Local boys swim teams fared well at Thursday’s Springfield Invitational.
Glendale won the meet with 386 points, while Webb City (191.5) and Carthage (146) finished second and third, respectively, in the team standings.
Ozark (128), Monett (124) and Joplin (100) rounded out the top six squads at the 14-team event.
WEBB CITY RESULTS
Webb City was led by Micah Brouwer, who took first place in the 100-yard breaststroke with a state-consideration time of 1:07. Brouwer also tied for second in the 200 individual medley with a state-consideration time of 2:17.
Zion Wood placed third in the 100 breaststroke, while Ethan Shipley finished fourth in the 100 freestyle and fifth in the 200 freestyle.
Steve Kenlee placed fifth in the 500 free, while Emiliano Vasquez finished sixth in the 50 freestyle.
Webb City’s 400 freestyle relay team of Shipley, Vasquez, Kenlee and Cody Herndon placed third in a consideration time of 3:50.
The Cardinals were fourth in the 200 medley relay, with Judah Ritchie, Wood, Brouwer and Shipley competing.
Webb City also took fourth in the 200 freestyle relay, with Vasquez, Wood, Herndon and Kenlee swimming.
In the diving competition, Carson Forcum was third, while teammates Eric Keeling and Carter Forcum placed fifth and seventh, respectively.
CARTHAGE RESULTS
Carthage won the 200 medley relay in a consideration time of 1:51, with Kellen Frieling, Braxton McBride, Eli Cox and Ezekiel Ramirez competing.
The Tigers took second in the 200 freestyle relay, as Frieling, McBride, Cox and Ramirez recorded a consideration time of 1:37.
Also for Carthage, Frieling finished third in the 100 backstroke, McBride placed fourth in both the 50 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke and Ramirez took fifth in the 100 free.
Ramirez and Frieling finished sixth and seventh, respectively, in the 200 freestyle, while Will Wallace was seventh in the 200 IM.
JOPLIN RESULTS
Joplin’s top finisher at the invite was Nathan Wardlow, who placed second in the 500-yard freestyle in a state-consideration time of 5:30. Jacob Glenn finished fourth in the same event in 5:52.
Wardlow also finished fifth in the 200 individual medley
Joplin’s 400-yard freestyle relay team of Wardlow, Ian Vermillion, Zane Newman and Glenn placed fifth with a state-consideration time of 3:52.
The Eagles finished seventh in the 200-yard medley relay, with Glenn, Wyatt Satterlee, Vermillion and Wardlow competing.
Newman and Vermillion placed eighth and ninth, respectively, in the 200 freestyle. Satterlee finished eighth in the 100 breaststroke and Parker Hinman took ninth in the 500 free.
Joplin’s 200 freestyle relay of Oliver Bortz, Satterlee, Devin Lawson and Hinman finished ninth.
