Miller Wins Gold At Newton

The Oskaloosa Indians traveled to Newton once again to swim at their YMCA pool for the North Central Swim Conference Championships. If you follow the times you will see that they are all a little longer as they have a 25 meter pool which is longer than all other 25 yard pools. Teams competing here on this day was Boone, NCMP(Newton-Colfax-Mingo-Pella), Indianola, Vinton Shellsburg, Grinnell, Decorah, Williamsburg and Oskaloosa.

Oskaloosa started the day by sending the group of Owen Gordon, Carson Abrahamson, Colin Fiechtner, and Bolton Berg to perform the 200 Medley Relay. They ended up placing 8th in a time of 2:12.78. Ean Beenken then did the 200 Free for the Indians and finished with a time of 2:41.48. Next up Osky got rolling with a Bronze medal finish in the 200IM by Jack Miller as he took the third place spot in a time of 2:32.49 while setting a new personal best. Owen Gordon took to the blocks in the 50 Free and finished 9th place with a time of 28.34 while Colton Berg swam it in a time of 30.20 and Carson Abrahamson finished in a time of 31.26. In the 100 Free Colton Berg finished in a time of 1:09.67 and Ean Beenken was right behind him finishing in a time of 1:09.88. In a meter pool the 500 yard Freestyle is converted to a 400 meter race and Colin Fiechtner finished in 10th place with a time of 5:19.49 for the Indians. Oskaloosa sent Colton Berg, Ean Beenken, Carson Abrahamson, and Owen Gordon to the blocks for the 200 Free Relay and they finished in 9th place with a time of 1:58.65. The next event was the 100 Backstroke and Oskaloosa took first place by Jack Miller beating all 21 swimmers with a time of 1:07.38. Colin Fiechtner also swam the event and finished with a time of 1:17.54. “This is the first time Osky has put someone on top of the podium at the conference meet and with this young team that is continuing to improve it will not be the last.” Next up was the 100 Breast Event and Carson Abrahamson finished this race in 1:28.55 to earn an 11th place finish. The final event of the day was the 400 Freestyle Relay as the team of Owen Gordon, Ean Beenken, Colin Fiechtner, and Jack Miller was sent to the blocks and they came away with a time of 4:26.38 and earned another 8th place finish to complete the day.

The last event of the season is Saturday at Indianola as Osky will swim at the District swim meet in hopes of everyone having personal bests and the possibility of sending someone to the state swim meet. They will not know until Saturday night as the state takes the 24 best times in all of the District meets around the state and they are the only ones who get to swim at the state swim meet the following weekend.