Staying at home has worked quite well for the Baldwinsville boys swim team in the month of December.
For the third time in as many weeks, the Bees prevailed at Baker High School pool, but unlike its encounters with Fayetteville-Manlius and Mexico, B’ville didn’t need any late drama or narrow margin as it rolled through Wednesday’s clash with Fulton, beating the Red Raiders 57-35.
‘As a starting point, B’ville’s 200-yard medley relay quartet of John Licciardello, Nick Schultz, Alex Hiltbrand and Ryan Hiltbrand worked their way to first place in one minute, 49.80 seconds, and many more wins would follow.
In fact, Ryan Hiltbrand went directly to the 200 freestyle and, in 1:56.05, beat the field by more than six seconds, while Schultz needed 2:13.67 to beat Jonathan Oad (2:16.22) as part of a 1-2 finish in the 200 individual medley.
Oad would get his own title in the 100 backstroke, finishing that race in 1:03.73 as Mark Dickson got second place in 1:07.43. Licciardello, in 52.32 seconds, pulled away from Brandon Formoza (55.24 seconds) in the 100 freestyle as John Burns went 5;44.83 in the 500 freestyle to prevail over Jamus Socker’s time of 5:53.23.
Alex Hiltbrand held off Fulton’s Ryan Morehouse, 58.32 seconds to 59.40, to take the 100 butterfly, with Dickson getting third place in 1:08.80. B’ville also was victorious in the 200 freestyle relay as Licciardello, Alex Hiltbrand, Ryan Hiltbrand and Evan Bohman roared to a time of 1:37.24.
B’ville would put its 3-0 mark on the line next Wednesday night at West Genesee in its last meet before the holiday break.
