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HUDSON – Marshfield junior Aaron Scheets is going to the WIAA State Boys Swimming Championships.
Scheets took third in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 56.24 seconds on Saturday at the WIAA Division 1 sectional at Hudson. He was one of 18 extra qualifiers in the event for the state meet. The Division 1 state competition is at 3 p.m. Feb. 19 at the University of Wisconsin Natatorium.
The winner in each event and the next 18 fastest finishers at the six sectionals across the state qualify for the state meet.
Scheets is the only Tiger to qualify for state and is seeded second in his eight-man heat and 18th overall in the 24-man field.
Marshfield placed ninth in the team standings. The sectional team title was won by Eau Claire Memorial/North, which had six champions.
Marshfield had three other individual top-10 finishes.
Ade Dillon took sixth in the 100 freestyle (51.62), Thomas Stevning-Roe was sixth in the 100 backstroke (1:00.71) and Scheets finished 10th in the 200 individual medley (2:14.40).
Marshfield’s 400 freestyle relay team of Jake Akin, Stevning-Roe, Scheets and Dillon placed sixth (3:34.98), and the 200 freestyle relay team of Akin, Jake Krueger, Michael Josephson and Dillon was seventh (1:36.83).
WIAA Division 1 Boys Swimming Sectional, at Hudson
Team scores: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North 407; 2. Hudson 320.5; 3. Chippewa Falls/McDonell 283; 4. Wausau East 278; 5. Superior 199.5; 6. Wisconsin Rapids 157; 7. Stevens Point 140; 8. Holmen/Onlaska 125; 9. Marshfield 115; 10. La Crosse Logan/Central 52.
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Event winners and Marshfield finishers
Diving: 1. Drew Miles (EC) 386.05.
200 medley relay: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (Isaiah Rozich, Trevor Manz, Bailey Biwer, Jake Folz), 1:40.11; Marshfield (Aaron Scheets, Michael Josephson, Ade Dillon, Jake Akin) disqualified.
200 freestyle: 1. Wes Manz (EC) 1:42.53; 21. Jake Krueger (MAR) 2:11.35.
200 individual medley: 1. Alex DeLakis (EC) 1:55.35; 10. Scheets (MAR) 2:14.40.
50 freestyle: 1. Evan Miller (WE) 22.14; 14. Jake Akin (MAR) 24.15; 15. Thomas Stevning-Roe (MAR) 24.53; 25. Jack Gellerman (MAR) 26.13; Denver Anderson (MAR) disqualified.
100 butterfly: 1. W. Manz (EC) 51.75; 15. Nolan Hall (MAR) 1:12.51.
100 freestyle: 1. Miller (WE) 48.66; 6. Dillon (MAR) 51.62; 13. Josephson (MAR) 54.50; 22. Jack Gellerman (MAR) 59.59; 24. Evan Schneider (MAR) 1:01.76.
500 freestyle: 1. Biwer (EC) 5:02.88; 18. Krueger (MAR) 6:13.00.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (W. Manz, Folz, Biwer, DeLakis) 1:28.66; 7. Marshfield (Akin, Krueger, Josephson, Dillon), 1:36.83.
100 backstroke: 1. Austin Byrd (CF) 53.11; 3. Scheets (MAR) 56.24; 6. Stevning-Roe (MAR) 1:00.71; 19. Hall (MAR) 1:14.49.
100 breaststroke: 1. Ryan Korslin (WR) 57.19; 12. Josephson (MAR) 1:10.25; 17. Josh Herron (MAR) 1:15.84; 18. Luke Zahalka (MAR) 1:16.35.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (W. Manz, Trevor Manz, Isaiah Rozich, DeLakis), 3:13.76; 6. Marshfield (Akin, Stevning-Roe, Scheets, Dillon), 3:34.98.