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Panther swimmer Huslig wins two events
swimmer matt huslig
Matt Hulsig

DERBY — Great Bend's Matthew Huslig captured first place in the 50-yard freestyle (23.47) and 200 freestyle (1:54.14) in Tuesday's Derby Swimming Invitational. Huslig led a 1-2-3 finish in the 50 freestyle with runner-up Brody Feost (24.06) and third-place Tyler Stein (24.33).

Great Bend scored 420 points to finish runner-up behind Derby (546) in the Panthers' best performance of the 2021 season.

Stein (58.83) captured first place in the 100 backstroke.

The Panthers captured first place in the 200 medley relay (1:49.4) with Stein, Ellis Long, Huslig and Feist competing.

Panther runner-up finishers were Kasey Kennedy, 100 butterfly (1:03.18); Feist, 100 freestyle (54.03); and Kasey Kennedy, 200 IM (2:29.94).

DERBY INVITATIONAL 

TEAM SCORES—1—Derby 546; 2—Great Bend 420; 3—Campus 368; 4—Newton 357; 5—Hutchinson 150; 6—El Dorado 149; 7—Coffeyville 114

200 freestyle relay—1—Derby, 1:34.25; 4—GB A, 1:39.63 (Brody Feist, Kasey Kennedy, Jacob Kennedy, Matthew Huslig); 13—GB B, 2:03.6 (Trevor DeLong, Cole Sanders, Andrew McQuade, Colton Cross)

200 medley relay—1—GB, 1:49.4 (Tyler Stein, Ellis Long, Matthew Huslig, Brody Feist); 8—GB B, 2:16.32 (Ty Boone, Trevor DeLong, Will Linenberger, Caden Bieker) 

400 freestyle relay—1—Derby, 3:38.54; 3—GB A, 4:00.78 (Kasey Kennedy, Tyler Stein, Jacob Kennedy, Ellis Long); 10—GB B, 4:49.21 (Colton Cross, Cole Sanders, Caden Bieker, Will Linenberger); GB C, 5:20.33 (Cross, Sanders, Kaid Wagner, McQuade); 13—GB C, 5:21.97 (Kaid Wagner, Joshua Sharpe, Sawyer Stoskopf, Andrew McQuade)

50 freestyle—1—Huslig, GB, 23.47; 2—Feist, 24.06; 3—Stein, 24.33

100 backstroke—1—Stein, GB, 58.83; 12—Boone, 1:19.11; 15—Jennings, 1:28.92

100 breaststroke—1—Long, 1:09.61; 4—Kasey Kennedy, 1:17.7; 7—Linenberger, 1:20.94 

100 butterfly—1—McCabe, Derby, 54.92; 2—Kasey Kennedy, 1:03.18

100 freestyle—1—Tipton, ED, 54.54; 2—Feist, 54.03; 5—Long, 57.24; 18—Caden Bieker, 1:09.98

200 freestyle—1—Huslig, 1:54.14; 12—Ian Jennings, 2:39.79; 13—Sanders, 2:41.91

200 IM—1—Voth, Derby, 2:19.17; 2—Kasey Kennedy, 2:29.94; 3—Jacob Kennedy, 2:31.8

500 freestyle—1—Chadd, Campus, 5:33.97; 5—Linenberger, GB, 6:22.61; 10—Sanders, 7:11.91