FORT DODGE — Newton High’s boys won two individual events at Saturday’s Fort Dodge High Rusty Garst Invitational swim meet. The Cardinals finished fourth with 147 points in the team ranks.
Sioux City claimed its third straight Garst Invitational title with 313 points with host Fort Dodge in second with 206. Atlantic scored 160 points to take third. Waterloo was fifth at 136.5 points followed by Carroll with 128.5 points, Decorah with 101 points for seventh and Spencer with 50 points for eighth.
Newton senior Isaak Webb, who has the state’s top times in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200 individual medley, won those two events Saturday. Webb touched first in the individual medley race in 1 minute, 59.52 seconds and was the champion in the breaststroke race in 1:01.58.
“It was a fairly good meet for us. We had guys who made some improvements,” Newton head coach Dave Hook said. “The guys have been working hard in practices.”
Newton’s foursome of sophomores Jacob Knoll and Lucas Warner and seniors Aaron King and Webb pushed Sioux City’s relay teams in the 200 medley and the 200 freestyle races. The Cardinal four finished two seconds behind for second place in the medley relay in 1:43.35. They were just out touched by a second in the 200 free relay, 1:31.71 to 1:32.79.
“Our relays in those two races were very competitive with Sioux City. With season-best times, those two relays are in the top 10 of the state now,” Hook said.
Newton’s other medley relay team of juniors Paul Maharry and Logan Heisdorffer, and freshmen Deklan Lewis and Mason Lee placed fifth in 1:48.95. Lee and Lewis combined with senior Zach Theis and freshman Adam Hunter for 14th in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:49.82.
Warner captured third in the 100 backstroke in 58.66 seconds. Knoll took 10th in 1:06.68 and senior Chet Adams placed 21st in 1:30.81.
Warner finished fourth in the 100 freestyle race in 50.99 seconds with Hunter in 16th at 59.21 and sophomore Grant Hamand in 21st at 1:13.98. King took fourth in the 100 butterfly in 58.66 seconds, and Lee was 15th in 1:11.92.
In the 50 freestyle, King claimed fifth in 23.45 seconds. Heisdorffer placed 15th in 24.48 and Lee was 24th in 42.18 seconds. Heisdorffer finished 12th in the 500 freestyle in 6:01.52. and Lewis was 14th in 6:11.01.
Hunter was 12th in the 200 freestyle race in 2:08.70 followed by junior Zach Bayne in 21st in 2:40.74 and Adams in 23rd in 2:47.41. Maharry took 18th in the 200 individual medley in 2:33.04 just ahead of Theis at 2:33.99.
Maharry posted a 14th-place time of 1:14.23 in the 100 breaststroke. Hamand was 23rd in 1:38.25.
The Cardinals’ foursome of Hunter, Maharry, Theis and Heisdorffer took ninth in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:57.22. The team of Adams, Bayne, Hamand and Knoll was 15th in 4:33.93.
Newton has its only home meet of the second half of the season on Tuesday. Des Moines Roosevelt and Atlantic come to the Newton YMCA on Senior Night. Swimming begins at 5:30p.m.
“It should be a barn-burner of a meet. Atlantic just beat us at Saturday’s meet and Roosevelt is always tough,” Hook said.
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