SYRACUSE — What was already a landmark season for the Cicero-North Syracuse girls swim team turned even more special when it earned the Section III Class A championship Friday at Nottingham High School.
Breaking four different school records, the Northstars, with 356 points, pulled away from West Genesee (308 points) and Oswego (307 points) for top honors.
Liverpool finished fourth with 281 points, but had the top individual swimmer of the meet in Sydnie Sovinsky and, with Alyssa Vadala, also claimed first place in the overall sectional diving competition.
Any concerns that C-NS might have owned going into the meet, especially about the way it would follow up a perfect 10-0 regular season and CNY Counties League regular-season title, went away in the first race, the 200-yard individual medley.
Combined, the Northstars’ quartet of Brooke Fedi, Jamie Rolf, Sarah Walter and Kiersten Coates posted one minute, 55.40 seconds, breaking a C-NS school mark and finishing second to Oswego’s 1:52.70. Liverpool was third in 1:57.19.
Right after that, Lauren Thorne took her turn in the 200 freestyle and broke yet another school record, her time of 2:00.30 just enough to hold off WG’s Kaitlin Dunning (2:00.96) and Auburn’s Hannah Foster (2:01.24) for the individual title.
Fedi shattered, by more than two seconds, the C-NS school mark in the 200 individual medley, finishing in 2:16.73, though that trailed Sovinsky’s winning 2:11.16 as the Warriors’ Ali Testone (2:17.39) got third place.
Far from done, Sovinsky would win the 500 freestyle in 5:11.97, with Thorne getting second place in 5:23.57.
One more C-NS school mark fell in the 100 breaststroke, where Rolf, who held the record, lowered it to a time of 1:09.39 and won that race over Testone by 1.11 seconds.
Fedi took fourth place in the 100 backstroke in 1:04.56, this after Griffin (who was sixth in the 50 freestyle), Thorne, Rolf and Coates got to third place in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:44.80. Sovinsky, Testone, Maddie Rose and Jaida Fox were third in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:48.46.
continued — All of this followed Thursday’s diving competition, where Vadala, who had already qualified for the Nov. 20-21 state meet at Ithaca College, won with 449.4 points.
C-NS’s Miranda Frascatore was second with 419.11 points as Vadala’s teammates, Sarah LaValley (409.75 points) and Kelley Townley (388.25 points) were third and fourth, respectively. Coates finished 10th overall (and seventh in Class A) with 340.60 points, one spot behind Liverpool’s Ashleigh Reinhardt (349.20 points) in ninth place.
About the only thing the Northstars could not accomplish was a victory in Sunday’s overall sectional finals.
In the race for the George Falwell Cup, C-NS got 234.5 points, leaving them in third place as Jamesville-DeWitt won with 379.5 points and New Hartford (290.5 points) finished second.
Liverpool rose to fourth place with 200 points, again seeing Sovinsky win twice. She improved to 2:10.18 in the 200 IM to beat Fedi (2:16.36) and Testone (2:18.72), who rounded out the top three.
This came before a 500 freestyle where Sovinsky lowered her time by more than five seconds, to 5:06.93, while Thorne also improved, by more than seven seconds, to 5:16.48.
Rolf would emerge victorious for C-NS in the 100 breaststroke, lowering her time to 1:09.13 as Testone finished third in 1:10.79.
That win helped push Rolf to the state meet in Ithaca, where Fedi will join her in the 200 IM as they, along with Sovinsky and Vadala, get ready to face the top swimmers and divers in New York State.
