The Joplin High School boys swim team finished second at the Springfield Invitational on Thursday.
Kickapoo won the invite with 286 points and Joplin was the runner-up with 223.
“The team swam well, with multiple best times and improved state consideration cuts,” Joplin coach Aaron Stump said.
Also competing were Camdenton (179), Nixa (155), Marshfield (90) and Parkview (9).
Joplin’s Nathan Wardlow won two events.
Wardlow took first in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:07, with teammate Parker Hinman taking second in 2:17.
Wardlow won the 100 backstroke in 57.28 seconds, with Hinman also second in the event (1:01).
Owen Mordica took second in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:20.
Joplin’s 400 freestyle relay team of Ian Vermillion, Wardlow, Hinman and Isaiah Thom finished second with a time of 3:49.
The Eagles finished third in the 200 medley relay in 1:51, with Wardlow, Jackson Mordica, Hinman and Vermillion competing.
Joplin was also third in the 200 freestyle relay, as Jordan Goins, Thom, Jackson Mordica and Owen Mordica recorded a time of 1:46.
Vermillion finished third in the 100 butterfly, with teammate Gideon Speer fifth.
Jackson Mordica took fourth in the 100 breaststroke.
Vermillion and Isaiah Thom finished fifth and sixth in the 50 freestyle.
