Tigers host two WVC meets this week

By Paul Lecker

Sports Repoter

EAU CLAIRE — A depleted Marshfield boys swim team finished sixth at the Santa Claus Swimming & Diving Invitational on Thursday at Eau Claire Memorial High School.

Eau Claire Memorial/North won the team standings with 362 points. Marshfield was a distant sixth with 81 points as a number of swimmers were unavailable to compete. The meet was a make-up of an event originally scheduled for Dec. 17.

Jacob Dick had Marshfield’s top individual finish, taking seventh in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:26.25.

Scott Thompson finished eighth in the 100 breaststroke in 1:14.14 for the Tigers.

Marshfield hosts D.C. Everest on Tuesday and Wisconsin Rapids on Thursday in a pair of Wisconsin Valley Conference dual meets.

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

Santa Claus Swimming & Diving Invitational

Dec. 27, at Eau Claire Memorial

Team scores: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North 362; 2. Chippewa Falls 241; 3. Stevens Point 209.5; 4. River Falls 183.5; 5. Wausau East 137; 6. Marshfield 81.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

Diving: 1. Evan Plummer (EC) 377.85.

200 medley relay: 1. Eau Claire (Lee Roback, Paul DeLakis, Ben Redman, Sam Chumas) 1:40.88; 6. Marshfield (Eric Tollefson, Scott Thompson, Alec Brenner, Nathan Albanito) 2:00.89.

200 freestyle: 1. Zach Dahlseng (SP) 1:51.86; 11. Zach Hanson (MAR) 2:12.11.

200 IM: 1. DeLakis (EC) 1:52.59; 7. Jacob Dick (MAR) 2:26.25.

50 freestyle: 1. Redman (EC) 22.15; 13. Albanito (MAR) 26.36; 14. Tollefson (MAR) 26.62.

100 butterfly: 1. Ben Soborowicz (EC) 59.03; 14. Albanito (MAR) 1:26.07.

100 freestyle: 1. Redman (ED) 48.61; 8. Tollefson (MAR) 58.68; 11. Hanson (MAR) 59.52.

500 freestyle: 1. Dahlseng (SP) 5:08.79; 11. Scott Thompson (MAR) 6:40.31.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire (Chumas, Soborowicz, Charlie Hower, Redman) 1:33.39; 6. Marshfield (Tollefson, Albanito, Thompson, Hanson ) 1:44.47.

100 backstroke: 1. Chad Franz (SP) 58.21.

100 breaststroke: 1. DeLakis (EC) 57.99; 8. Thompson (MAR) 1:14.14; 11. Dick (MAR) 1:14.95.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire (Soborowicz, Sam Hower, C. Hower, DeLakis) 3:24.08; 5. Marshfield (Brock Hamm, Dick, Brandon Koran, Hanson) 4:17.15.