DUBUQUE — City High’s varsity girls topped the Wahlert Catholic Golden Eagles 103-83 in a Mississippi Valley Conference Mississippi Division swimming and diving meet Tuesday, Sept. 3 at Loras College, improving to a 1-1 record after a season opening home loss to Cedar Rapids Kennedy.
Solon senior Grace Hoeper won the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard fly in 1:55.48 and 57.89 and anchored the winning 200-yard freestyle relay with Solon sophomore Madelyn Elkins and City High’s Elsa Farber and Louisa Berry-Stoelzle (1:47.00). Elkins and Hoeper joined Farber and Celeste Miller in the second place 400- yard freestyle relay (3:59.85).
Elkins joined City’s Celeste Miller, Saoirse Miller, and Eliza Mitchell in the second place 200-yard medley relay (2:05.82) and took fourth in the 50-yard freestyle (27.75).
JV splashes Wahlert 85-41
Solon freshman Nora Bumsted took fourth in the 100-yard freestyle in 1:18.25 and anchored the third place 200-yard medley relay with Keira James, Lolita Hurlbutt, and Ily Jensen (2:59.59). She swam the second leg of the third place 200 freestyle medley with Malorie James, Betsy Gavin, and Jensen (2:22.86), and the third place 400 freestyle with James, Gavin, and Keira James (5:31.36)