SALINA — The Great Bend High School girls’ swim team won the Salina Invitational on Thursday evening.
The Lady Panthers finished with 469 points, topping second-place Garden City, which had 420 points.
Salina Central finished in third place with 354 points.
“At this point of the season, we really needed a big meet like this,” GBHS head coach Steve Beaumont said. “It was time to really find out where we are at, conditioning-wise, as a team.
“I was very proud of the competitiveness our goals demonstrated today. Lots of season- and personal-best times from many on the team. It was truly a total team effort.”
Hannah Hildebrand was a part of all three first-place finishes for the team.
Hildebrand won the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 1:05.52 and the 50 freestyle, clocking in at 26.36.
She joined Kira Cook, Michaela Cape and Kylee Spray to win the 200 freestyle relay, touching in at 1:50.70.

                                  — Kevin Price

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
Salina Invitational

GIRLS

Thursday

At Salina

Team scores
1. Great Bend, 469; 2. Garden City, 420; 3. Salina Central, 354; 4. Hutchinson, 315; 5. Dodge City, 151; 6. Campus, 127; 7. Hays, 125; 8. Liberal, 112; 9. Junction City, 59; 10. Salina South, 38

Great Bend results
200-meter medley relay — 4. GBHS “A” relay (Michaela Cape, Brenna Haines, Madeline Vesta, Katy Jerke), 2:11.55; 5. GBHS “B” relay (Emma Williams, Kalyn Blessing, Jessica Freund, Hadley Murphy), 2:16.60; 16. GBHS “C” relay (Anna Frizell, Taylor Huslig, Carly Boyd, Karah Stewart), 2:31.35; GBHS “D” relay (Sarah Mauler, Rachel Bussen, Michala Bieker, Magdiel Rodriguez), 2:50.44
200 freestyle — 3. Jerke, 2:21.58; 5. Haines, 2:27.17; 6. Blessing, 2:29.42
200 individual medley — 5. Kira Cook, 2:35.96; 8. Kylee Spray, 2:45.46; 11. Vesta, 2:49.22
50 freestyle — 1. Hannah Hildebrand, 26.36; 4. Cape, 28.36; 15. Boyd, 31.76
100 fly — 1. Hildebrand, 1:05.52; 4. Vesta, 1:10.62; 9. Freund, 1:26.99
100 freestyle — 3. Cook, 1:00.34; 8. Spray, 1:05.55; 11. Williams, 1:09.37
500 freestyle — 4. Haines, 6:33.08; 5. Murphy, 6:35.02; 7. Frizell, 6:56.58
200 freestyle relay — 1. GBHS “A” relay (Cook, Cape, Spray, Hildebrand), 1:50.70; 7. GBHS “B” relay (Williams, Freund, Boyd, Vesta), 2:04.55; 11. GBHS “C” relay (Mauler, Frizell, Stewart, Bussen), 2:13.27; GBHS “D” relay (Rodriguez, Huslig, Bieker, Rachel Keenan), 2:27.82
100 backstroke — 2. Cape, 1:11.38; 5. Jerke, 1:14.53; 9. Williams, 1:18.67
100 breaststroke — 6. Blessing, 1:24.01; 12. Huslig, 1:28.75
400 freestyle relay — 2. GBHS “A” relay (Cook, Spray, Jerke, Hildebrand), 4:09.51; 6. GBHS “B” relay (Haines, Murphy, Freund, Blessing), 4:40.17; 12. GBHS “C” relay (Bussen, Frizell, Mauler, Boyd), 4:57.24; GBHS “D” relay (Rodriguez, Stewart, Bieker, Keenan), 5:32.20