D1
Greenfield/Greendale: The host Greenfield/Greendale squad took top honors, winning 8 of 12 events to easily top Racine Case 347-282. Kenosha Bradford, Badger/Big Foot and Racine Horlick followed. The G/G big three of Mike Lucchesi, Jack Lennertz and Matt Jungers had a hand in all eight of the team's wins. Some Racine-oriented coverage here from the Racine Journal-Times: http://www.journaltimes.com/sports/high-school/article_4ffe006e-192b-11df-89b1-001cc4c002e0.html
Hudson: Eau Claire Memorial/North swam to an easy sectional win, with six first-place finishes to top Chippewa Falls/McDonnell Central. Junior Wes Manz and freshman Alex DeLakis led the way with two wins each for EC, which also got a strong meet from junior Isiah Rozich. Chippewa Falls got wins from sophomore Austin Byrd (back) and senior Andy Davis (100 free), along with wins in the medley and 200 free relays, but unfortunately the team's very good 400 free relay was DQd.
Marquette: Swum at the Schroeder Aquatic Center, the host Marquette team edged a Wauwatosa East/West team that swam very well, 410-395. Sophomore Lucas Kuriga (first-place in the 50 and 100 frees) led the way for the winners. Jake Shackelford of Tosa contributed two sectional wins to his team's runner-up finish. Of the three D1 automatic qualifiers who had slower times than the final qualifying time, all came from this sectional -- suggesting strongly the WIAA needs to address the competitive imbalance of this sectional relative to the others in the Milwaukee area.
Middleton: Defending D1 state champs Madison Memorial, with senior Michael Drives contributing wins in the 200 and 500 frees, took honors with a 354-293.5 win over Verona/Mount Horeb. Sauk Prairie/Wisconsin Heights' dynamic duo of seniors Tyler Lentz (200 IM, back) and Matt Friede (50,100 frees) each had two wins, and contributed legs on Sauk's winning medley relay. Two of the best races in the entire state sectional competition came here in the 200 and 400 free relays, as Drives twice held off Verona's hard-charging Derek Toomey by inches to give the Spartans both relay wins. Coverage here from the Wisconsin State Journal, with Toomey lamenting his four runner-up finishes at the meet, by a combined .30 seconds: http://host.madison.com/sports/high-school/swimming/article_142911fa-190d-11df-ab8a-001cc4c002e0.html
Neenah: Bay Port took honors here with 397 points, with Appleton North/East -- which swam great all day -- edging the host Rockets for the second place (326-323). Ryan Keuler was a double-winner for the Pirates, which also got wins from its medley and 200 free relays. Appleton N/E got strong meets from sophomore Jake Iotte and junior Alex Bryson, who both contributed a win and a 2nd-place finish at the meet, along with a win from Josh Kinney. Coverage here from the Appleton Post-Crescent: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20100214/APC020507/2140616/-1/varsity/Appleton-North-East-enjoys-fantastic-finishes
Waukesha South/Catholic Memorial: Is it the pool, or the competition? Maybe both; this was by far the fastest D1 sectional -- not so much with the winning times, as the depth of quality of the competition. Hartland Arrowhead, led by its 1st-through-5th-place sweep in the backstroke (that's 82 points!), topped Waukesha South/Catholic Memorial 351-328, with Brookfield East/Central (247), Menomonee Falls/Germantown/Hamilton (245) and New Berlin West/Eisenhower (245) all closely bunched after the top two. New Berlin's Alex Rodenkirk (200, 100 frees) was the only double-winner in the sectional, which had three teams -- Arrowhead, Menomonee Falls, and Brookfield -- all garner relay wins. Swim of the meet? Menomonee Falls' all-senior 200 free relay, anchored by Sean Kimmitt, which came out of lane 8 to win.
D2
Baraboo: Three-time defending state champs McFarland took first place here in the fastest and deepest of the D2 sectionals. McFarland's 396 points led Madison Edgewood (325), with Monona Grove (284), Waunakee (244) and Fort Atkinson (232) following. The Spartans won all three relays and got individual wins from sophomores Ryan O'Donnell (200 IM), Collin Mortan (50 free), and Jacob Mandli (breaststroke). Edgewood's top duo of senior Chase Stephens (200, 100 frees) and junior Drew teDuits (fly, back) both had two wins for the Crusaders. How fast was the meet? It produced the fastest medley relay time in the state, the four fastest 200 free relays, and the three fastest 400 free relays. Coverage here from the Wisconsin State Journal: http://host.madison.com/sports/high-school/swimming/article_0d62514c-192b-11df-9fca-001cc4c002e0.html
Cudahy: Whitefish Bay won the battle of the two D2 heavyweights, topping Shorewood 377-349. Whitefish took two of three relays from Shorewood (medley, 400), and seniors Chuckie Prestigiacomo (50 free), Tommy Hiller (500) and Chris Fink (back) all contributed wins for the Blue Dukes. Brookfield Academy's terrific twosome of Jack Donovan (200 free, fly) and Jonathan Marks (200 IM, breaststroke) had great days, with three wins and a 2nd between them. So did Delavan-Darien's Alex Riegert -- he grabbed first place in both the 100 free and breaststroke, where he's the defending state champ. Coverage here from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/preps/84320727.html
Plymouth: The closest of the D2 sectionals saw the host team come out on top with 360 points, just edging Cedarburg (352) and Berlin/Green Lake (350). The Plymouth squad got wins from its medley relay along with senior Jesse Gambrell (breaststroke) and junior Brian Linzmeyer (fly), and diver Josh Suchon Friday night. B/GL's Greg Hameister was a double winner in the 50 and 100 frees, along with swimming legs on the team's winning 200 and 400 free relays. Kiel's Halverson brothers, Nic and Tim, had two wins and two 2nd-place finishes between them while Grafton freshman Al Nenning took the IM and was second to Cedarburg's Carl Newenhouse in the back. Coverage here from the Sheboygan Press:
http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20100214/SHE020507/2140491/1882/SHE02/WIAA-swimming-Plymouth-takes-Division-2-sectional-South-4th-in-D1
Stevens Point: Ashwaubenon relied on superior depth to top Sturgeon Bay/Southern Door 396-316. Alex Gajeski (IM) and Andrew Jablonski (breaststroke) led the way for the Jaguars with wins, who also notched wins in the medley and 200 free relays. Lakeland's Andrew Nielsen (200 free, back) was a double-winner.
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That Ashwaubenon team has so much to be proud of. To lose six state qualifiers last year and still come away as sectional champions for the fourth consecutive year is simply amazing. Those coaches have worked some magic, sending five new state qualifiers (three of which didn't even swim in last years sectional meet) while also sending the two returning swimmers back to state. With only two seniors graduating, it looks like Ashwaubenon will be a very strong team the next few years.
Hard to say that Menomonee Falls had the swim of the meet in the 200 free relay because according to one of the officials they clearly false started. Fortunately for them they were on the opposite side of the pool making it impossible for the second official to see it. How about Brookfield's 400 free relay? Dropping 5 seconds and going 3:13.64, the fastest time in the state this year.
MFalls dropped nearly four seconds in the 200 free relay -- dropping five seconds in a 400 free relay is great, and it was a very good swim by Brookfield against terrific competition. But it's not that unusual at a sectional meet. Lots of teams were dropping 4 to 7 seconds in their 400 free relays yesterday. I'd still argue swimming out of lane 8 and winning a relay against that level of competition is notable.
DQs are double-confirmed, because the benefit of the doubt in relay exchanges goes to the swimmer.
Very good sectional performance by Ashwaubenon, which probably snuck up on some folks (including me!) this season.
SB/SD managed to put through 6 individuals as well as 1 diver. Too bad they DQ'd their medley and only got 2 of their relays through. Ashwaubenon deserves a lot of credit but SB/SD accomplished great things with a group of 3 month a year swimmers. Considering this was considered a "weak" non productive sectional, after looking at the time drops this group of sectional swimmers did the state proud.
Would love to see a comparison of the top 24 seeded times with the actual qualifying times. Just interested in seeing the magnitude of effect that the taper has. I understand it is not truly scientific, but it would be interesting. I wish they would post a Divisional Psych Sheet instead of individual Sectional ones...that would make it easy.
OK, I looked back at my numbers for the 100 fly & back for Div 1.
24th seeded QT Diff
Fly 55.93 54.98 (0.95)
Back 58.18 57.56 (0.64)
Interesting...
look at breast though
"I'd still argue swimming out of lane 8 and winning a relay against that level of competition is notable" Sure your swimming out of lane 8 but is that that big of a deal? I mean its a 200 free relay so you dont need to breathe to see the other side. Also the falls relay was in lane 8 because they never all out swam that relay all year! Plus Brookfield won the 400 free relay out of lane 6 (its not lane 8) but against the fastest 400 free relays in the state of wisconsin, which probably had better competition.
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