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HUDSON – Marshfield senior Aaron Scheets qualified for the WIAA State Boys Swimming Meet for the second year in a row, taking third in the 100 backstroke at the WIAA sectional meet at Hudson High School on Saturday.
Scheets swam in 56.76 seconds, finishing third, five seconds behind winner Austin Byrd of Chippewa Falls/McDonell.
Scheets, who finished 21st last year in the event at state, will swim in Heat 1 of three at the state meet next Saturday at the UW Natatorium in Madison.
No other Tigers qualified for the state meet.
Jake Akin had a pair of top-10 finishes, taking seventh in the 50 freestyle (23.36) and eighth in the 100 freestyle (51.70).
Scheets was eighth in the 200 IM (2:08.30) and Tom Stevning-Roe took ninth in the 100 backstroke (1:01.33).
The Tigers’ 200 medley relay team of Scheets, Michael Josephson, Stevning-Roe and Akin finished fifth in 1:45.55.
WIAA Hudson boys swimming sectional
Team scores: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North 406; 2. Chippewa Falls/McDonell 322; 3. Hudson 288.5; 4. Stevens Point 229; 5. Wausau East 226; 6. Superior 157; 7. Marshfield 154.5; 8. La Crosse Logan/Superior 137; 9. Holmen/Onalaska 127; 10. Wisconsin Rapids 52; 11. D.C. Everest 51.
Event winners and Marshfield finishers
Diving: 1. Nick Folz (EC) 380.40.
200 medley relay: 1. Chippewa Falls/McDonell (Austin Byrd, Marshall Schlick, Taylor Adams, Michael Passint) 1:38.94; 5. Marshfield (Aaron Scheets, Michael Josephson, Thomas Stevning-Roe, Jake Akin) 1:45.55.
200 freestyle: 1. Bailey Biwer (EC) 1:45.57; 17. Jake Krueger (MAR) 2:09.91.
200 IM: 1. Alex DeLakis (ED) 1:52.66; 8. Scheets (MAR) 2:06.22.
50 freestyle: 1. Willie Skinner (HUD) 22.16; 7. Akin (MAR) 23.36; 11. Josephson (MAR) 24.18; 14. Alex Shulman (MAR) 24.46; 18. Matt Brown (MAR) 25.68; 21. Denver Anderson (MAR) 26.75.
100 butterfly: 1. Billy Brebrick (WE) 51.52; 14. Stevning-Roe (MAR) 1:00.93; 22. Nolan Hall (MAR) 1:12.28.
100 freestyle: 1. Jake Folz (EC) 48.85; 8. Akin (MAR) 51.70; 13. Shulman (MAR) 54.86; 16. Krueger (MAR) 56.13; 23. Evan Schneider (MAR) 59.16.
500 freestyle: 1. Joel Harris (SP) 4:54.00.
200 freestyle: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (J. Folz, Biwer, Trevor Manz, DeLakis) 1:28.00; 9. Marshfield (Shulman, Anderson, Brown, Krueger) 1:40.06.
100 breaststroke: 1. DeLakis (EC) 57.40; 12. Josh Herron (MAR) 1:11.81; 13. Phil Kubica (MAR) 1:14.32.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (J. Folz, Biwer, James Olson, Manz) 3:15.42; 7. Marshfield (Josephson, Stevning-Roe, Akin, Scheets) 3:31.02.