WEBB CITY, Mo. — Carthage won seven events en route to claiming the team championship at the Red Bird Invitational swim meet on Saturday at the Buck Miner Swim Center.
Carthage compiled 304 points to take the team title, while host Webb City was the runner-up (235), and Joplin took third (199). There were nine teams competing.
CARTHAGE HIGHLIGHTS
The Tigers won two of the three relays.
Carthage’s 200-yard medley relay team of Kellen Frieling, Braxton McBride, Will Wright and Maveric Allphin took first in 1:49, while the Tigers also won the 400 freestyle relay, as McBride, Wright, Aydan Nye and Frieling recorded a time of 3:39.
Carthage’s McBride and Frieling each won two individual events.
McBride won the 50 freestyle in 23.55 seconds and the 100 freestyle in 52.84 seconds, while Frieling won the 100 butterfly in 59.7 seconds and took first in the 100 backstroke in 58.02 seconds.
Wright won the 200 IM with a time of 2:14.
Wright was the runner-up in the 500 freestyle and Allphin took third in the 100 breaststroke.
Carthage finished third in the 200 freestyle relay, with Allphin, Daryl Martin, Ben Rogers and Aydan Nye competing.
Finishing fourth in their events were Ryan Steinbach (200 IM), Martin (100 freestyle) and Noah Blackford (100 backstroke).
WEBB CITY HIGHLIGHTS
The Cardinals were second in the 200 medley relay, with Cole Dalton, Micah Brouwer, Dalton Spence and Dagan Chacon competing.
Webb City also finished second in the 200 freestyle relay, with Adrien Black, Aiden Patterson, Brouwer and Steve Kenlee swimming.
The Cardinals’ team of Black, Patterson, Dalton and Kenlee placed third in the 400 freestyle relay.
Black and Kenlee finished second and third in the 200 freestyle, while Brouwer and Spence placed second and third in the 200 IM. Brouwer was also second in the 100 breaststroke.
Also for the Cardinals, Black was third in the 500 free, Kenlee took fourth in the 100 fly, Dalton was fifth in the 100 free, Patterson placed fifth in the 500 free and Spence took fifth in the 100 breaststroke.
Webb City’s Grant Humphrey won the 1-meter diving competition.
JOPLIN HIGHLIGHTS
Nathan Wardlow won a pair of individual events and was part of three event wins to lead the Joplin Eagles.
A junior, Wardlow won the 200 freestyle in 1:54 and also took first in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:10.
Wardlow was the anchor on Joplin’s 200 freestyle relay team that took first in 1:40, with Parker Hinman, Isaiah Thom and Ian Vermillion swimming the first three legs of the relay.
The Eagles took second in the 400 freestyle relay, with Hinman, Thom, Vermillion and Wardlow competing.
Hinman and Vermillion finished second and third in the 100 butterfly, while Jackson Mordica placed fourth in the 100 breaststroke.
The JHS team of Connor Intessimone, Jackson Mordica, Owen Mordica and Gideon Speer finished fifth in the 200 medley relay.
Finishing fifth in their individual events were Hinman (200 free), Jackson Mordica (200 IM), Owen Mordica (100 backstroke) and Vermillion (50 free).
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Nevada’s Trace Gould won the 100 breaststroke in 1:05 and finished second in the 50 freestyle.
Nevada’s Cooper Pennington was the runner-up in the 100 freestyle and teammate Kolton Evans took second in the 100 backstroke.
Redbird Invitational
Team standings: Carthage 304, Webb City 235, Joplin 199, Hillcrest 107, Lebanon 93, Greenwood 92, Nevada 78, Monett 55, Parkview 28.
