The first day of Class AAA competition got underway on Friday morning at Bucknell for the state swimming championships with preliminary races.

Central Mountain senior Camryn Bair finished 13th in the girls 50 free after she swam a time of 24.30 in the B finals. In the A finals, State College’s Molly Workman won state gold in 22.44.

Earlier in the day, Bair swam a time of 24.21 in the 50 free, shaving time in her event, to reach the B finals.

Bair holds six individual school records at Central Mountain and is part of two relay teams which broke records.

By reaching the B finals on Friday, Bair became the first Central Mountain swimmer to ever finish with two top-15 results at the state meet. Bair finished 10th last year in the 50 free. The only other Central Mountain swimmer to place was Nate DeCapria in 2001, who took seventh in the 100 back.

Bair will compete on Saturday in the 100 breast and will look to become Central Mountain’s first top-8 finisher in girls competition if she can make the A finals.

Williamsport’s boys 200 medley relay team finished 12th on Friday evening. The foursome of Cooper Allmaras, Evan Summers, Keller Griswold and Brady Ross swam a time of 1:34.85, dropping time from their prelims earlier in the morning.

Allmaras swam a split of 25.99 to begin the race, Summers swam the second leg with a 24.89 split and Griswold was the third leg and swam a split of 22.58. Ross swam the final leg and had a split of 21.39.

Upper Dublin won the gold medal in the event with a time of 1:30.97, dropping nearly 1 1/2 seconds off their prelim time.

Williamsport’s 200 medley relay team reached the B finals on Friday as the team swam a time of 1:34.85, dropping almost a second in their event. Cooper Allmaras, Evan Summers, Keller Griswold and Brady Ross swam the event and took 12th in the prelims.

Williamsport’s girls 200 medley relay team swam a time of 1:58.45 in the prelims to finish 27th. That group consisted of Kendall Cohick, Kyla Becker, Kiley Person and Aviya Halstead.

The Millionaires’ 200 free relay team in girls competition also competed on Friday morning as Cohick, Naomi Lee, Halstead and Person swam a time of 1:44.18, which was good enough for 29th place in the event.

Williamsport senior Griswold just missed out on reaching the B finals in the 100 fly as he swam a time of 51.52. He did drop time in the race however by 0.14 seconds as he finished in 21st place. He was just 0.15 seconds away from making the B finals.

In the boys 200 IM race, Williamsport sophomore Summers finished 32nd with a time of 1:59.28 in the prelims.

The Williamsport boys 200 free relay team swam a time of 1:28.07, dropping almost half a second, to take 27th place in the prelims. That team consisted of Allmaras, Ross, Summers and Griswold.

Williamsport has a handful of individual swimmers competing on Saturday on the second day of Class AAA competition.

Williamsport junior Clover Lindsay and freshman Allie Eberhart are both scheduled to compete in the girls Class AAA 1-meter diving competition on Saturday. There are 24 divers in the competition. The top-seeded diver is Conestoga senior Avery Hillier, who scored 448.80 in districts.