Smith-Cotton swam to a third-place finish in the West Central Conference girls swimming meet on Thursday at the Joseph W. Arbisi Memorial Pool.
The Lady Tigers finished with 341 team points. Warrensburg won the conference title with 506 points, edging St. Pius X, which finished with 427 after Warrensburg’s Kelly Blunt beat St. Pius’ Alex Sweeney by .23 seconds in the breaststroke and the 400 relay team held off a late St. Pius surge to win by .11 seconds.
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