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Marshalltown swimming comes up short against CR Washington

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE - Marshalltown’s Taylor Jones competes in the 100-yard butterfly during Thursday’s home dual meet against Cedar Rapids Washington at the MHS pool. Jones scored the Bobcats a point for finishing in fifth place with her time of 1 minute, 25.75 seconds.

The Marshalltown girls swimming and diving team lost at home in a dual meet against Cedar Rapids Washington on Thursday, 114-69. Despite the loss, the Bobcats’ young team has continued to show improvements through their times.

“I’m not surprised at the final point total, [Cedar Rapids Washington] always has a really good team that races really well,” Marshalltown head coach Angie Nelson said. “This is always a very fun meet for us. Our coaching staffs are friends and they always compete and they come to compete. We were just excited for the girls. We talked about a meet where they have room for improvement. I think that we were able to accomplish that.

“There was a lot of first- and second-time swims over the last few weeks. We’ve seen some really good improvement. Just a one- or two-second improvements each time they are swimming and we are seeing some good races out of the kids. I’m excited about the improvement that they are going to show throughout the season.”

The Bobcats placed first in two events with Cori Jorgenson winning the 50-yard freestyle and Hannah Taylor winning the 1-meter diving competition.

“I think we had a great finish with Cori [swimming] a 27.9 in the 50 [freestyle] in a predominantly slower heat of what a 50-free varsity race would like, she came out and she touched out,” Nelson said. “I put her in lane two for a reason. I thought that it would help her break out of the pack and it sure did. She did a great job of getting that first.”

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE - Marshalltown’s CeCe Waltermire swims the opening leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay during Thursday’s dual meet against Cedar Rapids Washington at the MHS pool. The Bobcat relay team took second place in the race with a combined time of 2 minutes, 1.20 seconds.

In diving, while Taylor’s performance of 252.80 puts her on pace to be ranked well in the six-dive event. Notably, her teammate Kiersten Randall made a 50-point improvement compared to her last meet in finishing third with 141 points.

“Kiersten Randall is making a ton of improvement every time she gets on the board,” Nelson said. “Hannah Taylor is a returning state qualifier, we expect big things from her. She has big dives and she does them really well. Look for her score to keep going up. [Two hundred-fifty] is a respectable six-dive score and she is going to rank well for six-dive scorers.

“Next Saturday is the test for Hannah. It’s an 11-dive meet, her first of the season. That’s where the champions are made and she has the talent and the drive to be right up there with some of the state’s best.”

Some other notable performances were CeCe Waltermire’s second-place finish in a time of 36.30 in the 200-yard freestyle as well as her third-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in which she swam a 1:23.

Erin Stanley had a five-second improvement in the 500-yard freestyle and her 6:15.85 was good for a third-place finish.

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE - Marshalltown’s Samantha Propp competes in the 100-yard backstroke in Thursday’s dual meet at the MHS pool. Propp placed second in the event with a time of 1 minute, 16.91 seconds as the Bobcats fell 114-69 to Cedar Rapids Washington.

“We have two really tough meets next week,” Nelson said. “We are going to get a little yardage from here over the next few days at our Friday, Saturday practice. We are going to work on cleaning up some bad habits that we are still seeing after a few weeks of competition — breathing off the walls, not streamlining our turns, leaning into starts a little bit — so we are going to work on that cleanup stuff. Then we’re just going to work on going faster for longer periods of time and working on our endurance.”

The Bobcats will host Johnston in a dual meet next Tuesday and then host the Bobcat Invite on Sept. 21.

“We are having some good swimming,” Nelson said. “We are going to show a lot of improvement through the season. We may not win a whole lot of swim meets but we are going to show a lot better times every time in the pool and that’s what I’m proud of these girls for doing.”

Cedar Rapids Washington 114, Marshalltown 69

At Marshalltown

EVENT RESULTS

(Champion plus MHS placewinners)

200 MEDLEY RELAY — 1. CRW (Lenzer, Cline, Eichhorn, Pfab) 2:07.33; 2. MHS (Stanley, T. Jones, Hernandez, Jorgenson).

200 FREESTYLE — 1. Lucy Pfab, CRW, 2:17.17; 2. CeCe Waltermire, MHS, 2:26.51; 5. Samantha Propp, MHS, 2:35.24.

200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY — 1. Sydney Jones, CRW, 2:26.07; 4. Klaudia Hernandez, MHS, 2:36.37; 5. Maeve Janssen, MHS, 3:25.98.

50 FREESTYLE — 1. Cori Jorgenson, MHS, 27.91; 2. Taylor Jones, MHS, 29.02.

DIVING — 1. Hannah Taylor, MHS, 252.80; 3. Kiersten Randall, MHS, 141.00.

100 BUTTERFLY — 1. Lynice Perkins, CRW, 1:15.30; 3. Riley Robinson, MHS, 1:22.67; 5. T. Jones, MHS, 1:25.75.

100 FREESTYLE — 1. Pfab, CRW, 1:01.83; 2. Hernandez, MHS, 1:02.06; 4. Janssen, MHS, 1:13.31; 5. Cassandra Ralston, MHS, 1:19.43.

500 FREESTYLE — 1. S. Jones, CRW, 6:04.36; 3. Erin Stanley, MHS, 6:15.85; 5. Emma Pfantz, MHS, 7:07.91.

200 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. CRW (A. Jones, S. Jones, Sort, Pfab) 1:47.75; 2. MHS (Waltermire, Propp, Robinson, Janssen) 2:01.20.

100 BACKSTROKE — 1. S. Jones, CRW, 1:10.30; 2. Propp, MHS, 1:16.91; 4. Stanley, MHS, 1:17.96; 5. Robinson, MHS, 1:18.72.

100 BREASTSTROKE — 1. Ellie Thompson, first, 2:20.03; 3. Waltermire, MHS, 1:23.34; 4. Pfantz, MHS, 1:31.35; 5. Hannah Case, MHS, 1:40.91.

400 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. CRW (Eichhorn, A. Jones, Cline, Thompson) 4:14.13; 2. MHS (T. Jones, Stanley, Hernandez, Jorgenson) 4:15.48; 3. MHS (Waltermire, Pfantz, Robinson, Janssen) 4:43.55.

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