Tigers have two top-eight finishes

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

HUDSON — The Marshfield boys swim team had its season come to an end with a ninth-place finish at the 2017 WIAA Division 1 sectional Saturday at Hudson Middle School.

The Tigers finished with 97 points, ahead of just La Crosse Logan/Central in the team standings. Eau Claire Memorial/North won with 412 points, and Hudson took second with 366.

The winner of each event and the top 18 next-best finishers from all of the six Division 1 sectionals move on to the 2017 WIAA State Boys Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Wisconsin Natatorium in Madison on Feb. 17-18.

Eau Claire Memorial/North had eight sectional champions, Hudson had three, and Stevens Point had the other in the 12 events.

Marshfield’s best individual finish came from sophomore Jacob Dick, who finished eighth in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:24.50.

The Tigers’ 200 medley relay team of Erik Tollefson, Scott Thompson, Nathan Albanito, and Zach Hanson had the team’s best overall finish, taking sixth in 1:55.53.

Thompson was also 11th in the 200 IM (2:27.52), Albanito was 12th in the 100 butterfly (1:08.89), Dick took 13th in the 100 breaststroke (1:12.01), and Alec Brenner finished 13th in the 100 butterfly (1:09.07).

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

2017 WIAA Division 1 Boys Swimming Sectional

Feb. 11 at Hudson Middle School

Team scores: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North 412; 2. Hudson 366; 3. Chippewa Falls/McDonell 272; 4. Stevens Point 252.5; 5. Holmen 181.5; 6. D.C. Everest 167; 7. Wisconsin Rapids 150; 8. Superior 138; 9. Marshfield 97; 10. La Crosse Logan/Central 70.

Winners advance to the state meet Feb. 17-18 at Madison

Event winners and Marshfield finishers

Diving: 1. Noah Schultz (ECMN) 469.80.

200 medley relay: 1. Hudson (Shane Blinkman, Cale Blinkman, Matthew Baker, Alexander McNamara) 1:36.90; 6. Marshfield (Erik Tollefson, Scott Thompson, Nathan Albanito, Zach Hanson) 1:55.53.

200 freestyle: 1. Ben Soborowicz (ECMN) 1:48.95; 13. Hanson (MAR) 2:11.33; 17. Brock Hamm (MAR) 2:24.98.

200 IM: 1. Paul DeLakis (ECMN) 1:49.69; 8. Jacob Dick (MAR) 2:24.50; 11. Thompson (MAR) 2:27.52.

50 freestyle: 1. Ben Redman (ECMN) 21.63; 20. Albanito (MAR) 25.41; 25. Tollefson (MAR) 25.91.

100 butterfly: 1. Baker (HUD) 53.01; 12. Albanito (MAR) 1:08.89; 13. Alec Brenner (MAR) 1:09.07.

100 freestyle: 1. Redman (ECMN) 46.77; 20. Tollefson (MAR) 57.31; 21. Hanson (MAR) 58.63.

500 freestyle: 1. Drew Harris (SP) 4:50.79; 15. Hamm (MAR) 6:51.47; 16. Connor Berres (MAR) 7:10.71; 17. Alex Wuethrich (MAR) 7:35.00.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (Andrew Vierbicher, Redman, Charlie Hower, DeLakis) 1:26.32; 10. Marshfield (Brenner, Dick, Anthony Hartwig, Hamm) 1:49.91.

100 backstroke: 1. S. Blinkman (HUD) 51.26; 14. Brenner (MAR) 1:15.78.

100 breaststroke: 1. DeLakis (ECMN) 56.99; 13. Dick (MAR) 1:12.01; 14. Thompson (MAR) 1:12.92.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (DeLakis, Vierbicher, Soborowicz, Sam Chumas) 3:13.65; 10. Marshfield (Tollefson, Albanito, Hanson, Thompson) 3:54.54.