Marshfield girls swim team ties for 2nd at season-opening Hatchet Relays in Tomahawk

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TOMAHAWK – The Marshfield girls swim team opened its 2013 season with a second-place finish at the four-team Hatchet Relays on Thursday.

Marshfield finished with 346 points, tying Ladysmith/Flambeau/Bruce, 80 points behind champion Tomahawk. Merrill was fourth with 256 points.

Marshfield had five third-place finishes in the meet. The 400 medley relay team of Anna Hilbelink, Walker Guzowski, Maggie Huettl and Elizabeth Holbrook (4:57.10); the 200 butterfly relay team of Sarah Claessens, Allison Yale, Hilbelink and Holbrook (2:12.16); the 200 freestyle relay team of Charlotte Urban, Huettl, Katie Treankler and Guzowski (1:59.51); the 200 backstroke relay team of Urban, Karen Scheuer, Yale and Claessens (2:19.06); and the 200 breastroke team of Jillian Behling, Grace Hilbelink, Holbrook and Guzowski (2:34.27).

“We have a great team shaping up this year with good numbers in freshmen and sophomores and strong returning juniors and seniors,” Marshfield coach Faye Egger said. “The girls had fun building team spirit with this meet while getting some initial times under our belts.”

Marshfield returns to action with a dual meet at Holmen on Sept. 5.

2013 Hatchet Relays
Aug. 29 at Tomahawk
Team scores:
1. Tomahawk 444; 2. Marshfield and Ladysmith/Flambeau/Bruce 346; 4. Merrill 256.
Winners and Marshfield finishers
200 medley relay:
1. Tomahawk 1:58.69; 4. Marshfield (Karen Scheuer, Grace Hilbelink, Anna Hilbelink, Maggie Huettl) 2:15.85; 7. Marshfield (Alison Reigel, Katie Treankler, Allison Yale, April Read) 2:44.08.
400 medley relay: 1. Ladysmith/Flambeau/Bruce 4:33.44; 4. Marshfield (Charlotte Urban, Walker Guzowski, Elizabeth Holbrook, Jenna Nordin) 4:58.06; 6. Marshfield (Hannah Voros, Jillian Behling, Sarah Claessens, Read), 5:23.98.
850 freestyle relay: 1. Ladysmith/Flambeau/Bruce 10:03.60; 4. Marshfield (Sierra Johnson, Alexis Bettinger, Yale, Scheuer) 10:40.20; 8. Marshfield (Reigel, Claire Greenlee, Michelle Fernandez, Nordin) 12:35.44.
400 medley relay: 1. Ladysmith/Flambeau/Bruce 4:31.77; 3. Marshfield (A. Hilbelink, Guzowski, Huettl, Holbrook) 4:57.10; 6. Marshfield (Michelle Fernandez, Read, G. Hilbelink, Maddi Hall) 5:39.08.
200 butterfly relay: 1. Tomahawk 1:56.77; 3. Marshfield (Claessens, Yale, A. Hilbelink, Holbrook) 2:12.16; 7. Marshfield (Read, Behling, Bettinger, Hall) 2:36.21.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Ladysmith/Flambeau/Bruce 1:51.84; 3. Marshfield (Charlotte Urban, Huettl, Treankler, Guzowski) 1:59.51; 6. Marshfield (Scheuer, G. Hilbelink, Nordin, Fernandez) 2:10.35; 9. Marshfield (Reigel, Megyn Stangfeld, Greenlee, Voros) 2:31.81.
200 backstroke relay: 1. Tomahawk 2:03.33; 3. Marshfield (Urban, Scheuer, Yale, Claessens) 2:19.06; 6. Marshfield (Reigel, Bettinger, Nordin, Voros) 2:50.13.
200 breaststroke relay: 1. Ladysmith/Flambeau/Bruce 2;20.13; 3. Marshfield (Behling, G. Hilbelink, Holbrook, Guzowski) 2;34.27; 7. Marshfield (Treankler, Greenlee, Hall, Voros) 3:17.19.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Tomahawk 3:56.93; 4. Marshfield (Huettl, A. Hilbelink, Urban, Claessens) 3:56.93; 7. Marshfield (Bettinger, Treankler, Johnson, Behling) 5:18.76; 8. Marshfield (Greenlee, Fernandez, Hall, Strangfeld) 5:37.32.