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STEVENS POINT – D.C. Everest rolled to the team title to earn its first-ever Wisconsin Valley Conference championship at the 2018 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swimming Meet on Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Everest racked up 350 points to easily outdistance itself from Stevens Point (263) and Wisconsin Rapids (251). Marshfield earned fourth place with 205 points, two ahead of Wausau East.
Stevens Point had won the previous six WVC meets and last five overall conference titles.
Myles Jensen had Marshfield’s top finish, taking second in the 200-yard freestyle in a time of 2:00.48.
Jensen also teamed with Nathan Albanito, Jeffrey Berres and Ethan Dagit to take third in the 400 freestyle in 3:43.12 for the Tigers.
Dagit took fourth in the 50 freestyle (24.48), Albanito was fifth in the 100 butterlfy (1:02.33), and Jacob Dick finished fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.57 and fifth in the 200 IM (2:18.63) for Marshfield’s other top-five finishes.
Marshfield will compete at the WIAA Division 1 sectional at UW-Stevens Point on Feb. 10.
2018 Wisconsin Valley Conference Boys Swimming Meet
Feb. 1, at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Team scores: 1. D.C. Everest 350; 2. Stevens Point 263; 3. Wisconsin Rapids 251; 4. Marshfield 205; 5. Wausau East 203.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Brennan Neitzel, Payton Rudeen, Ben Halambeck, Zach Rahn) 1:42.01; 4. Marshfield (Justin Kang, Jacob Dick, Nathan Albanito, Ethan Dagit) 1:52.87; 10. Marshfield (Dane Tollefson, Eli Swansen, Isaac Eberl, Alex Wuethrich) 2:11.26.
200 freestyle: 1. Neitzel (DC) 1:55.03; 2. Myles Jensen (MAR) 2:00.48; 9. Brock Hamm (MAR) 2:16.52; 11. Connor Berres (MAR) 2:19.23.
200 IM: 1. Drew Harris (SP) 2:04.02; 5. Dick (MAR) 2:18.63; 11. Swansen (MAR) 2:44.55.
50 freestyle: 1. Dylan Engelbright (WR) 22.91; 4. Dagit (MAR) 24.48; 5. Albanito (MAR) 24.56; 12. Adam Elhendy-Gunnarsson (MAR) 26.19.
100 butterfly: 1. Rudeen (DC) 54.71; 5. Albanito (MAR) 1:02.33; 8. Alec Brenner (MAR) 1:04.52; 12. Jeffrey Berres (MAR) 1:08.92.
100 freestyle: 1. Chad Franz (SP) 50.70; 8. Dagit (MAR) 55.66; 11. Kang (MAR) 58.76; 13. Brandon Koran (MAR) 1:01.25.
500 freestyle: 1. Koppany Bodor (SP) 5:06.57; 9. C. Berres (MAR) 6:29.29; 12. Eberl (MAR) 6:45.40.
200 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Neitzel, Lance Chandler, Halambeck, Rudeen) 1:32.78; 6. Marshfield (Elhendy-Gunnarsson, Dick, Kang, Jensen) 1:42.28; 8. Marshfield (Jarreth Schaefer, Brenner, Koran, Hamm) 1:46.88; 9. Marshfield (Swansen, Tollefson, Alex Wehrman, Wuethrich) 1:47.58.
100 backstroke: 1. Neitzel (DC) 54.33; 7. J. Berres (MAR) 1:07.27; 8. Kang (MAR) 1:08.62; 11. Tollefson (MAR) 1:18.69.
100 breaststroke: 1. Rudeen (DC) 1:04.28; 4. Dick (MAR) 1:10.57; 7. Wehrman (MAR) 1:15.72.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Harris, Bodor, Marco Kurzynski, Franz) 3:27.59; 3. Marshfield (Albanito, J. Berres, Dagit, Jensen) 3:43.12; 8. Marshfield (Koran, Swansen, Brenner, C. Berres) 4:09.59; 9. Marshfield (Tollefson, Schaefer, Hamm, Wuethrich) 4:15.24.