It was a very good week for Shorewood's swimmers. Three days after topping north suburban rival Whitefish Bay in a battle of two of the best Div. 2 squads in the state, the Greyhounds came back to top a good field of D2 teams at the Bulldog Invite Saturday at Cedarburg.
Shorewood won with 345 points, 15 more than the host Bulldogs and 32 more than third-place Berlin/Green Lake. Plymouth, another solid D2 squad, finished 4th with 279.5 points.
Shorewood got wins from sophomore Jay Tomasiewicz in the 200 IM (2:05.36) and senior Stephen Meyer in the 100 fly (55.28). Both swimmers also garnered 2nd-place finishes -- Meyer in the back, Tomasiewicz to his teammate in the fly -- and swam legs on two of Shorewood's relays that placed second. Along with Meyer, one of D2's top senior swimmers, Tomasiewicz has really stepped up this year and emerged as one of the better sophomore swimmers in D2.
Other meet highlights:
-- As expected, Plymouth looks to be putting together a solid medley relay for the sectional-state meet run. Good medley relays are made by breaststrokers, and Plymouth has a very good one in senior Jesse Gambrell. His split on the medley relay Saturday -- 28.04 -- was faster than anyone else in the field by more than a second, and catapulted the relay to a victory. He was joined on the medley by junior backstroker Brian Linzmeyer, flier Jeff Pagel and anchor Alex Krueger -- all with solid legs on a relay that went 1:43.64. Plymouth last year finished 12th at the D2 state meet in the medley relay; don't be surprised to see this quartet finish much higher this year. Gambrell also had one of the most dominating wins in the meet, winning the 100 breaststroke by more than four seconds in 1:02.98.
-- Cedarburg's very close second-place finish was led by junior Carl Newenhouse, certainly one of the best D2 juniors in the state. The backstroke specialist focused instead Saturday on the two distance freestyle races and came away with wins in the 200 free (1:47.59) and the 500 free (4:52.40). His leadoff 100 free leg of 48.79 also gave the Bulldogs a lead they never gave up, as they won the meet-ending 400 free relay in 3:25.75.
-- Berlin/Green Lake sophomore Greg Hameister continued his fine season with wins in the 50 (23.00) and 100 frees (49.23). Hameister finished 9th and 12th in the two sprints at last year's D2 meet; his times so far this season suggest he'll be moving up.
-- Grafton 9th-grader Al Nenning certainly put his stamp on freshman-of-the-year honors in D2 with a big win over Meyer in the 100 back. Meyer came within two-hundreths of a second of winning the D2 state title in the back last year, but Nenning topped him by nearly seven-tenths of a second in the back. The freshman also finished second to Hameister in the 50 free (23.12) and along with Newenhouse and Hameister were the only swimmers to post sub-50 second splits in the 400 free relay.
Full results here...
2010 Cedarburg Bulldog Boys Swim Invite Results
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