Tigers have six top-five finishes at UWSP

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

STEVENS POINT — The Marshfield boys swimming team had six top-five finishes and ended up fourth at the five-team Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swimming Meet on Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

The Tigers, who did not win any of their eight dual meets during the conference season, bested Wausau East in the team standings for fourth with 214 points.

Stevens Point won its sixth-straight WVC title with 391 points to go along with its 8-0 dual record.

Marshfield’s top finish came from the 200-yard medley relay team of Anthony Hartwig, Scott Thompson, Alec Brenner, and Ben Donahue, which was third in 1:56.31, one second ahead of the Tigers’ ‘B’ relay team of Eric Tollefson, Jacob Dick, Nathan Albanito, and Zach Hanson.

Dick was fourth in both the 200 individual medley (2:23.65) and the 100 breaststroke (1:11.99) for Marshfield’s top two individual performances.

The Tigers’ also got a fourth-place finish from the 200 freestyle relay team of Brenner, Hartwig, Eli Swansen, and Albanito, which had a time of 1:48.44.

Brenner was fifth in the 100 butterfly (1:08.39), and Marshfield’s 400 freestyle relay team of Hanson, Tollefson, Thompson, and Donahue also was fifth in 3:48.64.

Stevens Point’s Zach Dahlseng (200 freestyle and 500 freestyle), D.C. Everest’s Payton Rudeen (200 IM and 100 butterfly), and Wisconsin Rapids’ Dylan Engelbright (50 freestyle and 100 freestyle) each won two individual events.

Marshfield will participate in the WIAA Division 1 sectional at Hudson on Feb. 11.

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

2017 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swimming Meet

Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 391; 2. D.C. Everest 268; 3. Wisconsin Rapids 239; 4. Marshfield 214; 5. Wausau East 166.

Final overall team standings (combined dual meet and conference meet points): 1. Stevens Point 26; 2. D.C. Everest 18; 3. Wisconsin Rapids 14; 4. Wausau East 8; 5. Marshfield 4.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Drew Harris, Hunter Shulfer, Zach Dahlseng, Chad Franz) 1:43.38; 3. Marshfield (Anthony Hartwig, Scott Thompson, Alec Brenner, Ben Donahue) 1:56.31; 4. Marshfield (Eric Tollefson, Jacob Dick, Nathan Albanito, Zach Hanson) 1:57.33; 11. Marshfield (Jeffery Berres, Craig Paulman, Isaac Eberl, Alex Wuethrich) 2:23.81.

200 freestyle: 1. Dahlseng (SP) 1:51.12; 6. Hanson (MAR) 2:08.68; 10. Hartwig (MAR) 2:16.48; 12. Brock Hamm (MAR) 2:24.83.

200 IM: 1. Payton Rudeen (DC) 2:10.76; 4. Dick (MAR) 2:23.65; 6. Thompson (MAR) 2:29.24; 15. Eli Swansen (MAR) 2:56.93.

50 freestyle: 1. Dylan Engelbright (WR) 22.06; 8. Albanito (MAR) 25.28; 9. Donahue (MAR) 25.68; 11. Tollefson (MAR) 26.55.

100 butterfly: 1. Rudeen (DC) 57.44; 5. Brenner (MAR) 1:08.39; 6. Albanito (MAR) 1:08.97; 15. Eberl (MAR) 1:30.81.

100 freestyle: 1. Engelbright (WR) 49.38; 9. Donahue (MAR) 57.87; 10. Tollefson (MAR) 58.05; 11. Hanson (MAR) 58.72.

500 freestyle: 1. Dahlseng (SP) 5:04.11; 10. Hamm (MAR) 6:59.47; 11. Wuethrich (MAR) 7:04.68; 14. Connor Berres (MAR) 7:08.94.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids (Nathan Scheunemann, Jackson Benda, Drake Blossfield, Engelbright) 1:35.06; 4. Marshfield (Brenner, Hartwig, Swansen, Albanito) 1:48.44; 8. Marshfield (Adam Elhendy-Gunnarsson, Paulman, Hamm, Wuethrich) 1:54.17; 11. Marshfield (Jarreth Schaefer, Gage Plechaty, Eberl, J. Berres) 2:01.97.

100 backstroke: 1. Harris (SP) 56.55; 7. Hartwig (MAR) 1:07.34; 10. Brenner (MAR) 1:17.11; 14. J. Berres (MAR) 1:26.09.

100 breaststroke: 1. Shulfer (SP) 1:05.06; 4. Dick (MAR) 1:11.99; 5. Thompson (MAR) 1:12.11; 15. Paulman (MAR) 1:28.93.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Dahlseng, Shulfer, Harris, Franz) 3:30.01; 5. Marshfield (Hanson, Tollefson, Thompson, Donahue) 3:48.64; 9. Marshfield (Hamm, Plechaty, Wuethrich, Dick) 4:32.00; 14. Marshfield (Elhendy-Gunnarsson, C. Berres, Trent Anderson, Schaefer) 4:56.90.