Canton's Patrick Jenner placed second in the 100-yard freestyle.

Salem touches first against Canton

Feb. 4, 2010, 9:30 p.m.

  Salem's swim and dive team earned at least a year's worth of cross-campus bragging rights against Canton Tuesday night by surging past the host Chiefs, 111-75.

  The victory improved the Rocks' record to 4-3 heading into Tuesday's second-straight "Park" rivalry meet against Plymouth.

  Salem's balanced attack was led by junior Adam Seroka, the meet's only two-time individual winner.  Seroka, state qualifier his first two seasons at Salem, won the  200-yard individual medley in 2:01.49, four seconds faster than Canton's Jin Jay; and the 100 butterfly,  an event the Rocks went 1-2-3 with runner-up Jeremy Wellman and third-place Patrick Huls.

  Other individual winners for Salem were  Max Mills (200 freestyle), Matt Collingwood (100 freestyle), Jeremy Wellman (100 backstroke) and Smaran Bhaktawara (100 breaststroke).

  The Chiefs' two first-place performers were Victor Zhang,m who won the 50 free in 22.52, less than one-tenth of a second faster than Collingwood, and Jay Jin, who nipped teammate Kyle Kemp in the 500 free by .69 of a second.

  Canton also won the 1-meter diving competition thanks to the 183.05 effort of Ryan Kilgore.

200-yard medley relay: 1. Salem (Jason Zhang, Smaran Bahktawara, Jeremy Wellman, Matt Collingwood), 1:46.34; 2. Canton (Jay Jin, Ryan Boes, Brandon Tolinski, Victor Zhang), 1:46.67; 3. Salem (Alex Suriano, Calvin Kahler, Patrick Huls, Chad Newton), 1:51.96.

200 freestyle: 1. Max Mills (S), 1:52.72; 2. Kyle Kemp (C), 1:54.31; 3. Aaron Micek (S), 1:59.03.

200 IM: 1. Adam Seroka (S), 2:01.49; 2. Jay Jin (C), 2:05.73; 3. Jason Zhang (S), 2:12.92.

50 freestyle: 1. Victor Zhang (C), 22.52; 2. Matt Collingwood (S), 22.60; 3. Chad Newton (S), 24.50.

1-meter diving: 1. Ryan Kilgore (C), 183.05 points; 2. Joey Rudelic (S), 179.35; 3. Nick Griwicki (S), 170.75.

100 butterfly: 1. Adam Seroka (S), 55.82; 2. Jeremy Wellman, 58.23; 3. Patrick Huls (S), 59.56.

100 freestyle: 1. Matt Collingwood (S), 50.77; 2. Patrick Jenner (C), 51.63; 3. Chad Newton (S), 53.77.

500 freestyle: 1. Jay Jin (C), 5:01.23; 2. Kyle Kemp (C), 5:01.92; 3. Max Mills (S), 5:02.91.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Canton (Patrick Jenner, Mike Carlson, Brandon Tolinski, Victor Zhang), 1:35.17; 2. Salem (Chad Newton, Steven Clagg, Max Mills, Adam Seroka), 1:37.26; 3. Canton (Evan Champine, Adrian Simion, Eric Tian, Ryan DeFrain), 1:40.10.

100 backstroke: 1. Jeremy Wellman (S), 1:01.27; 2. Alex Suriano (S), 1:01.72; 3. Adrian Simion (C), 1:02.96.

100 breaststroke: 1. Smaran Bhaktawara (S), 1:08.56; 2. Jason Zhang (S), 1:09.15; 3. Jacob Dillon (C), 1:10.09.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Salem (Adam Seroka, Max Mills, Jason Zhang, Matt Collingwood), 3:27.29; 2. Canton (Jay Jin, Patrick Jenner, Brandon Tolinski, Victor Zhang); 3. Salem (Patrick Huls, Aaron Micek, Jeremy Wellman, Alex Suriano).