GARDEN CITY – Great Bend’s Brody Feist swept the 200 freestyle (2:05.16) and 500 freestyle (5:59.97) to spark the Panthers (384) to first place at Thursday’s Garden City Swimming Invitational. The Panthers won seven events to beat last year’s Western Athletic Conference champion.
Kasey Kennedy won the 50 freestyle (25.25) and Tyler Stein won the 200 IM (2:25.13).
The Panthers won the 200 medley relay (1:51.41) with Stein, Ellis Long, Feist and Beau Burkhart. They won the 400 freestyle relay (3:51.99) with Feist, Burkhart, Long and Stein.
Finishing runner-up were Ty Boone, 100 backstroke (1:19.53); Burkhart, 100 butterfly (1:29.78); Long, 200 IM (2:28.44) and Feist, 100 freestyle (54.67).
GARDEN CITY INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES—1—Great Bend, 384; 2—Garden City 301; 3—Dodge City 259; 4—Liberal 50
50 freestyle—1—Kasey Kennedy, GB, 25.25; 3—Beau Burkhart, 26.74; 7—A.J. Thurman, 37.74; Trinten Medlock, 37.0
100 backstroke—1—Erskin, GC, 1:07.23; 2—Ty Boone, 1:19.53; 4—Joshua Sharpe, 1:39.53; 6—Medlock, 2:09.84
100 breaststroke—1—Ruzicka, GC, 1:04.38; 2—Long, 1:06.38; 7—Thurman, 1:41.41
100 butterfly—1—Erksin, GC, 1:01.03; 2—Burkhart, 1:29.78; 3—Colton Cross, 1:41.27
100 freestyle—1—Ruzicka, GC, 51.61; 2—Brody Feist, GB, 54.67; 6—Andrew McQuade, 1:16.77; 7—Boone, 1:16.82
200 freestyle—1—Feist, GB, 2:05.16; 6—Andrew McQuade, 2:58.5; 7; 7—Sharpe, 3:10.81
200 IM—1—Stein, GB, 2:25.13; 2—Long, 2:28.44; 6—Wagner, 3:29.38
500 freestyle—1—Feist, GB, 5:59.97; 6—Wagner, 7:54.31; 7—Cross, 8:45.28
200 freestyle relay—1—Dodge City, 1:52.76; 3—Great Bend A, 2:03.44 (McQuade, Kennedy, Boone, Cross); 4—Great Bend B, 2:19.56 (Medlock, Thurman, Wagner, Sharpe)
200 medley relay—1—Great Bend A, 1:51.41 (Stein, Long, Feist, Burkhart); 4—Great Bend B, 2:40.9 (Boone, Thurman, Cross, Sharpe)
400 freestyle relay—1—Great Bend, 3:51.99 (Feist, Burkhart, Long, Stein)