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Alexandria Boys Win Section 5A True Team Swimming and Diving Championship

By Cardinal Connection, 01/15/23, 7:15AM CST

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The Alexandria Cardinals Swimming and Diving Team traveled to the University of Minnesota/Morris for the Section 5A True Team Swimming and Diving Championships and came home with the first place trophy and many medals. The team competed extremely well and rose to the challenge of a longer meet, where every competitor scored team points.

The divers started their day off with the first 11 dive meet of the season. Krew Muscha improved from his section meet last year by over 50 points and placed fourth. Kyler Kavanagh took the win and looked great while upgrading the difficulty of his dive list.

The 200 medley relay team of Eric Peterson, Logan Tung, Adi Newman, and Andrew Crowser placed second. The team of Keaton Dummer, Andy Wacek, Mark Meece, and Zach Iverson placed seventh, the team of Cayden Abell, Cam Kosters, Ethan Mellgren, and Lucas Bakker placed 10th and Krew Muscha, Carson Bumgarner, Micah Kietzmann, and Tony Olson placed 15th.

Erik Reineke stormed to a first place finish in the 200 freestyle, followed by freshman Luke Christenson in 8th, eighth grader Gavin Peterson in 10th and eighth grader Carson Bumgarner in 15th. Cooper Running placed second in the 200 IM, followed by eighth grader Andy Wacek in fifth, Mark Meece in 8th, and Adi Newman in 10th place. Logan Tung placed third in the 50 freestyle, followed by Andrew Crowser in 7th, Zach Iverson in 12th and Lucas Bakker in 17th place. Eric Peterson placed second in the 100 butterfly, Luke Christenson in fourth, Adi Newman in 6th, and Keaton Dummer in 8th place.

Reineke repeated his first place finish from the 200 freestyle into the 100 freestyle, with Crowser in 8th, Gavin Peterson in 10th, and Bakker in 14th. Cooper Running won the next event for the Cardinal, dropping his season best time by 10 seconds, Mark Meece placed 7th, Tony Olson in 11th and Ethan Mellgren in 13th place.

The 200 freestyle relay of Reineke, Crowset, Running, and Tung tore it up to win the event by over two seconds. The team of Christenson, Gavin Peterson, Wacek, and Bakker placed 7th, Cam Kosters, Kietzmann, Abell, and Iverson placed 9th, and the relay of Kyler Kavanagh, Eli Peterson, Sam Kalina, and Krew Muscha placed 14th.

Eric Peterson placed second in the backstroke, followed by Abell in 9th, Dummer in 10th, and Bumgarner in 12th place. Logan Tung won the 100 breaststroke by over 3 seconds, followed by Andy Wacek with a lifetime best time and a 7th place finish, Cam Kosters in 13th place and Eli Peterson in 20th place. Alexandria needed to win the 400 freestyle relay to win the meet. The team of Reineke, Running, Gavin Peterson and Eric Peterson won the race, followed by the relays of Christenson, Iverson, Dummer, Newman in 6th place, Kosters, Abell, Meece and Bumgarner in 11th place, Tony Olson, Sam Kalina, Kietzmann and Mellgren in 14th place. Next up for the team is a home meet on Thursday, January 19 at 6:00 PM at DMS.

Alexandria 1226
Melrose/Sauk Centre 1199
Fergus Falls 881

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Morris Area 585
Detroit Lakes 455
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