Tigers finish third

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

MARSHFIELD — The Marshfield Middle School girls swim team won seven events but finished third in a triangular meet on Thursday at Marshfield High School.

Wisconsin Rapids Junior High won the meet, and John Muir of Wausau was second.

Marshfield’s 200-yard medley relay team of Kaitlin Alberts, Tara Kracht, Courtney Donahue, and Alyssa Franks won in 2:11.59, and the foursome also won the 200 freestyle relay in 2:01.34.

Franks went on to win the 200 freestyle (2:14.26), and Alberts took first in both the 50 backstroke (30.16) and 50 breaststroke (37.68).

Hope Risa won two individual events as well for the Tigers, taking first in the 100 individual medley in 1:12.62 and 50 freeestyle in 29.93.

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

Wisconsin Rapids 552, John Muir 521, Marshfield 436.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 medley relay: 1. Marshfield (Kaitlin Alberts, Tara Kracht, Courtney Donahue, Alyssa Franks) 2:11.59; 2. Marshfield (Allie Bacholl, Emma Dorshorst, Hope Risa, Faith Risa) 2:21.38.

200 freestyle: 1. Franks (MAR) 2:14.26; 3. Donahue (MAR) 2:30.65.

100 IM: 1. H. Risa (MAR) 1:12.62; 3. F. Risa (MAR) 1:18.98.

50 freestyle: 1. H. Risa (MAR) 29.93; 2. Kracht (MAR) 30.04; 4. Mya Bohman (MAR) 33.75; Other Marshfield finishers – Bacholl 33.21, Dorshorst 35.91, Leandra Salsbury 37.86, Simone Chaney 42.39, Hannah Feinberg 43.24, Hannah Hansen 45.80, Lily Truskowski 47.35.

50 butterfly: 1. Madeline Krzykowski (WR) 30.37; 2. Donahue (MAR) 32.43.

100 freestyle: 1. Jillian Engelbright (WR) 1:11.36; 2. Mataya Steinbach (MAR) 1:14.26.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Alberts, Kracht, Donahue, Franks) 2:01.34; 3. Marshfield (Bacholl, Dorshorst, H. Risa, F. Risa) 2:10.49; 5. Marshfield (Bohman, Steinbach, Emilie Koran, Salsbury) 2:26.74; Marshfield (Hansen, Chaney, Feinberg, Truskowski) 3:02.53.

50 backstroke: 1. Alberts (MAR) 30.16; 2. Franks (MAR) 35.18; 3. Kracht (MAR) 36.28; Other Marshfield finishers – F. Risa 37.82, Bacholl 38.97, Salsbury 44.81, Truskowski 47.83, Feinberg 55.38, Hansen 59.59.

50 breaststroke: 1. Alberts (MAR) 37.68; 5. Dorshorst (MAR) 43.10; Other Marshfield finishers – Bohman 44.94, Koran 53.02, Chaney 57.47.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids (Jemini Johnson, Krzykowski, Engelbright, Josie Staven) 4:43.52; 3. Marshfield (Bohman, Steinbach, Salsbury, Koran) 5:30.57.