Barely a week before taking part in the Section III championships at Nottingham’s Max Newman Pool, the Fayetteville-Manlius boys swim team battled with West Genesee at that same facility Tuesday night.
With a chance to break the Wildcats’ 28-meet win streak, the Hornets could not quite pull it off, taking a 99-83 defeat.
Right away, it proved exciting. Kevin Koh, Jack Robinson, Ryan Kelley and Will Twichell tore through the 200 medley relay in 1:40.66, the best Section III time of the season – except that WG beat them with 1:40.10, a difference of barely half a second.
Not only that, but the Wildcats won the other two relays, including a 3:23.98 tear through the 400 freestyle that, again, was the fastest sectional time of the season. It left Robinson, Twichell, Koh and Zach Swanson second in 3:27.83.
Koh did prevail, though, in the 100 freestyle, edging Robinson, 49.37 seconds to 49.56, and in the 200 freestyle Koh rolled to a victory in 1:52.21. Twichell held off Nate Green, 1:11.94 to 1:12.28, to win the 100 breaststroke. Robinson also lost a narrow 50 freestyle duel with WG’s Carson Elias, finishing in 23.05 seconds as Elias (22.95) took first place.
Kelley had to settle for second in the 500 freestyle (5:32.79), with Luke Oliverio third (5:52.59) as WG’s Ben Seketa set another season-best time of 4:49.33, this after he won the 200 individual medley. Seketa also helped two of the Wildcats’ relay teams prevail.
Oliverio also was second in the 100 butterfly (1:02.07), where Twichell took third. On the diving board, Tim Nibole had 191.00 points, second to WG’s Josh Byrne (242.90 points)
Moving to 10-0 within the Onondaga High School League, the Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA boys swim team earned a 93-77 win over Pulaski last Monday night.
Eric Jorgensen tore to victory in the 200 freestyle in 1:48.44. Cole Speidel swam the 100 butterfly in 58.36 seconds and Ryan Byrnes needed 5:28.44 to grab first in the 500 freestyle. Lyndon Pisnansky claimed the 100 backstroke in 1:06.35.
Tom Hays got 187.05 points on the diving board. J-D/CBA swept the 200 medley (1:59.22), 200 freestyle (1:42.65) and 400 freestyle (3:48.81) relays as Jorgensen, Byrnes, Speidel, Garrett Farchioine, Matt Cupelo, Jack Martin, Brendan McNamara, Alex Katsarsky, Matt Kopp and Zach Shaw took part.
