The 2016 Illinois Boys High School State Championships concluded yesterday with the Lyons taking home the state title with a total of 146 points. Naperville C took home second with 122 points, while Hinsdale Central was a close third with 117 points.<\/p>\n
Hinsdale Central kickstarted the meet with a battle for first in the 200 medley relay with Lyons.\u00a0Craig Smith<\/strong> (23.59),\u00a0Billy Leader<\/strong> (26.16),\u00a0Franco Reyes<\/strong> (21.55), and\u00a0Tommy Gruchala<\/strong> (21.09) posted a combined time of 1:32.39 over Lyons’ final time of 1:32.81.<\/p>\n Dylan Boyd\u00a0<\/strong>of Lake Forest neared the pool record of 1:37.34 in the 200 free with a time of 1:37.67. Notre Dame’s\u00a0Colton Paulson<\/strong> finished second with a time of 1:39.78, while third went to\u00a0Chris Kearney<\/strong> of Loyola Academy (1:41.03).<\/p>\n Andrew Loy<\/strong> of Normal West and\u00a0Sam Iida<\/strong> of Glenbrook South dueled for first with final times only .20 seconds apart from each other. Loy stopped the clock at 1:48.13 over Iida’s 1:48.33.<\/p>\n The 50 free proved to be an extra close race with the top three finishers posting times a slim .04 seconds apart. Champaign Central’s\u00a0Payton Woods\u00a0<\/strong>claimed first with a final time of 20.94. Notre Dame’s\u00a0Sam Neaveill\u00a0<\/strong>and Downers Grove’s\u00a0Sam Dumford\u00a0<\/strong>finished with times of 20.97 and 20.98 respectively.<\/p>\n Reyes flew to a new pool record in the 100 fly overturning the previous 2012 record of 48.23 with a sizzling 47.50. DeKalb’s\u00a0Daniel Hein\u00a0<\/strong>finished second, also under the pool record, with a time of 48.15.<\/p>\n Joe Myhre\u00a0<\/strong>of St. Charles North delivered a swift 44.92 to finish first in the 100 free. Neaveill turned in a time of 45.50 for second, ahead of Loy’s time of 45.74.<\/p>\n Paulson claimed a win in the 500 free with a final time of 4:25.87, bettering upon his prelims time of 4:27.01. Iida finished second with a time of 4:26.95, while Plainfield Central’s\u00a0Ryan Netzel\u00a0<\/strong>took third with a 4:33.01.<\/p>\n The 200 free relay was a close race with Hinsdale Central and Naperville C posting final times .13 seconds apart. Hinsdale Central’s Reyes (20.40), Smith (21.28),\u00a0William Bowater\u00a0<\/strong>(20.87), and\u00a0Donovan Lahmann\u00a0<\/strong>(21.15) posted a combined time of 1:23.70. Naperville C’s\u00a0Phillip Sajaev\u00a0<\/strong>(20.85),\u00a0Nick Rosenstiel\u00a0<\/strong>(21.45),\u00a0Kyle Jackson<\/strong> (21.12), and\u00a0Eric Gerlach\u00a0<\/strong>(20.41) finished second with a 1:23.83.<\/p>\n After posting a state record in prelims of the 100 back, Hein succeeded in lowering the pool record to a 48.37 in finals. His time replaced\u00a0Alex Snarski’s\u00a0<\/strong>48.67 from 2014. Wheaton Academy’s\u00a0Tyler Sesvold\u00a0<\/strong>finished second with a 49.98, while Naperville C’s\u00a0Scott Piper<\/strong> rounded out the top three with a 50.29.<\/p>\n Lyons’ relay team of\u00a0Ryan Hammond<\/strong> (46.93),\u00a0Ben Breitenbucher<\/strong> (45.87),\u00a0Weston Credit\u00a0<\/strong>(45.87), and\u00a0Henry Claesson<\/strong> (46.04) claimed the final race of the day, the 400 free relay, with a combined time of 3:04.71. Naperville C finished second overall with a time of 3:05.67, while third went to Hinsdale Central (3:05.79).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2016 Illinois Boys High School State Championships concluded yesterday with the Lyons taking home the state title with a total of 146 points. Naperville C took home second with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48882,"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":[67270],"class_list":["post-188221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-illinois-high-school-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n