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Panther swimmers compete at Garden City
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Great Bend's Emilee Hall 100 Yard Butterfly. - photo by Hugo Gonzalez

GARDEN CITY – Runner-up Great Bend earned a pair of runner-up finishes at Tuesday's Garden City Swimming Invitational. Second-place finishers were Emilee Hall,  100 freestyle, 1:04.05; and Ellyson Somers, 200 freestyle, 2:25.03.

The Panthers earned five third-place finishes with Hall, 100 backstroke, 1:11.74; Somers, 100 breaststroke, 1:19.91; Ally Howard, 200 IM, 2:56.54; the 200 medley relay (2:17.8) with Hall, Clarice Snapp, Howard, Kamryn Johns; and the 400 freestyle relay (4:27.41) with Josephine Mazouch, Somers, Johns and Hall.

Reigning WAC champion Garden City (560) beat Great Bend (490) for the team title.

GARDEN CITY INVITATIONAL

*season-best time

TEAM SCORES—1—Garden City 560; 2—Great Bend 490; 3—Dodge City 365; 4—Holcomb 353; 5—Hays High 309.

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

50 freestyle—1—Schmidt, Hays, 25.77; 10—Kruckenberg, *32.17; 11—Lutt, 32.92; 14—Campbell, 36.3; Chavez, 37.66; Crathorne, 42.58

100 backstroke—1—Schmidt, Hays, 1:09.2; 3—Hall, 1:11.74; 4—Mazouch, *1:16.54; 11—Snapp, 1:26.66; Holden, 1:45.36; Gilkison, 1:46.64; Chavez, 1:53.5

100 butterfly—1—Rodriguez, GC, 1:16.05; 4—Howard, 1:29.49; 8—Mermis, *1:38.41; 9—Mingenback, 1:40.65

100 breaststroke—1—Meng, GC, 1:14.46; 3—Somers, 1:19.91; 7—Caroll, *1:34.86; 13—Mermis, 1:50.55

100 freestyle—1—Stoppel, Holcomb, 1:01.07; 2—Hall, 1:04.05; 9—Lutt, 1;15.54; 12—Irwin, 1:22.78; Hernandez, 1:19.69

200 freestyle—1—Chappel, GC, 2:18.47; 2—Somers, 2:25.03; 4—Mazouch, 2:26.37; 9—Caroll, 2:54.19; Gilkison, 3:01.12; Holden, 3:30.41

200 IM—1—Meng, GC, 2:32.53; 3—Howard, 2:56.54; 8—Johns, 3;13.6; 10—Hernandez, 4:02.21

500 freestyle—1—Chappel, GC, 6:15.74; 4—Snapp, 7:11.16; 7—Kruckenberg, 7:24.78; 10—Johns, 7:52.01; Mingenback, 8:13.06

200 freestyle relay—1—Garden City, 2:00.58; 4—Great Bend, *2:03.98 (Lutt, Somers, Howard, Mazouch); 6—Great Bend B, 2:25.74 (Gilkison, Mingenback, Kruckenberg, Irwin)

200 medley relay—1—Garden City, 2:04.95; 3—Great Bend, 2:17.8 (Hall, Snapp, Howard, Johns); 8—Great Bend B, 2:38.95 (Caroll, Lutt, Mermis, Kruckenberg)

400 freestyle relay—1—Garden City, 4:13.79; 3—Great Bend, 4:27.41 (Mazouch, Somers, Johns, Hall); 6—Great Bend B, 5:18.81 (Mermis, Irwin, Snapp, Caroll); 8—Great Bend C, 5:24.84 ( Campbell, Gilkison, Hernandez, Miungenback)