Card boys' swimming and diving: Aaseng sets new CLC mark

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Eric Morken, Echo Press John Vinje finished 16th in the 100 breaststroke during the Central Lakes Conference swimming and diving championships Saturday, and was part of a pair of relays that finished 11th and 13th. The Cardinals were fifth overall and ended the regular season tied for fourth place.

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A new Sartell pool and a Central Lakes Conference record set by Cardinal junior Kris Aaseng paved the way for the Cardinals’ fifth place finish at the Central Lakes Conference swimming and diving championships Saturday.

Aaseng swam to first in the 500 freestyle in 4:54.79 for that new mark, and also finished first in the 200 freestyle in 1:48.99.

Both of those top finishes gave him CLC All-Conference honors.

Joining him on the All-Conference team was Elliot Jacobson, who finished third in the 100 breaststroke.

In all, the Cardinals had 11 top-eight finishes, including two by Austin McCulloch, Mark Kallevig and Eric Moe to go along with Aaseng’s two.

Alexandria also had 17 season bests in the meet, with two each by Aaseng, Aaron Pietrowski, Kallevig, Zac Bartomeo and Jake Strand.

Alexandria now prepares for the Section 6A swimming and diving meet on Friday and Saturday, February 24-25 in Willmar.

CENTRAL LAKES CONFERENCE SWIMMING AND DIVINGCHAMPIONSHIPS

1. Brainerd 442, 2. Sartell 405, 3. Fergus Falls 343..5, 4. St. Cloud Tech 296.5, 5. Alexandria 294.5, 6. Willmar Cardinals 237.5, 7. Sauk Rapid-Rice 138, 8. St. Cloud Apollo 99, 9. Rocori 69.

ALEXANDRIA RESULTS

200 MEDLEY RELAY – 5. Zac Bartolomeo, Elliot Jacobson, Mark Kallevig, Max Jacobson 1:48.04, 11. Paul Meland, John Vinje, Sean Norheim, Zach Cahlin 1:57.28, 17. Jake Strand, Jordan Wallin, Spencer Brand, Dalton Myhr 2:02.89.

200 FREE – 1. Kris Aaseng 1:48.99, 8. Austin McCulloch 1:56.64, 18. Aaron Pietrowski 2:01.43, 24. Ben Tollefson 2:08.46.

200 IM – 7. Mark Kallevig 2:15.45, 10. Zac Bartolomeo 2:17.98, 18. Kyle Pietrowski 2:26.86, 29. Jimmy Pfeffer 2:43.15.

50 FREE – 5. Eric Moe 23.98, 11. Max Jacobson 24.22, 22. Sean Norheim 25.34, 30. Jesse Hacker 25.90.

DIVING – 12. Elliot Jacobson 252.05, 16. Riley Maanum 179.30.

100 FLY – 5. Mark Kallevig 59.84, 12. Max Jacobson 1:02.55.

100 FREE – 6. Eric Moe 52.21, 15. Zach Cahlin 55.20, 19. John Vinje 56.10, 20. Jake Strand 56.48.

500 FREE – 1. Kris Aaseng 4:54.79 (New CLC record), 7. Austin McCulloch 5:21.48, 8. Aaron Pietrowski 5:25.47, 17. Kyle Pietrowski 5:38.15.

200 FREE RELAY – 7. Eric Moe, Zach Cahlin, Austin McCulloch, Kris Aaseng 1:36.67, 13. Jesse Hacker, Elliot Jacobson, John Vinje, Sean Norheim 1:41.52, 25. Riley Maanum, Michael Taillefer, Wesley Graves, Aaron Halvorson 1:57.96.

100 BACK – 8. Zac Bartolomeo 1:00.77, 19. Paul Meland 1:07.79, 21. Jake Strand 1:08.35, 28. Spencer Brand 1:10.39.

100 BREAST – 3. Elliot Jacobson 1:04.70, 16. John Vinje 1:11.47, 26. Jordan Wallin 1:18.76, 33. Wesley Graves 1:28.02.

400 FREE RELAY – 4. Eric Moe, Max Jacobson, Austin McCulloch, Kris Aaseng 3:31.04, 11. Mark Kallevig, Zach Cahlin, Jake Strand, Zac Bartolomeo 3:43.91, 16. Jesse Hacker, Dalton Myhr, Matt Russell, Ben Tollefson 3:54.48.

ALL-CONFERENCE SWIMMERS

The Cardinals had three Central Lakes All-Conference finishes as Kris Aaseng finished first in two events and Elliot Jacobson was third in another

Honorable mention went to Eric Moe and Mark Kallevig

The Cardinal team finished fifth in the meet, which earned them a tie for fourth in the overall final CLC standings

CENTRAL LAKES CONFERENCE STANDINGS

CLC Record Champ mt Overall

Brainerd 7-1 1st 1st

Fergus Falls 8-0 3rd 2nd

Sartell 6-3 2nd 3rd

Alexandria 5-4 5th 4th

St. Cloud Tech 4-4 4th 4th

Willmar 3-5 6th 6th

St. Cloud Apollo 2-6 8th 7th

Sauk Rapids 0-8 7th 8th

Rocori 1-7 9th 9th

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