Lacking any kind of stress, the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse girls swim teams both earned one-sided victories during Wednesday’s CNY Counties League meets to stay undefeated in advance of next Thursday night’s head-to-head showdown.
The Warriors hosted Fayetteville-Manlius last Wednesday night, and got two wins apiece from Madeline Murphy, Sydnie Sovinsky and Olivia Corlett while rolling past the Hornets 102.5-73.5.
Taking a shot at the 200-yard individual medley (away from her usual sprints), Murphy won that race in two minutes, 26.10 seconds, with Claire Donovan in second place (2:36.36), before going to the 100 freestyle and posting 54.96 seconds.
It was Corlett holding off Julia Telesca, 27.90 seconds to 28.44, in the 50 freestyle, and she later swam the 100 breaststroke in 1:21.18, with Nicole Abbott getting second place in 1:23.06. Telesca would prevail in the 500 freestyle in 5:49.44.
Sovinsky sped through the 100 butterfly in 1:00.54 and, challenged by F-M’s Christine Burnam in the 100 backstroke, won in 1:08.52 to Burnam’s 1:12.59.
Stephanie Adams would get first place in the 200 freestyle in 2:13.69, ahead of the Hornets’ Sophie Fowler (2:17.19), while Alyssa Vadala needed 209.95 points on the diving board to withstand the challenge of F-M’s Riley Miller, who was second with 193.15 points.
Murphy, Telesca, Corlett and Marissa Pisegna swam the 200 medley relay in 2:05.10. Later in the meet, Corlett and Sovinsky joined Murphy and Telesca to help Liverpool go 1:46.71 in the 200 freestyle relay as Sovinsky, Adams, Claire Donovan and Maddie Rose went 4:06.58 in the 400 freestyle relay.
Meanwhile, C-NS traveled west to face Auburn, and had little trouble, either, as it rolled to a 97-69 victory over the Maroons.
Before the meet was halfway through, Melissa Thorne and Breanna Ruffrage already had two wins apiece. Thorne got it started by swimming the 200 IM in 2:27.66, just ahead of teammate Brooke Fedi (2:28.57), and it was just as close in the 100 butterfly, where in 1:09.58 Thorne and Kelly Festa (1:11.69) went 1-2 for the Northstars.
Ruffrage engaged in her own classic in the 200 freestyle, as in 2:11.19 she finished just ahead of Auburn’s Kennedy Wilson (2:12.68) for an individual title. Then, in the 100 freestyle, the two squared off again and, once more, Ruffrage (58.68 seconds) beat Wilson (58.99 seconds) for top honors.
C-NS also dominated the 100 backstroke, where Fedi (1:11.06) edged Kayla Miller (1:11.21) at the line, and the 100 breaststroke, with Festa (1:18.60) finishing second to Jamie Rolf’s 1:16.19.
Sarah Walter was second in the 500 freestyle and Kiersten Coates was second in the 50 freestyle, and the Northstars dropped a close 200 freestyle relay to Auburn, 1:50.03 to the Maroons’ 1:50 flat. But Thorne, Ruffrage, Fedi and Walter closed the event by winning the 400 freestyle relay in 4:05.00.
Now with a 3-0 mark, C-NS hosts Skaneateles Tuesday at Le Moyne College while the Warriors visit Oswego, two days before these rivals would get together.
