The Versailles Republican Sports
January 17, 2008

Milan Indian swim teams compete at Lawrenceburg High School

Gary Franklin, Sports Writer

The Indians traveled to Lawrenceburg to compete against the Batesville Bulldogs and the hosting Lawrenceburg Tigers on Thursday evening, January 10.

The event opened with Lawrenceburg divers competing as they were the only team to have divers.

Swimming events began with the Womens 200 Yard Medley Relay. Swimming it for the Milan Indian swim team were Elizabeth Smith, Danielle Schaefer, Jasmine Vetma-Hollins and Shelby Zornes, who captured a second place finish with a time of 2:10.51. Batesville was first at 2:08.47.

Milan swimmers in the 200 Yard Medley Relay were Heath Weston, Nick Dixon, TJ Shannon and Tyler Mills. They also finished second behind Batesville. The Indians race time was 2:03.85.

Lady Indian swimmer Elizabeth Smith won the Womens 200 Yard Free competition in a time of 2:11.23, while teammate Jasmine Vetma-Hollins captured fourth of the six swimmer race with a time of 2:30.08.

Nick Dixon of Milan finished third in the Mens 200 Yard Free in a time of 2:44.63.
Lady Indian swimmer Shelby Zornes finished second in the Womens 200 Yard IM in 2:40.80 behind Lawrenceburg 's Nicole Lewis' 2:37.31.

Heath Weston beat the two Batesville contenders in the Mens 200 Yard IM, winning with a time of 2:25.00.

Chelsea Lee finished fourth for the Lady Indians in the Womens 50 Yard Free. Her time was :32.37.

Indian swimmer TJ Shannon took fourth in :26.28 in the Mens 50 Yard Free, while teammate Jason Day swam to a fifth place finish at :30.66.

Tyler Mills of Milan took second place in the Mens 100 Yard Fly in 1:08.99 behind Batesville's Scott Gryspeerdt's 1:08.76.

Lady Indian swimmer Elizabeth Smith left the competition in the waves with her first place finish in the Womens 100 Yard Free. Smith completed her race in :58.61. Teammates Emily Jones finished sixth in 1:15.67 and Maria Thompson's time was 1:22.38.

Heath Weston of the Indians swam the Mens 100 Yard Free to a fourth place finish in 1:00.36, followed by teammates TJ Shannons finish for fifth in 1:08.80 and Jason Days time of 1:09.22.

Shelby Zornes of the Lady Indians left the pool steaming, with her first place finish in the Womens 500 Yard Free with a time of 6:12.39. Lady Indian Jasmine Vetma-Hollins finished third in 7:03.36.

Lady Indian swimmers Emily Jones, Maria Thompson, Kaliegh Gardner and Chelsea Lee finished the Womens 200 Yard Free Relay in 2:18.85 for a third place finish.

Lady Indians Chelsea Lee in a time of 1:36.46 took fourth as teammate Emily Jones was D'Qed in the Womens 100 Yard Back event.

Tyler Mills brought home a second place finish for the tribe with a swim of 1:08.83 behind Batesville's Tyler Guidry's 1:05,95 in the Mens 100 Yard Back event.

Milan finished fourth and fifth in the Womens 100 Yard Breast event as Danielle Schaefer swam it in 1:25.57, followed by Kaliegh Gardner at 1:29.34.

Nick Dixon of the Indians finished third in 1:23.53 in the Mens 100 Yard Breast event.
The Lady Indians again shined in the Womens 400 Yard Free Relay as Shelby Zornes, Jasmine Vetma-Hollins, Danielle Schaefer and Elizabeth Smith parted the waters for a first place finish in 4:23.11. A second Lady Indian team consisting of Kaliegh Gardner, Maria Thompson, Emily Jones and Chelsea Lee, finished the 400 in 5:24.20 earning a fourth place spot of the six teams competing.

The event finale was the Mens 400 Yard Free Relay, where the Milan team of Tyler Mills, Nick Dixon, TJ Shannon and Heath Weston completed the event for a third place finish in 4:30.19.

Final scoring for the girls' events placed the Batesville Lady Bulldogs in first place with 130 points, Milan Lady Indians in second place with 83 points and the Lawrenceburg Lady Tigers third with 74 points.

Final count of the boys' portion of the event found Batesville Bulldogs also capturing the first place spot with 160 points, Milan Indian boys team in second with 53 points and the Lawrenceburg Tiger boys' team third with 21 points.