Franks sixth in 500 for Tigers

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

HUDSON — Marshfield had four top-10 finishes as it wrapped up its 2017 season at the WIAA Division 1 Girls Swimming and Diving Sectional on Saturday at Hudson Middle School.

Sectional champions and the next 18 best times from across the six Division 1 sectionals qualified for the 2017 WIAA State Girls Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Wisconsin Natatorium on Nov. 10-11.

Stevens Point won 10 of the 11 swimming events to capture the team title. Marshfield was 12th among the 14 teams.

Freshman Alyssa Franks had Marshfield’s top finish, taking sixth in the 500-yard freestyle in a career-best 5:34.45.

Freshman Kaitlin Alberts was 10th in the 100 butterfly (1:05.42), and senior Sophie Koehn placed 10th in the 100 backstroke (1:04.16) for Marshfield’s other top individual finishes.

Marshfield’s 400 relay team of Koehn, Erika Roeglin, Hope Risa, and Franks took ninth in 4:02.75.

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

2017 WIAA Girls Swimming & Diving Sectional

Nov. 4, at Hudson Middle School

Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 385; 2. D.C. Everest 330; 3. Hudson 312; 4. Eau Claire Memorial 249; 5. Chippewa Falls/McDonell 222; 6. Wausau East 166; 7. Wisconsin Rapids 123; 8, La Crosse Logan/Central 109; 9. Onalaska/Holmen/Aquinas 94; 10. Wausau West 84; 11. Superior 83; 12. Marshfield 78; 13. Eau Claire North 36; 14. Sparta/Tomah 14.

Event winners (state meet qualifiers) and Marshfield finishers

Diving: 1. Olivia Pasch (ECM) 457.30.

200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Kennedy Gilbertson, Sydney Hoff, Anna Vandehey, Alli Scharbarth) 1:47.98; 11. Marshfield (Sophie Koehn, Kaitlin Alberts, Alyssa Franks, Erika Roeglin) 2:04.25.

200 freestyle: 1. Julia Stupar (SP) 1:50.30; 17. Maggie Stangl (MAR) 2:36.20.

200 IM: 1. Gilbertson (SP) 2:09.59; 14. Hope Risa (MAR) 2:28.96; 27. Ariel Fernandez (MAR) 2:44.08.

50 freestyle: 1. Casey Summers (SP) 24.64; 20. Koehn (MAR) 27.21; 26. Roeglin (MAR) 27.83; 33. Elizabeth Lecker (MAR) 30.09.

100 butterfly: 1. Vandehey (SP) 57.01; 10. Alberts (MAR) 1:05.42; 14. Franks (MAR) 1:07.47; 21. Fernandez (MAR) 1:13.49.

100 freestyle: 1. Stupar (SP) 51.11; 22. Roeglin (MAR) 1:04.51; 26. Lecker (MAR) 1:07.03; 29. MaryAnn Stangl (MAR) 1:11.66.

500 freestyle: 1. Summers (SP) 5:25.25; 6. Franks (MAR) 5:34.45; 15. Risa (MAR) 5:53.43.

200 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Anna Vandehey, Scharbarth, Summers, Stupar) 1:38.83; 12. Marshfield (Fernandez, Alberts, Lecker, Risa) 1:55.80.

100 backstroke: 1. Gilbertson (SP) 57.21; 10. Koehn (MAR) 1:04.16; 14. Alberts (MAR) 1:06.66.

100 breaststroke: 1. Ella Stein (HUD) 1:04.50; 26. Riya Bolander (MAR) 1:30.17.

400 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Stupar, Summers, Vandehey, Gilbertson) 3:31.84; 9. Marshfield (Koehn, Roeglin, Risa, Franks) 4:02.75.

Click here for complete results, courtesy of the WIAA.