Service boys capture first state swim crown since 1996

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Lydia Jacoby, of Seward High, swims her freestyle leg of the 200 IM on her way to victory with a time of 2:09.31 in the State Swimming Championships at Bartlett High on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. (Bob Hallinen / ADN)

The Service boys are back. The Dimond girls never left.

Service won its first boys state swimming title since 1996 and Dimond claimed its fourth straight girls championship Saturday at the state swimming and diving championships at the Bartlett High pool.

Caleb Law and Brian Jarupakorn were the driving forces behind a deep, powerful Cougars squad that broke two state records.

Law won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races and swam on Service's record-breaking 200-yard individual medley relay and 200-yard freestyle relay teams. Jarupakorn won the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke and also swam in both relays.

Service's title was its ninth overall, but the closest the Cougars had come to a championship in recent years was back-to-back third-place showings in 2013-14.

The Cougars outdistanced rival Dimond by 15 points. Kodiak was third.

Eagle River's John Heaphy was also a double winner in the boys competition with victories in the 100 breaststroke and 200 individual medley.

In the girls competition, Dimond beat Sitka by 24 points for its ninth state championship. Eagle River claimed third place.

The Lynx had a double winner in Breckynn Willis (200 freestyle, 100 butterfly). Willis also teamed with Brooke Dittlinger, Emi Soldwedel and Dreamer Kowatch to win the 200 freestyle relay and with Kowatch, Soldwedel and Mikayla Terry to win the 400 freestyle relay. Kowatch, Willis's younger sister, won the 500 freestyle.

Seward's Lydia Jacoby made one of the meet's biggest splashes by breaking the state record in the 100 breaststroke two days in a row. On Friday, she clocked 1:03.68 to shatter the previous mark of 1:04.50 set by Kodiak's Laura Griffing in 2010. On Saturday, she lowered her own record with a time of 1:03.11.

Jacoby also won the 200 individual medley.

Chugiak's Izzy Powers won twice in her final high school meet, claiming victory in both the 50 and 100 freestyle races.

ASAA/First National Bank State Swimming and Diving Championships

Girls team scores – 1) Dimond 96; 2) Sitka 72; 3) Eagle River 57; 4) Palmer 52; 5) Kodiak 44; 6) South 36; 7) West Valley 35; 8) Chugiak 27; 9) Homer 23; 10) Seward 18; 11) Wasilla 15; 12) Lathrop 13; 13) Soldotna 12; 14) Petersburg 11; 15) Monroe 9; 16) Hutchison 7; 17) tie, Thunder Mountain and West 6; 19) tie, Colony and Ketchikan 5; 21) tie; Juneau Douglas and Colony 2.

Boys team scores – 1) Service 114; 2) Dimond 99; 3) Kodiak 61.5; 4) Eagle River 60.5; 5) tie, Kenai Central and Juneau Douglas 32; 7) West Valley 29; 8) Thunder Mountain 26; 9) Soldotna 24; 10) Hutchison 16; 11) Homer 10; 12) Sitka 8; 13) West 7; 14) North Pole 6; 15) tie, Seward and Chugiak 5; 17) Wasilla 4; 18) Colony 3; 19) tie, West, Unalaska and Wasilla 2; 22) Petersburg 1.

Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay – 1) Sitka (Jessica Davis, Grace Harang, Sophia Schwantes, Kyleigh McArthur) 1:49.80; 2) Eagle River 1:50.81; 3, Palmer 1:53.20; 4, Kodiak 1:53.25).

Boys 200 Yard Medley Relay — 1) Service (Brian Jarupakorn, Tavner Wisdom, Ian Sands, Caleb Law) 1:34.00; 2) Eagle River 1:40.33; 3, Dimond 1:40.81; 4, Kodiak 1:41.02.

Girls 200 Yard Freestyle — 1) Breckynn Willis, Dimond, 1:57.28; 2) Ellyse Russell, Palmer, 1:59.25; 3, Leslie Spear, Kodiak, 2:00.19; 4, Allie Morgan, Petersburg, 2:01.94.

Boys 200 Yard Freestyle — 1) Maximus Addington, Dimond, 1:42.31; 2) Jesse Tatakis, Dimond, 1:45.35; 3, Nathan James, Kodiak, 1:47.43; 4, Andrew Walch, Dimond, 1:48.64.

Girls 200 Yard IM — 1) Lydia Jacoby, Seward, 2:09.31; 2) Dreamer Kowatch, Dimond, 2:09.99; 3, Grace Harang, Sitka, 2:12.25; 4, Summer Cheng, South, 2:12.61.

Boys 200 Yard IM — 1) John Heaphy, ER, 1:56.16; 2) Noah Palmer, Hutchison, 1:59.24; 3) Matthew Heaphy, ER, 2:00.7; 4) 4, Christopher Loudon, Dimond, 2:01.07.

Girls 50 Yard Freestyle — 1) Izzy Powers, Chugiak, 23.92; 2) Katherine Horning, ER, 24.69; 3, Katy McCarter, Lathrop, 24.81; 4, Gretchen Snelders, Palmer, 24.88.

Boys 50 Yard Freestyle –1) Caleb Law, Service, 20.60; 2) Ezra Billings, West Valley, 22.11; 3, Tyler Weldon, Juneau, 22.25; 4, Ethan Evans, Soldotna, 22.33.

Girls 1-meter Diving — 1) Jayde Chan, Wasilla, 419.20; 2) Jenna Walch, Dimond, 403.25; 3, Carrie Mayer, Wasilla, 374.00; 4, Chloe Hartman, Palmer, 363.35.

Boys 1-meter Diving — 1) Kylin Welch, Soldotna, 433.15; 2) Houlton Dannenberg, West, 410.15; 3, Sam Skolnick, Soldotna, 407.60; 4, Gabe Dobson, Chugiak, 391.20.

Girls 100 Yard Butterfly — 1) Breckynn Willis, Dimond, 58.03; 2) Kiara Borchardt, ER, 58.23; 3, Devon Cummiskey, Kodiak, 58.58; 4, Jessica Davis, Sitka, 59.40.

Boys 100 Yard Butterfly — 1) Brian Jarupakorn, Service, 50.47; 2) Maximus Addington, Dimond, 50.65; 3, Ian Sands, Service, 53.49; 4, Connor Spanos, Seward, 53.97.

Girls 100 Yard Freestyle — 1) Izzy Powers, Chugiak, 52.53; 2) Katy McCarter, Lathrop, 53.84; 3, Ellie Mercer, ER, 53.86; 4, Aubrey Cheng, South, 54.13.

Boys 100 Yard Freestyle — 1) Caleb Law, Service, 46.08; 2) Jesse Tatakis, Dimond, 47.79; 3, Christopher Loudon, Dimond, 48.30; 4, Savaii Heaven, Chugiak, 48.41.

Girls 500 Yard Freestyle — 1) Dreamer Kowatch, Dimond, 5:14.82; 2) Grace Harang, Sitka, 5:17.13) 3, Ryann Dorris, West, 5:24.05) 4, Cassidey Welsh, Hutchison, 5:26.18.

Boys 500 Yard Freestyle — 1) Noah Palmer, Hutchison, 4:42.58; 2) Raymie Matiashowski, Thunder Mountain, 4:52.83;
3) Tytan Frawley, Sitka, 4:53.56; 4, Kenneth Octuk, Dimond, 4:53.58.

Girls 200 Yard Freestyle Relay — 1) Dimond (Breckynn Willis, Brooke Dittlinger, Emi Soldwedel, Dreamer Kowatch) 1:40.40; 2) Eagle River 1:40.91; 3, Palmer 1:40.92; 4, Homer 1:42.67.

Boys 200 Yard Freestyle Relay — 1) Service (Brian Jarupakorn, Ian Sands, Austin Carpenter, Caleb Law), 1:25.47; 2) Kodiak 1:30.28; 3, Eagle River 1:30.49; 4, West Valley 1:31.70.

Girls 100 Yard Backstroke — 1) Ellie Mercer, ER, 58.40; 2) Jessica Davis, Sitka, 58.88; 3, Summer Cheng, South, 1:00.07; 4, Victoria Schachle, MHS, 1:02.38.

Boys 100 Yard Backstroke — 1) Brian Jarupakorn, Service, 51.50; 2) Savaii Heaven, Chugiak, 52.77; 3, Austin Carpenter, Service, 52.84) 4, Ian Rocheleau, Kodiak, 54.37.

Girls 100 Yard Breaststroke — 1) Lydia Jacoby, Seward, 1:03.11; 2) Patty Eppingher, West Valley, 1:07.43) 3, Leslie Spear, Kodiak, 1:07.88; 4, Anastasia Chen, West Valley, 1:08.69.

Boys 100 Yard Breaststroke — 1) John Heaphy, ER, 56.76) 2) Tavner Wisdom, Service, 59.37; 3, Anders Hocum, Kodiak, 59.42; 4, Matthew Heaphy, ER, 1:00.52.

Girls 400 Yard Freestyle Relay — 1) Dimond (Breckynn Willis, Emi Soldwedel, Mikayla Terry, Dreamer Kowatch) 3:38.19; 2) Sitka 3:39.25; 3) Kodiak 3:43.6; 4) South 3:46.68.

Boys 400 Yard Freestyle Relay — 1) Dimond (Maximus Addington, Christopher Loudon, Kenneth Octuk, Jesse Tatakis) 3:11.95; 2) Service 3:16.51; 3, Kodiak 3:17.74; 4, Juneau Douglas 3:20.53.