Carson swimmers safely advance

The Carson High boys and girls swim teams safely got through all of its swimmers today's finals in the Northern 4A Zone preliminaries on Friday at the Carson Aquatic Facility.

Kevin Dyer qualified first for Carson's boys in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing in 4 minutes, 57.60 seconds. Ian Murdock also qualified for the championship finals, finishing in the top eight, qualifying seventh in 5:52.51.

Abby Niehoff safely qualified for the girls 500 free finals without having to spend herself as she qualified third in 5:18.53. Niehoff is favored to win the event. Barbara Perkins also qualified fifth in 5:26.71 and Tatum Boehnke qualified sixth in 5:30.27.

Niehoff also qualified third in the 100 butterfly in 1:00.25 and Boehnke qualified seventh in 1:07.16.

Jessica Goddard qualified for the consolation finals in 10th in 1:06.6. The ninth through 16th finishers advanced to the consolation finals.

Others who qualified for today for Carson were: Girls 200 free - Rebekah Niehoff, sixth, 2:05.44; Beth Lewis, 13th, 2:20.11; Melissa Wurster, 15th, 2:21.35. Boys 200 free Ð Ian Murdock, 13th, 2:11.44. Girls 200 I.M. - Perkins, fifth, 2:23.99; Danielle Judge, 12th, 2:34.41.

Boys 200 I.M. - Paul Chang, eighth, 2:24.28. Girls 50 free - Julie Asire, fourth, 26.03; Sarah Metcalf, 15th, 27.99; Jessica Goddard, 16th, 28.00. Boys 100 fly - Sam Ballard, 13th, 1:07.37. Girls 100 free - Julie Asire, fourth, 57.33; Hilary Schlager, fifth, 57.86; Melissa Wurster, 14th, 1:02.7.

Boys 100 free - Chris Earwood, 11th, 57.03. Girls 100 backstroke - Rebekah Niehoff, 11th, 1:06.31. Boys 100 back -a Matt Grunert, third, 59.52; Ballard, eighth, 1:05.24. Girls 100 breaststroke - Schlager, ninth, 1:14.07. Boys 100 breaststroke - Garrett Clayton, fifth, 1:05.40; Chang, 12th, 1:11.79.

Carson's boys also picked up some valuable points in diving when Todd Banko took fifth, Adam Updegrove was seventh and Kurt Anderson was ninth.

Today's finals are scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. today at the Carson Aquatic Facility.