Hess headed to state

November 03, 2008 12:16 pm

— DAVENPORT — Clinton junior Libby Hess will be making a lonely trip to Marshalltown this weekend.
Hess was the only River Queen to qualify for the Iowa State Swimming and Diving meet as she took third in the 100-yard breaststroke at a regional meet at Davenport High School on Saturday.
Hess finished the race with a time of 1:10.06, less than a second behind Bettendorf’s Rachael Schermer who won the race with a time of 1:09.64.
Hess qualified with the 14th best time in the event in the state.
As a team, the River Queens finished seventh out of nine teams with 173 points. Bettendorf ran away with the team title with a point total of 511.
Clinton’s 400 freestyle relay team of Taylor Rippon, Katie Kaster, Katie Stanley and Hess gave the River Queens their next highest finish with a fourth place showing. The quartet turned in a time of 4:12.82.

Iowa Regional Swimming and Diving Meet
At Davenport North High School
Team scores
1, Bettendorf 511; 2, Dubuque Hempstead 341; 3, Dubuque Wahlert 297.5; 4, Pleasant Valley 196; 5, Davenport Central 192.5; 6, Dubuque Senior 180; 7, Clinton 173; 8, Davenport West 161; 9, Davenport North 104.
Individual results
(Winner and Clinton others)
1-meter diving—1, Emily Hoerner (DH) 419.05; 13, Katie Spooner (C) 212.2.
200 medley relay—1, Bettendorf 1:53.76; 5, Clinton (Katie Stanley, Libby Hess, Taylor Rippon, Spooner) 2:00.70.
200 freestyle—1, Margaret Barber (B) 1:57.42; 12, Kate Kaster (C) 2:16.00; 23, Breezy Mussman (C) 2:37.74; 25, Katie Frandsen (C) 2:49.44.
200 individual medley—1, Kylie Hershberger (B) 2:19.84; 7, Hess (C) 2:26.94; 10, Rippon (C) 2:31.75; 14, Alyssa Erling (C) 2:43.11.
50 freestyle—1, Hailey Kitzmann (DWest) 25.89; 14, Spooner (C) 28.12; 24, Rachel Harden (C) 31.55; 25, Kali Parker (C)33.30.
100 butterfly—1, Caitlin Campbell (B) 59.24; 8, Rippon (C) 1:05.79; 15, Erling (C) 1:17.89.
100 freestyle—1, Barber (B) 54.14; 14, Stanley (C) 1:02.74; 23, Harden (C) 1:13.20; 24, Frandsen (C) 1:15.41.
500 freestyle—1, Tabby Temperly (DWahl) 5:19.49; 8, Kaster (C) 5:56.73; 22, Kendra Evers (C) 7:07.89; 24, Emma Yahn (C) 7:56.80.
200 freestyle relay—1, Bettendorf 1:41.85; 9, Clinton (Spooner, Erling, Harden, Kaster) 1:58.98.
100 backstroke—1, Sarah Thompson (B) 1:02.58; 11, Stanley (C) 1:10.98; 22, Yahn (C) 1:35.66; 23, Parker (C) 1:39.10.
100 breaststroke—1, Rachael Schermer (B) 1:09.64; 3, Hess (C) 1:10.06; 15, Evers (C) 1:29.31; 16, Mussman (C)1:29.92.
400 freestyle relay—1, Bettendorf 3:46.76; 4, Clinton (Rippon, Kaster, Stanley, Hess) 4:12.82.