By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

MERRILL – The Marshfield girls swim team won its Wisconsin Valley Conference dual meet opener Thursday, whipping Merrill 118-48 at Merrill High School.

Marshfield won eight of the 11 events.

Sophie Koehn, Elizabeth Holbrook, Megan Donahue, and Sarah Claessens teamed to win the 200 medley relay (2:09.07) and the 400 freestyle relay (4:23.78), and all four also won individual events for the Tigers.

Holbrook won the 200 individual medley (2:33.93) and the 100 breaststroke (1:20.33), Donahue won the 100 butterfly (1:10.96), Claessens took first in the 500 freestyle (6:16.54) and Koehn was first in the 100 backstroke (1:09.10).

April Read grabbed the other first place for the Tigers, winning the 200 freestyle in 2:30.60.

Valerie Kushnir (200 free), Elizabeth Lecker (50 free), Molina Barker (100 free), Michelle Fernandez (100 back), and Claire Greenlee (100 breaststroke) won events for the Marshfield JV.

Marshfield is off for a week until taking on D.C. Everest in a Wisconsin Valley Conference dual on Sept. 18 at Marshfield High School.

Varsity
Winners and Marshfield finishers
Marshfield 118, Merrill 48
200 medley relay: 1. Marshfield (Sophie Koehn, Elizabeth Holbrook, Megan Donahue, Sarah Claessens) 2:09.07; 3. Marshfield (Karen Scheuer, Grace Hilbelink, Valerie Kushnir, Charlotte Urban) 2:22.22; 4. Marshfield (Molina Barker, Michelle Fernandez, April Read, Elise Ashby) 2:22.93.
200 freestyle: 1. Read (MAR) 2:30.60; 4. Barker (MAR) 2:41.16; 5. Morgan Nordbeck (MAR) 2:44.28.
200 IM: 1. Holbrook (MAR) 2:33.93; 2. Scheuer (MAR) 2:46.62; 3. Madi Hall (MAR) 3:02.24.
50 freestyle: 1. Kendyl Pettit (MER) 27.51; 2. Claessens (MAR) 27.97; 3. Erika Roeglin (MAR0 31.16; 4. Ashby (MAR) 31.90.
100 butterfly: 1. Donahue (MAR) 1:10.96; 2. Ashby (MAR) 1:26.40; 3. Urban (MAR) 1:37.39.
100 freestyle: 1. Pettit (MER) 1:00.55; 2. Koehn (MAR) 1:01.81; 3. Read (MAR) 1:10.99; 4. Michelle Fernandez (MAR) 1:11.23.
500 freestyle: 1. Claessens (MAR) 6:16.54; 2. Kushnir (MAR) 6:44.60; 5. Hall (MAR) 7:11.91.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Merrill (Caitlyn Kolehouse, Hanna Cohrs, Julia Oelke, Pettit) 2:01.32; 2. Marshfield (Fernandez, Roeglin, Ashby, Urban) 2:03.01; 3. Marshfield (Claire Greenlee, Read, Scheuer, Hilbelink) 2:11.64.
100 backstroke: 1. Koehn (MAR) 1:09.10; 2. Donahue (MAR) 1:11.16; 3. Scheuer (MAR) 1:18.47.
100 breaststroke: 1. Holbrook (MAR) 1:20.33; 2. Urban (MAR) 1:30.89; 3. Hilbelink (MAR) 1:33.77.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Claessens, Holbrook, Donahue, Koehn) 4:23.78; 2. Marshfield (Lecker, Nordbeck, Barker, Kushnir) 4:55.81.
JV
Marshfield 48, Merrill 6
200 freestyle: 1. Kushnir (MAR) 2:37.39; 2. Hilbelink (MAR) 2:47.24; 3. Taylor Ferch (MAR) 2:53.29.
50 freestyle: 1. Lecker (MAR) 33.88; 2. Ferch (MAR) 36.10; 4. Nina Meadows (MAR) 43.01.
100 freestyle: 1. Barker (MAR) 1:13.38; 2. Nordbeck (MAR) 1:16.53; 3. Tess Frey (MAR) 1:18.29.
100 backstroke: 1. Fernandez (MAR) 1:26.64; 2. Lecker (MAR) 1:43.62.
100 breaststroke: 1. Greenlee (MAR) 1:44.90; 2. Roeglin (MAR) 1:49.18; 3. Frey (MAR) 1:59.31.

(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of  MarshfieldAreaSports.com).