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Great Bend swim team win five events
Tyler Stein - Brody Feist
(Left) Tyler Stein - (Right) Brody Feist - photo by Hugo Gonzalez

Great Bend’s swimmers swept two relays and Brody Feist and Ellis Long won individual events to spark the Panthers to first place at Tuesday’s Great Bend Swimming Invitational.

Feist achieved an amazing double when he swept the 50 freestyle (23.58) and 500 freestyle (6:00.68) to show his speed and endurance. Ellis Long won the 100 breaststroke (1:09.18).

The quartet of Feist, Dustyn Epp, Beau Burkhart and Long won the 400 freestyle relay (4:06.42) with a season-best time. Stein, Long, Kasey Kennedy and Feist won the 200 medley relay (1:47.15).

Finishing runner-up were Stein, 50 freestyle (23.82) and 100 freestyle (54.55); Kennedy, 100 butterfly (1:05.66) and 200 freestyle (2:20.87); and Ty Boone, 100 backstroke (1:20.78).

GREAT BEND INVITATIONAL

TEAM SCORES—1—Great Bend 447; 2—Hays High 341; 3—Garden City 300; 4—Hutchinson High 242; 5—Liberal 204; 6—Dodge City 181

100 backstroke—1—Reagle, GC, 1:13.04; 2—Ty Boone, 1:20.78;  9—Trinten Medlock, 2:06.66

100 breaststroke —1—Ellis Long, GB, 1:09.18; 6—A.J. Thurman, 1:49.38

100 butterfly—1—Erskin, GC, 1:01.64;  2—Kasey Kennedy, 1:05.66

50 freestyle—1—Brody Feist, GB, 23.58; 2—Tyler Stein, 23.82; 13—Joshua Sharpe, 33.25

100 freestyle—1—Ruzicka, GC, 52.87; 2—Stein, 54.55; 10—Dustyn Epp, 1:11.71; 11—Sharpe, 1:15.95

200 freestyle –1—Riefoli, DC, 2:16.09; 2—Kennedy, 2:20.87; 8—Epp, 2:55.59; 9—Boone, 2:56.13

500 freestyle—1—Feist, GB, 6:00.68;  3—Long, 6:33.48; 9—Kaid Wagner, 7:43.27

200 IM—1— Erskin, GC, 2:25.03; 4—Beau Burkhart, 3:08.78; 5—Wagner, 3:25.8; 6—Colton Cross, 3:33.18

200 freestyle relay—1—Garden City, 1:43.87; 5—Great Bend A, 1:58.6; (Kennedy, Boone, Cross, Burkhart); 7—Great Bend B, 2:08.5 (Wagner, Medlock, Sharpe, Epp)

400 freestyle relay—1—Great Bend A, 4:06.42 (Feist, Epp, Burkhart, Long); 9—Great Bend B, 5:32.41 (Sharpe, Medlock, Thurman, Cross)

200 medley relay—1—GB A 1:47.15 (Stein, Long, Kennedy, Feist); 6—GB B, 2:30.91 (Boone, Thurman, Cross, Wagner)