Boys’ swimming: Division I record falls in 50 free -- twice

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Karl Krug, a senior at Yucaipa, won his 50-yard freestyle heat in a division-record time of 20.05 seconds Wednesday afternoon during the Southern Section-Toyota Division I preliminaries at Belmont Pool in Long Beach. However, less than a minute later, he was only the co-record holder after Joey Hale of Redlands won his heat in 20.05. The two will square off in the division finals, beginning at 6 p.m. Friday at Belmont.

The previous record of 20.27 had been set in 1994 by Woodbridge’s Derya Buyukuncu.

Another Division I record was set in the boys’ 200 freestyle relay, which Yucaipa swam in 1:23.58 to surpass the 1:24.12 of San Marino in 1991.

But the best news of all (well, for our family anyway), is that my daughter’s relay team managed to qualify for the 400 freestyle finals -- the last event of the competition -- so it’s back to Long Beach tomorrow night!

-- Editor Bob