NCMP Cardinals split road double dual swim meet

BOONE — Swimming their final duals of the season, NCMP’s Cardinal boys won one and lost one in foreign waters on Thursday.

NCMP defeated Grinnell, 51-43, but lost a 62-32 decision to host Boone. Boone recorded the same margin of victory, 62-32, over Grinnell.

It was a good tune up for Saturday’s Little Hawkeye Conference meet at Indianola. The Cardinals take on Grinnell, Oskaloosa and host Indianola starting at 10 a.m. at the Indianola YMCA.

“We mixed it up tonight due to a big meet on Saturday,” NCMP head coach Sarah Patterson said. “The guys swam well.”

NCMP won one varsity race — the 200-yard individual medley. Caleb Gaylor won in 2 minutes, 7.08 seconds just out-touching Boone’s Cole Harper, 2:07.50.

The two battled again in the 100 breaststroke. Harper got the first touch, 1:04.42, with Gaylor taking second in 1:04.90. NCMP’s Carter Briggs was third in 1:06.23.

NCMP’s 200 medley relays went 2-3. Finishing second to Boone (1:46.55) was the Cardinal foursome of Jacob Knoll, Briggs, Gaylor and Mason Lee in 1:46.97. The team of Jacob Nedder, Grant Hamand, Isaak Miller and Adam Hunter was third in 1:58.14.

Nedder captured second in another close race with Boone in the 100 yard backstroke. Nedder finished in 1:01.82 while Boone’s Hunter Sherry won in 1:01.18.

NCMP’s Henry Jensen was fifth in 1:12.48. Jensen was also fifth in the 200 IM in 2:35.83.

In the 200 freestyle race, Jaden Dydell placed fourth in 2:06.67 and Deklan Lewis was sixth in 2:10.21. Lee took fourth and Briggs was fifth in the 50 yard freestyle in 24.92 seconds and 25.48 seconds, respectively.

Nedder nabbed third in the 100 butterfly in 1:03.03. Hunter placed fourth in 1:08.61.

Knoll and Dydell went 4-5 in the 100 freestyle, respectively, in 54.71 seconds and 56.69 seconds. Lewis was fourth in the 500 freestyle in 5:52.33 and Lee placed fifth in 6:41.88.

The NCMP relay team of Knoll, Briggs, Lee and Gaylor was third in the 200 freestyle race in 1:37.65. Dydell, Miller, Grant Freese and Hunter combined for a fourth-place time of 1:45.50.

In the final race of the night, NCMP’s Knoll, Dydell, Nedder and Hunter turned in a third-place time of 3:43.39 in the 400 freestyle relay race. The team of Lewis, Clay Meyer, Mitch Faidley and Jensen finished fifth in 4:06.67.

NCMP’s junior varsity won five events, starting with the first race of the night. The foursome of Meyer, Freese, Faidley and Kyle Hansen won the 200 medley relay in 2:09.31.

Landon Heisdorffer, Devin Lamb, James Westbrook and Joe Busch recorded a fifth-place time of 2:21.46.

Miller won the junior varsity butterfly in 1:06.80 with Faidley placing third in 1:12.64. Meyer was the winner in the backstroke in 1:10.02 and Heisdorffer was fifth in 1:20.78.

In the breaststroke event, Freese and Lamb went 1-2 in 1:27.00 and 1:27.04, respectively. Lamb took second in the 500 freestyle in 6:31.37 followed by Westbrook in third at 6:56.51.

Meyer was second in the 200 IM in 2:44.34 and Hamand was third in 2:52.0. Freese placed second in the 100 freestyle in 1:04.65 and Busch was fifth in 1:16.40.

Hansen placed third in the 50 freestyle in 3008 and Dallas Schaeffer was fifth in 33.98. Sander was fourth in the 200 freestyle in 2:39.39 and Parker Sherwood was fifth in 2:44.98.

NCMP’s junior varsity 200 freestyle relay team of Miller, Sander, Heisdorffer and Hamand was third in 1:56.69. Another foursome — Hansen, Schaeffer, Sherwood and Busch — placed sixth in 2:08.90.

The junior varsity swimmers finished the meet as they opened it — winning a relay race. The 400 freestyle team of Sander, Westbrook, Heisdorffer and Hamand won in 4:26.11. The other team of Hansen, Sherwood, Schaeffer and Busch was fourth in 5:06.16.

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