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The boys swim and dive team placed 6th in their conference meet this past weekend at Northview High school. The conference is arguably the best conference in the state with 5 teams all in the top 10 rankings for their respective divisions. The team set three new CC records during the two day meet. They were:
200 Medley Relay - the Team of Senior Ben Puglessi, Sophomore Reilly LaGrand, Junior Ralph Worthington, and Senior Nick Luczak swam to a 1:39.22 time to beat the former record by over a second.
100 Butterfly - Puglessi also bettered his team record in the butterfly swimming a finals time of 50.45 to win the conference final. He beat his time of 50.98 set last year.
200 Free Relay - the team of Luczak, Puglessi, Freshman Eli Fetterhoff and Worthington broke a 7 year old record with a time of 1:30.29
Puglessi also set 2 Northview Pool records with his Fly time and his 100 Back time (51.48) where he also won the conference title. His Butterfly time broke the conference record of 51.04 set a few years ago.
Podium Finishes
Along with Puglessi and the two relays mentioned above, Ralph Worthington also had two podium finishes (top 8) with an 8th place finish in the 200 Free and a 3rd place finish in the 500 Free.
Fetterhoff also had two podium finishes with an 8th place finish in the 200 Individual Medley and 7th Place finish in the Breaststroke.
LaGrand also added a 4th place finish in the BreastStroke.
Luczak finished 5th in the 50 yard Free.
The team of Freshman Sean Worthington, Sophomore Ben Kortz, Fetterhoff, and LaGrand finished 6th in the 400 Free Relay.
Other point scorers for CC included: LaGrand 200 Free (12th), Luczak 100 Free (16th), Sean Worthington 500 Free (15th), Kortz 100 Breaststroke (12th)
State Cuts
The following have attained State cuts for the upcoming MHSAA Div 3 state meet in two weeks at Saginaw Valley
Nick Luczak, 50 Free
Reilly LaGrand - 100 Breaststroke
Eli Fetterhoff - 200 Individual Medley, 100 Breaststroke
Ralph Worthington - 200 Free, 500 Free
Ben Puglessi - 200 Free, 200 IM, 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Back, 100 Fly, 100 Breaststroke
CC all-time Top 10
The team put some new names (or moved up) on the all-time top 10 list for CC in the following events
200 Medley relay - Team Record
200 Free - Ralph Worthington #5
200 IM - Eli Fetterhoff (#10), Ben Puglessi (#2)
50 Free - Nick Luczak (#3)
100 Fly - Ben Puglessi (#1)
100 Free - Ben Puglessi (#1)
500 Free - Ralph Worthington (#3)
100 Backstroke - Ben Puglessi (#2)
100 Breakstroke - LaGrand (#5), Fetterhoff (#7), Puglessi (#10)
200 Free Relay - Team Record