Eau Claire Co-op slips past Marshfield boys swimming in hotly-contested triangular

Marshfield’s Carson Klumb swims to a third-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle at Tuesday’s home triangular meet at Marshfield High School. (Photo by Paul Lecker/MarshfieldAreaSports.com)

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MARSHFIELD – The Marshfield boys swimming and diving team won four events and finished second at its home nonconference triangular on Tuesday at Marshfield High School.

The Eau Claire co-op won the other eight events and finished first in the team standings with 227 points, six more than Marshfield. The La Crosse co-op finished third with 70 points.

Simon Dagit wqas first in the 100-yard butterfly in 56.31 seconds, and Kevin Buth topped teammate Henry Hilbelink by 0.12 of a second to win the 50 freestyle in 24.20 seconds for Marshfield’s two individual swimming wins.

Dagit, Buth, Carson Klumb and Henry Hilbelink won the 200 freestyle relay for the Tigers, winning in 1:35.50.

Marshfield’s Alik Martin also picked up a win in the diving competition, finishing with a score of 250.10. Shaun Hunter was second with a score of 208.50 for the Tigers.

Marshfield will host a Wisconsin Valley Conference dual against Wausau East/West on Thursday starting at 5:30 p.m.

Marshfield Triangular
Team scores:
1. Eau Claire 227; 2. Marshfield 221; 3. La Crosse 70.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay:
1. Eau Claire (Everett Hodorowski, Zhao Zheng, Gabe Secker, Ben Skutley) 1:49.92; 2. Marshfield (Zach Kayhart, Joshua Peters, Simon Dagit, Hayden Nelson) 1:52.72; 5. Marshfield (Max Curtis, Colton Nelson, Carlos Koehn, Lincoln Berger) 2:15.91.
200 freestyle: 1. Ben Merkatoris (EC) 2:01.59; 3. Carson Klumb (MAR) 2:05.85; 5. Carlos Koehn (MAR) 2:11.21; 6. Paul Ugoretz (MAR) 2:18.45; 9. Berger (MAR) 2:36.47; 10. Kaden Reisner (MAR) 2:51.39; 11. Will Bernarde (MAR) 3:01.67.
200 individual medley: 1. Zheng (EC) 2:14.91; 2. Kayhart (MAR) 2:17.47; 3. H. Nelson (MAR) 2:26.86; 6. C. Nelson (MAR) 2:45.56.
50 freestyle: 1. Kevin Buth (MAR) 24.20; 2. Henry Hilbelink (MAR) 24.32; 3. Ryan Grassman (MAR) 26.86; 7. Peters (MAR) 27.92; 11. Curtis (MAR) 28.87; 14. Neel Gonugunta (MAR) 32.77; 16. Ehmrey Schmoll (MAR) 35.51.
100 butterfly: 1. Dagit (MAR) 56.31; 6. C. Nelson (MAR) 1:17.35; 7. Grassman (MAR) 1:23.27.
100 freestyle: 1. Secker (EC) 52.88; 2. H. Hilbelink (MAR) 54.55; 3. Klumb (MAR) 55.16; 5. Luke Hilbelink (MAR) 57.94; 11. Connor Reisner (MAR) 1:19.08; 12. Schmoll (MAR) 1:26.78; 13. David Flink (MAR) 1:40.14.
500 freestyle: 1. Will Rossi (EC) 5:52.24; 3. Koehn (MAR) 5:56.83; 6. Ugoretz (MAR) 6:52.47; 7. Berger (MAR) 6:56.89.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Marshfield (Dagit, Buth, Klumb, H. Hilbelink) 1:35.50; 3. Marshfield (C. Nelson, Peters, Grassman, L. Hilbelink) 1:47.31; 7. Marshfield (Curtis, K. Reisner, Gonugunta, Ugoretz) 2:01.00; 9. Marshfield (Flink, Will Bernarde, C. Reisner, Schmoll) 2:26.11.
100 backstroke: 1. Secker (EC) 1:00.93; 2. Kayhart (MAR) 1:01.66; 4. H. Nelson (MAR) 1:06.26; 6. L. Hilbelink (MAR) 1:14.87; 7. Curtis (MAR) 1:17.83; 9. Gonugunta (MAR) 1:31.43; 10. C. Reisner (MAR) 1:43.09.
100 breaststroke: 1. Zheng (EC) 1:05.66; 2. Dagit (MAR) 1:09.67; 3. Buth (MAR) 1:12.22; 4. Peters (MAR) 1:14.95; 8. Bernarde (MAR) 1:36.41; 10. K. Reisner (MAR) 1:38.40.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire (Rossi, Skutley, Merkatoris, Secker) 3:33.14; 2. Marshfield (Kayhart, Klumb, Buth, H. Hilbelink) 3:38.05; 4. Marshfield (Koehn, Grassman, L. Hilbelink, H. Nelson) 3:58.35; 7. Marshfield (Berger, Gonugunta, K. Reisner, Ugoretz) 4:44.36; 8. Marshfield (Bernarde, Schmoll, C. Reisner, David Flink) 5:48.16.
Diving: 1. Alik Martin (MAR) 250.10; 2. Shaun Hunter (MAR) 208.50; 6. Dirk Vanderwyst (MAR) 150.00; 7. Monty Woltmann (MAR) 148.80; 8. Evan Clopton (MAR) 147.25; 9. Mason Klotz (MAR) 130.15.