Swimming: Huron races past Canton in non-league dual meet

By Margaret Baker

The Huron Men’s Swim/Dive Team recorded a definitive victory last week at the Ratatorium with a 114-72 win over visiting Canton in a non-league dual-meet.

Canton’s Ryan Gurgel won the 200 Free (1:46.22) and the 100 Fly (52.79), but the Rats took every other individual event. River Rat senior/captain Joe O’Neal touched first in the 200 IM (2:09.22) and the 100 Back (56.48), and senior Peter Fazekas won the 50 Free (22.79) and the 100 Free (50.80). Other Huron event winners were Franek Orlowski in the 500 (5:24.74), and Kyle Smith in the 100 Breast (1:05.53).

Also scoring points for the Rats in the individuals were as follows. In the 200 free, Orlowski, 3^rd (1:56.53), junior Kal Bunnell, 4^th (2:00.75),  and junior Jeffrey Wang, 5^th (2:01.57); in the 200 IM, senior/captain Kenneth Jiang, 2^nd (2:13.47), and freshman Luke Bunnell, 5^th (2:27.77); in the 50 free, senior/captain Alex Moskus, 2^nd (23.92), and junior Graham Baker, 3^rd (24.54); in the 100 Fly, Smith, 2^nd (59.08), Ethan , 3^rd, (1:00.94), and freshman Camp Streeter, 5th (1:03.23); in the 100 Free, Moskus, 3^rd (53.32) and Baker, 5^th (57.31); in the 500 Free, K. Bunnell, 2^nd (5:28.42) and Wang, 4^th (5:40.88); in the 100 Back, Yegor Ivanov, 2^nd (1:02.29), Evan Ngo, 3^rd (1:02.98), and Alex Harris, a non-scoring 5^th (1:10.54); and in the 100 Breast, Jiang, 2^nd (1:05.66), and Streeter, 3^rd (1:12:51).

On the board, Canton’s Brett Whalen (205.10) was first, with Max Farnsworth (152.70), in 2^nd.  For the Rats, James Hutmacher dove 3^rd (149.55) with junior Dean Molnar III taking 5^th place points (93.35).  Junior Omar Abulhak also dove for the Rats (91.95).

Huron’s relays made a fine showing. IN the 200 Medley relay event, they took both 1^st (O’Neal, Fazekas, Smith, Moskus) touching in 1:43.96, and 2^nd (Ngo, Jiang, Yung, and Baker), finishing at 1:51.17. Canton’s “A” (Gurgel, Ethan Buzuvis, Max Lin, and Talan Litner) outswam Huron for 1^st in the 200  Relay (1:36.08), but Huron’s “A” (Jiang, Smith,  K. Bunnell, Orlowski) easily took 2^nd (1:38.40) and the “B” (L. Bunnell, Streeter, Baker, and Wang) swam for 3^rd (1:43.86). Finally, Canton’s 400 Free team of Gurgel, Litner, Lin, and Buzuvis, cruised to victory (3:31.08), but Huron’s “A” (Fazekas, Moskus, Orlowski and O’Neal) finished 2^nd in 3:38.01 with Yung, Wang, K. Bunnell, and Ngo taking 3^rd (3:46.76).

Huron next faces Skyline at home Thursday, Jan. 19. Kick-off is at 6 p.m.

PHOTO: Kenneth Jiang, Huron