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WESTON – The Marshfield boys swim team won its first Wisconsin Valley Conference meet of the season, beating D.C. Everest 88-79 on Thursday night at the Greenheck Fieldhouse at D.C. Everest High School.
“The team is getting healthy finally beating the flu and cold bugs we have been fighting,” Marshfield coach Faye Egger said. “We had some unique seeding this meet as many of our athletes were also in the orchestra concert. Even with that, the win feels good.”
The team of Brian Engel, Zach Korth, Denver Anderson and Matt Brown won the 200 medley relay (1:56.84) and the 400 freestyle relay team of of Brown, Engel, Anderson and Caleb Hansen also won in 4:33.36 for Marshfield.
Individual winners for Marshfield included Anderson in the 100 backstroke (1:07.43) and Korth in the 100 breaststroke (1:11.80).
Brown was second in the 50 freestyle (25.23), Alex Krokstrom took second in the 100 butterfly (1:22.29), Anderson finished second in the 100 freestyle (56.08), Engel was second in the 500 freestyle (6:29.04) and Caden Wojt took second in the 100 backstroke (1:16.41) for the Tigers.
The 200 freestyle relay team of Trevyn Tham, Michael Kruse, Korth and Wojt (1:49.96) and the 200 medley relay team of Krokstrom, Hansen, Kruse and Tham (2:07.07) also finished second for Marshfield.
Marshfield hosts La Crosse Logan on Monday in a nonconference dual at Marshfield High School.
Marshfield 88, D.C. Everest 79
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay: 1. Marshfield (Brian Engel, Zach Korth, Denver Anderson, Matt Brown) 1:56.84; 2. Marshfield (Alex Krokstrom, Caleb Hansen, Michael Kruse, Trevyn Tham) 2:07.07; 5. Marshfield (Brad Schroeder, Nick North, Calden Wojt, Nate Roeglin) 2:23.27.
200 freestyle: 1. Justin Mulder (DC) 2:16.54; 3. Bret Roeglin (M) 2:27.07; 4. Hunter McManus (M) 2:28.42; 5. Mason Metz (M) 2:29.47.
200 IM: 1. Cole Scidmore (DC) 2:37.11; 3. Stuart Deets (M) 2:54.36.
50 freestyle: 1. Jacob Hehir (DC) 24.41; 2. Brown (M) 25.23; 3. Hansen (M) 25.87; 4. Engel (M) 25.98.
100 butterfly: 1. Chris Miller (DC) 1:18.28; 2. Krokstrom (M) 1:22.29; 4. Kruse (M) 1:23.47; 6. Andrew Gilkerson (M) 1:30.22.
100 freestyle: 1. Hehir (DC) 53.97; 2. Anderson (M) 56.08; 3. Brown (M) 57.11; 5. M. Metz (M) 1:03.60.
500 freestyle: 1. Mulder (DC) 6:14.27; 2. Engel (M) 6:29.04; 4. Graeme Jacobson (M) 6:56.89; 6. Roeglin (M) 7:32.17.
200 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest 1:45.21; 2. Marshfield (Tham, Kruse, Korth, Wojt) 1:49.96; 3. Marshfield (B. Roeglin, N. Roeglin, M. Metz, Clayton Metz) 1:56.74; 5. Marshfield (Max Tibbett, Brady Granquist, McManus, Aaron Peters) 1:59.80.
100 backstroke: 1. Anderson (M) 1:07.43; 2. Wojt (M) 1:16.41; 4. Krokstrom (M) 1:21.20.
100 breaststroke: 1. Korth (M) 1:11.80; 3. Hansen (M) 1:14.43; 5. Tibbett (M) 1:23.77.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Brown, Engel, Anderson, Hansen) 3:57.12; 3. Marshfield (M. Metz, C. Metz, Tham, B. Roeglin) 4:27.56; 5. Marshfield (McManus, Colin Thomasgaard, Peters, North) 4:33.36.