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HUDSON – The Marshfield boys swimming team’s season came to an end at the 2014 WIAA Division 1 Boys Swimming Sectional meet Saturday.
The Tigers finished ninth out of the 10 teams at the sectional with 87 points and had no state qualifiers.
The winner of each event and the next 18 best finishers from across all the sectionals qualified for the 2014 WIAA State Boys Swimming & Diving Championships next Friday and Saturday at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
The Tigers’ top individual finishes both came from Brian Engel. Engel was ninth in the 100 backstroke (1:03.91) and the 100 freestyle (54.33). Denver Anderson was 10th in the 50 freestyle (23.78) for Marshfield’s only other top-10 finish.
Marshfield’s 200 medley relay team of Engel, Zach Korth, Anderson and Brown was seventh in 1:51.44 and the 400 freestyle relay team of Brown, Michael Kruse, Anderson and Engel was eighht in 3:48.59.
Eau Claire Memorial/North won seven events and took the team title with 408 points.
2014 WIAA Division 1 Boys Swimming Sectional
Feb. 15, at Hudson High School
Team scores: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North 408; 2. Hudson 306; 3. Stevens Point 276; 4. Superior 256; 5. Chippewa Falls/McDonell 249; 6. Holmen/Onalaska 237; 7. D.C. Everest 118; 8. Wisconsin Rapids 104; 9. Marshfield 87; 10. La Crosse Logan/Central 45.
Individual winners and Marshfield results (event winner and next 18 finishers across all sectionals qualify for state meet)
1-meter diving: 1. Nikolas Maskevich (EC) 404.05.
200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Ryan Neigbauer, Tyler Tanko, Ben Harris, Willey Rosenthal) 1:40.27; 7. Marshfield (Brian Engel, Zach Korth, Denver Anderson, Matt Brown) 1:51.44.
200 freestyle: 1. Bailey Biwer (EC) 1:44.38; 15. Mason Metz (MAR) 2:22.67.
200 IM: 1. Paul DeLakis (EC) 1:53.65.
50 freestyle: 1. Calvin Hulse (HO) 22.17; 10. Anderson (MAR) 23.78; 17. Brown (MAR) 24.88; 21. Calden Wojt (MAR) 25.56; 25. Korth (MAR) 27.49; 26. Trevyn Tham (MAR) 28.12.
100 butterfly: 1. Biwer (EC) 52.54; 16. Michael Kruse (MAR) 1:11.20.
100 freestyle: 1. Willie Skinner (HUD) 48.51; 9. Engel (MAR) 54.33; 12. Brown (MAR) 56.95; 18. Jordan Tran (MAR) 1:05.24.
500 freestyle: 1. Levi Soborowicz (EC) 4:56.71; 16. Graeme Jacobson (MAR) 6:25.29.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Hudson (August Jorgensen, Miles Townsend, Sawyer Arndt, Skinner) 1:28.00.
100 backstroke: 1. Neigbauer (SP) 54.54; 9. Engel (MAR) 1:03.91; 15. Wojt (MAR) 1:08.86.
100 breaststroke: 1. DeLakis (EC) 57.49; 12. Korth (MAR) 1:09.53; 21. Max Tibbett (MAR) 1:19.68; 23. Jacobson (MAR) 1:26.00.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire Memorial/North (Jonah Weld, Ben Redman, Biwer, DeLakis) 3;15.18; 8. Marshfield (Brown, Kruse, Anderson, Engel) 3:48.59.