Whether the West Genesee girls swim team has the goods to avenge last fall’s Section III championship defeat to Jamesville-DeWitt will get decided next Wednesday night.
What isn’t in doubt, though, is the hold the Wildcats has over the CNY Counties League, which it reinforced Tuesday in Camillus when it rolled past Cicero-North Syracuse 102-76 in a first-place showdown.
C-NS entered the meet 5-0, having just earned its biggest victory in years when it stunned rival Liverpool 93-91 on Sept. 25, the kind of event that excites a team so much it can affect the focus once things resume.
In any case, the Wildcats sensed the urgency of the situation and made sure the Northstars never got close, winning every event except the last two as the trio of Olivia Castro, Kaitlin Dunning and Shannon Cahalan each claimed a pair of first-place finish.
Castro stuck to the sprints, and it paid off with a quick 50-yard freestyle time of 25.24 seconds and a 100 freestyle where she breezed to first place in 56.94 seconds.
Dominating the longer events, Dunning went 2:05.30 for a victory in the 200 freestyle, and then made her way through the 500 freestyle in 5:35.66. Cahalan beat the field in the 200 individual medley in 2:21.95 and then had a strong showing in the 100 backstroke, winning in 1:04.74.
Mikki Riley joined in the fun for the Wildcats, claiming a title in the 100 butterfly in 1:06.40 right after Chloe Feuer earned top honors in diving with a total of 188.15 points.
WG also won two of the three relay events. Castro and Cahalan, paired with Becca Kanoza and C Boudreau, broke the two-minute mark (1:59.67, to be exact) in the 200 medley, while in the 200 freestyle relay Dunning and Riley joined Cahalan and Castro to win that race in 1:48.33.
