The annual Tooele Invitational brings in some of the best swimmers from 10 teams to compete for the best times. The teams that came to the Pratt Aquatic Center Friday and Saturday did not disappoint.

As a team, no one was better than Sky View who combined to earn a total of 874 points for first place. Tooele finished in third with 776 points. Stansbury finished in sixth with an even 200 points while Grantsville finished ninth with 154 points.

There were six first-place finishes for local teams in the invitational and they all came from the Tooele men’s team.

The first-place finishes all started with the blazing fast team in the 200 medley relay. Casey McEachern, Dustin Perkins, Skyler Smith and Dalton Ryals finished with a time of 1:43.64 which is inching close to record pace.

Smith did notch a varsity and Tooele Invite record in the 200 individual medley with his time of 2:03.24 for first in that event. He was followed by teammates Perkins and Mason Neufeld who finished third and sixth respectively.

Another record to fall was broken by McEachern and his time of 59.32 in the 100 individual medley for first place. Danny Philpot and Spencer Dickinson also finished strong for Tooele, sixth and seventh place respectively.

That wasn’t the last first place of the meet for Smith and McEachern on the weekend. Smith also took home the 100 butterfly title with a time of 55.91 while McEachern re-wrote the records books again, this time in the 100 backstroke.

McEachern finished with a time of 54.89 to take first in the event, while teammate Gordon Nielson finished in fourth in the same event. The final first place for Tooele came in the 100 breaststroke where Perkins broke another record with a time of 59.76. Teammate Chase Stoddard finished in seventh in the same event.

Stansbury’s best finish came in the women’s 200 individual medley where Therese Tasasen finished in second with a time of 2:31.43 for the Stallions. Two Tooele swimmers also finished high in the same event. Kylei Riding took fourth and Tajia Perkins finished sixth.

The Tooele team of McEachern, Dustin Perkins, Ryals and Smith narrowly missed out on first place in the 200 freestyle relay at 1:35.62, losing by less than a second in the event.

Jennifer Gardner finished second in the 100 backstroke event with a time of 1:09.47 which beat out teammate Riding by just over a second. Chelsea Smaellie finished fifth in the same event.

Tajia Perkins managed to take second in the 100 breaststroke with her time of 1:20.02 which beat out teammate Brooke Loveless in fourth place. The best finish for a Tooele women’s relay team came in the 200 medley relay. Riding, Perkins, Gardner and Airica Stewart finished in third with a time of 2:09.74.

Gardner also had a good finish in the women’s 100 butterfly with a time of 1:10.88, which was good enough to take third place. Loveless and Stewart also finished strong in the event by taking fifth and sixth respectively.

Tooele had a handful of other notable times. Smaellie finished fourth in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:21.72 while Lauren Howsden took seventh. Stoddard took fifth on the men’s side in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:03.84 with Ryals close behind in sixth.

In the extremely competitive 50 freestyle race Tooele had a seventh and eighth place finish in the men’s and women’s. Stewart took eighth in the women’s event while Tyler VonHatten finished seventh in the men’s.

Grantsville had a top-seven finish in the women’s 100 individual medley with Stacie Hughes coming in with a time of 1:20.17. Tasasen finished fourth for Stansbury in the 100 freestyle with a time of 1:02.11.

Tooele had a couple finishers in the men’s 100 freestyle with Ryals finishing sixth and VonHatten taking eighth. In the women’s 500 freestyle, three Tooele girls took sixth through eighth. Alicia Gardner took sixth, Crystal Pedro took seventh and Howsden finished eighth. In the men’s 500 freestyle, only Stoddard finished in the top eight.

Tooele will resume swimming on Jan. 7 when they host Spanish Fork at 3 p.m.

Jake Gordon: jgordon@tooeletranscript.com