Warren Central swimmers win five titles at MHSAA state meet – The Vicksburg Post

Warren Central’s swimmers set the water on fire Saturday at the MHSAA Class 2 Championships.

Ashtin Wallace and Avery Greer each won an individual state championship, and the Vikings added three relay titles when they finished second in both the boys’ and girls’ team standings at the season-ending event in Tupelo.

Pearl River Central won the Class 2 boys team title and West Jones won the girls championship. Class 2 consists of teams that are in classes 5A and 6A in other sports.

Wallace won the boys’ 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2 minutes, 6.75 seconds, and narrowly missed a second state title in the 100-meter butterfly. He had a time of 53.48 seconds in the butterfly, and Saltillo’s Levi Johnson won in 53.31.

However, Wallace did win two gold medals in the relay. He teamed with James McKenna, Ace Orosco and Jacob Byrd to win the 200-yard medley relay in 1:47.92 – about 4 1/2 seconds ahead of runner-up Pearl River Central.

Wallace, McKenna, Byrd and Thomas Kilroy closed the meet with another dominant victory in the final event, the 400-meter freestyle relay. Their time of 3:40.91 was nine seconds ahead of runner-up West Jones.

In addition to their wins, Warren Central’s boys earned three individual second-place finishes. Byrd placed second in the 500 freestyle, Orosco in the 100 freestyle and Wallace in the 100 freestyle.

McKenna also placed third in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke.

Greer led the Lady Vikes with her state championship in the 100 freestyle. She hit the wall with a time of 56.61 seconds, just ahead of the 56.79 seconds of South Panola’s Allie Whitaker.

Greer also finished second in the 200-meter individual medley and later joined Kara Rowe, Addison Billings and Ella Opperman atop the podium in the 400 freestyle relay.

Warren Central’s quartet blew away the field with a time of 4:14.51, six seconds ahead of second-place Lafayette.

The same relay group opened the meet with a second-place finish in the 200-meter medley relay, with a time of 2:08.81.

Billings and Rowe also stood on the podium in several individual events. Billings earned a pair of third-place finishes in the 200- and 500-meter freestyle, while Rowe placed third in the 100-meter butterfly.