CARTHAGE, Mo. — The host Tigers cruised to a first place finish at their own Carthage Invitational on Thursday night at the Fair Acres Family YMCA.
Led by eight first place finishes, Carthage had 399 points to finish on top of the standings. Marshfield was second with 197 and Nevada took third with 151. There were six full squads competing.
Winning individual events for the Tigers were Braxton McBride, Will Wallace, William Wright, Kellen Frieling and Maveric Allphin.
McBride won two events, the 50-yard freestyle in 23.8 seconds and the 100 free in 54.05.
Wallace took first in the 200 IM with a time of 2:16, while Wright won the 500 freestyle in 5:34.
Frieling was first in the 100 backstroke in 1:02 and Allphin won the 100 breaststroke in 1:15.
Finishing second in their events were Wright (200 IM), Frieling (200 free), Eli Cox (100 fly), Wallace (500 free) and Noah Blackford (100 back).
Taking third were Blackford (200 IM), Landon White (100 fly), Trey Nye (500 free) and Cox (100 back).
Carthage won two of three relays.
The CHS team of Frieling, McBride, Wright and Cox won the 200 medley relay in 1:49.
Carthage’s 400 freestyle relay team of Wallace, Cox, Frieling and McBride took first in 3:43.
The Tigers were second in the 200 free relay in 1:44, with Nye, Allphin, White and Wallace competing.
Nevada’s Kolton Evans won the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:01 and his teammate Trace Gould was the runner-up in the 50 free (25.5).
