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STEVENS POINT – The Marshfield girls track and field team opened its season with an eighth-place finish at the 2013 Point Girls Track Invitational on Friday at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
The Tigers had eight top-eight finishes to total 24.5 points and finish eighth in the team standings.
Neenah won the team title with 80 points, 1½ ahead of Kimberly.
Susan Omoba took fourth in the high jump (4-10) and eighth in the 55 meters (8.02 seconds) to pace Marshfield.
Martha Kupfer was fourth in the triple jump (33-4) to tie Omoba for the top individual performance for the Tigers.
Miranda Forest was fifth (33-2) and Melissa May sixth (32-9.5) in the shot put, Maria Brix finished seventh in the pole vault (8.0), and the Tigers 800 relay team was fifth (1:56.08) and 1,600 relay eighth (4:33.59).
Marshfield returns to action Thursday when it hosts its annual Tiger Indoor Girls Track Invitational at the Marshfield Fieldhouse.
2013 Point Girls Track Invitational
March 15, at UW-Stevens Point
Team standings: 1. Neenah 80.5; 2. Kimberly 78.5; 3. D.C. Everest 52; 4. Bay Port 47.5; 5. Stevens Point 41.5; 6. Wild Rose 34.25; 7. Mosinee 26; 8. Marshfield 24.5; 9. Appleton North 24.25; 10. Merrill 17.5; 11. Green Bay East 14; 12. Waupaca 12; 13. Westfield/Montello 11; 14. Oshkosh Lourdes 8; 15. La Crosse Logan 8.25; 16. Colby and Baraboo 8; 18. Hortonville 7.5; 19. Kaukauna, Wausau East, Algoma 6; 22. Gillett 5; 23. Bonduel 4.5; 24. Luxemburg-Casco 4; 25. Omro 3.25; 26. Iola-Scandinavia 3; 27. Rosholt and Sevastopol 2.