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MERRILL – The Marshfield girls swim team opened its 2018 season competing at the Merrill Outdoor Relay Meet on Thursday.
The Tigers placed seventh out of nine teams, finishing with 28 points. Stevens Point won six of the nine races to take first place with 93 poins, six ahead of D.C. Everest, which won the other three events.
Marshfield’s top finish came in the 800-yard freestyle relay as the Tigers team of Hope Risa, Allie Bacholl, Tara Kracht and Alyssa Franks finished fourth in 9:47.99.
Marshfield also had three other top-10 finishes.
The Tigers’ 200 medley relay team of Kaitlin Alberts, Kracht, Franks and Risa was ninth in 2:06.19; the 800 medley relay team of Risa, Kracht, Alberts and Franks was sixth in 10:09.70; and the 400 breaststroke relay team of Sarah Minten, Kracht, Alberts and MaryAnn Stangl took eighth in 5:49.24.
Marshfield will compete at the Menominee Invitational on Saturday before hosting the Marshfield Invite on Wednesday.
Merrill Outdoor Girls Swimming Relay Meet
Team scores: 1. Stevens Point 93; 2. D.C. Everest 87; 3. Rice Lake 63; 4. Merrill 58; 5. Tomahawk 52; 6. Rhinelander 49; 7. Marshfield 28; 8. Wausau West 24; 9. Black River Falls 21.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Gabriella Raczek, Sydney Hoff, Anna Vandehey, Allison Scharbarth) 1:54.88; 9. Marshfield (Kaitlin Alberts, Tara Kracht, Alyssa Franks, Hope Risa) 2:06.19; 19. Marshfield (Emilie Koran, Allie Bacholl, Emily Hopperdietzel, Hannah Hanson) 2:41.06; 20. Marshfield (Claire Critelli, Sarah Minten, MaryAnn Stangl, Abbey Boushack) 2:45.38.
400 medley relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Jordan Tatro, Maddie VanErmen, Bethany Rahn, Mariana Schinker) 4:14.63.
800 freestyle relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Sara Mayer, Kallie Brost, Makenna Zoesch, Beleni Mandli) 8:51.11; 4. Marshfield (Risa, Bacholl, Kracht, Franks) 9:47.99.
800 medley relay: 1. Stevens Point (Kennedy Gilbertson, Alaina Breitbach, Vandhey, Hoff) 9:21.93; 6. Marshfield (Risa, Kracht, Alberts, Franks) 10:09.70.
400 butterfly relay: 1. D.C. Everest (Rahn, Michelle Gutierrez-Jakobi, Schinker, Tatro) 4:13.64.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Breitbach, Sophie Emerson, Abigail Rosenthal, Sydney Gargulak) 1:46.84; 16. Marshfield (Stangl, Boushack, Critelli, Minten) 2:14.40.
400 backstroke relay: 1. Stevens Point (Glbertson, Sophie Czerwonka, Raczek, Alexis Hall) 4:21.95; 12. Marshfield (Koran, Alberts, Hansen, Bacholl) 5:57.38.
400 breaststroke relay: 1. Stevens Point (Hoff, Rosenthal, Czerwonka, Breitbach) 4:52.94; 8. Marshfield (Minten, Kracht, Alberts, Stangl) 5:49.24.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Stevens Point (Gilbertson, Vandehey, Scharbarth, Hoff) 3:44.12; 19. Marshfield (Franks, Bacholl, Boushack, Critelli) 5:14.69.