CAPE CENTRAL SWIMMERS DROP OPENER

ST. LOUIS -- The Cape Central girls dropped their opening swim meet of the spring season Tuesday with a 109-76 loss at Parkway Central.

"Even though we lost we had eight state-qualifying times and some of those times might get on our top team lists over the past eight years," said Central coach Dayna Powell. "To see how everyone preformed, I was very pleased for the first meet."

Freshman Mary Beth Owen posted two of those state-qualifying times individually (200 IM, 500 Freestyle) and was a member of two-state-qualifying relay teams (200 Medley, 400 Freestyle).

Juniors Grace Freeman (50 Freestyle, 100 Breaststroke) and Jean Maguire (100 Butterfly, 100 Backstroke) were the other state-qualifiers.

Parkway Central 109, Cape Central 76

200 Medly Relay -- 1. (Jean Maguire, Grace Freeman, Mary Beth Owen, Jennifer Freeze), 2:00.40 (SQ)

200 Freestyle -- 3. Jill Mosebach, 2:28.40

200 IM -- 1. Mary Beth Owen 2:14.22 (SQ)

50 Freestyle -- 1. Grace Freeman 25.31 (SQ); 3. Jennifer Freeze 28.15

Diving -- 3. Julia Lufcy 160.00

100 Butterfly -- 1. Jean Maguire 1:02.84 (SQ)

100 Freestyle -- 2. Jennifer Freeze 1:02.32

500 Freestyle -- 1. Mary Beth Owen 5:19.38 (SQ); 3. Jill Mosebach 6:34.00

200 Free Relay -- 3. (Marci Kester, Casey Brennan, Allison Johnson, Jill Mosebach), 2:08.93

100 Backstroke -- 2. Jean Maguire 1:05.74 (SQ)

100 Breaststroke 1. Grace Freeman 1:14.38 (SQ); 3. Marci Kester 1:22.09

400 Free Relay -- 1. (Freeze, Maguire, Owen, Freeman), 3:50.05

(SQ) - state-qualifying time