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VALPARAISO â Rensselaer Central junior diver Hayden Box competed in the Valparaiso Regional diving championships on Tuesday night.
Box, who finished third at the Munster Sectional three days prior to the regional, scored 164.10 points to miss competing in the final stage at Valpo.
Zach Ramacci, a junior at Lake Central, won the diving competition with 489.40 points to earn a trip to the Feb. 27 state finals in Indianapolis.
Penn junior Tomas Salas also qualified for state by placing second with 476.75 points.
A total of 20 divers competed at the regional event.
Ethan Ferba had big plans for the offseason.
The Hobart diver got a taste of competing against the best when he finished 26th at the IHSAA state swimming and diving competition last February in Indianapolis.
When Ferba returned to Northwest Indiana, he sat down with Hobart diving coach Katharine Rinas and the two put together a summer workout plan that would allow the then-sophomore to take his diving to the next level.
Then COVID-19 hit and pools around the Region shutdown, including Hobartâs sparkling new swim facility.
âWhen everything with COVID happened, it was bad,â Ferba said. âWe had a whole summer planned out for workouts. It made all those plans go away.â