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EAU CLAIRE – Marshfield posted one victory and a number of top-five finishes as it tied for third at the 11-team Santa Claus Boys Swimming & Diving Invite at Eau Claire North High School on Saturday.
The Tigers’ 200-yard freestyle relay team of Simon Dagit, Zach Kayhart, Carson Klumb and Kevin Buth won in 1:34.08 as Marshfield racked up 183 points, tying D.C. Everest for third. Eau Claire Memorial/North won the team title with 253 points, with Stevens Point second with 220.
Dagit added a runner-up finish in the 100 butterfly in 55.54 seconds and placed third in the 50 freestyle in 22.85 seconds, while Klumb was second in the 200 freestyle in 1:59.50 and fifth in the 100 freestyle in 53.56 seconds.
Kayhart took fifth in the 200 individual medley (2:20.67), Buth was fifth in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.76), and the 200 medley relay team of Kayhart, Joshua Peters, Dagit and Buth finished fourth (1:48.42) as well for the Tigers.
Marshfield will host its annual Alumni Meet on Monday at 5:30 p.m., then take some time off before a Wisconsin Valley Conference dual meet at Stevens Point on Jan. 9.
Santa Claus Invite
Dec. 21, at Rhinelander High School
Team scores: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North 253; 2. Stevens Point 220; 3. Marshfield and D.C. Everest 183; 5. Tartan-North (Minn.) 127; 6. River Falls 121; 7. Chippewa Falls 99; 8. La Crosse 85; 9. Onalaska/Holmen/Aquinas/Luther 50; 10. Wausau East 22; 11. Rice Lake 18.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
Diving: 1. Gabrik Hollenbeck (EC) 343.40; 4. Evan Clopton (MAR) 284.30; 6. Dirk Vanderwyst (MAR) 243.55.
200 medley relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Keaton Barwick, Will VanErmen, Benjamin Soehl, Wes Polley) 1:41.98; 4. Marshfield (Zach Kayhart, Joshua Peters, Simon Dagit, Kevin Buth) 1:48.42.
200 freestyle: 1. Henry Bowling (SP) 1:55.61; 2. Carson Klumb (MAR) 1:59.50; 13. Kaden Reisner (MAR) 2:23.02; 14. Lincoln Berger (MAR) 2:24.43.
200 individual medley: 1. VanErmen (DC) 2:01.89; 5. Kayhart (MAR) 2:20.67; 7. Buth (MAR) 2:21.00.
50 freestyle: 1. Barwick (DC) 21.31; 3. Dagit (MAR) 22.85; 17. Ethan Sampson (MAR) 25.80.
100 butterfly: 1. Gabe Secker (EC) 54.53; 2. Dagit (MAR) 55.54.
100 freestyle: 1. Barwick (DC) 47.53; 5. Klumb (MAR) 53.56; 17. Paul Ugoretz (MAR) 57.82; 25. Sampson (MAR) 1:02.30.
500 freestyle: 1. Soehl (DC) 5:22.35; 12. Berger (MAR) 6:26.20; 13. Ugoretz (MAR) 6:43.99.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Dagit, Kayhart, Klumb, Buth) 1:34.08.
100 backstroke: 1. VanErmen (DC) 53.84; 6. Kayhart (MAR) 1:03.10; 11. Luke Hilbelink (MAR) 1:08.46; 18. Neel Gonugunta (MAR) 1:19.40.
100 breaststroke: 1. Jacob Faust (SP) 1:06.12; 5. Buth (MAR) 1:10.76; 8. Peters (MAR) 1:12.98; 9. K. Reisner (MAR) 1:14.25.
400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (VanErmen, Soehl, Polley, Barwick) 3:22.38; 7. Marshfield (Sampson, Ugoretz, Klumb, Hilbelink) 3:53.82.