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SALINA – All 15 swimmers scored points for the Hays High boys Thursday to help the Indians claim top team honors of a meet for the fourth time this season.
HHS scored 408 points at the Salina Central Invitational to outdistance runner-up Rose Hill by 87 points in the 11-school meet.
The Indians sandwiched multiple top-eight finishes around two championship relay performances in the first and last events of the day to record their fifth top-two team finish of the season.
Seniors Karsen Flaska and Chase Zadina and junior Cedric Durr were all three part of those first-place relay foursomes. Flaska also collected the Indians’ lone individual championship – in the 200-yard individual medley.
Next action for the Indians will be Thursday when they travel to Garden City for the Western Athletic Conference Championships.
Salina Central meet
Team scores
Hays High 408, Rose Hill 321, Newton 287, Hutchinson 285, Hesston 208, McPherson 198, Salina South 188, Great Bend 124, Salina Central 42, Gypsum-Southeast of Saline 34, Bennington 33.
HHS top 8 places
200y medley relay – 1. (Karsen Flaska, Jace Herbers, Cedric Durr, Chase Zadina)
200y individual medley – 1. Flaska; 2. Durr; 7. Herbers
50y freestyle – 2. Zadina
100y butterfly – 3. Zadina
100y freestyle – 4. Durr
500y freestyle – 7. Col Lonsdale; 8. Levi Crisenbery
200y freestyle relay – 3. (Maison Desaire, Judah Rigler, Seth Burkholder, Herbers); 7. (Emmitt Dreiling, Jackson Huwa, Brooks Dixon, Noah Shaeffer)
100y backstroke – 3. Flaska; 8. Schaeffer
100y breaststroke – 5. Herbers
400y freestyle relay – 1. (Zadina, Burkholder, Durr, Flaska)