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Panthers' Huslig wins two WAC swim events
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Matt Huslig

GARDEN CITY — Great Bend’s swimmers finished runner-up with 332 points behind team champion Garden City (399) at the Western Athletic Conference swimming championship at Garden City.

*First-place champion Matt Huslig earned All WAC team honors in the 200 freestyle (1:52.39) and 500 freestyle (5:20.82).

*The runner-up 200 medley relay, 1:52.24 (Tyler Stein, Ellis Long, Allen To, Jacob Kennedy) and the runner-up 200 Freestyle relay (1:38.64) with Brody Feist, Allen To, Daniel Abbott and Matthew Huslig surpassed state qualifying times

*The runner-up 400 freestyle relay got a state consideration time (3:43.73) with Brody Feist, Daniel Abbott, Tyler Stein and Matthew Huslig. 

*Fourth-place Daniel Abbott (24.46) and fifth-place Brody Feist (24.47) received state consideration times in the 50 freestyle.

*Fourth-place Daniel Abbott (54.98) received a state consideration time in the 100 freestyle.

“We made 36 time improvements out of 59 races,” said Great Bend coach Kari Carper.

Great Bend’s top qualifiers advance to the 5-1A state meet Friday-Saturday at Topeka.

WAC SWIMMING

At Garden City

TEAM TOTALS—1—Garden City 399; 2—Great Bend 332; 3—Hays High 203; 4—Dodge City 200; 5—Liberal 111

50 freestyle—1—Bunce, GC, 23.54; 4—Abbott, 24.46; 5—Brody Feist, 24.67; 8—Kennedy, 26.25; Burkhart, 29.25; Bieker, 30.59; Aitmamatov, 34.49; 

100 backstroke—1—Otero, GC, 58.47 (SQ); 3—Stein, 1:02.78; 4—Webb, 1:06.01; 9—Boone, 1:29.2; Sanders, 1:35.93; Aitmamatov, 1:38.87

100 breaststroke—1—Smith, Hays, 1:05.04 (SQ); 3—Long, 1:13.07; 6—Kennedy, 1:15.27; 9—DeLong, 1:23.99

100 butterfly—1—Cupp, GC, 56.55 (SQ); 5—Allen To, 1:07.67

100 freestyle—1—Sautter, L, 52.94; 3—Abbott, 54.98; 4—Feist, 55.42; 12—Burkhart, 1:10.07; Sanders, 1:13.03; Beiker, 1:13.39

200 freestyle—1—Huslig, GB, 1:52.39 (SQ); 5—Linenberger, 2:17.74; 8—DeLong, 2:40.62; Boone, 3:08.09

200 IM—1—Otero, GC, 2:10.89; 2—Webb, 2:30.54; 5—Allen To, 2:36.6; 6—Long, 2:37.45  

500 freestyle—1—Huslig, GB, 5:20.82; 4—Linenberger, 6:17.21 

200 freestyle relay—1—GC, 1:37.55; 2—GB A, 1:38.64 (Feist, Allen To, Abbott, Huslig); 6—GB B, 1:50.93 (DeLong, Burkhart, Long, Kennedy)  

200 medley relay—1—GC 1:47.26 (SQ); 2—GB A, 1:52.24 (Stein, Long, Allen To, Kennedy); 6—GB B, 2:14.62 (Boone, DeLong, Webb, Linenberger)

400 freestyle relay—1—GC, 3:31.2 (SQ); 2—GB A, 3:43.73 (Feist, Abbott, Stein, Huslig); 7—GB B, 4:38.15 (Linenberger, Sanders, Burkhart, Webb)