“Finally a week with just one meet,” head coach Angie Nelson said. “We’ve been waiting for this. I am so excited to see the progress these girls are making and how much we will continue to see from week to week here on out. The first half of season is a grueling pace, meet after meet. It’s hard to improve from a Tuesday to a Thursday, but now, just wait we’re going to see better and more of it.”

The Bobcats won one event with Hannah Taylor winning the diving by posting a season-high of 261.90 points.

Despite the lone win, Marshalltown had seven total second place finished with four coming from individual events. Hannah Case swam a time of 3:00.48 for second place in the 200-yard IM. Samantha Propp swam 1:15.05 to take second place in the 100-yard backstroke while CeCe Waltermire placed second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:22.24. Cori Jorgenson swam 27.67 in the 50-yard freestyle for a second-place finish.

In the relays, MHS had three second-place finishes. The Bobcats’ 200-yard medley relay team swam 2:18.57 to take second place and the 200-yard freestyle relay finished in second place with a time of 1:52.91. Marshalltown also placed second in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 4:16.48.

T-R PHOTO BY ANDREW ABADIE - Marshalltown’s Samantha Propp swims the opening backstroke leg of the 200-yard medley relay in Tuesday’s meet against Mason City.

Notably, Ciera Randall swam three personal bests. In the 200-yard freestyle, Randall swam 2:48 to improve by two seconds, in the 500-yard freestyle her time of 7:34 was a 36-second improvement and had a four-second improvement in her relay split in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

The Bobcats return to action on the road in a dual meet against Waukee on Oct. 8.

Mason City 112, Marshalltown 71

At Marshalltown

EVENT RESULTS

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(Champion plus MHS placewinners)

200 MEDLEY RELAY — 1. MC (Ihlenfeldt, Roney, Nasstrom, Godfrey) 2:02.96; 2. MHS (Propp, Waltermire, Stanley, Pfantz) 2:18.57.

200 FREESTYLE — 1. Madison Braun, MC, 2:09.61; 4. Klaudia Hernandez, MHS, 2:19.27; 5. Samantha Propp, MHS, 2:41.74.

200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY — 1. Sophia Francis, MC, 2:54.89; 2. Hannah Case, MHS, 3:00.48; 4. Diana Espinoza, MHS, 3:28.76.

50 FREESTYLE — 1. Paige Braun, MC, 26.12; 2. Cori Jorgenson, MHS, 27.67; 3. Emma Pfantz, MHS, 30.43; 4. Riley Robinson, MHS, 30.67.

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DIVING — 1. Hannah Taylor, MHS, 261.90; 2. Kaisa Stanley, MHS, 191.10; 3. Kiersten Randall, MHS, 134.60.

100 BUTTERFLY — 1. Nia Litterer, MC, 1:05.09; 3. Robinson, MHS, 1:19.57; 5. Hannah Case, MHS, 1:24.56.

100 FREESTYLE — 1. P. Braun, MC, 58.07; 3. Jorgenson, MHS, 1:01.26; 4. CeCe Waltermire, MHS, 1:04.08; 5. Erin Stanley, MHS, 1:06.64.

500 FREESTYLE — 1. Taylor Halverson, MC, 5:55.72; 3. Hernandez, MHS, 6:23.01; 5. Ciera Randall, MHS, 7:34.21.

200 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. MC (Litterer, P. Braun, M. Braun, J. Braun) 1:47.98; 2. MHS (Jorgenson, Waltermire, Jones, Hernandez) 1:52.91.

100 BACKSTROKE — 1. Kate Edgerton, MC, 1:09.64; 2. Propp, MHS, 1:15.05; 3. Stanley, MHS, 1:15.20.

100 BREASTSTROKE — 1. M. Braun, MC, 1:13.11; 2. Waltermire, MHS, 1:22.24; 4. Taylor Jones, MHS, 1:27.53; 5. Pfantz, MHS, 1:28.62.

400 FREESTYLE RELAY — 1. MC (Edgerton, P. Braun, J. Braun, Litterer) 4:00.75; 2. MHS (Hernandez, Jorgenson, Jones, Stanley) 4:16.48.