MEDFORD BOYS SWIMMING - ONE FOR THE WIN COLUMN Swimmers beat Antigo, close vs. Hawks
MEDFORD BOYS SWIMMING
After a near-miss against Shawano-Seymour on Thursday, the Medford Raiders were successful Tuesday in putting a notch in the Great Northern Conference win column when they swam past the host Antigo Red Robins 89-43.
The Raiders got wins in all three relays, got two individual wins from Roger Mann and three more swimmers won an event as the Raiders improved to 1-3 in the GNC heading into a home meet today, Thursday, against Lakeland (0-3), a team that has had only four swimmers available in each of its GNC meets thus far.
The longer distances in Antigo’s metered pool didn’t bother Mann in his victories in the 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter breaststroke. The Raider junior took the freestyle in 1:16.36, while teammate Cale Schulz was second in 1:20.69 and Anthony Seidel got the fifthplace point at 1:41.6. Mann’s winning time in the breaststroke was 1:33.83, while teammate Brandon Curtis took second in 1:54.58, well ahead of Red Robin Nate Wild (2:11.4).
Schulz, a first-year senior, got his first event win by taking the 100-meter backstroke in 1:48.45, well ahead of Antigo’s Ted Baginski (2:03.73). Seidel, another new senior who just joined the team a couple weeks ago, took third in 2:10.27.
Reese Travis led the way in the 50meter freestyle. The junior won it 33.28 seconds, just ahead of teammate Hudson Briggs (34.52). Aiden Thao took fourth for Medford in 55.91 seconds.
Senior Mason Reimann won the 100meter butterfly in 1:15.9, beating Antigo’s Rutger Busse by 2.59 seconds. Reimann added a second-place finish in the 200meter individual medley at 2:50.38. Busse won that in 2:45.12.
Logan Rouiller was second in the 400meter freestyle at 5:17.43. Antigo’s Dawson Behm won in 5:07.36. Behm also won the 200-meter freestyle in 2:31.08, while Briggs and Curtis were second and third in 3:00.57 and 3:30.69.
The team of Travis, Mann, Briggs and Reimann pulled out an exciting win in the 200-meter freestyle relay. Their time of 2:09.83 beat Antigo’s team by just 0.02 seconds. Schulz, Seidel, Curtis and Thao got the third-place points in 2:58.69.
Rouiller, Mann, Reimann and Travis won the 200-meter medley relay in 2:23.55. Antigo’s team was disqualified. Travis, Briggs, Schulz and Rouiller swam unopposed in the 400-meter freestyle relay and finished in 5:27.82.
Tonight’s meet at the MASH pool is set to start at 5:30 p.m.
Hodag Relays
On Saturday, Medford got a chance to compete in what head coach Terry Werner called “an incredible event,” the Rhinelander Hodag Relays. The Raiders, who did not have seniors Reimann and Curtis available, entered seven events, scoring in four of them to earn 12 points and a sixth-place tie with Lakeland in the team standings.
Bay Port won the team championship with 136 points, followed by Rhinelander (82), Superior (72), Marshfield (70) and Tomahawk (32).
Medford earned four points with a fifth-place finish in the 600-yard freestyle relay, with each team member swimming 150 yards. Schulz, Seidel, Briggs and Rouiller finished in 7:41.61. Bay Port won in a meet-record time of 5:27.14.
The Raiders got four more points in the 150-yard mixer relay. Travis, Seidel and Mann posted a time of 2:04.65. Rhinelander won in a meet-record 1:14.71.
Travis, Rouiller, Mann and Cullen Jones scored two points with a seventhplace time of 2:20.85 in the 200-yard medley relay, which was won by Bay Port in 1:46.44. Travis, Briggs and Mann placed seventh to score two points in the 300-yard backstroke relay with their time of 4:29.94. Bay Port had the top two times in the race, including a winning mark of 2:52.07.
Rouiller, Briggs, Mann and Jones were eighth in the 500-yard decresceno relay at 5:55.36. Bay Port set a new meet record by winning in 4:26.2. Schulz, Travis, Rouiller and Thao were 12th in the 200-yard freestyle relay at 2:31.94. Bay Port won in 1:35.25, beating Tomahawk by 3.8 seconds. Medford DQ’d in the 300-yard breaststroke relay.
Hawks 84, Raiders 69
On Thursday, Medford added Briggs and Seidel to the lineup for the first time and gave visiting Shawano-Seymour a fight, but the Hawks were just a bit faster and deeper and won the GNC dual meet 84-69. They improved to 3-0 in GNC meets at the time.
Medford won five events, including the opening 200-yard medley relay. Reimann and Mann won two individual events each and were part of the winning relay, which posted a season-best time of 2:06.87. The Hawks had a team DQ and its second team finished in 2:44.34. Rouiller and Travis joined Mann and Reimann on the winning team.
Mann swam the 100-yard freestyle in a season-best 1:05.86 to beat Hawk Nate Hilbert by three seconds. Travis was third in 1:12.1 and Jones was sixth in a much-improved 1:22.84 over his last 100 open swim a week earlier. Mann and Curtis were the top two finishers in the 100yard breaststroke, finishing in 1:24.95 and 1:43.13.
Reimann lowered his time to 2:25.78 to comfortably win the 200-yard individual medley by 5.21 seconds over Shawano-Seymour’s Jonah Kuba. Rouiller swam the medley for the first time this winter and took third in 2:44.47. Reimann was unopposed in the 100-yard butterfly and got the win in 1:07.02. Rouiller added a second-place time of 6:12.18 in the 500yard freestyle. Kuba won that in 5:38.52.
Briggs’ first swim of the year nearly ended in a win. He was timed at 2:38.99 in the 200-yard freestyle and was 0.49 seconds behind winner James Lange. Schulz was fourth in 2:45.06, just behind Hawk Garret Young (2:44.16). Curtis was sixth in 3:09.12. Travis was clipped right at the very end of the 50-yard freestyle by Hilbert, who won in 29.9 seconds. Travis came in at 30.01 seconds. Seidel was fourth in his first 50 free at 38.89 seconds and Thao was sixth at 47.85 seconds.
Schulz was fourth in the 100-yard backstroke at 1:35.41 and Jones was fifth at 1:55.87.
Reimann, Schulz, Curtis and Mann were second in the 200-yard freestyle relay at 1:59.24, 2.42 seconds behind Shawano-Seymour’s top team. Briggs, Jones, Seidel and Thao were fourth at 2:41.28. Rouiller, Travis, Schulz and Curtis finished the meet by taking second in the 400-yard freestyle relay at 4:53.7. The Hawks’ A team won in 4:30.87.
