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Lakeville Boys Swim Teams Head to True Team Finals

Lakeville North and Lakeville South are wild card teams in tomorrow's meet at the University of Minnesota.

The Lakeville North and Lakeville South boys swimming and diving teams will compete in Saturday’s Class AA True Team finals at the University of Minnesota.

Both teams are entering the finals as wild card teams, as they finished among the top 12 teams in the state in last weekend’s sectional True Team meets.

North finished second and South was third in last weekend’s Section 3AA True Team meet at Kenwood Trail Middle School. Rosemount took home the section title.

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Top performers among the Lakeville athletes in the True Team section meet include:

• Evan Ostendorff, Lakeville South, first place in diving

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• North medley relay team of Ryan Young, Nick Saloka, Hunter Burchfield and Alex Dahlgren, third place.

• South medley relay team of Tim Mitchell, Cameron Verby, Zachary Smith and Sam Wilson, fifth place.

• Trae Schindler, North, first place in 200 freestyle.

• Mitch Herera, South, fourth place in 200 freestyle and fourth place in 500 freestyle.

• Hunter Burchfield, North, fifth place in 50 freestyle and fifth place in 100 freestyle.

• Ryan Young, North, third place in 100 fly and fourth place in 100 backstroke.

• Travis Meyer, fourth place in 100 fly.

• Nathan Regan, third place in 500 freestyle.

• Jacob Burchfield, fifth place in 500 freestyle.

• North 200 freestyle relay team of Brandon Jensen, Nick Saloka, Alex T. Dahlgren and Trae Schindler, second place.

• South 200 freestyle relay team of Travis Meyer, Adrian Sommers, Daniel Eckerson and Mitch Herrera, third place.

• North 400 freestyle relay of Trae Schindler, Brandon Jensen, Hunter Burchfield and Tim Mitchel, second place.

• South 400 freestyle relay of Travis Meyer, Luke Sabal, Adrian Sommers and Mitch Herrera, fourth place.

In addition, Lakeville North senior Blake Adams broke two Paralympic records at the meet.

The performances at the section meet capped a good week for Lakeville teams. On Jan. 10, North and South each topped Northfield in a triangular meet. Two days later, South defeated Apple Valley and North topped Prior Lake.

The Lakeville teams are getting noticed statewide, as North was ranked seventh and South was 10th in the Jan. 17 State Coaches Association dual-meet rankings.

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