HUTCHINSON — Tied with Garden City High School with one event to go at the Hutchinson swim meet, the Great Bend Lady Panthers took second place in the 400-yard freestyle relay to finish second at the meet.
Great Bend finished with 352 points on Thursday. Western Athletic Conference foe Garden City recorded 362.
“Garden is just solid on their freestyle relays,” Great Bend head coach Steve Beaumont said. “At Salina last week, their ‘A’ and ‘B’ relays beat us on the 200 and the 400 free relay. We tweaked some things on some relays today to try to maximize our points.
“I’m pleased. I think we showed that we still have a chance here in three weeks when we have the WAC meet.”
Allison Damm, Kylee Spray, Maddie Vesta and Hannah Hildebrand touched in at 4:15.67 in the 400 freestyle relay, trailing Garden City by 3.18 seconds.
The Lady Panthers did win the 200 medley relay, with Michaela Cape, Brianna Schartz, Vesta and Sylvia Ofoma combining for a time of 2:09.93.
Damm captured first place in the 200 freestyle (2:16.50) and the 500 freestyle (6:10.35).
Hildebrand won the 100 freestyle (1:00.90). She also took second place in the 200 individual medley (2:25.75).
“Hildebrand’s 200 I.M. time was the second fastest in school history,” Beaumont said. “Jessica Brozek has the school record around 2:14. She set it in 2003 I think.
“(Hildebrand) knocked about seven seconds off her entry time.”
Cape finished in first place in the 100 backstroke (1:10.73).
Great Bend returns to Hutchinson for another meet on Tuesday, starting at 3:30 p.m.

                                  — Kevin Price

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

GIRLS

At Hutchinson

Thursday

Team standings
1. Garden City, 362; 2. Great Bend, 352; 3. Hutchinson, 254; 4. Derby, 253  

Great Bend results
200-yard medley relay — 1. GBHS ‘A’ relay (Michaela Cape, Brianna Schartz, Maddie Vesta, Sylvia Ofoma), 2:09.93; 4. GBHS ‘B’ relay (Katy Jerke, Taylor Huslig, Kalyn Blessing, Sarah Mauler), 2:21.92; 8. GBHS ‘C’ relay (Anna Frizell, Georgia Zimmerman, Rachel Bussen, Amber Basden), 2:40.75; 10. GBHS ‘D’ relay (Heather Schneider, Paige VanSteenburgh, Michala Bieker, Magdiel Rodriguez), 3:02.25
200 freestyle — 1. Allison Damm, 2:16.50; 7. Kylee Spray, 2:27.11; 8. Vesta, 2:35.80; 16. Estella Schumacher, 3:12.50
200 individual medley — 2. Hannah Hildebrand, 2:25.75; 7. Brenna Haines, 2:45.65; 9. Blessing, 2:52.28
50 freestyle — 4. Cape, 29.06; 7. Ofoma, 29.78; 10. Schartz, 31.05; 12. Basden, 32.92; 14. Morgan Harwood, 33.51; 15. Frizell, 33.88; 20. Bussen, 34.48; 21. Zimmerman, 34.59; 24. Jordan Otten, 34.96; 26. Karah Stewart, 36.63; 27. Schneider, 36.64; 32. VanSteenburgh, 37.81; 35. Maddie Unruh, 40.09
100 butterfly — 2. Vesta, 1:09.89; 4. Spray, 1:17.63; 9. Stewart, 1:38.52
100 freestyle — 1. Hildebrand, 1:00.90; 7. Jerke, 1:08.47; 10. Mauler, 1:14.11; 11. Basden, 1:14.77; 20. Zimmerman, 1:22.65; 21. Schumacher, 1:23.36; 27. Unruh, 1:34.16; 31. Rodriguez, 1:38.58
500 freestyle — 1. Damm, 6:10.35; 5. Blessing, 7:01.59; 7. Frizell, 7:27.68
200 freestyle relay — 2. GBHS ‘A’ relay (Spray, Cape, Damm, Hildebrand), 1:54.27; 8. GBHS ‘B’ relay (Schartz, Mauler, Bussen, Haines), 2:08.58; 12. GBHS ‘C’ relay (Harwood, Otten, VanSteenburgh, Carly Boyd), 2:21.30; 14. GBHS ‘D’ relay (Huslig, Rodriguez, Unruh, Bieker), 2:43.00
100 backstroke — 1. Cape, 1:10.73; 4. Jerke, 1:16.74; 9. Ofoma, 1:26.43; 13. Schneider, 1:37.81
100 breaststroke — 2. Schartz, 1:22.12; 6. Haines, 1:26.42; 9. Huslig, 1:30.33; 12. Zimmerman, 1:36.03
400 freestyle relay — 2. GBHS ‘A’ relay  (Damm, Spray, Vesta, Hildebrand), 4:15.67; 6. GBHS ‘B’ relay (Blessing, Basden, Jerke, Haines), 4:43.48; 9. GBHS ‘C’ relay (Bussen, Frizell, Otten, Mauler), 5:16.25; 11. GBHS ‘D’ relay (Boyd, Harwood, Stewart, Schumacher), 5:28.68