Marshfield boys swim team comes up just short against D.C. Everest

Marshfield's Brian Engel won the 100 backstroke during the Tigers' dual meet against D.C. Everest on Tuesday at Marshfield High School. (Photo submitted by Cherie Schmidt)
Marshfield’s Brian Engel won the 100 backstroke during the Tigers’ dual meet against D.C. Everest on Tuesday at Marshfield High School. (Photo submitted by Cherie Schmidt)

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MARSHFIELD – Tuesday’s Wisconsin Valley Conference boys swim meet came down to the final race and D.C. Everest pulled out the victory in the 400 freestyle relay to pull out an 86-84 victory over Marshfield at The Boson Company Fieldhouse at Marshfield High School.

Everest won the final race by a little less than four seconds over the Tigers relay to earn eight team points and edge Marshfield (0-2 WVC).

Marshfield won five events, including two by Brian Engel and Scott Thompson.

Engel won the 100 freestyle in 56.99 and the 100 backstroke in 1:07.96. Engel also teamed with Calden Wojt, Scott Thompson and Michael Kruse to win the 200 medley relay in 2:01.49.

Thompson won the 200 IM in 2:49.94 and the 100 breaststroke in 1:15.75.

Calden Wojt was second in the 100 backstroke in 1:11.27.

Marshfield’s next meet is Saturday at the Rhinelander Invitational.

D.C. Everest 86, Marshfield 84
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay:
1. Marshfield (Calden Wojt, Scott Thompson, Michael Kruse, Brian Engel) 2:01.49; 3. Marshfield (Colin Thomasgard, Mason Metz, Ben Donahue, Trevyn Tham) 2:10.19; 4. Marshfield (Anthony Hartwig, Nick North, Alec Brenner, Clayton Metz) 2:15.74.
200 freestyle: 1. Jacob Grass (DCE) 2:09.26; 3. Donahue (MAR) 2:33.45; 4. M. Metz (MAR) 2:47.90; 5. C. Metz (MAR) 2:48.63.
200 IM: 1. Thompson (MAR) 2:40.94; 4. Kruse (MAR) 3:00.52; 5. North (MAR) 3:01.33.
50 freestyle: 1. Bennet Laporte (DC) 25.75; 3. Wojt (MAR) 26.81; 4. Tham (MAR) 29.63; 5. C. Metz (MAR) 29.89.
100 butterfly: 1. Chris Miller (DC) 1:08.18; 3. Donahue (MAR) 1:14.56; 4. Kruse (MAR) 1:22.71; 5. M. Metz (MAR) 1:31.58.
100 freestyle: 1. Engel (MAR) 56.99; 4. Thomasgard (MAR) 1:06.97; 5. Tham (MAR) 1:11.67.
500 freestyle: 1. Grass (DC) 6:14.10; 3. Brenner (MAR) 7:00.68; 4. Hartwig (MAR) 7:01.53; 5. Ryan McClellan (MAR) 8:52.80; 6. Tim Benson (AMR) 8:08.81.
200 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Laporte, Grass, Tim Cornish, Ian Baeten) 1:51.05; 2. Marshfield (M. Metz, Zach Hanson, Erik Tollefson, C. Metz) 2:02.00.
100 backstroke: 1. Engel (MAR) 1:07.96; 2. Wojt (MAR) 1:11.27; 3. Thomasgard (MAR) 1:20.07.
100 breaststroke: 1. Thompson (MAR) 1:15.75; 4. North (MAR) 1:32.18; 5. Hartwig (MAR) 1:39.26; 6. Ayush Shukla (MAR) 1:55.85.
400 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Baeten, Zach Heil, Grass, Laporte) 4:05.20; 2. Marshfield (Donahue, Kruse, Thompson, Engel) 4:09.05; 3. Marshfield (Brenner, Tham, Wojt, Thomasgard) 4:27.25; 5. Marshfield (North, Hartwig, McClellan, Andrew Gilkerson) 5:23.89.