Great Bend Panthers Ellis Long (200 IM, 2:34.59) and Will Linenberger (500 freestyle, 6:25.75) won individual events to highlight Tuesday’s Western Athletic Conference dual meet with Garden City. Garden City outscored the Panthers 100-62.
The Panthers finished runner-up in the 200 freestyle, 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays.
The 200 free relay (1:44.95) competed with Beau Burkhart, Linenberger, Kasey Kennedy and Matthew Huslig. The 200 medley relay (1:51.85) competed with Tyler Stein, Long, Jacob Kennedy and Brody Feist. The 400 freestyle relay (3:48.61) competed with Huslig, Stein, Feist and Kasey Kennedy.
Other runner-up finishes were earned by Feist, 50 freestyle, 24.37; Stein, 100 backstroke, 59.17; Long, 100 breaststroke, 1:09.4; Kasey Kennedy, 100 butterfly, 1:03.25; Huslig, 200 freestyle, 1:55.4; Jacob Kennedy, 200 IM, Kennedy, 2:35.41.
Garden City swept the 200 freestyle, 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays. Garden City’s Devin Chappel swept the 100 freestyle (51.37) and 200 freestyle (1:54.11), a state qualifying mark. Kobe Otero won the 100 backstroke (57.74), a state qualifying time.
GARDEN CITY 100, GREAT BEND 62
c 200 freestyle relay—1—GC, 1:35.56 (Morales, Chappel, Cupp, Bunce); 2—GB A, 1:44.95 (Beau Burkhart, Will Linenberger, Kasey Kennedy, Matthew Huslig; 4—GB B, 2:05.64 (Colton Cross, Ty Boone, Caden Bieker, Trevor DeLong); GB C, 2:18.78 (Joshua Sharpe, Andrew McQuade, Ian Jennings, Sawyer Stoskopf)
200 medley relay—1—GC, 1:45.4 (Kobe Otero, Bunce, Cupp, Morales); 2—GB A, 1:51.85 (Tyler Stein, Ellis Long, Jacob Kennedy, Brody Feist); 4—GB B, 2:16.26 (Boone, DeLong, Burkhart, Cole Sanders)
400 freestyle relay—1—GC, 3:38.96 (Chappel, Erskin, Morales, Kobe Otero); 2—GB A, 3:48.61 (Huslig, Stein, Feist, Kasey Kennedy); 4—GB B, 4:22.26 (Jacob Kennedy, Bieker, Long, Linenberger; GB C, 5:2033 (Cross, Sanders, Kaid Wagner, McQuade)
50 freestyle—1—Esai Morales, GC, 23.55; 2—Feist, 24.37; 3—Stein, 24.55; 5—Kasey Kennedy, 25.69; Ian Jennings, 29.45; Sanders, 29.92; McQuade, 32.82; Boone, 33.17; Sharpe, 34.11; Cross, 34.57; Stoskopf, 35.97; Kincaid, 37.1; Trinten Medlock, 37.99; Lucio Cordova, 44.69
100 backstroke—1—Kobe Otero, GC, 57.74; 2—Stein, 59.17; 5—Boone, 1:21.05; Jennings, 1:39.12; Sawyer, 1:50.48
100 breaststroke—1—Connor Cupp, GC, 1:08.83; 2—Long, 1:09.4
100 butterfly—1—Cupp, GC, 57.6; 2—Kasey Kennedy, 1:03.25; 5—Burkhart, 1:24.4
100 freestyle—1—Devin Chappel, GC, 51.37; 3—Huslig, 52.2; 5—Feist, 56.72; 6—Jacob Kennedy, 1:00.49; Bieker, 1:10.36; McQuade, 1:21.36; Sharpe, 1:24.83; Wagner, 1:27.91; Medlock, 1:45.13
200 freestyle—1—Chappel, GC, 1:54.11; 2—Huslig, 1:55.4; 3—Linenberger, 2:19.56; 6—DeLong, 2:43.1
200 IM—1—Long, GB, 2:34.59; 2—Jacob Kennedy, 2:35.41
500 freestyle—1—Linenberger, GB, 6:25.75; 5—DeLong, 7:37.23; Sanders, 7:51.17; Burkhart, 8:11.84