Even before the calendar went deep into September, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls swim team could boast of two big victories.
The Hornets followed up its Sept. 8 conquest of Liverpool by traveling to Jamesville-DeWitt last Tuesday night and getting the best of its neighborhood showdown with the Red Rams, prevailing by a 101-83 margin.
However, the two sides pulled off a dead heat in the opening 200-yard medley relay. F-M’s Katie Ottaviano, Lindsay Mathews, Clara Campell and Noelle Anthis hit the wall at the exact same time of 2:00.34 as did J-D’s quartet of Emily Ninestein, Alexis Phillips, Mackenzie Moore and Emma Galletta.
Not long after, Mathews (2:22.97) and Addie Antshel (2:24.56) went 1-2 in the 200 individual medley, with Campell winning the 50 freestyle in 25.93 seconds over Galletta (26.26 seconds), which negated the Rams’ Amelia Hesler breaking the two-minute mark in the 200 freestyle, where she won in 1:59.31.
F-M also went 1-2 in diving as Riley Miller, with 225.9 points, beat out Francesca Femia, who had 210.70 points as the Red Rams’ Allin Lieber-Bendix (181.45 points) was third. Campell returned to complete her sprint sweep by taking the 100 freestyle in 57.64 seconds, edging Sasha Brown (58.27 seconds) for the top spot.
Elsewhere, the Hornets’ Hannah Kellogg went 1:05.81 to win the 100 butterfly, just ahead of Galletta’s 1:06.60. Hesler followed up her 200 freestyle win by also taking the 500 freestyle in 5:23.19 as Moore won the 100 backstroke in 1:05.47.
Katie Ottaviano gave F-M one more individual win when she swam the 100 breaststroke in 1:16.48 to edge Mathews (1:16.71) at the wall.
All three relays proved close. J-D had Galletta, Phillips, Hesler and Sawyer Parker win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:45.61 to edge F-M’s Campell, Kellogg, Brown and Michelle Sipple, who posted 1:46.61. And in the closing 400 freestyle relay, Brown, Sipple, Mathews and Kellogg went 3:56.57 as J-D had Hesler, Moore, Parker and Jordan Archer finish in 3:57.18.
While F-M and J-D squared off, Christian Brothers Academy improved to 2-0 on the season with a 106-56 romp over Baldwinsville at Le Moyne.
Darien Tompkins was the lone double winner for the Brothers, taking the 200 freestyle in 2:05.92 and adding a 100 freestyle victory in 57.84 seconds. Tompkins also paired with Lauren Kelly, Kaitlyn Bushnell and Anna Ziemba to win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:50.41.
Kelly got her own victory in the 200 IM in 2:23.77, pulling away from Abby Poore (2:42.28), while also getting the fastest 100 breaststroke time of 1:10.28 as Bushnell, in 26.59 seconds, beat out Ziemba (29.00 seconds) in the 50 freestyle. In the 200 medley relay, Kelly, Bushnell, Julia Torell and Grace O’Connor prevailed in 2:01.64.
Meanwhile, Torell went 1:02.95 for first place in the 100 butterfly over O’Connor (1:09.13) as Katie Toole won the 500 freestyle in 6:01.08, with Poore second in 6:07.42. Sam Lanzafame picked up 190.05 points in diving as O’Connor posted 1:13.64 in the 100 backstroke.
J-D went from the loss to F-M to getting a big 98-86 win Thursday over the same Liverpool side the Hornets had topped the week before.
Hesler, Phillips and Galletta won two races apiece. Hesler went 2:00.42 to pull away in the 200 freestyle and controlled the 500 freestyle, too, winning that race in 5:24.94 as Phillips claimed the 200 IM in 2:25.36 and swam the 100 freestyle in 57.96 seconds.
Galletta, for her part, pulled away from the field in the 50 freestyle in 26.11 seconds before edging Liverpool’s Ali Testone, 1:05.27 to 1:05.69, in the 100 butterfly. Parker joined Hesler, Phillips and Galletta as J-D won the 200 freestyle relay in 1:45.27 as Galletta, Moore, Ninestein and Phillips held off the Warriors, 2:00.55 to 2:01.47, in the 200 medley relay.
CBA, meanwhile, beat the combined Syracuse City squad 94-83 on Friday night, with Kelly swimming the 200 IM in 2:24.01 and the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.01 as Torell posted 1:06.65 in the 100 backstroke, helping Bushnell, Tompkins and Katelyn Wendt take the 200 medley relay in 2:05.05.
Bushnell was victorious in the 100 freestyle in 1:00.58 as she paired with Kelly, Torell and O’Connor to win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:51.59. Lanzafame improved to 194.66 points in diving as Abby Poore took the 200 freestyle in 2:18.26. Tompkins tore through the 50 freestyle in 26,28 seconds and was second in the 500 freestyle as O’Connor was first in the 100 butterfly in 1:09.53.
