STATE SWIMMING: Cd'A boys repeat as champions

BOISE - Even stronger than last year, the Coeur d'Alene Vikings swam away with their second straight boys swimming championship on Saturday at the Boise City Aquatics Center.

Coeur d'Alene senior Ethan Cordes won state titles in the 50-yard freestyle and 100 butterfly, setting a state record in the freestyle in 20.83 seconds.

"It was one of the better races of my life," said Cordes of the 50 freestyle.

Cordes also swam on winning relays in the 200 and 400 freestyle along with teammates Kade Hern, Kyle Jones and Beau Urbaniak.

"It was one of the best experiences of my life," Cordes said. "There's nobody I'd rather swim with than that group of kids. We've been swimming together since we were 10, and to set some records in our final race together, it was awesome."

Coeur d'Alene beat Boise by 37 points for the 5A boys title.

Team championships were separated into three classifications. Moscow won the 4A title and Soda Springs the three-team 3A title.

"We pretty much dominated all the other teams," Coeur d'Alene coach Rich Swoboda said. "We kind of swam for positioning on Friday night (in the prelims), and just improved on those times today."

Coeur d'Alene junior Nicole Rozier claimed a state title in the 200 individual medley in 2:03.08, four seconds faster than the previous record.

"It was probably the swim of the meet," Swoboda said. "She had a strategy to take it to her (Wood River's Maddie Johnson, who was the next lane over). She's (Johnson) is not used to being behind. We expected Nicole to get tired and die off (because she started so fast), but she kept going faster."

The reason, according to Rozier was simple - motivation.

"I really didn't want her to beat me," said Rozier, who led the Viking girls to a fifth-place finish. "I knew I could get ahead, so I was sprinting the entire time because I really wanted to win."

At first, Rozier couldn't believe she set a state record by that much.

"When I talked to my coach, I thought they (the timers) had made a mistake," Rozier said. "I thought they messed it up. I didn't know that I'd beat it by that much."

Boise won the 5A girls title, with Wood River taking the 4A and Logos of Moscow the 3A title.

Hannah Gonzalez finished third in the 200 freestyle for Lake City, which finished fourth. Maggie deTar was second in the 500 freestyle for Post Falls, which finished sixth.

Sandpoint's Payton Bokowy won the 50 and 100 freestyle, helping the Bulldog girls finish second in 4A.

5A TEAM SCORES - 1, Coeur d'Alene 295. 2, Boise 258. 3, Rocky Mountain 180. 4, Hillcrest 175. 5, Mountain View 169. 6, Capital 132. 7, Eagle 77. 8, Skyline 71. 9, Timberline 63.5. 10, Centennial 45. 11, Lake City 39. 12, Idaho Falls 35.5. 13, Meridian 20. 14, Borah 14. 15, Lewiston 9. 16, Post Falls 5.

4A TEAM SCORES - 1, Moscow 210. 2, Bishop Kelly 150. 3, Century 105. 4 (tie), Burley, Twin Falls 18. 6, Bonneville 12. 7, Wood River 11. 8, Rigby 4. 9, Skyview 2.

3A TEAM SCORES - 1, Soda Springs 26. 2, Kimberly 20. 3, Ambrose 4.

WINNERS, LOCALS IN TOP 8

200-yard medley relay - 1, Boise (Marcus Bartolome, Kade Wagers, Thomas Blake, Gage Dewsbury), 1:38.64. 5, Coeur d'Alene (Kyle Jones, Gabe Markowski, Cole Curtis, Matt Chastain), 1:43.97.

200 freestyle - 1, Koen Anderson, Capital, 1:14.781. 5, Beau Urbaniak, Coeur d'Alene, 1:49.68.

200 individual medley - 1, Brian Beatty, Centennial, 1:55.71. 2, Kyle Jones, Coeur d'Alene, 1:58.56.

50 freestyle - 1, Ethan Cordes, Coeur d'Alene, 20:83 (state record; Wyatt Jager, Moscow, 21.02, 21.02).

100 butterfly - 1, Ethan Cordes, Coeur d'Alene, 51.58. 4, Aaron Torgesen, Sandpoint, 54.84. 6, Cole Curtis, Coeur d'Alene, 56.91.

100 freestyle - 1, Roger Woods, Hillcrest, 45.92 (state record; previous, Wyatt Jager, 46.38 2012).

500 freestyle - 1, Brandon Palmatier, Rocky Mountain, 4:51.77.

200 freestyle relay - 1, Coeur d'Alene (Kade Hern, Matt Chastain, Beau Urbaniak, Ethan Cordes), 1:29.15 (state record; previous, Boise, 1:29.85, 2005).

100 backstroke - 1, Marcus Bartolome, Boise, 53.35. 2, Kyle Jones, Coeur d'Alene, 53.78. 5, Jon Archer, Coeur d'Alene, 55.43.

100 breaststroke - 1, Mirza Ljubijankic, Centennial, 1:00.51. 2, Kade Hern, Coeur d'Alene, 1:00.94. 6, Cole Curtis, Coeur d'Alene, 1:03.76.

400 freestyle relay - 1, Coeur d'Alene (Kyle Jones, Kade Hern, Beau Urbaniak, Ethan Cordes), 3:13.38 (state record; previous, Moscow, 3:15.26, 2011).

5A TEAM SCORES - 1, Boise 322. 2, Idaho Falls 191. 3, Rocky Mountain 153. 4, Lake City 136. 5, Coeur d'Alene 106. 6, Post Falls 90. 7, Mountain View 89. 8, Eagle 64. 9, Skyline 54. 10, Hillcrest 43. 11, Centennial 32. 12, Lewiston 26. 13, Timberline 15. 14, Highland 11. 15, Capital 10. 16, Vallivue 6. 17 (tie), Borah, Meridian 2.

4A TEAM SCORES - 1, Wood River 236. 2, Sandpoint 142. 3, Bishop Kelly 115. 4, Century 98. 5, Bonneville 66. 6, Twin Falls 30. 7, Moscow 23. 8, Rigby 22. 9, Canyon Ridge 2.

3A TEAM SCORES - 1, Logos 12. 2 (tie), North Gem, Riverstone 1.

WINNERS, LOCALS IN TOP 8

200-yard medley relay - 1, Boise (Taylor Anderson, Abbey Erwin, Sammie Eyolfson, Serena Hertel), 1:51.21 (state record: previous, Boise, 1:51.26). 5, Sandpoint (Emily Deitz, Kate Matlosz, Madison Contor, Payton Bowlby), 1:53.74. 6, Lake City (Tiffany Portue, Jessica Penny, Hannah Gonzalez, Ashlee Gonzalez), 1:58.82.

200 freestyle - 1, Abbey Erwin, Boise, 1:54.94. 3, Hannah Gonzalez, Lake City, 1:59.76.

200 individual medley - 1, Nicole Rozier, Coeur d'Alene, 2:03.78# (state record; previous, Lena Friesen, 2:07.54).

50 freestyle - 1, Payton Bokowy, Sandpoint, 24.58. 5, Suzanne deTar, Post Falls, 25.21.

100 butterfly - 1, Maddie Johnson, Wood River, 57.29# (state record; Maddie Johnson, 57.62, 2013). 7, Micah Hudlet, Coeur d'Alene, 1:03.03.

100 freestyle - 1, Payton Bokowy, Sandpoint, 53.33. 8, Hannah Gonzalez, Lake City, 55.08.

500 freestyle - 1, Abbey Erwin, Boise, 4:57.36. 2, Maggie deTar, Post Falls, 5:17.20.

200 freestyle relay - 1, Idaho Falls (Andrea Perttula, Jade Irick, JaNeil Skillings, Camille Andrus), 1:42.79. 4, Coeur d'Alene (Nicole Rozier, Morgan Shoup, Micah Hudlet, Bailey Mote), 1:45.98. 5, Lake City (Tiffany Portue, Ashlee Gonzalez, Brianne Gonzalez, Hannah Gonzalez) 1:47.35. 8, Post Falls (Suzanne deTar, Abi Sovereign, Morgan Davis, Maggie deTar), 1:50.14.

100 backstroke - 1, Taylor Anderson, Boise, 58.08. 4, Emily Deitz, Sandpoint, 1:00.54. 6, Tiffany Portue, Lake City, 1:02.98. 7, Suzanne deTar, Post Falls, 1:03.14.

100 breaststroke - 1, Nicole Rozier, Coeur d'Alene, 1:05.23. 3, Micah Hudlet, Coeur d'Alene, 1:08.28.

400 freestyle relay - 1, Wood River (Chiloe Spelius, Kaedi Fry, Katherine Lemma, Maddie Johnson), 3:39.15. 3, Sandpoint (Kate Matlosz, Emily Deitz, Madison Contor, Payton Bokowy), 3:47.48.