Michael Bylander and Preston Owen each recorded first- and second-place finishes in individual events and swam on two winning relays for the Brainerd Warriors who rolled past previously unbeaten and Central Lakes Conference leader St. Cloud Tech 120-65
Thursday at Brainerd High School.
Tech entered the meet 3-0 in the CLC, 4-0 overall. Brainerd is now 2-0 in the conference, 3-0 overall.
Bylander won the 200-yard individual medley and was second in the 100 breaststroke. Owen touched first in the 100 free and was second in the 50 free.
Also posting individual wins were Gunnar Niemeyer in the 100 butterfly and Griffin Blegen in the 100 backstroke. Tim Whiteman topped the diving with teammate Izaac Herrlich second.
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Brainerd swept all three relays. Bylander and Owen teamed up with Niemeyer and Devan Liebeg to win the 200 medley. Liebeg and Bylander swam with Connor Lund and Michael Lyscio on the 200 free while Lund, Owen, Niemeyer and Blegen wrapped up the meet with a first in the 400 free.
Brainerd 120, Tech 65
200 medley relay: 1-Brainerd (Preston Owen, Michael Bylander, Gunnar Niemeyer, Devan Liebeg) 1:45.99; 3-Brainerd (Griffin Blegen Cody Evans, Jordan VanRissegghem, Michael Lyscio) 1:53.72; 5-Brainerd (Andy Dillon, Jacob VanRissegghem, Oliver Knudson, Riley Backstrom) 2:00.31
200 freestyle: 1-Benjamin Hoffmann (SC) 1:54.30, 2-Niemeyer 1:54.54, 3-Connor Lund 2:02.38, 4-Eric Rude (B) 2:03.66
200 individual medley: 1-Bylander 2:11.81, 3-Jordan VanRissegghem (B) 2:23.82, 4-Dillon 2:26.53
50 freestyle: 1-Bingham Shaw (SC) 22.67, 2-Owen 23.23, 3-Liebeg 24.62, 5-Lyscio 25.61
Diving: 1-Tim Whiteman (B) 166.00, 2-Izaac Herrlich (B) 143.90, 4-Cruz Lemmerhirt (B) 127.75
100 butterfly: 1-Niemeyer 57.96, 2-Jordan VanRissegghem 1:02.82, DQ-Lyscio
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100 freestyle: 1-Owen 51.30, 3-Griffin Blegen (B) 54.31, 4-Liebeg 54.65
500 freestyle: 1-Hoffmann (SC) 5:16.11, 2-Eric Rude (B) 5:30.30, 3-Lund 5:30.75, 5-Charlie Rude (B) 5:37.29
200 freestyle relay: 1-Brainerd (Liebeg, Bylander, Lund, Lyscio) 1:38.76; 3-Brainerd (Solseth, Backstrom, E. Rude, Evans) 1:45.58; 4-Brainerd (Patrick Kennedy, C. Rude, Alex Vukelich, Jacob VanRissegghem) 1:48.77
100 backstroke: 1-Blegen 1:05.07, 2-Dillon 1:05.95. 4-Dylan Paulson (B) 1:08.93
100 breaststroke: 1-Shaw (SC) 1:05.45, 2-Bylander 1:09.38, 3-Evans 1:11.28, 4-Jacob VanRissegghem 1:14.18
400 freestyle relay: 1-Brainerd (Lund, Owen, Niemeyer, Blegen) 3:34.96; 3-Brainerd (Jordan VanRissegghem, C. Rude, E. Rude, Pierce Solseth) 3:52.86; 5-Brainerd (Dillon, David Kelm, Knudson, Paulson) 4:06.72
Conference: Brd 2-0. Overall: Brd 3-0. Next: Brainerd in Bronze Division of Maroon and Gold Invitational, University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, noon Saturday.
