So much was at stake when the girls swim teams from Jamesville-DeWitt and Christian Brothers Academy clashed Tuesday night, and the contest more than lived up to the occasion.
CBA won a majority of the individual events, but J-D made up ground with second and third-place finishes, and claimed two of the three relays, including the last one, which finally made the difference as J-D edged the Brothers 94-92.
The early edge went to the Rams because of a 1-2 sweep in the 200-yard freestyle, with Alexis Phillips prevailing in two minutes, 6.59 seconds and Marissa Potamianos got second place in 2:08.69, plus a victory by Amelia Hesler in the 200 individual medley in 2:21.73.
Earlier, in the 200 medley relay, the Brothers’ quartet of Julia Torell, Tessa Queri, Lauren Kelly and Darien Tompkins roared to victory in 1:58.44 to J-D’s 2:06.38. Then Torell claimed two individual races, going 1:01.70 in the 100 butterfly and 1:07.09 to finish first in the 100 backstroke.
Queri pulled away to win the 50 freestyle in 25.77 seconds over J-D’s Emma Galletta (26.71 seconds), but finished second in the 100 freestyle in 58.28 seconds behind Hesler, whose time of 56.67 seconds was her second title of the meet. Then Phillips won a second race, pulling away to take the 500 freestyle in 5:41.90.
Kelly went 1:14.87 in the 100 breaststroke as she and Katelyn Wendt (1:19.70) went 1-2 for CBA, while Sam Lanzafame earned a victory in diving with 235.3 points, leaving J-D’s Megan Alkins second with 199.5 points.
Through all this, J-D kept gaining points by taking the second and third spots, including the 50 freestyle, where Emma Galletta was runner-up in 26.71 seconds, and the 100 butterfly, where Potamianos went 1:05.74 for another second-place finish.
Also, Sawyer Parker was second in the 100 backstroke (1:10.67) after a fourth-place finish in the 100 freestyle, with Jordan Archer getting to third place in the 100 breaststroke in 1:23.09.
Still, J-D had to win both of the last two relays. Hesler, Galletta, Potamianos and Phillips went 1:46.59 to hold off CBA (1:48.08) in the 200 freestyle relay, and in the closing 400 freestyle relay, that same quartet would clinch the Red Rams’ victory with a time of 3:51.51, J-D’s best of the season.
