And two of the three events won by members of western Marquette County teams at that meet were in diving.

Westwood senior Maggie Harvala won girls’ diving by the thinnest of margins, while Ishpeming-Negaunee senior Mateusz Wozniak had a slightly more comfortable edge in the boys side of the event.

With diving at the finals traditionally held a day before the main swimming part of the meet, this year bad weather postponed it to the morning of the swim finals.

And that was enough to throw off organizers when they attempted to mesh together those two sessions of competition for the final standings package.

Ishpeming-Negaunee’s Mateusz Wozniak performs a dive during the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals in boys swimming and diving held at Marquette Senior High School on Feb. 21. (Photo courtesy of Daryl T. Jarvinen)

Harvala scored 217.85 points to edge out Marquette’s Sophie Hausmann by less than point as the girls runner-up totaled 216.95.

Another Westwood senior, Emily Hytinen, was third with 185.30, while I-N sophomore Eliza Sicotte was fifth with 172.75.

Manistique’s Kyra Carlson came in seventh with 144.40 and Sentinels freshman Maddy Johnson eighth with 129.70.

For the boys, Wozniak rolled up 199.75 points, a more than 16-point advantage on runner-up Logan Clauss, a sophomore from Manistique, who totaled 183.45.

Marquette senior Wyatt Ansell was third with 168.05, Westwood senior Breckin Jensen fifth with 141.85, Sentinels senior Grant Simon sixth with 141.15 and Patriots sophomore Isaiah Jensen seventh with 136.80.

The one swimming winner from the two west end schools was Patriots junior Kamryn LaVigne, who captured the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 30.96 seconds, a win over more than 4 1/2 seconds on the field.

Overall, Westwood finished fourth in the girls meet with 136 points and I-N seventh with 78, while I-N was sixth in the boys meet with 92 and Westwood seventh with 83.

Marquette captured both titles by nearly a hundred points, scoring 311 for its girls and 298 for boys.

Story contents based on an email received from the Marquette Senior High School swimming and diving teams and an examination of the MHSAA website at www.mhsaa.com. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.