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Panther swimmers sweep four events
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Great Bend Panther Brody Feist wins the 200 individual medley WAC championship (2:23.48). - photo by Hugo Gonzalez

LENEXA – Great Bend’s Brody Feist and Ellis Long won individual events and the Panthers swept the 200-yard freestyle relay and 200-yard medley relay at Saturday’s Lenexa St. James swimming meet.

Feist won the 50-yard freestyle (23.31) and Long won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.95) with a season-best time. The Panthers won the 200-medley relay (1:42.72) with Long, Beau Burkhart, Kasey Kennedy and Feist competing. Great Bend won the 200 medley relay (1:52.04) with Feist, Long, Kennedy and Burkhart competing.

Feist placed runner-up in the 100 butterfly (1:01.2) with a season-best time. Long placed third in the 200 IM (2:26.96) with a season-best time.

Lenexa St. James (446) placed first and Great Bend (228) finished fourth.

LENEXA ST. JAMES MEET

TEAM SCORES—1—Lenexa St. James 446; 2—SM Northwest 383; 3—Washburn Rural 334; 4—Great Bend 228

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

50 freestyle—1—Brody Feist, GB, 23.31; 4—Kasey Kennedy, 25.56; 6—Beau Burkhart, 26.23; 23—Kaid Wagner, 30.73; 27--*A.J. Thurman, 34.1

100 backstroke—1—Leckamp, SJ, 1:02.01; 8—*Wagner, 1:22.73

100 breaststroke—1—*Ellis Long, GB, 1:04.95; 12—*Thurman, 1:38.43

100 butterfly—1—Savinkov, SMNW, 53.62; 2—*Feist, 1:01.2; 6—Kennedy, 1:08.08; 12

100 freestyle—1—Carr-Metzger, WR, 59.89; 4—Burkhart, 1:02.97

200 freestyle—1—Savinkov, SMNW, 1:52.06

200 IM—1—Leckamp, SJ, 2:15.68; 3—*Long, 2:26.96

500 freestyle—1—Meier, WR, 5:10.91

200 freestyle relay—1—Great Bend, 1:42.72 (Long, Burkhart, Kennedy, Feist)

200 medley relay—1—Great Bend, 1:52.04 (Feist, Long, Kennedy, Burkhart)

400 freestyle relay—1—SM Northwest, 3:43.64