Burton is sectional swim champion

Burton

Delphi sophomore Andrew Burton won the 50 and 100 freestyle events at Saturday's West Lafayette swim sectional.

Burton beat five seniors in both events to be the meet's only double individual event winner. His times of 22.53 in the 50 and 48.89 in the 100 reset his school records.

The wins advance Burton to the state swim meet Friday evening, the first time in over 20 years a Delphi swimmer has competed at the state meet.

Teammate Kyle Price came up short on his bid to join Burton at the state meet. Price, a junior, was the number one seed in the 100 backstroke, but was out touched to finish second.

The 200 freestyle relay team of Matt Keen, Jared Kelley, Jeremy Sterrett and Burton set a school record with a time of 1:35.94 for third place.

At Thursday's sectional preliminaries the team posted 13 personal best times: Sterrett, 200 free 1:58.16, 100 free 54.14; Brent Kremer 200 free 2:05.85; Keen 100 butterfly 1:00.36; Alex Price 50 free 25.56, 100 backstroke 1:06.79; K. Price 100 backstroke 56.81; Clint McLeland 100 breaststroke 1:10.16; Andy Flora 100 breaststroke 1:09.45; 200 free relay team of Keen, Kelley, Sterrett, Burton 1:36.06; Burton 50 free 22:60, 100 free 49.19; 400 freestyle relay team of Sterrett, Kelley, K. Price and Burton 3:33.01.

The boys' swim team finished their dual season 14-2 and placed sixth at the sectional.