CEDAR RAPIDS — City High’s Little Hawks dipped to 2-1 on the season after dropping a dual meet 98-88 (varsity) last Tuesday (Sept. 17) at Cedar Rapids Washington.

Solon’s Grace Hoeper, Madelyn Elkins, and Nora Bumsted added to City’s point totals with Hoeper winning the varsity 200-yard Individual Medley in 2:10.83, beating the automatic state meet qualifying standard of 2:12.38 and 21 seconds ahead of second place finisher Lily Belle Barker (CR Wash). Hoeper also smoked the field in the 500-yard freestyle with a winning time of 5:11.43, beating the qualifying standard of 5:18.88 and 51 seconds ahead of Wash’s Lillian Buresh (second place). She anchored the winning 200-yard freestyle relay (1:45.16) with Louisa Berry-Stoelzle, Elkins, and Elsa Farber and swam the third leg of the 200 medley relay (1:59.78) with Celeste Miller, Saoirse Miller, and Berry-Stoelzle.

Elkins led off for the winning varsity 400yard freestyle relay (4:08.42) with Farber, Celeste Miller, and Saoirse Miller, finished sixth in the varsity 200 IM (2:47.28), and was fourth in the varsity 100-freestyle (1:02.59).

Bumsted added to the Junior Varsity’s 90-38 win over the Warriors with a third place finish (1:56.13) in the 100-breaststroke and led off the fourth-place JV 200-freestyle relay (2:27.37) with Shaona Emmanuel, Betsy Gavin, and Malorie James, and took third in the 100-breastroke in 1:56.13.