Medford wins team title, Black River Falls tops Tigers by two points for second

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

MARSHFIELD — Marshfield won a pair of events and narrowly missed out on a second-place finish at its inaugural Chase the Tigers Girls Swimming Invitational on Wednesday at Marshfield High School.

Senior Sophie Koehn won the 50-yard backstroke in 30.42 seconds and teamed with Ariel Fernandez, Kaitlin Alberts, and Hope Risa to win the 100 medley relay in 1:01.41 for Marshfield’s lone two victories in the 11 events.

Medford won the team title with 229 points, and Black River Falls took second with 204 points, just two ahead of third-place Marshfield. Merrill, Colby/Abbotsford, and Sparta also participated at the meet.

Marshfield had second-place finishes from Alyssa Franks in the 100 freestyle (1:00.67); Alberts in the 50 butterfly (29.38); the 100 freestyle relay team of Franks, Valerie Kushnir, Erika Roeglin, and Elizabeth Lecker (54.81); and the 200 freestyle relay team of Risa, Franks, Fernandez, and Roeglin (1:54.23).

Marshfield is off until Aug. 31 when it will travel to Onalaska for a dual meet against Onalaska-Holmen-Aquinas.

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

2017 Chase the Tiger Girls Swimming Invitational

Aug. 23, at Marshfield High School

Varsity

Team scores: 1. Medford 229; 2. Black River Falls 204; 3. Marshfield 202; 4. Merrill 149; 5. Colby/Abbotsford 112; 6. Sparta 16.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 medley relay: 1. Medford (Erin Bergman, Aubrey Buskerud, Morgan Ball, Avery Apfelbeck), 2:02.50.

100 freestyle: 1. Apfelbeck (MED) 1:00.09; 2. Alyssa Franks (MAR) 1:00.67; 3. Hope Risa (MAR) 1:01.26; 13. Maggie Stangl (MAR) 1:12.08.

100 IM: 1. Elizabeth Pardoe (BRF) 1:07.00; 2. Bergman (MED) 1:07.41; 3. Sophie Koehn (MAR) 1:08.89; 7. Valerie Kushnir (MAR) 1:13.26; 11. Erika Roeglin (MAR) 1:19.06.

100 freestyle relay: 1. Black River Falls (Lauren Steien, Julia Beam, Marin Stowe, Pardoe), 52.79; 2. Marshfield (Franks, Kushnir, Roeglin, Elizabeth Lecker), 54.81; 6. Marshfield (AmilySHree Trivedi-Ziemba, Hannah Hansen, Ciara Petersen, Hannah Berg), 1:10.56.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Medford (Kaylee Seifert, Apfelbeck, Hallie Schumacher, Bergman), 1:51.14; 2. Marshfield (Risa, Franks, Ariel Fernandez, Roeglin), 1:54.23; 10. Marshfield (Petersen, Mag. Stangl, Berg, Emilie Koran), 2:25.35.

50 butterfly: 1. Steien (BRF) 27.61; 2. Kaitlin Alberts (MAR) 29.38; 3. Kushnir (MAR) 30.25; 6. Fernandez (MAR) 31.34.

50 freestyle: 1. Trinity Kanitz (MER) 27.82; 2. Seifert (MED) 28.02; 3. Julia Otten (CA) 28.91; 6. Lecker (MAR) 30.22; 7. Emily Hopperdietzel (MAR) 30.27.

100 medley relay: 1. Marshfield (Koehn, Fernandez, Alberts, Risa), 1:01.41; 4. Marshfield (Koran, MaryAnn Stangl, Kushnir, Mag. Stangl), 1:10.70.

50 backstroke: 1. Koehn (MAR) 30.42; 2. Pardoe (BRF) 30.69; 3. Alberts (MAR) 31.92; 10. Hopperdietzel (MAR) 36.45.

50 breaststroke: 1. Steien (BRF) 33.23; 5. Franks (MAR) 39.37; 6. Fernandez (MAR) 39.63; 8. Lecker (MAR) 41.66.

8×50 freestyle relay: 1. Medford 3:47.13; 5. Marshfield 4:42.53.