Lady Bulldog Swimmers Participate In Tri-Meet At EH

The Lady Bulldogs of Batesville high school traveled to Charlottesville to take on the New Castle Trojans and host Royals in a 3-way meet on Thursday night. 

“As our first meet of the season, this was a huge learning opportunity for our newer members and a chance for our veteran team members to get back to racing,” said Bulldogs Coach Greg McMullen, fourth-year coach of the Bulldogs. “We’ve been working hard to get our vets back to race-ready and working with our newcomers for this very moment.”  

The Bulldogs finished strong earning a second-place victory in the meet finishing just behind the Trojans.    

“As always, we’ll go back and see what we have to work on. But we were able to get the first meet jitters out of the way for our women and will look to knock off some more rust in the coming weeks before we travel to Connersville on December 1.”   

TEAM SCORES

New Castle, 368

Eastern Hancock, 227     

BULLDOG TOP FINISHERS

Women

Maria Lopez (11) – 200 IM, 2nd; 100 Fly, 2nd

Lilly Gellenbeck (9) – 100 Free, 2nd

Taylor Blanton (9) – 50 Free, 2nd; 100 Back, 2nd    

NOTABLES

– The Bulldogs were down 5 team members due to quarantine protocols including three top-six swimmers from season.

– The Lady Bulldogs returned 6 members from the 19-20 season while adding 11 new swimmers to the team this season, including 7 freshman, 1 sophomore, 2 juniors and one senior.

– Overall BHS had 7 2nd-place finishers and 4 third-place.    

UP NEXT

The Batesville Bulldogs swim team will be visiting Connersville for a 3-way meet against opponents Connersville High School and Eastern Hancock on Dec. 1 at Connersville High School.    

Full Meet Results can be found via SwimCloud: https://www.swimcloud.com/results/184681/

Meet Replay available on YouTube.