Marshfield boys swim team snags first WVC dual meet victory
By Paul Lecker
Sports Reporter
WESTON – Brian Engel and Scott Thompson each won two events, and helped a relay team win another to lead the Marshfield boys swim team to a 94-72 victory over D.C. Everest on Thursday at D.C. Everest High School.
Marshfield won its first Wisconsin Valley Conference dual meet of the season, improving to 1-4. Everest is now 1-5.
Engel, a junior, won the 100 freestyle in 56.26 seconds and the 100 backstroke in 1:07.95.
Thompson, a freshman, took first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:14.80 and the 200 IM in 2:30.76.
Engel, Thompson, Michael Kruse and Calden Wojt teamed to win the 200 medley relay in 1:57.71 for the Tigers.
Wojt won the 50 freestyle in 25.72 and Ben Donahue took first in the 100 butterfly in 1:10.38 for Marshfield’s other two victories.
Marshfield hosts La Crosse Logan on Monday at 5:30 p.m.
(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of MarshfieldAreaSports.com.)
Marshfield 94, D.C. Everest 72
200 medley relay: 1. Marshfield (Brian Engel, Scott Thompson, Michael Kruse, Calden Wojt) 1:57.71; 2. Marshfield (Colin Thomasgard, Mason Metz, Ben Donahue, Jose Vasquez) 2:08.27; 4. Marshfield (Alex Wuethrich, Ayush Shukla, Brendyn Divine, Ryan McLellan) 2:55.05.
200 freestyle: 1. Jacob Grass (DC) 2:13.31; 3. Anthony Hartwig (MAR) 2:25.60; 4. Alec Brenner (MAR) 2:31.69; 5. Zach Hanson (MAR) 2:38.39.
200 IM: 1. Thompson (MAR) 2:30.76; 4. Kruse (MAR) 2:51.78; 5. Metz (MAR) 2:56.30.
50 freestyle: 1. Wojt (MAR) 25.72; 4. Trevyn Tham (MAR) 27.47; 5. Vasquez (MAR) 28.13.
100 butterfly: 1. Donahue (MAR) 1:10.38; 3. Brenner (MAR) 1:20.92.
100 freestyle: 1. Engel (MAR) 56.26; 4. Kruse (MAR) 1:05.92; 5. Vasquez (MAR) 1:06.30.
500 freestyle: 1. Bennet LaPorte (DC) 6:15.73; 3. Hartwig (MAR) 6:28.24; 4. Donahue (MAR) 6:51.01; 5. McClellan (MAR) 7:31.08.
200 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Ian Baeten, Zach Heil, LaPorte, Grass) 1:48.00; 2. Marshfield (Zach Hanson, Gilkerson, Brenner, Tham) 2:01.35.
100 backstroke: 1. Engel (MAR) 1:07.95; 2. Wojt (MAR) 1:08.51; 3. Thomasgard (MAR) 1:14.37.
100 breaststroke: 1. Thompson (MAR) 1:14.80; 3. Metz (MAR) 1:22.78; 4. Tham (MAR) 1:47.84.
400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Baeten, LaPorte, Andrew Schnae, Grass) 4:00.84; 2. Marshfield (Thompson, Kruse, Donahue, Engel) 4:08.92; 3. Marshfield (Vasquez, Wojt, Brenner, Metz) 4:27.73; 4. Marshfield (Tham, Hanson, Tim Benson, Gilkerson) 4:45.97.
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