Twelve local swimmers qualified for the final round of the KHSAA State Swimming and Diving Championships in 13 events with their performances Saturday in a first-round section at Louisville.

Swimmers from Boyle County, Danville and Garrard County advanced with their performances in the meet at Ralph Wright Natatorium.

It was one of three first-round meets for which swimmers could qualify for the final rounds Friday and Saturday at Lancaster Aquatic Center in Lexington.

Local qualifiers, with their places in Saturday’s meet:

Boys

200 freestyle – 4. Luke Hamon, Boyle; 11. Beau Bostick, Boyle.

50 freestyle – 3. Ethan Gover, Boyle.

100 butterfly – 2. Clark Coyle, Boyle; 10. Bostick, Boyle.

100 freestyle – 3. Gover, Boyle; 7. Hamon, Boyle.

200 freestyle relay – 2. Boyle (Coyle, Bostick, Hamon, Gover).

100 backstroke – 2. Coyle, Boyle; 10. Cole Hardwick, Garrard; 11. Benjamin Gilbert, Boyle.

400 freestyle relay – 2. Boyle (Gover, Bostick, Coyle, Hamon)

 

Girls

200 medley relay – 5. Boyle (Nancy Haddad, Maggie Gnann, Kate Hoffman, Hannah Bischoff).

50 freestyle – 8. Abigail Heath, Boyle.

100 butterfly – 10. Hoffman, Boyle.

100 freestyle – 12. Heath, Boyle.

100 breaststroke – 9. Ivy Sadler, Danville.

400 freestyle relay – 3. Boyle (Bischoff, Edie Gover, Hoffman, Heath).