WICHITA — The Great Bend High School boys' swimming team took 11th place at the Wichita Heights swim meet on Saturday.

The Panthers finished with 90 points. Wichita East finished with 400 points to take first place.

"We had probably our best meet of the season to date," GBHS head coach Steve Beaumont said. "The competition where was by far the toughest that we've had this year. There were a lot of good races.

"I thought the kids stepped up and competed well. I think 2/3 of the team had season or personal bests in most of their races."

Kade Cook led the team with a sixth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly. He touched in at 59.88 seconds.

"His timing in the butterfly event is getting to where it needs to be at the end of the season," Beaumont said of Cook. "We're getting that point in the season where we are just working on cutting down our times. We're working on our starts and our turns.

"We've got less than two weeks and four meets left before the season ends."

Justin Kuhlman took seventh place in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:58.88 and  ninth place in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:00.81.

Michael Haines returned from an injury that kept him out of the water for nearly two weeks. He finished in 20th place in the 500 freestyle, clocking in at 6:02.23.

"Michael Haines came back and swim despite practicing three days in the last two weeks," Beaumont said. "We limited him to two races, but he's got two weeks to get himself back into shape, so we're keeping him in the water a lot.

"Missing a couple of weeks has put him behind in his conditioning, but he can do it. He's capable of getting ready in the next couple of weeks."

Great Bend's home meet today will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Kirkman Activity Center on the Barton Community College campus.

                                                                                                    — Kevin Price

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

At Wichita Heights

  BOYS

  Saturday

  Team standings

1. East, 400; 2. Maize, 320; 3. Derby, 222; 4. Heights, 195; 5. Winfield, 132; 6. Northwest, 127; 7. Maize South, 121; 8. Collegiate, 119; 9. Newton, 115; 10. North, 91; 11. Great Bend, 90; 12. Trinity, 87; 13. Independent, 84 ; 14. Hutchinson, 56; 15. South, 53; 16. Coffeyville, 50; 17. El Dorado, 22; 18. Bishop Carroll, 17; 19. Southeast, 8; 20. Rose Hill, 6; 20. Blue Aces, 6.

GBHS results

200 medley relay

12. GBHS "A" relay (Justin Kuhlman, Kyle Bussen, Kade Cook, Dylan Dreiling), 1:53.93; GBHS "B" relay (Nick Moyers, Cory Merten, Jake Kohman, Tristan Yount), 2:11.26; GBHS "C" relay (Alex Bratic, David Webster, Austin Levingston, JB Slater), 2:45.40.

200 freestyle

7. Justin Kuhlman, 1:58.88; 11. Ky Heeke, 2:01.70; 27. Cory Merten, 2:17.99.

200 individual medley

18. Dylan Dreiling, 2:29.90; 19. Nick Moyers, 2:33.09; 25. Nathan Brungardt, 2:44.69.

50 freestyle

29. Kyle Bussen, 26.51; 49. Nick Porter, 31.31; 59. Chris Falck, 38.81.

100 fly

6. Kade Cook, 59.88; 23. Nathan Brungardt, 1:18.30; 28. Jake Kohman, 1:21.76.

100 freestyle

18. Dylan Dreiling, 56.58; 30. Kyle Bussen, 59.19; 53. Alex Freund, 1:16.72.

500 freestyle

13. Ky Heeke, 5:44.12; 20. Michael Haines, 6:02.23; 23. Nick Moyers, 6:09.73.

200 freestyle relay

10. GBHS "A" relay (Justin Kuhlman, Dylan Dreiling, Cory Merten, Ky Heeke), 1:41.19; GBHS "B" relay (Nathan Brungardt, Austin Levingston, Nick Porter, Tristan Yount), 1:59.80; GBHS "C" relay (Alex Freund, Chris Falck, JB Slater, Alex Bratic), 2:26.52.

100 backstroke

9. Justin Kuhlman, 1:00.81; 13. Kade Cook, 1:03.23; 25. Tristan Yount, 1:12.22.

100 breaststroke

32. Cory Merten, 1:25.06; 47. Alex Bratic, 1:35.21; 48. David Webster, 1:38.12.

400 freestyle relay

9. GBHS "A" relay (Ky Heeke, Nick Moyers, Kyle Bussen, Kade Cook), 3:44.93; GBHS "B" relay (Tristan Yount, Nathan Brungardt, Austin Levingston, Michael Haines), 4:29.29; GBHS "C" relay (Alex Freund, David Webster, Nick Porter, Jake Kohman), 4:58.41.