OWENSBORO – On a day when records keep falling, one streak stayed intact with the Bowling Green swimming and diving team winning a 13th straight Region Two title Saturday at the Owensboro Health Park.

Bowling Green won the combined team award with 942 points. Greenwood finished second with 637.5 points and South Warren was third with 546 points.

In the boys’ team scores, the Purples finished with 474 points and second-place South Warren finished with 324 points.

The Lady Purples edged Greenwood for the girls’ crown with 468 points, while the Lady Gators had 401.5 points. South Warren was third with 222 points.

“There is something about Owensboro, I guess,” Bowling Green coach Dee Wilkins said. “When we come here we want to leave with those trophies. Everybody on the team knows their importance, whether they are first place or second place or somebody that is fourth in the lineup. They know they’ve got to get in there and score for us to repeat every year.

“It was an amazing day for us. We work hard all year long and to see it all come together and be able to repeat for the 13th time is amazing.”

Record swims from Sam Sutton and Neal Morsi helped Bowling Green retain its title.

Sutton opened the day with sister Sally Sutton, Lilly Morris and Emma Davenport to win the 200-yard medley relay with a region record time of 1 minute, 51.19 seconds, edging the school’s 2012 record of 1:51.63. She then added a region record in the 100 breaststroke with a winning time of 1:04.00 and finished second in the 200 individual medley.

Sam Sutton said she was happy to do her part to help the team win another region title.

“It’s really special because I am only 16, so I was 3 when they started winning – which is pretty cool,” Sutton said. “To continue this tradition, it feels really great.”

Morsi won the 100 backstroke in a region record time of 51.43 seconds to edge Greenwood’s Tanner Cummings by 0.37 seconds. Morsi also joined Ethan Taylor, Maunil Mullick and Benjamin Ginter to win the 200 medley relay, while finishing second to Cummings in the 100 butterfly.

“It really means a lot,” Morsi said. “I’m speechless right now. I looked up at the board and saw 51 and I was like ‘Oh, my God.’ ”

Morsi added winning the region again as a team was also very special.

“This is by far the hardest year and we’ve had to work to get this region title,” Morsi said. “We’ve been taking people from everywhere. We didn’t really have the depth that we did last year.”

Greenwood’s Maggie Gholston continued her dominance with a pair of three-peats. She won her third straight region title in 50 freestyle, nearly matching her region record of 23.32 set last year with a time of 23.46 Saturday.

Gholston came back to beat her record in the 100 freestyle by 0.01 seconds, winning with a time of 51.69. It was her third straight region title. She also picked up second-place finishes with teammates Avery Witcher, Allison Zinobile and Ellie Belcher in the 200 freestyle relay and in the 400 freestyle relay with Witcher, Zinobile and Anne Elizabeth Zoellner.

“I’m really happy with how my team performed and how we finished it off,” Gholston said. “The atmosphere is different here. You want to go fast and you want to break your best times that you ever had. I was hoping to bring those records down a little more, but I am overall happy with how I swam.”

South Warren’s Neal Wolfram was also a multiple individual winner Saturday, winning in the 200 freestyle and repeating as 500 freestyle champion. Wolfram also won the 400-yard freestyle relay with brothers Drew and Trey Wolfram and Logan Hughes, and finished second with Drew and Trey and Luca Vespa in the 200 freestyle relay.

“I was really happy,” Neal Wolfram said. “I knew that we could definitely come out with a win in the 400 free if we all put it together and we managed to do that. I knew the 200 free was close. It would have been good to get the win, but we still got top two.

“Overall it was a really good meet for everyone.”

Greenwood’s Luke Shourds won the 200 individual medley and finished first with Cummings, Logan Flesher and Luke Wilson in the 200 freestyle relay. The quartet also finished second in the 200 medley relay.

Flesher won the 100 freestyle and finished second in the 50 freestyle.

Warren County coach Scott Gainey said he was pleased with his team’s performances.

“I’m very excited about how we swam and we are ready for state,” Gainey said. “It’s going to be great the next couple of weeks. They get to go back to training and we get to make sure they focus on some things. We will get a little more rest going into it, but other than that I think the guys are ready for it.”

Other individual regional winners Saturday included Morris in the 100 butterfly, Zinobile in the 500 freestyle, Bowling Green’s Connor Twyman in the boys’ 1-meter diving and BG’s Mackenzie Deweese in the girls’ 1-meter diving.

Other region runners-up included Morris in the 100 backstroke, Witcher in the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly, South Warren’s Logan Hughes in the boys’ individual medley, South Warren’s Madison Bush in the girls’ 500 freestyle, Bowling Greeb’s Phillip Khenner in the boys’ 500 freestyle and Logan County’s Riley Wharton in the 100 breaststroke.

The top two finishers in each event qualify for the state meet, which will begin Feb. 23 in Louisville, with more at-large berths to the state meet to be determined after all region meets are completed.{&end}