{"id":118694,"date":"2026-01-31T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118694\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:19:08","slug":"mhs-boys-swimming-finishes-runner-up-at-emporia-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118694\/","title":{"rendered":"MHS boys&#8217; swimming finishes runner-up at Emporia | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan High boys\u2019 swimming closed the regular season meet slate on Saturday at the Emporia Invite with a second-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians totaled 441.5 points in a tightly contested meet, as Winfield won the team title with 449 points and Campus finished third at 434.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan set the tone early by winning the 200-yard medley relay. The quartet of Cameron Pfannenstiel, Koby Jones, Wallace King and Ezra Kohl touched first in 1:49.16, while Manhattan\u2019s B relay also scored with a fourth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Individually, Jack Dunn led Manhattan with a win in the 500 free, clocking a 5:18.44. Dunn also added a runner-up finish in the 200 free at 1:58.79, while Pfannenstiel placed third in the 200 individual medley.<\/p>\n<p>King continued his consistency in the sprints, finishing second in the 50 free and third in the 100 free. Kohl added another scoring swim with a sixth-place finish in the 100 free.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan\u2019s backstroke group produced a key postseason indicator, as Pfannenstiel earned a state consideration time in the 100 backstroke while placing second in 1:01.46. Collin Bunger followed closely in third.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians closed the meet with a strong showing in the 400 free relay. The group of Dunn, Bunger, Pfannenstiel and King placed second in 3:34.98, a performance that also qualified the relay for the state meet.<\/p>\n<p>Uo next is the Centennial League championship on Thursday, Feb. 12, hosted by Topeka High, with state prelims following a week later in Lenexa.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan results<\/p>\n<p>200 medley relay: 1. Pfannenstiel, Jones, King, Kohl 1:49.16; 4. Bunger, Chen, Casebeer, Brueseke 2:00.87<\/p>\n<p>200 free: 2. Dunn 1:58.79; 11. Garren 2:30.15; 13. Giles-Alfonso 2:31.58<\/p>\n<p>200 IM: 3. Pfannenstiel 2:22.37; 6. Jones 2:37.58<\/p>\n<p>50 free: 2. King 23.49; 3. Kohl 23.96<\/p>\n<p>100 butterfly: T3. Bunger 1:03.41; 7. Casebeer 1:17.70; 10. Peterman 1:27.20<\/p>\n<p>100 free: 3. King 52.18; 6. Kohl 56.57; 16. Giles-Alfonso 1:02.42<\/p>\n<p>500 free: 1. Dunn 5:18.44; 7. Brueseke 6:31.71; 10. Garren 7:03.07<\/p>\n<p>200 free relay: 2. Jones, Kohl, Chen, Dunn 1:40.31; 10. Casebeer, Peterman, Giles-Alfonso, Salazar 1:55.12<\/p>\n<p>100 backstroke: 2. Pfannenstiel 1:01.46; 3. Bunger 1:03.36; 12. Casebeer 1:18.49<\/p>\n<p>100 breaststroke: 3. Jones 1:15.59; 5. Chen 1:19.32; 12. Brueseke 1:27.40<\/p>\n<p>400 free relay: 2. Dunn, Bunger, Pfannenstiel, King 3:34.98; 7. Giles-Alfonso, Garren, Brueseke, Salazar 4:18.49<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High boys\u2019 swimming closed the regular season meet slate on Saturday at the Emporia Invite with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32556,32555,25601,26039,75,84,83,32551,9,24,63,9225,4886,11472,32557],"class_list":["post-118694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-aquatics","tag-athletic-sports","tag-competition","tag-individual-sports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-medley-swimming","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-racing","tag-swimming","tag-swimming-styles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}