Kelly O’Day
Editor
The Hatchet boys swim team got downright busy last week, hosting Lakeland and Shawano on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, before heading off to Friday’s Ashwaubenon Invite.
Tomahawk prevailed 88-80 over Shawano.
“Tonight’s win was a bit more comfortable with an 8-point margin,” THS coach Marion Kohl said. “The entire team was pretty fired up with their overall performances.”
The Hatchets swept the 50 free with Logan Loretz (:24.04), Peyton Hamm (:25.06) and Tyler Larch (:26.40), and went 1-2 in the 100 with Hamm (:57.64) and Larch (1:00.88).
Other wins came in the 100 fly (Nathan Goehe, 1:01.75), 100 brea (Loretz, 1:13.85), 200 medley (Kole Svacina, Loretz, Goehe, Hamm, 1:55.41), 200 free (Goehe, Larch, Hamm, Loretz, 1:42.94).
T-Bird roll
Lakeland captured a 105-64 meet by taking every event win except the 200 free (Goehe, Larch, Hamm, Loretz, 1:40.11). Loretz (50 free, :24.19) was edged by 1/100th of a second.
“We mixed up our line-up somewhat, knowing ahead of time that we would most likely not be able to best the T-Birds in points anyway, and so 5 of the guys swam 3 relays and only 1 individual event each,” Kohl said.
Runner-up finishes came from: Jacob Miller (200 free, :224.56); Goehe (100 fly, 1:01.85); the 200 medley (Svacina, Loretz, Goehe, Hamm, 1:57.30); and the 400 free (Goehe, Larch, Hamm, Loretz, 3:47.47).
Ashwaubenon Invite
Tomahawk crushed its best output for this meet in its sixth attempt, scoring an 8th-place 139 to best last year’s 53. Pulaski was 7th with 141.
“This year, big smiles on our faces with our performance as a whole!“ Kohl said. “At several points within the meet we were even running in 5th-6th place. This meet is usually run with between 10-12 (mostly WIAA D1) teams and uses championship, 16-place scoring.”
Top placings came from: Loretz (3rd, :23.88) and Hamm (10th, :24.96) in the 50 free; the 200 free (4th, Goehe, Larch, Hamm, Loretz, 1:38.05); the 200 medley (7th, Svacina, Loretz, Goehe, Hamm, 1:55.98); Goehe (8th, 100 fly, :59.98); the 400 free (9th, Goehe, Larch, Hamm, Loretz, 3:51.16); the 200 free (11th, Miller, Devon Liebnitz, Parker Knipfer, Lucas Tjugum, 1:52.16); and Miller (13th, 1:10.13) and Svacina (14th, 1:10.40) in the 100 back.
Team standings–Bay Port 484, Stevens Point 303, Appleton North/East 278, Ashwaubenon 246, Rhinelander 216, Fond du Lac 164, Pulaski 141 , Tomahawk 139, Appleton West/Kimberly 105, Oshkosh North/Lourdes 94.