North Bend swimmer Kyle Katherman watches the ceiling as he swims the backstroke laps of his 200-yard individual medley race Saturday at the North Bend Invitational. World Photo by Lou Sennick.

North Bend’s boys swimming team won more than half of the events at the team’s invitational Saturday, though the squad settled for fourth place in the final team standings.

Matt Johnson won both the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke for the Bulldogs. North Bend also got victories by James Verger in the 200 freestyle and Kevin Waller in the 500 freestyle, the latter a school record.

Those three swimmers combined with Kyle Katherman for a victory in the 200 freestyle relay and Casey Cook for a win in the 400 freestyle relay.

North Bend’s girls won the team title. Rachel Heaney won the 500 freestyle and 100 butterfly and teamed with Kelli Kronsberg, Gabe Deen and Gwen Rogers to win two of the three relays.

North Bend also had numerous other high placers as the team’s depth led to an easy title.

Results from the meet are included in today’s Scoreboard section on Page B3.

WRESTLING

Braves third

Reedsport finished third in the 19-school Culver Invitational on Saturday.

The Braves got an individual title from Justin Halstead at 112 pounds and scored 158.5 points. Henley won with 243 points and Culver had 189. Myrtle Point was seventh with 108.

Anthony Halstead (103 pounds) and John Drozek (145) finished second for Reedsport, while John Covey (130) was third and Bobby Short (135) fourth.

Myrtle Point got runner-up finishes by Tanner Canaday (112 pounds), Johnny Campbell (119) and Ryan Love (125).

BASKETBALL

Games canceled

Myrtle Point’s home games with Pacific were canceled Monday night because of the winter weather.