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Silver Creek boys take 3rd at BOCO Invite

The Silver Creek boys swim and dive team performed well at the Boulder County Invitational April 20, finishing third overall out of nine schools, and top among Class 4A schools.

The squad, which is a combined team from Silver Creek and Niwot High, coached by Debbie Stewart, had several gold medal winners at the Broomfield Community Center.

Chayakorn Ngampatipatpong led the Raptor swimmers with first-place finishes in both the 100 breaststroke, with a time of 58.27, and in the 200 individual medley, with a time of 1:59.77. In addition, he swam on the Raptors' 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays, each of which finished fourth overall.

"The guys had a really great meet," Stewart said. "It was a fun meet and the Silver Creek boys held their own up against those 5A schools...,coming out with a third-place finish and Chayakorn Ngampatipatpong getting two first-place finishes, giving him a five-way tie for high point junior. I'm feeling really good with how the guys are looking with only two weeks left until conference and state."

On the diving board, Rider Neeb, who also doubles as a swimmer, took top honors with an 11-dives one meter score of 467.80, almost 10 points ahead of the second-place finisher. "Our divers did amazing as well," Stewart said. "Rider Neeb got first place, breaking the BoCo 11-dive record." Senior Oliver Fischaber finished seventh in diving (361.30) and senior Sam Harding was ninth (330.75). Freshman Carter Gregg picked up 15 points for the Raptors with a fifth-place finish in the 6-dives one meter standings.

James Story, who has not been 100%, still managed to take second in the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.39, and took fourth in the 100 backstroke, with a time of 59.79. Story also swam the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay, and finished with a leg on the 400 freestyle relay.

Lincoln Miller took sixth in the 100 butterfly, with a time of 56.92 and fifth in the 200 individual medley (2:10.49). He also swam on the 200 medley relay as well as the 200 freestyle relay, which placed fifth. Justin Leyba, a freshman, rounded out the 200 medley relay for Silver Creek, and also took seventh in the Individual medley with a state qualifying time of 2:17.47, and 12th in the 100 butterfly (54.26). Both he and junior teammate Sanjay Mudukutore (58.48), who finished 21st, had state qualifying times. Mudukutore also placed 11th in the 100 backstroke (1:06.65)

Several other Raptor swimmers scored for Silver Creek. Jack Fischmann, a senior, finished sixth in the 500 freestyle (5:29.79) to qualify for state, and eighth in the 200 freestyle (2:00.41), just 0.41 seconds over the state qualifying time for Class 4A. GT Waller, a freshman, was right behind in ninth place at 2:00.46, and senior Justin Gawrych was tenth (2:01.40). Waller also posted a state qualifying time in the 100 butterfly with a time of 59.47, good for 10th place.

Freshman Daniel Donovan placed 15th in the 100 individual medley (1:14.64), while teammate Ben Corbadzic, a senior, took 17th (1:16.08) in the same event. Junior Braden Saunders finished 14th in the 50 freestyle (25.01) and freshman Ben Codevilla (25.78) took 19th place. Saunders also posted a ninth-place finish in the 500 freestyle (5:45.69) and Codevilla took 15th in the 100 backstroke (1:21.46).

Sophomore Alex Shores took 13th (13.08) in the 25 freestyle, while freshman Levi Hinrichs placed 16th (14.40) and sophomore Matthew Schliesman finished 18th (16.28). Schliesman also scored points when he took 15th in the 50 backstroke (42.45), and Hinrichs added points with a 10th-place finish in the 50 breaststroke (36.82). Freshman Otto Andresen finished 12th in the same event (49.87).

Senior Hayden Troudt took 10th place in the 50 backstroke (33.88), and sophomore Ryan Lin finished 13th in the same event (40.39). Shobhit Joshi, a junior, took ninth in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.11), and Neeb was right behind him in 10th place (1:10.62).

The Raptors also picked up points in the 200 freestyle relay, finishing fifth in 1:25.80, with Gawrych, Miller, Neeb and Waller swimming legs. They also brought home a fourth-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay, with Leyba, Gawrych and Story joining Ngampatipatpong (3:22.43), well under the state qualifying mark.

 

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