The Great Bend High School girls’ swim team locked up another first-place finish this season, claiming the top spot in a quadrangular on Monday evening at Kirkman Activity Center.
The Lady Panthers finished with 358 points, topping second-place Hutchinson, which finished with 288 points.
“It’s always nice to win a meet, so obviously I’m happy with the team result,” GBHS head coach Steve Beaumont said. “Individually, we really didn’t have the time improvements we have had the first two meets. We still have work to do on our conditioning and learning how to mentally prepare to compete and swim fast consistently.
It’s a work in process, and overall we are making good strides to doing those things. Our effort was there, though, so I’m definitely happy with that.”
Even without the time improvements, Great Bend managed six first-place finishes and either first or second in every event in the meet.
Michaela Cape, Kira Cook, Hannah Hildebrand and Kylee Spray combined to get things started with the top time in the 200-meter medley relay at 2:08.35.
Hildebrand won the 50 freestyle (26.90) and the 100 fly (1:07.38).
Brenna Haines claimed first place in the 500 freestyle (6:43.29).
Cape won the 100 backstroke (1:11.17).
Hildebrand, Katy Jerke, Hadley Murphy and Cape combined in the 400 freestyle for first place (4:18.38).

                  — Kevin Price

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
Great Bend meet

GIRLS

Monday

At Great Bend
Kirkman Activity Center

Team scores
1. Great Bend, 358; 2. Hutchinson, 288; 3. Dodge City, 147; 4. Liberal, 134

Great Bend results
200-meter medley relay — 1. GBHS “A” relay (Michaela Cape, Kira Cook, Hannah Hildebrand, Kylee Spray), 2:08.35; 3. GBHS “B” relay (Emma Williams, Brianna Schartz, Madeline Vesta, Carly Boyd), 2:18.59; 7. GBHS “C” (Karah Stewart, Taylor Huslig, Rachel Keenan, Morgan Harwood), 2:36.37
200 freestyle — 2. Brenna Haines, 2:28.54; 3. Spray, 2:28.74; 4. Kalyn Blessing, 2:29.64; Williams, 2:35.11; Anna Frizell, 2:39.70; Michala Bieker, 3:09.05; Huslig, 3:16.06
200 individual medley — 2. Cook, 2:36.56; 6. Jessica Freund, 2:58.80; 8. Hadley Murphy, 3:00.27
50 freestyle — 1. Hildebrand, 26.90; 4. Katy Jerke, 29.17; 6. Vesta, 30.29; Schartz, 31.23; Rachel Bussen, 33.02; Magdiel Rodriguez, 36.54
100 fly — 1. Hildebrand, 1:07.38; 3. Vesta, 1:12.65; 4. Spray, 1:16.72; Stewart, 1:32.53; Bieker, 1:48.20
100 freestyle — 2. Jerke, 1:04.92; 3. Cape, 1:05.20; 5. Freund, 1:10.69; Boyd, 1:15.22; Bussen, 1:15.75; Harwood, 1:18.35; Keenan, 1:22.05; Rodriguez, 1:26.76
500 freestyle — 1. Haines, 6:43.29; 3. Blessing, 6:59.55; 5. Murphy, 7:00.67
200 freestyle relay — 2. GBHS “A” relay (Spray, Jerke, Vesta, Cook), 1:56.40; 3. GBHS “B” relay (Schartz, Boyd, Freund, Haines), 2:05.06; 7. GBHS “C” relay (Bussen, Harwood, Stewart, Murphy), 2:15.27; 9. GBHS “D” relay (Huslig, Rodriguez, Bieker, Keenan), 2:28.73
100 backstroke — 1. Cape, 1:11.17; 4. Williams, 1:18.91; Frizell, 1:22.79; 7. Stewart, 1:25.82
100 breaststroke — 2. Cook, 1:23.28; 4. Schartz, 1:27.78; 6. Huslig, 1:29.22
400 freestyle relay — 1. GBHS “A” relay (Hildebrand, Jerke, Murphy, Cape), 4:18.38; 3. GBHS “B” relay (Blessing, Haines, Freund, Williams), 4:43.27; 7. GBHS “C” relay (Bussen, Boyd, Keenan, Frizell), 5:08.60