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AMES -- The Marshalltown girls' swimming and diving squad suffered its first dual meet defeat of the season, falling 137-48 to No. 10 Ames on Tuesday night.
The Little Cyclones won all but one event as Marshalltown's Adele Beek captured first place in the 100-yard breaststroke to break up the potential sweep for Ames. Beek won the next-to-last event with a time of 1 minute, 13.68 seconds, finishing more than two seconds ahead of Mady Hermsen of Ames (1:15.81).
Leia Hernandez had a pair of runner-up finishes, coming in a close second in the 50 freestyle. Ellie McCorkle of Ames won in 25.02 with Hernandez second in 25.51. Hernandez also took silver in the 100 freestyle (56.39).
The Bobcats were second in both freestyle relay races as well. The quartet of Beek, Rachel Case, Drea Ceren and Hernandez trailed Ames in the 200 freestyle with a final time of 1:50.15, while the 400 freestyle relay squad of Emma Case, Drea Ceren, Addison Elmore and Hernandez scored silver in 4:03.53.
Elmore claimed third in both the 200 individual medley (2:36.05) and the 100 backstroke (1:10.14), while Beek got bronze in the 100 butterfly (1:14.08).
The foursome of Elmore, Rachel Case, Alex Lasack and Libby Meyer took third in the 200 medley relay to open the meet.
Marshalltown returns to the pool on Thursday with a dual meet at Indianola.
MHS harriers compete at Newton cross country meet
NEWTON -- The Marshalltown boys' cross country team finished sixth out of eight teams at Newton's 49th Steve McDermott Invitational on Tuesday at Maytag Park.
The Bobcats went without their top two runners in Preston Johnson and Carter Nunn. On this night it was freshman Costin Piscitelli leading the way with a 22nd-place finish in a time of 19 minutes, 31.4 seconds.
Isacc Ceniceros was next to cross for the Bobcats, taking 25th in 19:54.1, and he was followed closely by Michael Downs (27th, 20:02.2), Thomas Stanley (29th, 20:10.2) and Cooper McLeod (30th, 20:11.1).
Marshalltown finished with 133 points, just back of Knoxville (129) in fifth and Des Moines Lincoln (122) in fourth. Grinnell won the meet with 35 points, followed by ADM (49) and Newton (114). Albia (158) and South Tama (173) completed the team scoring.
South Tama senior Barrett Jesina scored third place in the race with a time of 17:13.9. Knoxville's Isaac Rankin won in 17:00.7, and Grinnell's Cadel Conner was second in 17:05.9.
Brady Jesina (32nd), Max Schirmer (39th), Jovanie Perez (48) and Riley Stubbs (50) also scored for STC.
On the girls' side, Marshalltown was third out of four scoring teams with 78 points. Senior Anessa Morrison paced the Bobcats with a fifth-place finish and a time of 22:53.8.
Freshmen Grace Whitmore (15th, 23:29.6) and Lily Johnson (17th, 24:01.0) were next to cross for the 'Cats, followed by juniors Sophia Valdez Chavez (28th, 27:31.7) and Alina Garcia (32nd, 29:10.7).
One of four non-scoring teams, South Tama sent three runners to the course. Jayva Gomez finished 31st (28:49.3), Livia Smith was 33rd (29:37.5) and Cahysia Kapayou 34th (30.45.6).