Central's Gramling reaches final at swim championships

Central sophomore Sam Gramling reached the finals of the 500-yard relay at the Missouri Swimming Championships on Friday with a seventh-place finish in the preliminaries at the St. Peters Rec Plex in St. Peters, Mo.

Gramling posted a time of 4 minutes, 50.03 seconds to make the final field of eight. Zach Bolin of Blue Springs will take the top time into today's final, covering the distance in 4:37.95.

Peyton Waggener of Central finished 15th in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.42) to qualify for today's consolation round.

Friday's preliminaries

(Area results)

200 medley relay -- 23. Central (Sam Gramling, Caleb Coots, Peyton Waggener, Matt Holmes), 1:47.04

100 butterfly -- 23. Ryan Gibson, Jackson, 55.23; 31. Logan Bollinger, Notre Dame, 56.80; 32. Caleb Coots, Central, 57.03

500 freestyle -- 7. Sam Gramling, Central, 4:50.03; 22; Caleb Coots, Central, 5:00.34; 42. Nick Welker, Jackson, 5:08.77

200 freestyle -- 15. Sam Gramling, Central, 1:48.93; 28. Peyton Waggener, Central, 1:51.26

100 breaststroke -- 15. Peyton Waggener, Central, 1:03.42

100 backstroke -- 32. Ryan Gibson, Jackson, 59.49

400 freestyle relay -- 28. Central (Sam Gramling, Caleb Coots, Peyton Waggener, Matt Holmes), 3:30.02; 29; Notre Dame (Jacob Buckenmeyer, Ben Rockett, Logan Bollinger, Sean Doyle), 3:31.23