By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

STEVENS POINT — Stevens Point won nine of the 11 events and went on to win the 2015 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swim Meet title for the fourth-straight season.

Tom Negaard and Zach Dahlseng each won two events, and the team of Negaard, Tyler Tanko, Ben Harris, and Aaron Bink won the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relays for the Panthers. Tanko and Harris also won individual races for Stevens Point.

Marshfield finished fourth among the five teams with 193.5 points. Stevens Point had 416.5, and Wisconsin Rapids was a distant second with 275.5.

The Tigers’ top performances came from the 200 medley relay team of Calden Wojt, Scott Thompson, Michael Kruse, and Brian Engel, who finished fourth in 1:56.95, and from Engel in the 100 backstroke (1:04.98).

Thompson was fifth in the 200 individual medley (2:33.22), Engel took fifth in the 100 freestyle (55.79), and the 400 freestyle relay team of Wojt, Ben Donahue, Thompson, and Engel was fifth in 3:56.73 for Marshfield’s other top-five finishes.

Marshfield will compete at the WIAA Division 1 sectional at Hudson on Feb. 14.

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

2015 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swim Meet

Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 416.5; 2. Wisconsin Rapids 275.5; 3. Wausau East 198.5; 4. Marshfield 193.5; 5. D.C. Everest 187.

Final standings (combining dual meet and WVC Meet points): 1. Stevens Point 26; 2. Wisconsin Rapids 19; 3. Wausau East 14; 4. Marshfield 7; 5. D.C. Everest 4.

Winners and Marshfield results

200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Tom Negaard, Tyler Tanko, Ben Harris, Aaron Bink) 1:42.39; 4. Marshfield (Calden Wojt, Scott Thompson, Michael Kruse, Brian Engel) 1:56.95; 10. Marshfield (Erik Tollefson, Nick North, Trevyn Tham, Tim Benson) 2:11.49.

200 freestyle: 1. Zach Dahlseng (SP) 1:56.60; 7. Anthony Hartwig (MAR) 2:17.25; 8. Ben Donahue (MAR) 2:21.33; 11. Alec Brenner (MAR) 2:24.98.

200 IM: 1. Tanko (SP) 2:12.51; 5. Thompson (MAR) 2:33.22; 8. Mason Metz (MAR) 2:44.50; 9. Kruse (MAR) 2:44.51.

50 freestyle: 1. Negaard (SP) 22.49; 6. Wojt (MAR) 25.16; 14. Colin Thomasgard (MAR) 26.85; 15. Tham (MAR) 27.10.

100 butterfly: 1. Harris (SP) 55.45; 7. Donahue (MAR) 1:08.59; 8. Kruse (MAR) 1:09.27; 10. Brenner (MAR) 1:14.56.

100 freestyle: 1. Negaard (SP) 49.28; 5. Engel (MAR) 55.79; 13. Andrew Gilkerson (MAR) 1:04.19; 14. Benson (MAR) 1:05.24.

500 freestyle: 1. Dahlseng (SP) 5:08.64; 8. Hartwig (MAR) 6:22.50; 9. Zach Hanson (MAR) 6:39.66; 13. Ryan McLellan (MAR) 7:11.81.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Negaard, Tanko, Bink, Harris) 1:31.83; 7. Marshfield (Hanson, Brenner, Tollefson, Tham) 1:55.69; 8. Marshfield (Benson, Brendyn Divine, Hartwig, Gilkerson) 1:58.21; 11. Marshfield (Trent Anderson, McLellan, Ayush Shukla, Alex Wuerthrich) 2:22.23.

100 backstroke: 1. Jordan Straub (WE) 1:00.11; 4. Engel (MAR) 1:04.98; 6. Wojt (MAR) 1:11.51; 9. Thomasgard (MAR) 1:13.25.

100 breaststroke: 1. Brett Burris (WR) 1:02.66; 7. Thompson (MAR) 1:16.14; 9. Metz (MAR) 1:20.88; 12. North (MAR) 1:23.11.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Bink, Adam Wentzel, Hunter Shulfer, Dahlseng) 3:34.15; 5. Marshfield (Wojt, Donahue, Thompson, Engel) 3:56.73; 9. Marshfield (Brenner, Benson, Metz, Kruse) 4:17.55; 10. Marshfield (Tollefson, Hanson, Thomasgard, Gilkerson) 4:27.34.