Tigers finish second in 10 events

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

WISCONSIN RAPIDS — Wisconsin Rapids won all 11 events to top Marshfield 99-70 in a Wisconsin Valley Conference boys swimming dual on Thursday at Lincoln High School.

Marshfield was second in all but one event.

Brian Engel took second in the 100-meter backstroke (1:16.96) and the 100 freestyle (1:02.22), Anthony Hartwig was second in the 200 freestyle (2:31.58) and 400 freestyle (5:24.68), Jacob Dick took second in the 200 individual medley (2:49.99), Michael Kruse finished second in the 100 butterfly (1:15.89), and Scott Thompson was second in the 100 breaststroke (1:28.09).

The Tigers were also second in all three relays.

Marshfield’s next meet is Tuesday at La Crosse Central.

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

Varsity

Wisconsin Rapids 99, Marshfield 70

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 medley relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids (Drake Blossfield, Brett Burris, Jonah Mancl, Nathan Scheunemann) 2:04.78; 2. Marshfield (Brian Engel, Scott Thompson, Michael Kruse, Calden Wojt) 2:13.56; 3. Marshfield (Colin Thomasgard, Jacob Dick, Alec Brenner, Ben Donahue) 2:25.04; 5. Marshfield (Trent Anderson, Nick North, Ryan McLellan, Andrew Gilkerson) 3:06.62.

200 freestyle: 1. Mancl (WR) 2:26.75; 2. Anthony Hartwig (MAR) 2:31.58; 4. Donahue (MAR) 2:34.39; 5. Zach Hanson (MAR) 2:41.75.

200 IM: 1. Burris (WR) 2:27.69; 2. Dick (MAR) 2:49.99; 3. Thompson (MAR) 2:57.61; 5. McLellan (MAR) 3:40.97.

50 freestyle: 1. Blossfield (WR) 27.11; 3. Wojt (MAR) 28.70; 4. Kruse (MAR) 29.44; 5. Thomasgard (MAR) 30.53.

100 butterfly: 1. Mancl (WR) 1:09.86; 2. Kruse (MAR) 1:15.89; 3. Brenner (MAR) 1:26.64.

100 freestyle: 1. Dylan Engelbright (WR) 1:01.49; 2. Engel (MAR) 1:02.22; 4. Wojt (MAR) 1:10.91; 5. Donahue (MAR) 1:11.17.

400 freestyle: 1. Josh Niedbalski (WR) 5:22.99; 2. Hartwig (MAR) 5:24.68; 3. McLellan (MAR) 6:20.67; 6. Alex Wuethrick (MAR) 7:21.09.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids (Blossfield, Scheunemann, Burris, Engelbright) 1:57.45; 2. Marshfield (Engel, Hanson, Kruse, Thomasgard) 2:01.34; 4. Marshfield (Andrew Rall, Anderson, North, Kyle Schultz) 2:35.43.

100 backstroke: 1. Blossfield (WR) 1:12.37; 2. Engel (MAR) 1:16.96; 4. Thomasgard (MAR) 1:22.12; 5. Brenner (MAR) 1:26.83.

100 breaststroke: 1. Burris (WR) 1:11.36; 2. Thompson (MAR) 1:28.09; 3. Dick (MAR) 1:31.06; 6. Hanson (MAR) 1:49.00.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids (Mancl, Josh Niedbalski, Scheunemann, Engelbright) 4:30.56; 2. Marshfield (Tollefson, Gilkerson, Hartwig, Dick) 5:04.75; 4. Marshfield (McLellan, Wuethrick, Rall, Schultz) 6:01.33.

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JV

Marshfield 54, Wisconsin Rapids 27

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 freestyle: 1. Gilkerson (MAR) 2:58.79; 2. Schultz (MAR) 3:45.68.

50 freestyle: 1. Logan Gessert (WR) 34.45; 3. North (MAR) 36.17; 4. Rall (MAR) 36.20; 6. Anderson (MAR) 42.92.

100 freestyle: 1. Eric Tollefson (MAR) 1:16.51; 2. Gabriel Ronan (MAR) 1:17.57; 3. Gilkerson (MAR) 1:21.68.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids (Dalton Lamb, Keaten Danula, Tyler Baldauf, Andrew Hoile) 2:27.21.

100 backstroke: 1. Tollefson (MAR) 1:34.97; 2. Ronan (MAR) 1:38.64; 3. Wuethrick (MAR) 2:02.68.

100 breaststroke: 1. North (MAR) 1:42.30; 2. Rall (MAR) 1:42.86; 3. Schultz (MAR) 1:51.63.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids (Hoile, Michael Humphrey, Ethan Hess, Dylan Nelson) 5:46.60.