Will Rife produced a school-record performance but did not qualify for the IHSAA State Championships.
Rife (photo, center), a junior, finished second Saturday in the 100-yard butterfly sectional championship race at New Palestine and lowered his own school record time to 53.46 seconds.
Richmond’s Cayden Lindahl won the 100 butterfly sectional title with a time of 52.34.
Rife also was the runner-up in the 100 backstroke at 56.07. Mount Vernon’s Ethan Murphy won the race in 54.60.
Rife also was part of two Shelbyville relay teams that finished third.
Rife teamed with Trey Carrell, Tristin Maloney and Beau Kenkel to secure a third-place finish in the 200 medley relay (1:44.34). Richmond won the sectional title in 1:41.63.
In the 200 freestyle relay, Carrell, Kenkel, Andrew Duffy and Rife took third in 1:35.05. Mount Vernon won the race in 1:29.63.
Carrell also had a pair of top-four finishes Saturday. The senior placed third in the 50 freestyle (22.52) and fourth in the 100 freestyle (49.62).
Kenkel and Duffy teamed with Elijah von Werder and Tristin Maloney for an eighth-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay (3:46.09).
In other prep events Saturday:
Gymnastics
New Castle 101.95, Rushville 96.225, Shelbyville 73.55, Jay County 56.525
At New Castle, Renee Aldridge produced Shelbyville’s top score in three of the four events and secured a pair of top-eight results.
Aldridge received an 8.75 for her vaulting effort and finished seventh overall. Alisa Fisher and Ella Griggs each scored 8.4.
Aldridge’s score of 7.3 earned her a fifth-place ribbon in the uneven bars event.
Ella Griggs led the Golden Bears with a 6.6 on the balance beam.
Aldridge’s 7.7 led Shelbyville in the floor exercise.
Southmont Invitational
Morristown totaled a score of 87.7 to finish fifth in the 12-team invitational.
Oakleigh Goedde won the balance beam competition for Morristown and placed seventh in vault, 10th on uneven bars and seventh in floor exercise which earned her a fourth-place finish in the all-around.
Remi Spicklemire finished fifth on beam, eighth in floor exercise and ninth in the all-around scoring.
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