SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Joplin High School boys swim team finished third in the team standings at the Kickapoo Invitational on Friday.
Kickapoo won the team title with 279 points, while West Plains was second with 215. Joplin took third with 212 points.
Nixa (176), Lebanon (166) and Waynesville (65) finished fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.
Joplin’s Nathan Wardlow won two individual events. Wardlow took first in the 200-yard individual medley in a state-consideration time of 2:07 and also won the 500 freestyle in a state-qualifying time of 4:59.
Also for the Eagles, Jackson Mordica finished second in the 200 freestyle, Parker Hinman was the runner-up in the 100 backstroke, Zane Newman placed third in the 50 freestyle and fourth in the 100 free and Ian Vermillion was fourth in the 100 butterfly.
The Eagles finished fourth in the 200 medley relay, with Hinman, Wardlow, Vermillion and Newman competing.
Joplin’s 200 freestyle relay team of Newman, Isaiah Thom, Vermillion and Wardlow finished fifth.
The Eagles were sixth in the 400 freestyle relay, as Hinman, Jordan Goins, Connor Intessimone and Mordica recorded a time of 4:44.
