A pair of Fairbanks High School swimmers competed in a meet on Friday.
Matt Kehlbeck and Janie Clayton competed at the Bellefontaine Hilliker YMCA along with six other area teams.
Kehlbeck had two first-place finishes with personal best times of 25.09 in the 50 freestyle and 1:06.93 in the 100 butterfly.
Clayton tallied a third-place finish in the 50 freestyle with a time of 28.20. She also took third in the 100 breastroke in 1:17.31.
MHS swimmers
compete
The Monarch swimmers competed on Friday against Dublin Scioto and Westerville South at the Dublin Recreation Center.
Each team had up to two varsity swimmers and relays entered per event.
Girls scores were Westerville South-92, MHS-78 and Marysville-82, Scioto-69.
Boys team scores were Westerville South-109, MHS-45 and Scioto-74, MHS-54.
First-place finishers for Marysville were as follows:
Girls
MHS-Westerville South
-200 medley relay: Mikayla Seman, Leah Hardy, Morgan Grawe, Diana Jimenez, 2:05.28;
-200 freestyle: Seman, 2:12.02;
-100 butterfly: Grawe, 1:05.48;
-200 freestyle relay: Sophia Taracko, Seman, Jimenez, Grawe, 1:50.99;
-100 backstroke: Seman, 1:09.40.
MHS-Scioto
-200 medley relay: Seman, Hardy, Grawe, Jimenez, 2:05.28;
-200 freestyle: Seman, 2:12.02;
-100 butterfly: Grawe, 1:05.48;
-100 backstroke: Seman, 1:09.40.
Boys
W. South-MHS
-100 breastroke: Hank Luther, 1:04.84.
Scioto-MHS
-200 medley relay: Luther, Aron Moledor, Ethan Turk, Shane Hothem (no time reported);
-200 IM: Moledor, 2:14.30;
-50 freestyle: Luther, 24.84;
-100 breastroke: Luther, 1:04.84.
“Although we only won one of the four dual meets contested, I was very pleased and surprised that we as a team swam as well as we did during our first meet after the holidays,” said MHS coach Craig Faircloth. “After missing four days of training because of where the holidays fell on the calendar this year, I was concerned that most of our swimmers would be a little off of their best times.
“However, we had many swimmers achieve huge lifetime best time drops during this meet,” he said. “As I told them, this was a meet that we definitely could build from as we now enter into January’s remaining dual meet and OCC championships and February’s sectional and district meets.”