Warriors Topple IMSA on Senior Night

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Complete Results

On Senior “Night” at the Duis Center (it was actually morning), the SHS Boys’ Swimming and Diving team celebrated with a 129-47 win over the Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA) Saturday.

Senior Tanner Morse became just the second diver in SHS history to post a six-dive score of 200 or more.  Morse’s mark of 200.40 won Saturday’s competition by nearly 12 points over teammate Cade Coursey.  Matt Whittaker holds the SHS record with a mark of 254.40 set in 2005.

Sterling went 1-2-3 in 3 events Saturday:

• In the 200 IM, Keaton Dir was first (1:48.85), followed by Nick Mattox (2:09.72), and Daniel Saathoff (2:09.91).
• In the 50 free, Andrew Blackburn was first (24.32), followed by Sam Wike (25.52), and Andrew Gray (28.09).
• In the 100 free, Blackburn was first again (55.73), followed by Johnathon Downing (1:01.30), and Lucas Campbell (1:04.48).

Other individual winners for Sterling: Keanu Interone in both the 100 fly (55.87), and the 100 breast (59.23); Dir in the 500 free (5:01.23); and Wike in the 100 back (1:03.07).

Next Up: The Warriors host Rock Island and Newman in a triangular Tuesday, before competing in the NIIC Meet Saturday in Byron.