Prep Swimming: Boyle's Snider, Stone finish seventh at state meet
Jeffrey Snider and Owen Stone of Boyle County each finished seventh Saturday in their best events in the State Swimming & Diving Meet at Louisville.
Snider was seventh in the boys 50-yard freestyle, and Stone was seventh in the boys 200 individual medley. They were the only two area swimmers or relay teams to qualify for Saturday’s championship finals by finishing in the top eight in Friday’s preliminaries at Ralph Wright Natatorium.

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Adrian Rudd had a top-10 finish for the Boyle girls, finishing 10th in the 100 butterfly in 58.52 seconds. She was also 14th in the 100 backstroke.
Snider’s best time of the meet came in a Thursday swim-off, when he beat three other swimmers with a time of 22.04. He was seeded fifth entering the meet and eighth entering the finals, where his time was 22.17.
Stone was the No. 3 seed in the 200 IM going into the meet, and was seventh after the preliminaries, where his time was 1:57.28. His finals time was 1:57.90.
Stone was also 13th in the 100 butterfly in 54.21 seconds.
Chappie Couzens of Danville was 20th in the boys 100 breaststroke and 28th in the 200 freestyle.
Danville had the best finishes of the five local relay teams in the meet. Couzens teamed with Dylan Crow, Nate Deaton and Matt Oster for a 23rd-place finish in the 200 medley relay; and Couzens, Deaton, Oster and Rollins Grubbs were 25th in the 200 freestyle relay.

State Swimming & Diving Meet
Friday-Saturday
At Ralph Wright Natatorium, Louisville
(Area results)
BOYS
200 medley relay — 23. Danville (Dylan Crow, Chappie Couzens, Nate Deaton, Matt Oster) 1:49.85.
200 freestyle — 28. Couzens (Danville) 1:53.63.
200 individual medley — 7. Owen Stone (Boyle County) 1:57.28, 1:57.90.
50 freestyle — 7. Jeffrey Snider (Boyle County) 22.04 (swim-off), 22.16, 22.17.
100 butterfly — 13. Stone (Boyle County) 53.96, 54.21.
100 freestyle — 24. Snider (Boyle County) 50.66.
200 freestyle relay — 25. Danville (Rollins Grubbs, Couzens, Deaton, Oster) 1:38.06; 31. Boyle County (Snider, Stone, Jack Crawford, Patrick Reid) 1:45.55.
100 breaststroke — 20. Couzens (Danville) 1:03.53.

GIRLS
100 butterfly — 10. Adrian Rudd (Boyle County) 58.56, 58.52.
200 freestyle relay — 32. Boyle County (Lindsay Logue, Rachel Haltom, Amanda Montgomery, Rudd) 1:50.95.
100 backstroke — 14. Rudd (Boyle County) 59.48, 1:00.59
400 freestyle relay — 28. Boyle County (Logue, Hannah Robertson, Montgomery, Rudd) 4:03.49.
(NOTE: Swimmers listed with Friday preliminary and Saturday consolation or championship final times if 16th or higher.)