Franks takes second in 500 for Tigers

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

CHIPPEWA FALLS — The Marshfield girls swim team placed eighth among 10 teams at the Chippewa Falls Sprint Invitational on Saturday at Chippewa Falls Middle School.

The Tigers totaled 172 points, six behind seventh-place La Crosse. Rhinelander won the team title with 295 points.

Marshfield had seven individuals with top-10 finishes, led by freshman Alyssa Franks taking second place in the 500-yard freestyle (5:49.35).

Kaitlin Alberts was third in the 100 individual medley in 1:09.24 for the Tigers’ other top-five finish. She also placed sixth in the 50 butterfly (30.16).

Hope Risa was sixth in the 100 freestyle (1:02.28) and 10th in the 100 individual medley (1:10.60), and Sophie Koehn was eighth in the 50 butterfly (30.52) and ninth in the 50 freestyle (27.81).

Elizabeth Lecker was 11th in the 100 freestyle (1:05.99) for the Tigers.

Marshfield is at Stevens Point for a Wisconsin Valley Conference dual meet on Tuesday and will host La Crosse on Thursday in a nonconference dual.

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

Chippewa Falls Sprint Invitational

Sept. 16, at Chippewa Falls Middle School

Team scores: 1. Rhinelander 295; 2. Chippewa Falls 263; 3. Rice Lake 256; 4. Wisconsin Rapids 250; 5. Menomonie 226; 6. Onalaska 198; 7. La Crosse 178; 8. Marshfield 172; 9. SHS 146; 10. Sparta-Tomah 28.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 medley relay: 1. Rhinelander (Lisa Kennedy, Marissa Martin, Makenna Winnicki, Grace Heck), 1:59.33; 7. Marshfield (Sophie Koehn, Kaitlin Alberts, Ariel Fernandez, Erika Roeglin), 2:06.56.

200 freestyle: 1. Lauren Lansing (LC) 2:05.34; 18. Maggie Stangl (MAR) 2:37.66.

100 IM: 1. Katelyn Holmstrom (RH) 1:06.39; 3. Alberts (MAR) 1:09.24; 10. Hope Risa (MAR) 1:10.60; 24. Fernandez (MAR) 1:15.72; 28. Roeglin (MAR) 1:18.65; 32. Riya Bolander (MAR) 1:22.47.

50 freestyle: 1. Carissa Henderson (MEN) 25.93; 9. Koehn (MAR) 27.81; 14. Roeglin (MAR) 28.61; 37. MaryAnn Stangl (MAR) 33.55; 40. AmilyShree Trivedi-Ziemba (MAR) 33.99; 55. Hannah Hansen (MAR) 37.80.

50 butterfly: 1. Madison Johnson (RL) 28.51; 6. Alberts (MAR) 30.16; 8. Koehn (MAR) 30.52; 11. Alyssa Franks (MAR) 30.69; 13. Fernandez (MAR) 31.01.

100 freestyle: 1. Haley Jones (CF) 57.62; 6. Risa (MAR) 1:02.28; 11. Elizabeth Lecker (MAR) 1:05.99; 30. Ciara Petersen (MAR) 1:17.55; 37. Hansen (MAR) 1:26.84.

500 freestyle: 1. Winnicki (RH) 5:35.07; 2. Franks (MAR) 5:49.35.

8×25 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids 1:42.42; 9. Marshfield 1:56.37.

50 backstroke: 1. Claire Hale (ON) 28.90; 15. Emily Hopperdietzel (MAR) 36.17; 25. Mag. Stangl (MAR) 39.55; 28. Petersen (MAR) 40.29; 33. Hannah Berg (MAR) 42.24; 36. Trivedi-Ziemba (MAR) 43.75.

50 breaststroke: 1. Holmstrom (RH) 32.49; 20. Hopperdietzel (MAR) 41.66; 21. Lecker (MAR) 41.82; 22. Bolander (MAR) 41.97; 29. Mar. Stangl (MAR) 43.58; 40. Berg (MAR) 53.43.

8×50 freestyle relay: 1. Wisconsin Rapids 3:36.43; 7. Marshfield 3:53.75.