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Bobcat swimmers split home triangular

T-R PHOTO BY THORN COMPTON - Marshalltown swimmer Hannah Taylor competes in the 200-yard freestyle relay during the Bobcats’ home triangular against Oskaloosa and Indianola on Thursday night.

The Marshalltown girls swimming and diving team had arguably one of its best days in the water on Thursday evening in a home triangular against Indianola and Oskaloosa.

The Bobcats split in the team scores, Throttling Oskaloosa 86-14 and falling to Indianola 54-47, but what head coach Angie Nelson was most excited about was the many, many time cuts her team had.

“Great meet, great time drops tonight and I am so glad to close the first part of the season up,” Nelson said. “I have never been more excited about it, it’s been a grinder and the girls are tired and they are still swimming well tired. This was really, really positive.”

The girls have a right to be tired considering they’ve had nine meets since the start of the season on Aug. 28, nearly two meets a week.

That didn’t stop them from continuing to improve, however, and that showed on Thursday in the triangular.

T-R PHOTO BY THORN COMPTON - Marshalltown senior Shakira Herrera swims the backstroke in the 200-yard individual medley on Thursday in the Bobcats’ home triangular against Oskaloosa and Indianola.

Shakira Herrera won both the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2 minutes, 29 seconds, and 100 butterfly by coming in at 1:02..69. Both of those times were season-bests, with her individual medley time shaving two seconds off of her previous best.

“That’s a great time cut for her and then another 1:02 in the butterfly, so she has two 1:02’s under her belt for the season and that’s just amazing,” Nelson said.

Taylor Hrabak also won two events with a victory in the 200 freestyle at 2:08.93 and the 500 freestyle with a 5:55.36, the first sub-six minute time in the 500 freestyle for the Bobcats this season.

Cori Jorgenson knocked off more than a second in her 100 freestyle to place second with a 1:01.18, and the 400 freestyle relay team of Herrera, Jorgenson, Hrabak and Klaudia Hernandez won to finish the triangular by notching a season-best time of 4:03.25.

The 200 freestyle relay team of the same makeup also set a season-best time at 1:49.75 to take second.

T-R PHOTO BY THORN COMPTON

“We had really good races in the relays and it’s nice to see our team times come down a little bit,” Nelson said. “The 1:49 is three seconds faster than we’ve gone before, when you get under a 1:50 now we can start talking about other possibilities there.”

On the diving board the Bobcats shown brightest, with all four girls junior varsity and varsity divers at least matching their season bests.

Mia Rasmusson recorded a 211 to win on the junior varsity side, her first score of more than 200 in her short MHS diving career, and Nelson said that’s an exciting outcome.

“This girl just started diving this summer, what amazing potential,” Nelson said. “Yesterday she worked on the back twister that she finished her list with, and today it scored really well for her.”

Alli Trowbridge continued her great run for her senior season as well with a new season-best of 268.90, which moved her into fifth place in the state, while Hannah Taylor matched her season best of 239.50. Aaliyah Afuya also made a new season best on the junior varsity side with a 174.25.

“Alli’s score just keeps climbing up, she has a ton of potential there and she had a good week of twisters there,” Nelson said. “Hannah Taylor’s score was right at her highest, so that’s excellent, and Aaliyah Afuyah was seven or eight points higher than her best. Great, great stuff.”

The Bobcat girls have shown steady growth throughout the first month of the season despite having minimal time to practice, even having a morning practice on Thursday before the triangular, and Nelson said that is greatly encouraging heading down the stretch of the year.

“It’s just awesome to watch them start swimming well, I think everybody feels just a little lift. With next week and homecoming it’s going to be a bit more fun, just kind of a nice little celebration of the end to the grind,” she said. “Now we start to go into one meet a week and get some work in between each meet. We will start to see more progress, we will start to see better times and we will start to see better racing.”

Next up Marshalltown will travel to Mason City next Tuesday for a double dual, starting at 5:30 p.m.

Indianola 54, Marshalltown 47

Indianola 77, Oskaloosa 15

Marshalltown 86, Oskaloosa 14

At Marshalltown

EVENT RESULTS

(Champion plus MHS placewinners)

200 MEDLEY RELAY — 1. IND (Pottebaum, Peterson, Scovel, Cram) 2:03.43; 3. MHS (Manis, Waltermire, Stanley, Bartles) 2:19.32.

200 FREESTYLE — 1. Taylor Hrabak, MHS, 2:08.93; 3. Emily Manis, MHS, 2:24.84.

200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY — 1. Shakira Herrera, MHS, 2:29.00; 3. Klaudia Hernandez, MHS, 2:39.22.

50 FREESTYLE — 1. Brooklyn Pottebaum, IND, 27:14; 2. Cori Jorgenson, MHS, 27.60; 4. CeCe Waltermire, MHS, 29.52.

DIVING — 1. Alli Trowbridge, MHS, 268.90; 2. Hannah Taylor, MHS, 239.50.

100 BUTTERFLY — 1. Herrera, MHS, 1:02.69; 4. Erin Stanley, MHS, 1:21.97.

100 FREESTYLE — 1. Kinsli Cram, IND, 59.93; 2. Jorgenson, MHS, 1:01.18; 4. Kelsey Bartles, MHS, 1:14.67.

500 FREESTYLE — 1. Hrabak, MHS, 5:55.36; 2. Hernandez, MHS, 6:15.56.

200 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. IND (Pottebaum, Scovel, Riggs, Cram) 1:49.57; 2. MHS (Jorgenson, Herrera, Hernandez, Hrabak) 1:49.75.

100 BACKSTROKE — 1. Pottebaum, IND, 1:08.06; 3. Manis, MHS, 1:15.36; 4. Stanley, MHS, 1:15.94.

100 BREASTSTROKE — 1. Kallista Peterson, IND, 1:15.63; 3. Waltermire, MHS, 1:20.89; 5. Bartles, MHS, 1:28.52.

400 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. MHS (Herrera, Jorgenson, Hrabak, Hernandez) 4:03.25; 3. MHS (Stanley, Jones, Manis, Waltermire) 4:33.67.

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