Charleston girls swimming placed fifth in the 12-team Capital City Swimming & Diving Invitational in Springfield.

Delaney Goddard posted a personal best in taking sixth in the 500 free in 6 minutes, 29.1 seconds and she teamed with Mackenzie Erixon, Molly Webber and Ava Zheng to take fifth in the 400 free relay.

Erixon also placed sixth in the 200 individual medley in 2:33.05.

Lilly Zerbst (pictured above) placed third in the JV fly 50 while Alexis Gray took fourth in the JV breaststroke.

“Our first two meets were a dual and a tri-meet,” CHS swim coach Dwight Pentzien said. “This was our first invitational of the year.  The atmosphere is a little more tense and certainly louder when you have 12 teams on a pool deck.  Our girls did some things really well, but we also identified some things we can work on in practice that should allow us to continue to improve.”

Pearson paces Trojans girls golf

Taryn Pearson fired a 42 for medalist honors as Charleston beat Effingham, Pana and Sullivan in a quad match at Pana’s Oak Terrace golf course Monday afternoon.

Three Trojans girls posted 45s – Stacey Zerbst, Delaney Meister, Madeline Sanders – to help the team score a 177 total for the 13-stroke advantage over runner-up Effingham. Sullivan had a 222, 18 better than Pana.

Other CHS scores: Tessa Brown 50, Raleigh Babbs 51.

CHS boys golf defeats Olney

Jackson Becker and Andrew Kukyendall each cared 39s to lead Charleston boys golf to a 23-stroke win over Olney at Charleston Country Club.

Josh Will, with a 40, and Preston Phillips rounded out the scoring for the Trojans, who compiled 160 strokes.

Other CHS scores: Alex Kuyklendall 41, Jackson Logue 42, Logan Beals 44, Jaksen Braun 55.