Tigers’ 200 medley relay team wins title

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

WAUSAU — The Marshfield Middle School girls swim team finished fourth at the 10-team Wisconsin Valley Conference Meet at Horace Mann Middle School on Oct. 7.

Marshfield totaled 136 points, 37 behind Horace Mann. D.C. Everest won the team title with 273 points, only three ahead of Stevens Point.

Marshfield’s 200-yard medley relay team of Faith Risa, Tara Kracht, Courtney Donahue, and Mya Bohman won the event in 2:06.62 for the Tigers’ lone victory.

Marshfield had a number of other top-10 finishes. Donahue was second in the 50 butterfly (30.07) and seventh in the 100 individual medley (1:12.82), Kracht took third in the 200 freestyle (2:14.63) and seventh in the 50 breaststroke (36.45), Risa was fourth in the 50 butterfly (31.23) and fifth in the 100 individual medley (1:11.07), and Bohman took seventh in the 100 freestyle (1:04.38).

Risa, Bohman, Donahue, and Kracht also finished fourth in the 400 freestyle relay in 4:14.44.

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

Horace Mann Invitational

Oct. 7, at Horace Mann Middle School, Wausau

Team scores: 1. D.C. Everest 273; 2. Stevens Point 270; 3. Wausau Horace Mann 173; 4. Marshfield 136; 5. Rhinelander James Williams 122; 6. Wisconsin Rapids 85; 7. Merrill 80; 8. Wausau John Muir 32; 9. Medford 22; 10. Colby/Abbotsford 16.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

200 medley relay: 1. Marshfield (Faith Risa, Tara Kracht, Courtney Donahue, Mya Bohman) 2:06.62; 14. Marshfield (Lily Truskowski, Ellie Meyer, Naomi Martin, Katie Wagner) 2:47.90.

200 freestyle: 1. Bethany Rahn (DC) 2:01.09; 3. Kracht (MAR) 2:14.63.

100 IM: 1. Amber Winter (MER) 1:06.08; 5. Risa (MAR) 1:11.07; 7. Donahue (MAR) 1:12.82.

50 freestyle: 1. Claire Tesch (DC) 26.63; 6. Bohman (MAR) 28.68; 25. Meyer (MAR) 34.77; 35. Keely Gorst (MAR 42.62; 36. Olivia Hansen (MAR) 55.98.

50 butterfly: 1. Rahn (DC) 27.54; 2. Donahue (MAR) 30.07; 4. Risa (MAR) 31.23.

100 freestyle: 1. Katie Hall (DC) 58.90; 7. Bohman (MAR) 1:04.38; 33. Hansen (MAR) 2:16.64.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Anna Johnston, Leah Stiff, Brooke Swiecki, Zoe Fink) 1:52.01; 20. Marshfield (Meyer, Truskowski, Gorst, Martin) 2:29.46; 32. Marshfield (Alyessa Bolander, Libby Karl, Hansen, Wagner) 3:39.02.

50 backstroke: 1. Kallie Brost (DC) 30.93; 22. Martin (MAR) 40.91; 30. Truskowski (MAR) 44.38; 35. Bolander (MAR) 54.71; 37. Libby Karl (MAR) 1:02.99.

50 breaststroke: 1. Winter (MER) 33.56; 7. Kracht (MAR) 36.45; 27. Martin (MAR) 46.14; 33. Wagner (MAR) 51.18.

400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Hall, Brost, Michelle Gutierriz-Jakobi, Rahn) 3:56.59; 4. Marshfield (Bohman, Donahue, Kracht, Risa) 4:14.44.