BEMIDJI — Thomas Ruhl, Mason Kuepers and Cade Rosenwald all won two individual events and swam on two winning relays for the Brainerd Warriors who defeated the Bemidji Lumberjacks 117-68 in a non-conference meet Thursday, Feb. 11.
Ruhl led the field in the 200-yard freestyle and 100 backstroke while Kuepers posted the fastest time in the 200 individual medley and 100 freestyle and Rosenwald captured the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly.
The trio teamed up with Tristan Dawson to win the 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relays.
Dawson won the 100 breaststroke with a 1:13.32.
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Brainerd 117, Bemidji 68
200 medley relay: 1-Brainerd (Thomas Ruhl, Cade Rosenwald, Tristan Dawson, Mason Kuepers) 1:44.53; 3-Brainerd (Lance Zemke, Brenden Brichacek, Nate Chaussee, David Rollins) 1:55.00
200 freestyle: 1-Ruhl 1:58.00, 4-Nolan Thiesse (Brd) 2:04.13, 5-Baden Bastien (Brd) 2:07.25
200 individual medley: 1-Mason Kuepers 2:06.33, 3-Zemke 2:20.71, 6-Branden Brichacek (Brd) 2:37.33
50 freestyle: 1-Rosenwald 23.23, 5-Rollins 25.08, 6-Sam McCulley (Brd) 25.48
Diving: 1-Aiden Saari (Bem) 195.65, 2-Jalen Emslander (Brd) 179.85, 3-Rollins166.50, 5-Wyatt Gabrielson (Brd) 147.60
100 butterfly: 1-Rosenwald 55.16, 2-Dawson 57.96, 4-Chaussee 1:07.46
100 freestyle: 1-Mason Kuepers 50.40, 3-McCulley 55.32, 6-Sumption 56.35
500 freestyle: 1-Moses Son (Bem) 5:33.35, 2-Bastien 5:34.65, 3-Thiesse 5:34.82, 5-Eberts 5:54.92
200 freestyle relay: 1-Brainerd (Ruhl, Dawson, Rosenwald, Mason Kuepers) 1:33.60; 3-Brainerd (McCulley, Bastien, Zemke, Thiesse) 1:43.50
100 backstroke: 1-Ruhl 58.81, 3-Sumption 1:07.12, 4-Chaussee 1:12.23
100 breaststroke: 1-Dawson 1:13.12, 2-Zemke 1:14.47, 4-Brichacek 1:18.87
400 freestyle relay: 1-Bemidji 3:44.52, 2-Brainerd (Bastien, Sumption, McCulley, Eberts) 3:52.23; 3-Brainerd (Thiesse, Rollins, Logan Kuepers, Alex Kuepers) 4:05.65
Overall: Brd 2-3. Next: Brainerd at St. Cloud Apollo 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16.
1/Cade Rosenwald
2/Mason Kuepers
