After nine individual races and three relays, Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights and Madison Edgewood ended the Hillmen Men's Swimming Invitational in Platteville Saturday the way they began it -- tied.
The two Badger Conference schools -- Sauk from the North division and Edgewood from the South -- finished with 381 points. Hononegah, from Rockton, IL, finished third (336), followed by Milton (316) and Muskego (315).
Sauk got big days out of seniors Matt Friede and Tyler Lentz, with both setting meet and pool records. Friede ripped off a 1:45.12 200 free, edging out by a few tenths of a second the meet and pool record set by former D2 state champ Rion Epping of Delavan-Darien in 2000. Friede's winning 100 free time of 47.42 broke Badger/Big Foot state champion Wes Laugerhausen's pool record by .13 seconds (and Verona state champ Neil Walker's meet record dating back to 1993).
Lentz, meanwhile, continued his outstanding season with a near-seven-second win in the 100 fly (52.46 -- just off the pool and meet record set by former DeForest state champ Scott Trevorrow) and a fairly stunning 58.49 in the 100 breaststroke, which not only broke the pool and meet record by more than two seconds, but easily outpaced runner-up Alex Riegert of Delavan-Darien (1:01.94), the reigning D2 state champ in the event. It's the best 100 breaststroke time in D1 this year by more than half a second -- not bad for an event Lentz doesn't swim that often. I'm not sure there has been a more impressive swimmer this year in the state than Lentz; he has looked sharp from the very first meet of the season and continues to build an impressive resume heading into February.
Lentz and Friede also teamed up to give Sauk a first-place finish in the 200 free relay, where they are the defending state champs. Lentz also contributed a quick 23.35 fly leg on Sauk's winning medley relay.
Edgewood was led by junior Drew teDuits, apparently recovered from the mid-season ailment that forced him out of the Marquette Invite earlier this month after only one race. teDuits won the 200 IM (2:00.19 -- second-fastest this year in D2) and the 100 back (54.12). He also swam a very quick 22.90 fly leg on Edgewood's second-place medley relay.
Milton's Jeff Maxwell got the best of Edgewood's Chase Stephens in a match-up of D2's two best distance freestylers. Maxwell finished third in the 200 free with a 1:47.22 to Stephens' 4th-place 1:50.04, well off his best time of the season. Maxwell came back to take first in the 500 with a 4:45.46, just off his D2-leading season-best, while Stephens finished second in 4:51.15.
At the conclusion of the meet, Platteville/Lancaster head coach Tom Caccia suggested a swim-off -- between Edgewood assistant coach Dave Dahler and Sauk head coach Todd Wuerger -- to settle the tie. Cooler heads prevailed, and Sauk took home the first-place trophy with a flip of the coin. The Platteville meet organizers plan to order up a duplicate first-place trophy and send it to Edgewood.
Full results here...
2010 SHS Boys Invite
In other weekend meets:
-- Defending D1 state champ Madison Memorial topped top D1 contender Hartland Arrowhead 590.5-541.5 at the West Bend Invitational. Memorial took seven of the 12 events at the meet, including the two free relays, with Michael Drives (200, 400 frees), Ben Anderson (50 free, 100 fly) and Patrick Franken (200 IM) picking up individual wins. Memorial's relay wins in the 25-meter pool were particularly impressive, with a 3.83-second win over a solid Neenah team in the 200 free relay and a big 4.73-second win over Arrowhead in the 400 free relay. Arrowhead's medley relay, along with Jake Prodoehl in the 100 free and Chris Jenkyns in the 100 back, garnered wins for HA.
-- Bay Port picked up yet another invite win, this one at the Indian Invitational at Menomonee Falls. The Pirates tallied 516.5 points to easily top the host MFalls/Hamilton/Germantown co-op (362). Sheboygan South (274), Berlin/Green Lake (268.5) and Janesville Craig (226) rounded out the top five. As they have all year long, Bay Port relied on its outstanding crew of freestylers to take all three relays, along with wins in the 100 and 200 frees by Ryan Kueler (48.56; 1:47.15) and the 200 IM (2:02.02) and 500 free (5:01.68) by Andrew Sumnicht). Sean Kimmitt in the fly (52.82) and Nick Bietz in the back (56.92) picked up wins for the host team. MF/H/G diver Nathan Cox, the defending D1 state champ in diving, broke a pool record with his winning score of 503.20.
UPDATE: Results here...
Indian Invite Results1!23!2010
-- Racine Case held off a dominant showing of first-place finishes by Greenfield/Greendale to take the Kenosha Bradford Invitational 431-371 for G/G. The Green machine picked up wins in eight of the 12 events, with Jack Lennertz (50 free -- 22.71; 100 fly -- 51.94), Mike Lucchesi (200 free -- 1:47.07; 500 free -- 4:59.25) and Matt jungers (200 IM -- 2:01.87) all picking up individual wins for G/G. The co-op also swept all three relays. Tyler Bastian had the lone first-place finish for the winning squad, taking the 100 free in 52.01.
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Any clue where results from West Bend Invite might be?
Currently have an email out to get them -- will post if they arrive. Meter pool, so times need to be converted.
-- Racine Case held off a dominant showing of first-place finishes by Greenfield/Greendale to take the Kenosha Bradford Invitational 431-371 for G/G. The Green machine picked up wins in eight of the 12 events.
G/G had one entry (relay)in last 3 events. Not much of depth.
Josh Lefeber (Soph) set a new school record for Franklin in 200 free. He also won the 100 breast by 5 seconds.
I've been watching Lefeber for a while this season, swimming for a Franklin team without a great deal of experience swimming at the traditionally high levels found in suburban Milwaukee. Looks like he's having a solid season.
G/G is an interesting team -- a squad has three really good swimmers, among the best in the state, but as you point out, not a ton of depth.
Josh is my son so I am biased. But so far my highlight of the season was when he told me he took it easy in the 500 free (5:04) to swim hard in the 200 free relay (back to back events) so his team mates could get medals.
Franklin swimming (from Franklin NOW - Jan 14, 2010)
A second-place swim by Josh Lefeber highlighted the Sabers' fifth-place effort at the South Milwaukee Rocket Invite on Saturday.
Lefeber was the runner-up in the 200 freestyle in 1:50.68. He also swam fourth in the 500 free (5:04.41) and was on the third-place 200 free relay along with James Konkel, Zach Thiemer and John Jablonowski (1:38.56).
Those 500 free/200 free relays can be a tough turn-around. Good luck to Josh the rest of the season.
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