The one team in position to prevent Ames from winning its fifth-straight Iowa Girls High School State Swimming and Diving Championship did exactly that.

Dowling Catholic claimed the program’s first state championship with a flurry of a finish, winning the final three events to move up from back-to-back seasons as state runner-up to knock off Ames on Saturday at the Marshalltown YMCA/YWCA.

Dowling Catholic had four event wins and four top-three finishes to score 360 points for the title. Ames came away as a runner-up with 328 points after having one event winner and seven top-three finishes.

For the second year in a row, Dowling Catholic won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1 minutes, 42.54 seconds, while Ames came in second with a time of 1:45.

Iowa City West’s Aurora Roghair won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:48.04. Dowling Catholic’s Meg Susil finished in third place with a time of 1:50.82.

Ames’ Annie Galvin finished in third place in 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:05.41. Scarlet Martin of Iowa City West won the event with a time of 2:04.43.

In the 50-yard freestyle, Ankeny’s Jasmine Rumley defended her title a second time and won the event for a third year in a row with a time of 22.53. Ames’ Meghan Donald swam 23.48 to finish in second place.

Martin dethroned Dowling Catholic’s two-time defending champion Berit Quass in the 100-yard butterfly. Martin won the event with a state record-breaking time of 53.41 while Quass finished in second place with a time of 54.71.

Rumley, a Tennessee recruit, won her second title of the day in 100-yard freestyle in which she broke the state record with a time of 49.03. Ames’ Mikayla Kloth finished in second place with a time of 52.12.

Roghair also won the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:50.87 which dethroned Dowling Catholic’s three-time defending state champion Quass. Quass, also a Tennessee recruit, finished in second place with a time of 4:52.

For the second year in a row, Ames won the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:34.83. Dowling Catholic finished in second place with a time of 1:35.82.

The Maroons made their run to the title over the final three events. Katie Broderick won the 100 backstroke for the second year in a row with a time of 55.53. Ames’ Galvin finished in second place with a time of 55.74.

Dowling Catholic’s Mary Martin won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:03.33, and the Maroons closed the day with a win in the 400 freestyle relay by dethroning four-time defending champion Ames. Dowling won with a time of 3:28.11 while Ames finished in third place with a time of 3:29.98.