With various home meets on the same Wednesday night, the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool girls swim teams found the same level of success.
Still undefeated, the Northstars turned back West Genesee 94-83 at the Le Moyne College pool to improve its mark to 6-0, while at Liverpool the Warriors earned an impressive 99-87 victory over Christian Brothers Academy.
From a points perspective, C-NS was in charge the moment it went 1-2 in the opening 200 medley relay, with Brooke Fedi, Olivia Griffin, Amy Bubb and Carla Champagne posting a top time of 2:04.07 to beat Grace Devinney, Cassie Baldwin, Sara Dembowski and Kiersten Coates (2:04.12) by inches.
Coates would go from there to win the 50 freestyle in 26.11 seconds to Griffin’s 26.54 seconds, while also getting second place in diving by picking up 222.2 points behind Miranda Frascatore’s winning total of 262.5 points.
Fedi went 2:22.57 to pull away and grab the 200 freestyle over WG’s Hannah Jasinski (2:30.95) and, in the 100 backstroke, won again in 1:07.96 over Bubb (1:11.63) and Champagne (1:11.83), with Griffin going 59.56 seconds to hold off Baldwin (1:00.43) in the 100 freestyle.
Lauren Thorne won the 500 freestyle in 5:40.95 after a close second (2:05.06) to WG’s Maddie Zapisek (2:04.21) in the 200 freestyle, with Baldwin getting to first place in the 100 breaststroke in 1:19.16 over the Wildcats’ Haley Hagadorn (1:22.76).
Another 1-2 finish in a relay for the Northstars came in the 200 freestyle, where Coates, Baldwin, Devinney and Sarah Walter went 1:49.19 to beat the quartet of Griffin, Thorne, Alyssa LaFace and Brandi Feeney, who was second in 1:50.10. Fedi, Walter, LaFace and Thorne won the 400 freestyle relay in 4:04.96.
Meanwhile, at Liverpool, CBA won the opening 200 medley relay in 1:57.61 to the Warriors’ 1:58.47 as the Brothers’ Juila Torell, who swam a leg in that relay, later earned victories in the 200 freestyle (2:09.10) over Maddie Rose (2;11.96) and the 100 butterfly in 1:02.47 over Jessica Testone, who was second in 1:06.18.
Still, Sydnie Sovinsky helped turn it around for the Warriors, tearing through the 200 IM in 2:16.14 to win by a big margin and then, in the 100 freestyle, prevailing in 54.98 seconds, well clear of CBA’s Darien Tompkins (59.08 seconds) in the runner-up spot.
It helped, too, that Liverpool went 1-2 in diving, with Alyssa Vadala earning 237.35 points to edge teammate Ashleigh Reinhardt (232.15 points) for that spot. Rose would win, too, going 5:48.48 to hold off CBA’s Abbey Moore (5:53.80) in the 500 freestyle.
Jaida Fox, who was second in the 50 freestyle in 26.93 seconds behind the Brothers’ Tessa Queri (25.56 seconds), rebounded to help Rose, Sovinsky and Ali Testone go 1:45.65 in the 200 freestyle relay to beat CBA’s 1:46.75. And in the 400 freestyle relay, Testone, Rose, Avery Clarke and Reilly Wolf won in 4:00.69.
