Debuting on the same night, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool girls swim teams ended up with the same winning results.
For the Northstars, who still have home meets far from its high school campus at Le Moyne College, things began Wednesday night with a meet against Oswego where Brooke Fedi, Lauren Thorne, Olivia Griffin and the rest of a veteran roster imposed its will on the Buccaneers and prevailed 97-81.
Thorne would go two minutes, 6.86 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle, part of a 1-2 finish with Grace Devinney (2:11.41), and that same pair would dominate the 500 freestyle as Thorne won in 5:38.61 and Devinney posted 5:53.61.
Fedi, for her part, crushed the field in the 200 individual medley, prevailing in 2:23.39 as Carla Champagne (2:35.26) nabbed the runner-up spot. Much later, in the 100 breaststroke, Fedi won in 1:14.91, this time with Cassie Baldwin getting second place in 1:19.32.
Griffin, meanwhile, swept the sprints, going 59.33 seconds to top Baldwin (1:00.63) and Sarah Walter (1:01.30) in the 100 freestyle after a 50 freestyle classic where, in 25.97 seconds, Griffin edged Kiersten Coates (25.98) by one-hundredth of a second, while Alyssa LaFace was third in 27.49 seconds.
C-NS also had success in relays, where Fedi, Coates, Walter and Champagne would put up a winning time of 2:00.74 in the 200 medley. The 200 freestyle relay had LaFace, Coates, Griffin and Thorne go 1:48.57, exactly four seconds ahead of Oswego’s 1:52.57.
Moving to the diving board, the Northstars’ Miranda Frascatore would earn 239.3 points, prevailing over Coates, who aside from her swimming duties also gained 209.1 points in this discipline.
A few hours earlier, Liverpool had opened at Auburn, and it turned into a showcase for Sydnie Sovinsky, who needed all of her talents to help push the Warriors past the Maroons 85-77.
Sovinsky would go under the two-minute mark in the 200 freestyle, prevailing in 1:58.60, and would prove just as quick in the 100 butterfly by easily breaking the one-minute mark and winning in 58.83 seconds.
Ali Testone got first place in the 200 IM in 2:23.42 as Lauren Flynn won the 100 backstroke in 1:12.98. Flynn, Testone, Sovinsky and Jessica Fox would carry the 200 medley relay in 1:59.90, while in the 200 freestyle relay Maddie Rose and Abby Clarke joined Testone and Sovinsky to win in 1:48.25.
Liverpool’s home opener takes place Tuesday against Fayetteville-Manlius. A day later, C-NS meets Baldwinsville, and both the Northstars and Warriors know that their Sept. 20 showdown at Le Moyne could determine CNY Counties League supremacy.
