JHS finishes 3rd at home invite

After finishing second in both the 50 and 100 freestyle on Friday, Willy Marler found his place back atop the podium on Saturday.

The Blue Jay senior picked up wins in both events to help lead Jamestown to a third-place team finish at the Blue Jay Invitational on Saturday at the JHS Pool.

“The boys did awesome,” said JHS coach Ben Smith. “There were some powerhouses there with West Fargo, Bismarck Century, Mandan and Fargo Davies.”

Marler also teamed up with Andy Oslund, Braydon Love and Colt Rasmussen to place second in the 200 freestyle.

The same team also placed third in the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:29.49.

“Our freestyle relays are doing very well,” Smith said. “Things are really coming together. That’s one of the things we’ve been focusing on in practice.”

Oslund had a good day individually in the pool with a fourth-place finish in the 50 free and a sixth in the 100 free. Rasmussen finished fourth in the 500 free and Hunter Boehm placed fifth in the 50 free.

Love finished 10th in the 500 free with a time of 5:36.63 to qualify for state, upping Jamestown’s total to 13 boys qualified in 31 events.

“I was looking at last year’s results at the Blue Jay Invite and it was fun to see all the improvement,” Smith said. “Not just individually, but also as a team.”

West Fargo went on to win the team title after the Packers placed two individuals and two relay teams atop the podium. The Packers finished with a team score of 580 and Bismarck Century followed in second with 446. Jamestown finished with 307.5.

The Blue Jays are on the road for the remainder of the regular season, starting on Friday with a two-day invitational in Bismarck.

“It will be a really big meet,” Smith said. “There are going to be teams from all over. Teams from Wyoming and Minnesota are going to be there.”

Team Scores

1. West Fargo 580. 2. Century 446.5. 3. Jamestown 307.5. 4. Mandan 275.5. 5. Fargo Davies 252. 6. Grand Forks 234. 7. Williston 228.5.

Individual Results

200 medley relay: 1. C (Dylan Sether, Collin Kemmesat, Taylor Crothers, Zach Grosz), 1:43.03. 2, WF (Nick Huseby, Ethan Doll, Carson Keller, Alex Smestad), 1:44.42.

JHS results: 7, JHS (Luke Allen, Cody Kilgore, Nick Bercier, Hunter Boehm), 2:01.28; 11, JHS (Cayden Hare, Ben Harris, Grant Curtis, Andrew Craig).

200 freestyle: 1. D. Sether, C, 1:42.12. 2, WF, Adam Smestad, 1:49.25.

JHS results: 10, Colt Rasmussen, 2:00.60; 11, Braydon Love, 2:01.65, 2:02.16.

200 individual medley: 1. Kemmesat, C, 2:09.22. 2. Loren Sether, C, 2:09.48.

JHS results: 19, Nick Bercier, 2:33.96

50 freestyle: 1, JHS, Willy Marler, 22.45; 2, WF, Alex Smestad, 23.39.

Other JHS results: 4, Andy Oslund, 23.67; 5, Hunter Boehm, 24.06.

Diving: 1. M, Barth, 468.30. 2. M, Nathan Berger, M, 364.20.

JHS results: 6, Riley Thom, 284.50; 7, Hunter Munson, 281.25; 8, Brett Goehner, 267.95; 12, Cody Lutman, 235.20.

100 butterfly: 1, WF, Ethan Doll, 57.18; 2, WF, Carson Keller, 58.55.

Other JHS results: 13, Nick Bercier, 1:10.34; 14, Grant Curtis, 1:11.24.

100 freestyle: 1, JHS, Willy Marler, 49.35; 2, WF, Adam Smestad, 50.24.

Other JHS results: 6, Andy Oslund, 52.57; 10, Hunter Boehm, 54.93.

500 freestyle: 1, D. Sether, C, 4:56.62. 2, Ben Polinske, WIL, 5:05.35.

JHS results: 4, Colt Rasmussen, 5:28.42; 10, Braydon Love, 5:36.63.

200 freestyle relay: 1, WF (Alex Smestad, Adam Smestad, Cole Holoien, Carson Keller), 1:33.51; 2, JHS (Andy Oslund, Braydon Love, Colt Rasmussen, Willy Marler), 1:34.47.

Other JHS results: 9, JHS (Nick Bercier, Hunter Boehm, Cody Kilgore, Andrew Craig).

100 backstroke: 1, WF, Nick Huseby, 58.37; 2, C, Ethan Porter, C, 1:00.61.

JHS results: 21, Luke Allen, 1:11.93

100 breaststroke: 1. C, Kemmesat, 1:01.96. 2. C, Dutchuk, 1:09.60.

Other JHS results: 10, Cody Kilgore, 1:13.90; 17, Grant Curtis, 1:18.37.

400 freestyle relay: 1. WF (Adam Smestad, Cole Holoien, Nick Huseby, Ethan Doll); 2. C, (D. Sether, Grosz, L. Sether, Kemmesat), 3:25.62.

JHS results: 3, JHS (Andy Oslund, Braydon Love, Colt Rasmussen, Willy Marler), 3:29.49; 13, JHS (Luke Allen, Grant Curtis, Cayden Hare, Brandon Hart).

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