1990 state record of 4:39.46 by a shy .01.<\/p>\n Oyster River’s\u00a0Audrey Duvall\u00a0<\/strong>outlasted the A-final comprised mainly of juniors in the women’s 200 IM with a final time of 2:10.46. Duvall later collected her second individual win of the meet in the women’s 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:07.69.<\/p>\n CAM’s\u00a0Trent Levasseur<\/strong> grabbed first in the men’s 200 IM with a time of 1:59.05 to be the only athlete under the two-minute mark in the event.<\/p>\n Connor Hopkins<\/strong> of Windham just barely missed the state record of 21.30 in the men’s 50 free, stopping the clock at the 21.33 mark. Later in the men’s 100 free Hopkins yet again neared\u00a0Justin Zeimetz’s\u00a0<\/strong>state record posting a final time of 47.39 compared to Zeimetz’s 47.19 from 2001.<\/p>\n Connor Hopkins of Windham High School in New Hampshire poses on the podium for the NHIAA D2 Swimming and Diving Championships for the 100 free. Also pictured are Brendon Sullivan (St. Thomas Aquinas, second) and Michael Douglass (Campbell High School, third).<\/p><\/div>\n Lebanon junior\u00a0Catherine Gavell\u00a0<\/strong>neared\u00a0Jenny Thompson’s<\/strong> 1991 state record of 57.04 in the women’s 100 fly, posting a final time of 57.78. Trinity’s\u00a0Noelle Theodoulou<\/strong> finished second with a time of 58.20, while Bow’s\u00a0Kathleen Jenkins\u00a0<\/strong>was third with a 59.20.<\/p>\n With very little time to rest, Gavell turned around and blazed to first in the women’s 100 free with a time of 53.74.<\/p>\n Oyster River’s\u00a0Sydnee Aubin<\/strong> and Derryfield’s\u00a0Emma Wagner<\/strong> delivered strikingly similar times in the women’s 500 free, finishing a slim .10 seconds apart. Aubin reached the wall first to stop the clock at a 5:11.41 over Wagner’s 5:11.51.<\/p>\n Levasseur and SAI’s\u00a0Mattias Keyser<\/strong> kept a tight race in the men’s 100 breaststroke posting final times only .08 seconds apart. Levasseur reached the wall first with a final time of 1:02.12 over Keyser’s 1:02.20.<\/p>\n Oyster River also took down the women’s 200-yard medley relay D2 record with a 1:49.11. \u00a0That swim blasted the 1:51.89 set by Oyster River just a year ago. \u00a0Oyster River then took down the women’s 200-yard free relay record with a 1:41.17, clearing the 1:42.49 set by Lebanon back in 2011. A third relay mark took a tumble as Oyster River posted a 3:40.63 to demolish the 3:43.49 set by Lebanon back in 2011.<\/p>\n The men’s 200-yard free relay record also fell as Oyster River clocked a 1:30.88 to down the 1:31.56 set by Concord way back in 1995. Both Oyster River (3:20.30) and St. Thomas Aquinas (3:20.46) cleared the previous men’s 400-yard free relay state record of 3:21.28 set by Concord back in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2016 NHAA Swimming and Diving Championships took place this past weekend with fast swims occurring in both Division I and II. Division I Exeter won the state title for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[67202],"class_list":["post-185437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-new-hampshire-high-school-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nDivision II<\/h3>\n
![\"connor-hopkins-new-hampshire-high-school\"](\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/connor-hopkins-new-hampshire-high-school.jpg\")