On Thursday night, the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse girls swim teams will go head-to-head at Fulton’s Granby Elementary School, a regular-season finale for both sides.
First, though, they both went to Nottingham for last Friday’s Salt City Athletic Conference championship meet, where the Northstars’ duo of Madeline Thorne of Kaitlyn Carroll pulled off a 1-2 finish in the diving competition.
Thorne, with her 431.25 points, beat out Carroll, who earned 388.20 points, just a small part of a strong meet for C-NS that spread to the individual races, too.
Eighth-grader Kate Gucciardi nearly won the 100 backstroke, her time of 1:03.97 only trailing the 1:00.71 of Baldwinsville’s Ashley Konz. She also finished sixth in the 100 freestyle in 57.19 seconds as teammate Alayna Harbaugh (59.37) was eighth.
Elsewhere for C-NS, Bryn Myers was fifth in the 50 freestyle in 26.31 seconds and seventh in the 100 breaststroke in 1:17.52. Myers, Gucciardi, Alayna Harbaugh and Brittany Wood were fourth in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:48.21.
Liverpool had Delaney Gellert finish second twice. Gellert was runner-up in the 200 freestyle in 2:03.44 and also, in the 500 freestyle, got a time of 5:38.16, ahead of Natalie Petit in fourth place (5:58.75) and Emerson Gellert (6:00.56) in fifth place.
The Warriors were third in the 200 medley relay as Megan Winn, Delaney Gellert, Jessica Testone and Kaitlyn Thompson posted 1:59.12, its first time under two minutes this fall. C-NS was eighth as the Warriors were sixth in the 200 freestyle relay.
Testone and Sophia Russo finished n a dead heat for sixth place in the 200 freestyle in 2:11.66. Thompson was fourth in the 100 backstroke in 1:05.30 and was eighth in the 200 individual medley.
Liverpool began last week by traveling to Baldwinsville, where the Bees’ small roster allowed the Warriors to take control and prevail by a score of 60-34.
At the outset, Winn, Testone, Thompson and Delaney Gellert went 2:01.06 in the 200 freestyle relay to defeat B’ville (2:03.06) by exactly two seconds.
On her own, Gellert prevailed twice, claiming the 200 individual medley in 2:21.85 to the 2:24.20 from B’ville’s Kali Sacco, while also pulling away to win the 100 breaststroke in 1:15.81 ahead of Kerry Hunter’s 1:26.95.
Testone went 1:05.88 to easily win the 100 butterfly over Emerson Gellert (1:12.04), with Russo winning the 200 freestyle in 2:10.43 to the 2:12.55 from the Bees’ Clare Burke.
Thompson, second in both the 50 and 100 freestyle, did help Testone, Russo and Gellert go 1:49.50 in the 200 freestyle relay. Russo also finished second in the 500 freestyle in 5:57.44.
