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EAU CLAIRE – The Marshfield boys swim team had seven top-five finishes and took third place at the 11-team Santa Claus Invitational on Saturday at Eau Claire North High School.
The Eau Claire Alliance co-op won the team title with 312 points, with Stevens Point second with 166 and Marshfield third with 160.5.
Marshfield’s 400-yard freestyle relay team of Graham Lonsdale, Henry Hilbelink, Simon Dagit and Kyle Berres had its highest finish, taking second in 3:38.35.
Lonsdale also finished third in the 200 freestyle (2:00.59), Dagit took third in the 100 butterfly (59.67 seconds) and fifth in the 100 breaststroke (1:11.74), the 200 freestyle relay team of Brayden Fischer, Adam Donahue, Matt Begotka and Hilbelink was fifth in 1:42.89, Berres took fifth in the 50 freestyle (23.82), and Alik Martin finished fifth in the diving competition (291.95) for the Tigers.
Marshfield will compete at La Crosse Logan/Central at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on Tuesday for a nonconference dual.
Santa Claus Boys Swimming Invitational
Dec. 18, at Eau Claire North High School
Team scores: 1. Eau Claire Alliance 312; 2. Stevens Point 166; 3. Marshfield 160.5; 4. River Falls 140.5; 5. Chippewa Falls 127; 6. D.C. Everest 118; 7. Onalaska/Holmen/Aquinas 110; 8. La Crosse 104; 9. Sheboygan South and Hudson 45; 11. Wausau East 34.
Event winners, and Marshfield and Stevens Point finishers
Diving: 1. Cort Chiodo (HUD) 475.65; 5. Alik Martin (MAR) 291.95; 7. Graham Lonsdale (MAR) 233.90; 9. Michael Dick (MAR) 217.35.
200 medley relay: 1. Eau Claire (C.J. Willert, Josh Krause, Gabe Secker, Jacob Rossi) 1:44.85; 2. Stevens Point (Cade Casey, Kyle Franz, Will Gargulak, Keegan McKinley-Chapin) 1:45.93; 6. Marshfield (Kyle Berres, Dick, Simon Dagit, Lonsdale) 1:53.25.
200 freestyle: 1. David Mayer (DC) 1:47.85; 3. Lonsdale (MAR) 2:00.59; 7. Sam Gargulak (SP) 2:06.80; 9. Landon Bicknase (SP) 2:11.80; 13. Kegan Brown (SP) 2:23.46.
200 individual medley: 1. Secker (EC) 2:11.60; 2. W. Gargulak (SP) 2:12.61; 8. Henry Hilbelink (MAR) 2:32.12; 12. Matt Begotka (MAR) 2:38.90; 13. Joey Kozicki (SP) 2:40.17.
50 freestyle: 1. Erik Petrowski (CF) 23.21; 3. Casey (SP) 23.42; 5. Berres (MAR) 23.82; 12. Brayden Fischer (MAR) 25.38; 13. Gavin Stelzer (SP) 25.40; 14. McKinley-Chapin (SP) 25.46.
100 butterfly: 1. Taylor Matter (RF) 56.31; 3. Dagit (MAR) 59.67; 4. W. Gargulak (SP) 59.69; 8. Eddie Sapa (SP) 1:04.14; 12. Brown (SP) 1:07.43; 13. Stelzer (SP) 1:08.31.
100 freestyle: 1. Mayer (DC) 48.75; 6. Berres (MAR) 53.33; 7. Franz (SP) 53.46; 10. McKinley-Chapin (SP) 56.40; 11. Fischer (MAR) 56.78; 12. Hilbelink (MAR) 57.24; 16. Zander Edmundson (MAR) 1:01.15; 17. Carlos Koehn (MAR) 1:01.87.
500 freestyle: 1. Rossi (EC) 5:19.94; 6. S. Gargluak (SP) 5:57.14; 7. Bicknase (SP) 6:01.67; 8. Koehn (MAR) 6:19.05.
200 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire (Joe Schlitz, Secker, Thomas Merkatoris, Briggs Reinke) 1:33.68; 5. Marshfield (Fischer, Adam Donahue, Begotka, Hilbelink) 1:42.89; 6. Stevens Point (McKinley-Chapin, Stelzer, Bicknase, S. Gargulak) 1:45.41.
100 backstroke: 1. Casey (SP) 56.48; 7. Sapa (SP) 1:07.40; 10. Hayden Nelson (MAR) 1:09.50; 15. Donahue (MAR) 1:22.04.
100 breaststroke: 1. Ryan Beranek (CF) 1:05.74; 5. Dagit (MAR) 1:11.74; 9. Dick (MAR) 1:14.56; 12. Nelson (MAR) 1:21.25; 13. Kozicki (SP) 1:23.25; 14. Begotka (MAR) 1:23.53.
400 freestyle relay: 1. Eau Claire (Reinke, Merkatoris, Willert, Rossi) 3:30.32; 2. Marshfield (Lonsdale, Hilbelink, Dagit, Berres) 3:38.35; 5. Stevens Point (W. Gargulak, Casey, S. Gargulak, Sapa) 3:42.81.