Right now he’s the only ….

Right now he’s the only one who can actually do the fly.”

The team of Hudson Briggs, Roger Mann, Silas Briggs and Hunter Briggs won the 200-yard freestyle relay in 2:29.37. Medford’s other entry in the race disqualified due to an early start, but that was the Raiders’ only DQ of the meet.

“We’re getting better,” Werner said. “The relay turns were faster. That’s one thing we’re working on. It’s always hard because we don’t want to DQ. We don’t want to jump ahead, but we want to be right on the button too so we don’t lose any time.”

Jimmy Murillo Aguirre, McKay Gurney, Reimann and Kraemer gave Shawano a good run in the 200-yard medley relay but fell 4.8 seconds short with a second- place time of 2:19.46. Medford’s team of Ulrich, Hunter Briggs, Rouiller and Hudson Briggs was third in 2:42.13. In the 400-yard freestyle relay, Kraemer, Murillo Aguirre, Ulrich and Gurney finished in 5:02.47, 28.1 seconds behind Shawano’s team. Hudson Briggs, Silas Briggs, Mann and Hunter Briggs took third in 5:48.28, a huge improvement over their Tomahawk time of 6:14.13.

Reimann was second in the 200-yard individual medley at 2:40.92, cutting about 4.2 seconds from the Tomahawk meet. Shawano’s Ben Langlois won in 2:31.35. Gurney was second in the 100yard breaststroke at 1:31, knocking off 2.49 seconds, while Hunter Briggs was third in 1:44.13. Langlois won in 1:13.9.

Murillo Aguirre cut 1.35 seconds while placing second in the 50-yard freestyle at 32.54 seconds, 5.51 seconds behind winner Braden Barkley. Hudson Briggs was third in 32.92 seconds and Silas Briggs was fifth in 36.82 seconds. Murillo Aguirre also took third in the 100-yard backstroke at 1:34.08, while Rouiller was fourth in 1:34.53. Barkley won in 1:12.37.

Mann was third for Medford in the 100-yard freestyle at 1:20.46, cutting 4.71 seconds off his Tomahawk time, while Silas Briggs was fourth in 1:29.88. Baelyan Putz won for Shawano in 1:10.17.

Medford is at 2-0 Antigo today, Thursday, for a 5:30 p.m. meet in the metered pool at the McKenna Aquatic Center, which will be a new test for Medford’s swimmers. On Tuesday, the Raiders host Lakeland, another team that had just four available swimmers in its opener against Antigo Thursday. Medford is at the conference’s top team, Rhinelander, on Dec. 15.