July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.

Vormohr makes sectional finals (02/03/06)

JCHS/SAHS girls swimming

FORT WAYNE — Area swimmers in championship races Saturday will be few and far between.

Just three — Cori Vormohr of Jay County and Haleigh Lehman and Jessica Sharp of South Adams — earned a spot in the top six at the sectional preliminaries hosted by Homestead at Fort Wayne’s Summit Middle School. The No. 6 host Spartans took three of the six available positions in championship races in every individual event, and finished one-two-three in five of them.

Vormohr led the Patriots, breaking her own school record in the 100-yard butterfly by five hundredths of the second with a time of 1-minute, 3.28 seconds. The freshman was fourth in the race behind three Homestead swimmers.

Lehman also qualified in the butterfly, finishing right behind Vormohr with a time of 1:05.13.

Vormohr finished fourth in her other race as well, again following three Homestead swimmers in the 200 individual medley in 2:21.98.

Sharp, a freshman, reached the finals in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:49.38.

South Adams reached the finals in all three relays while the Patriots qualified one relay team.

The top relay finish for the Starfires came in the 200 freestyle event where Lehman and Sharp teamed with Megan Myers and Jalisa Balsiger to finish fourth in 1:49.74. Lehman, Myers, Channing Yoder and Courtney Hewitt were fifth in the 200 medley relay in 2:06.95, and Lehman, Sharp, Talitha Maven and Margaret Beymer teamed for fifth in the 400 freestyle relay in 4:07.65.

Jay County’s team of Vormohr, Lindsey Vesperry, Tina Gingrasso and Andrea Collins was sixth behind South Adams in the 400 freestyle relay, posting four personal-best splits for a season-best by time by more than 10 seconds in 4:12.61.

Senior Lindsey Vesperry was the only Patriot swimmer to reach the consolation finals. She broke the one-minute mark for the first time in her career, finishing the 100 freestyle in 59.97 for a ninth-place finish. She also qualified 11th in the 50 freestyle.

Reaching the consolation finals for the Starfires were: Sharp (seventh - 200 freestyle), Bethany Maven (eighth - 500 freestyle), Talitha Maven (ninth - 500 freestyle), Hewitt (ninth - 100 backstroke) and Beymer (12th - 100 freestyle).

Diving preliminaries will begin Saturday at 9 a.m., with swimming and diving finals at 2 p.m.[[In-content Ad]]
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