GCHS swimming falls short vs. Great Bend

Garden City, KS (westernkansasnews.com)-When Casey Wise was the Garden City High School swim team, he had one problem: he could never beat Great Bend. 

First-year coach Sara Anderson was hit with the same harsh reality on Tuesday at home. But the gap has definitely been closed; significantly. 

The Buffaloes finished five points behind their conference rivals. Results below

Team Scores

1. Great Bend, 398; 2. Garden City, 393; 3. Dodge City, 280; 4. Liberal, 163.

Garden City Results

200y medley relay—1. Great Bend, 2:05.20; 2. Schmidt, Tull, Neff, Ginest-Dougherty, 2:05.41; 5. Stillian, Foreman, Stucky, Malagon Palacios, 2:17.83.

200y freestyle—1. Schafer, 2:19.24; 2. Tull, 2:19.97; 6. Calzonetti, 2:35.54.

200y IM—1. Richter, Dodge City, 2:25.80; 3. Neff, 2:38.48; 5. Stucky, 2:48.21.

50y freestyle—1. Dunekack, Great Bend, 26.20; 2. Ginest-Dougherty, 27.48.

100y butterfly—1. Dunekack, Great Bend, 1:06.79; 2. Neff, 1:12.54; 4. Stucky, 1:19.48.

100y freestyle—1. Cook, Great Bend, 59.15; 2. Ginest-Dougherty, 1:00.02; 3. Schmidt, 1:00.03; 6. Chappel, 1:08.80.

500y freestyle—1. Richter, Dodge City, 5:58.67; 2. Schafer, 6:25.47; 4. Perez, 7:06.00; 5. Foreman, 7:08.90.

200y freestyle relay—1. Schmidt, Tull, Ginest-Dougherty, Schafer, 1:52.62; 5. Stillian, Strecker, Chappel, Alcantar, 2:11.90.

100y backstroke—1. Schmidt, 1:10.00; 5. Stillian, 1:20.02.

100y breaststroke—1. Tull, 1:20.70; 6. Wessels, 1:32.50.

400y freestyle relay—1. Stucky, Neff, Chappel, Schafer, 4:20.39; 4. Wessels, Labra, Alcantar, Greene, 4:36.85.