By Cort Reynolds

CANTON__Ada High School junior Lily Baumgartner qualified for the finals at the Ohio state Div. II meet with good preliminary showings Thursday, February 22, in both the 100-yard backstroke and 100 freestyle races.

Baumgartner touched sixth in the girls 100 backstroke (55.96) preliminary heats to make it to the A finals Friday night.

Baumgartner also finished seventh out of 32 swimmers in the 100-yard freestyle preliminaries to advance to that A Finals race Friday.

She swam a time of 52.44 despite a sore left shoulder.

The top eight in the prelims of each event advance to the A Finals race. The second eight (places 9-16) qualify for the B Finals, along with two alternates (17-18).

The OHSAA Div. II finals start Friday at 3 p.m. in the C.T. Branin Natatorium.

Baumgartner has committed to swim at Ohio University.

ADA STATE PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Girls 100 Yard Freestyle DIVISION 2

Name                 Year School               Seed Time    Prelims  Time      

Preliminaries             

  1 Carrie Furbee         JR Grandview Height    50.14      50.71  

  2 Angie Wyand          SR Tree of Life       51.52      51.42  

  3 Kami Periat            SR Port Clinton        51.30      51.49  

  4 Rylee Jackson          SO Hoban               51.73      51.97  

  5 Julia Shafer           JR Cincinnati Hills   51.28      52.01  

  6 Lydia Sturgeon         JR Granville           52.03      52.34  

  7 Lily Baumgartner       JR Ada                51.87      52.44  

  8 Nina Newton            SO Hawken              52.22      52.47
 

Girls 100 Yard Backstroke DIVISION 2

Name                 Year School               Seed    Prelims        

Preliminaries                

  1 Josephine Piliang      FR Hathaway Brown      53.94      54.25  

  2 Kami Periat            SR Port Clinton        55.31      54.82  

  3 Claire Mehok           SR Hathaway Brown      54.62      54.87  

  4 Emma Tenhundfeld       JR Alter               56.37      55.49  

  5 Leah Guess             SR Marlington          56.96      55.76  

  6 Lily Baumgartner       JR Ada                 56.32      55.96  

  7 Mirielle Trumpower     FR Ontario            58.48      57.38  

  8 Caroline Ramirez       SR Country Day        57.61      57.40