In perhaps the most anticipated dual meet of the season in Div. 2, Shorewood just edged suburban rival Whitefish Bay 89-87 Wednesday night at Shorewood . The two teams currently hold the #2 (Whitefish Bay) and #3 (Shorewood) spots in the latest D2 WISCA state poll, behind three-time defending state champs McFarland, and are probably the only two teams in the state with both the quality and depth of swimmers to give Spartans a run for their money at the D2 state meet next month.
Shorewood was led by seniors Stephen Meyer and R.J Hayes. Meyer, one of the best D2 swimmers in the state, won the 100 fly (55.31) and the 100 back (54.96), while Hayes -- back at Shorewood after a year spent in Europe as a foreign exchange student -- won the 200 (1:52.48) and 100 frees (51.45). Sophomore Jay Tomasiewicz, who has been having a terrific year so far, posted a key win in the 200 individual medley (2:02.85) to give the Greyhounds some early-meet momentum.
Whitefish Bay showed its chops early, winning the 200 medley relay (1:42.20) in a time faster than its season-best and fastest yet this year in D2. McFarland has won the medley relay at state the last three years, but Whitefish Bay has put together a very solid medley this year that could challenge the Spartans dominance in the race. For the Blue Dukes, sprinter Chuckie Prestigiacomo garnered a win in the 50 free (23.08), while Jason Castillo won the 100 breaststroke (1:04.72). Whitefish Bay also won the 400 free relay in D2-leading 3:22.50, but the meet-ending victory wasn't quite enough to overcome a solid showing of depth at the meet by Shorewood.
These two neighboring schools compete in different conferences -- Shorewood in the Woodland, Whitefish Bay in the North Shore -- but they'll butt heads again later this month at the Small School Invite at Plymouth (with McFarland there as well, for good measure) and will meet up again and fight it out at the Cudahy sectional in February (where WBay is the defending sectional champs).
UPDATE: Full results here...
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How did shorewood get so raw?
if you look at this meet shorewood touched bay out in 3 events. the 200im, 100free and 200free relay. if bay were to have won one of those races they would have won the meet. also you look at the times(at the meet and based on the top 30) and bay has more people swimming fast and would score higher at a meet with 16 entries (ie small school and sectionals) the slower people on shorewood who scored in the duel would not score in these big meets (and at sectionals these slower swimmers would not make it to state with there time which in the end is the most important meet) so look for bay to do better at small school/sectionals and send more people to state and in the end and do better.
and PS. the bay relays are swimming super fast now, look for bay to keep it up in the medley but not the 400, mcfarland just has to much fire power with there sprints also look for madison edegwood in that event also with potentially 2 people going 45, Andrew Teduits (who went 49.7 100backstroke before the season started at senior nationals) and Chase Stephens who has already been 48 low leading off a relay and stands at a blistering 6'7".
I think you have to give props to Shorewood -- which conceded six points in diving to WBay, because it has no divers -- for winning the meet. It looked like both teams swam really well, and although Shorewood did touch out just ahead in a few races, my sense is that those sort of even out over a meet (Hiller of WB out-touched SW's Morris by .02 in the 500, and Smith of WB beat out Flegel-Mishlove by less than 7/10ths in the 500 as well, not much in that race). I was at a very close dual meet Tuesday night that saw five places between the two team's swimmers decided by .06 seconds or less, and one race with three swimmers separated by .37 seconds.
Looks like both SW and WB have the depth to get three relays to state -- I think all three A relays for both teams were close to or below last year's qualifying times. WB seems to have a bit more depth in the sprints, but SW's pretty solid across the board. Should be fun to see these two teams hook up again later this season.
Where is Kasmir Bohannon for Shorewood? Should have been a junior this year.
Rumor has it he is out for the season.
He is out until either conference crossover or conference. It will be depending on what his dad decides.
Just a quick note -- since the beginning of this blog, I've been loathe to delete comments from readers, as it's been my experience that everyone commenting has been quite respectful of the tone of the blog, as set out in my brief description of it on the home page template.
I can sort of see where this discussion is going, and I hope we can all respect the student-athlete in question to not delve into matters that might not be appropropriate for public viewing. I don't know why Kas isn't swimming, and haven't asked, because I think that strays a bit beyond the general intent of the blog.
As always, if you want to contact me regarding this or anything else without posting it on the comments section, you can email me at:
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Thanks for your support and understanding.
I agree completely. The integrity of this blog comes from honest discussions about performance, not hearsay and inuendo. The beauty of swimming is that there are official times that support positions taken. If a kid is not swimming there are no times and therefore should be no reason to speculate.
I asked the question, and I assure you I had no intention of starting anything at all. I just felt that we spend so much time looking at results, top 30's, polls, analyzing this particular meet, etc, that I thought it odd that one of the top swimmers on one of the top teams didn't swim. I expected to hear something simple like he had the flu, moved out of the district, whatever. It seemed like a reasonable curiosity. I'm not interested in hearsay and innuendo either and I apologize if I got anybodies dander up.
Yes i agree it will be very close between these two teams till the very end. and the way the scoring looked from the meet the duel between the two teams could very well could come down to the 400free relay at the very end at sectionals and state. look for that to be a very close race because the shorewood swimmers typically are all rested at sectionals and the whitefishbay swimmers are not (showing last year when shorewood beat whitefishbay in the 400 at sectionals going 3:20.99 to bays 2:21.16) but at the state meet when the teams where both right next to each other bay won the race 3:17.84 to 3:18.36. so it will probable come down to the 400 at sectional and state between these two teams to see which is better, exciting to say the least!!
shorewood was also touched out in the 50 and the 100 free
WFB also changed their 400 Free Relay members. Subbing Jason Castillo for Walker Brengel making the relay quicker.
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