By Cort Reynolds
LIMA - The Bluffton swim club and Ada varsity team faced off in the Bulldog season-opening dual meet Thursday evening at the Lima YMCA natatorium.

Bluffton captured the girls meet 48-31, and also won the boys meet by a 67-12 score.

Sophomore Carlie Oldfield and senior Paige Cole each won two races to pace the Ada girls. Sophomores Kaitlyn Bowden and Jack Baumgartner also recorded first-place finishes for the Bulldogs.

Sophomore Riley Verb won two individual events for Bluffton and also swam a leg for two relay race winners.

Ada event winners:
Girls 200 Yard Freestyle
Place Name Finals Time 
1 Bowden, Kaitlyn 2:30.88

Boys 200 Yard Freestyle
1 Baumgartner, Jack 2:32.75

Girls 200 Yard IM
1 Oldfield, Carlie  2:27.82

Girls 100 Yard Butter?ly
1 Cole, Paige 1:06.47

Girls 100 Yard Freestyle
1 Cole, Paige 1:04.94

Girls 100 Yard Backstroke
1 Oldfield, Carlie 1:08.30

Bluffton event winners:
Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay
1 Bluffton Swim Club A 2:10.45 
1) Hoffman, Ellie J SR 2) Diller, Allison C SO 3) Stechschulte, Izzy R FR 4) Armstrong, Ella R FR

Boys 200 Yard Medley Relay
1 Bluffton Swim Club-OH A 1:56.62
1) McCall, CJ SO 2) Nygaard, Eric C SO 3) Cupples, Tyler L FR 4) Hoffman, Nolan J SO

Boys 200 Yard IM
Name Yr School Seed Time Finals Time Points
1 Verb, Riley W 2:11.03

Girls 50 Yard Freestyle
1 Stechschulte, Izzy 29.89 

Boys 50 Yard Freestyle
1 Hoffman, Nolan 26.91

Boys 100 Yard Butterfly
1 McCall, CJ 1:12.11

Boys 100 Yard Freestyle
1 Nygaard, Erik 1:06.11

Girls 500 Yard Freestyle
1 Diller, Allison 6:24.81

Boys 500 Yard Freestyle
1 Verb, Riley 5:32.84

Girls 200 Yard Freestyle Relay
1 Bluffton Swim Club-A 1:56.65 
1) Armstrong, Ella R FR 2) Stechschulte, Izzy R FR 3) Diller, Allison C SO 4) Hoffman, Ellie J SR

Boys 200 Yard Freestyle Relay
1 Bluffton Swim Club-OH A 1:47.46 1:49.47
1) Verb, Riley W SO 2) Derstine, Simon R SR 3) Hoffman, Nolan J SO 4) Derstine, Sam E SO

Boys 100 Yard Backstroke
1 Lehman, Jacob 1:26.26

Girls 100 Yard Breaststroke
1 Hoffman, Ellie 1:22.33

Boys 100 Yard Breaststroke
1 Armstrong, Landon 1:14.05

Girls 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
1 Bluffton Swim Club A 5:45.92 
1) Diller, Allison C SO 2) Barnes, Olivia SR 3) Smith, Celia K SR 4) Bourassa, Andrea L SR

Boys 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
1 Bluffton Swim Club A 4:13.54 
1) Verb, Riley W SO 2) Derstine, Simon R SR 3) Nygaard, Eric C SO 4) Armstrong, Landon B SO