NEWTON — In the final swim meet before the Western Athletic Conference meet in Hays, the Great Bend High School girls’ team finished second at Newton.
Newton won the meet with 400 points. The Lady Panthers finished with 275 points.
“We were solid and had a few nice time improvements,” GBHS head coach Steve Beaumont said. “It’s time to get rested and ready to swim fast at WAC next Thursday. That’s been our goal all season.”
Great Bend didn’t manage a first-place finish in any events, but had a pair of second-place finishes.
Hannah Hildebrand captured second place in the 100-meter butterfly, clocking in at 1:03.87.
In the 200 freestyle relay, Hildebrand, Kira Cook, Kylee Spray and Michaela Cape combined to finish in second place, touching in at 1:50.50.
Great Bend travels to Hays on Thursday for the conference meet, starting at 4 p.m.
 
                                 — Kevin Price

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
Newton swim meet
 
GIRLS
 
Thursday
 
At Newton
 
Team scores
1. Newton, 400; 2. Great Bend, 275; 3. Maize South, 273; 4. Hutchinson, 254; 5. Maize, 110
 
Great Bend results
200-meter medley relay — 3. GBHS “A” relay (Michaela Cape, Brianna Schartz, Madeline Vesta, Katy Jerke), 2:12.81; 4. GBHS “B” relay (Emma Williams, Kalyn Blessing, Jessica Freund, Brenna Haines), 2:17.38; GBHS “C” relay (Sarah Mauler, Taylor Huslig, Karah Stewart, Magdiel Rodriguez), 2:38.77
200 freestyle — 3. Kira Cook, 2:15.34; 8. Kylee Spray, 2:24.95; 11. Hadley Murphy, 2:30.16; Williams, 2:32.34; Anna Frizell, 2:39.81; Rachel Keenan, 2:53.51
200 individual medley — 6. Vesta, 2:45.41; 7. Haines, 2:47.23; 8. Freund, 2:53.56
50 freestyle — 5. Cape, 28.59; 10. Schartz, 30.77; Mauler, 32.14; 13. Carly Boyd, 33.14; Rodriguez, 37.57; Michala Bieker, 41.38
100 fly — 2. Hannah Hildebrand, 1:03.87; 5. Cook, 1:13.09; 8. Blessing, 1:22.48; Stewart, 1:32.63
100 freestyle — 5. Jerke, 1:03.62; 6. Spray, 1:05.41; 9. Vesta, 1:06.35; Freund, 1:09.83; Mauler, 1:12.78; Rodriguez, 1:30.04
500 freestyle — 4. Haines, 6:32.83; 5. Cape, 6:44.09; 11. Bieker, 8:45.83\
200 freestyle — 2. GBHS “A” relay (Cook, Cape, Spray, Hildebrand), 1:50.50; 8. GBHS “B” relay (Schartz, Blessing, Boyd, Freund), 2:06.86; GBHS “C” relay (Keenan, Rodriguez, Bieker, Huslig), 2:32.24
100 backstroke — 5. Jerke, 1:15.01; 10. Frizell, 1:24.23; Stewart, 1:25.32
100 breaststroke — 8. Blessing, 1:25.01; 10. Schartz, 1:27.22; 12. Huslig, 1:30.37; Murphy, 1:32.68
400 freestyle relay — 2. GBHS “A” relay (Hildebrand, Spray, Jerke, Cook), 4:11.35; 6. GBHS “A” relay (Haines, Murphy, Mauler, Vesta), 4:33.89; GBHS “C” relay (Frizell, Stewart, Keenan, Boyd), 5:10.09