Tigers have five top-10 finishes, no state qualifiers

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

HUDSON — Marshfield wrapped up its 2016 season at the WIAA Division 1 girls swimming sectional Saturday at Hudson Middle School.

The Tigers failed to earn any state qualifying spots.

The winners in each event and the next 18 best times from around the state’s six Division 1 sectionals qualify for the 2016 WIAA State Girls Swimming & Diving Championships, which will be held Saturday, Nov. 12, at the University of Wisconsin Natatorium in Madison.

Senior Elizabeth Holbrook, swimming in her final meet for Marshfield, had two of the Tigers’ three top-10 individual finishes.

Holbrook was fifth in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:19.08 and sixth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.05.

Junior Sophie Koehn had the Tigers’ other top 10, finishing seventh in the 100 backstroke in 1:03.36.

Marshfield’s 200 medley relay team of Koehn, Holbrook, Valerie Kushnir, and Megan Donahue was eighth in 1:58.71, and the 200 freestyle relay team of Koehn, Holbrook, Erika Roeglin, and Donahue was 10th in 1:49.02 for the Tigers’ other top finishes.

Stevens Point finished second to Hudson in the team standings and had one relay and four individual sectional champions. Julia Stupar won the 200 freestyle (1:54.05) and the 100 freestyle (52.61) and was part of the winning 200 freestyle relay team (1:39.19) for the Panthers.

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

2016 WIAA Division 1 Girls Swimming Sectionals

Nov. 5, at Hudson (Hudson Middle School)

Team scores: 1. Hudson 364.5; 2. Stevens Point 305.5; 3. D.C. Everest 273; 4. Eau Claire Memorial 267; 5. Chippewa Falls/McDonell 252.5; 6. Wausau East 217.5; 7. Wisconsin Rapids 137; 8. Holmen/Aquinas/Onalaska 105; 9. La Crosse Logan/Central 102; 10. Marshfield 91; 11. Wausau West 69; 12. Superior 47; 13. Eau Claire North 35.

Winners (automatic state qualifier) and Marshfield finishers

Diving: 1. Olivia Pasch (ECM) 477.05.

200 medley relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Madalyn Peterson, Jordan Tatro, Riyah Rudeen, Emma VanErmen) 1:50.76; 8. Marshfield (Sophie Koehn, Elizabeth Holbrook, Valerie Kushnir, Megan Donahue) 1:58.71.

200 freestyle: 1. Julia Stupar (STP) 1:54.05; 12. Koehn (MAR) 2:08.28; 23. Grace Hilbelink (MAR) 2:22.87.

200 IM: 1. Lianna Wood (HUD) 2:10.03; 5. Holbrook (MAR) 2:19.08; 17. Kushnir (MAR) 2:42.05.

50 freestyle: 1. Grace Hartman (WR) 25.00; 25. Erika Roeglin (MAR) 27.74; 33. Malina Barker (MAR) 29.74.

100 butterfly: 1. Tatro (DC) 57.14; 20. Kushnir (MAR) 1:10.54; 23. April Read (MAR) 1:14.48.

100 freestyle: 1. Stupar (STP) 52.61; 21. Donahue (MAR) 1:01.13; 26. Roeglin (MAR) 1:03.28; 28. Elizabeth Lecker (MAR) 1:05.21.

500 freestyle: 1. Alex Raczek (STP) 5:24.94; 18. Madi Hall (MAR) 6:31.60; 19. Emily Hopperdietzel (MAR) 6:42.73.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Kennedy Gilbertson, Alli Scharbarth, Casey Summers, Stupar) 1:39.19; 10. Marshfield (Koehn, Holbrook, Roeglin, Donahue) 1:49.02.

100 backstroke: 1. Gilbertson (SP) 59.64; 7. Koehn (MAR) 1:03.36; 16. Donahue (MAR) 1:09.19; 18. Barker (MAR) 1:10.87.

100 breaststroke: 1. Ella Stein (HUD) 1:05.65; 6. Holbrook (MAR) 1:09.05; 20. Ana Paape (MAR) 1:21.91.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Chippewa Falls/McDonell (Sydnea Berg, Haley Jones, Nadine Porzondek, Lily Borgenheimer) 3:37.81; 12. Marshfield (Kushnir, Paape, Read, Hilbelink) 4:25.27.