By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
City swimmers combined to win seven events in Wednesday's season-opening Topeka West Invitational at the Capitol Federal Natatorium, led by double individual winner Luke Perkins of Shawnee Heights and three-event gold medalist Jack Miranda of Washburn Rural.
Shawnee Heights junior Luke Perkins was a double individual winner in Wednesday's season-opening Topeka West Invitational. [File photo/TSN]
Perkins won the 200-yard individual medley and the 100 butterfly and also swam on the T-Birds' second-place 200 medley and 200 free relays while Miranda won the 200 freestyle and swam on the Junior Blues' winning 200 free and 400 free relays. Miranda also finished second in the 500 freestyle.
Shawnee Heights Guillaume Humblet was the champion in the 100 freestyle while Washburn Rural's Brogan Meier won the 500 free as the Junior Blues finished second as a team behind Olathe Northwest. Humblet also finished second in the 100 breaststroke.
Rural's Nathen Trachta swam on the Junior Blues winning 200 free and 400 free relays while Meier swam on the 400 free relay and Cordell Dimick and Will Powell swam on the winning 200 free relay.
Topeka High's Jaxon Cowdin posted a third-place finish in one-meter diving.
TOPEKA WEST INVITATIONAL
Team scores
Olathe Northwest 472.5, Washburn Rural 321.5, Manhattan 276, Lansing 217, Shawnee Heights 206.5, Seaman 174, Turner 146.5, Topeka High 133.5, Junction City 126, Emporia 66.5, Hayden 61, Bishop Seabury 37.
Individual results
200 medley relay — 1. Olathe Northwest, 1:44.40, 2. Shawnee Heights (Brede, Humblet, Perkins, Zerger), 1:46.41; 3. Manhattan, 1:48.06.
200 freestyle — 1. Miranda, Washburn Rural, 1:51.07; 2. Turberg, Olathe Northwest, 1:53.82; 3. Bunger, Manhattan, 1:58.00.
200 individual medley — 1. Perkins, Shawnee Heights, 2:05.83; 2. Trachta, Washburn Rural, 2:07.40; 3.Evans, Olathe Northwest, 2:13.64.
50 freestyle — 1. Lamb, Junction City, 23.11; 2. Denson, Turner, 23.73; 3. Staedtler, Manhattan, 23.83.
Diving — 1. Higgins, Emporia, 247.35; 2. Kohl, Manhattan, 235.35; 3. Cowdin, Topeka High, 155.10.
100 butterfly — 1. Perkins, Shawnee Heights, 53.94; 2. Blake, Bishop Seabury, 54.08; 3. Branstrom, Olathe Northwest, 56.97.
100 freestyle — 1. Humblet, Shawnee Heights, 51.73; 2. Evans, Olathe Northwest, 52.42; 3. Lamb, Junction City, 52.64.
500 freestyle — 1. Meier, Washburn Rural, 5:04.91; 2. Miranda, Washburn Rural, 5:10.77; 3. Graves, Manhattan, 5:16.90.
200 freestyle relay — 1. Washburn Rural (Trachta, Miranda, Dimick, Powell), 1:35.22; 2. Shawnee Heights (Humblet, Hoobler, Perkins, Zerger), 1:37.22; 3. Olathe Northwest, 1:37.99.
100 backstroke — 1. Branstrom, Olathe Northwest, 56.38; 2. Trachta, Washburn Rural, 57.54; 3. Meier, Washburn Rural, 59.28.
100 breaststroke — 1. Blake, Bishop Seabury, 59.43; 2. Humblet, Shawnee Heights, 1:02.50; 3. Yim, Olathe Northwest, 1:05.77.
400 freestyle relay — 1. Washburn Rural (Powell, Meier, Miranda, Trachta), 3:26.63; 2. Olathe Northwest, 3:29.74; 3. Manhattan, 3:45.22.
