EDWARDSVILLE – Edwardsville senior swimmers Porter LeVasseur and Noah May led the way by winning two events each as the Tigers won a total of eight of the 18 events on their way to winning their second annual Swim for Hope meet Monday afternoon at the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center.
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The Tigers scored 386 points to win the meet, followed by Chatham Glenwood with 371 points. O’Fallon was third with 272, and Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin was last with 246.
The meet followed a collegiate-style format, with events not normally competed in a regular high school meet, including three-meter springboard diving, the 400-yard individual medley, the 200-yard backstroke and breaststroke, the 1,000-yard freestyle and 200-yard butterfly.
LeVasseur won both the 50-yard freestyle, with a time of 21.99 seconds, and the 100-yard freestyle in 48.82 seconds. May took the 200-yard butterfly, with a time of 1:58.64. and the 400-yard individual medley, coming in at 4:33.06.
Other Edwardsville individual winners were Logan Mills in the 100-yard butterfly at 57.48 seconds and Mathiew Doyle in the 100-yard backstroke in 59.14 seconds. The Tigers won four relay events on the day, starting with the 400-yard medley relay, as the team of LeVasseur, McLane Oertle, Mills and Doyle came in at 3:50.84, then the team of May, Mills, Matthew Mendez and LeVasseur won the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:33.07.
Owen Kaufmann took second in both the one-meter and three-meter springboard diving events, with 321.45 and 171.55 points respectively, while the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Doyle. Oertle, Evan Grinter and May finished second with a time of 8:09.61. Max Brandmeyer finished second behind May in the 100-yard butterfly, coming in at 1:06.94, and Trent Sholl was second in the 1,000-yard freestyle, coming in at 11:49.33.
The Tigers will face Springfield in a dual meet, which will also be Senior Day, on Saturday, with a noon start, then host the Southern Illinois Invitational on Feb. 7, starting at 5:30 p.m. The Illinois High School Association sectional swimming meet is set for Feb. 16.
Colin Feeney also contributed to this story.
