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Girls swim: Red Hawks send four girls to State
MCFARLAND — The Milton girls swim team took on the McFarland Sectional on Saturday at McFarland High School, and a total of four Red Hawks punched their tickets to the WIAA Girls Swim & Dive Championships in the process. Hannah McGinnis, Sophia Mezera, Brielle Meverden and Payten Vlasak will each be representing Milton at the big dance, as each girl was able to book her place in the Division 2 State Championships in multiple events. McGinnis, a junior, booked herself a pair of spots individually in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle races. Her time of 24.35 saw her place fourth in the 50-yard sectional race, while she swam a fifth-place time of 55.33 in the 100. Freshman Sophia Mezera recorded a sixth-place time of 1 minute, 2.74 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly to book her place at State individually. Brielle Meverden, a senior for the Red Hawks, rounded out the individual qualifiers for Milton by earning a spot in the 500-yard freestyle race at State. Meverden swam a 5:40.43 to finish seventh at sectionals. The trio of McGinnis, Mezera and Meverden, alongside sophomore Payten Vlasak, also qualified as a relay team in the 200-yard and 400-yard freestyle. The quartet placed