Each of the area’s high school girls swim teams took part in single meets last week, and nearly swept them.
Fayetteville-Manlius won its only meet last Friday, topping Auburn, while back on Tuesday Jamesville-DeWitt put together a complete effort against Cicero-North Syracuse at the Le Moyne College pool, ripping the Northstars 109-75.
The Red Rams had 1-2 finishes in the first two individual races as Alexis Phillips claimed the 200-yard freestyle in two minutes, 4.14 seconds ahead of Sawyer Parker (2:09.27), while Amelia Hesler won the 200 individual medley in 2:20.47 and Emily Ninestein was second in 2:30.74.
Emma Galletta continued the run with her 50 freestyle victory in 26.27 seconds as Lauren Saletsky, with 217.05 points, beat out C-NS’s Madeline Thorne (198.10) points to take the diving competition. Then Galletta returned and, in 1:05.22, pulled away to win the 100 buttterfly.
Hesler and Phillips also claimed two races, with Hesler going 56.23 seconds in the 100 freestyle and Philips going 5:36.40 in the 500 freestyle. Ninestein would prevail in the 100 backstroke in 1:06.75 over Parker (1:09.75) as Jordan Archer, in 1:19.01, held off Grace McGuire (1:21.14) in the 100 breaststroke.
To open the meet, Archer, McGuire, Kate Foraker and Jade Stephenson won the 200 medley relay in 2:00.92, while in the 200 freestyle relay Galletta, Hesler, Phillips and Audrey Norden paired up and got first place in 1:48.09.
On that same night, Christian Brothers Academy competed at Liverpool amid that heat, and nearly pulled it out, only to get caught in the final race of the meet in a 90-88 defeat to the Warriors.
CBA claimed each of the first two events – the 200 freestyle, where Darien Tompkins prevailed in 2:06.18 to edge Maddie Rose’s 2:07.46, and the 200 freestyle, where Julia Torell, Lauren Kelly, Grace O’Connor and Kaitlyn Bushnell won in 2:00.79.
Ali Testone gave Liverpool its first title when she swam the 200 individual medley in 2:18.64, but Bushnell won the 50 freestyle in 26.84 seconds as Jessica Testone and Avery Clarke tied for second in the 50 freetstyle, both posting 27.50 seconds.
A diving duel between Brothers’ Sam Lanzafame and the Warriors’ Sarah LaValley and the ended with LaValley getting 229.70 points to Lanzafame’s 228.05, with Sophia Recuparo third to put Liverpool back in front of the team scores at 40-38.
Then it was CBA’s turn to lead thanks to wins by Torell in the 100 butterfly in 1:02.76 and Tompkins in the 100 freestyle, with Delaney Gellert second for Liverpool in the 100 fly in 1:09.74 and Jaida Fox getting the same in the 100 freestyle in 59.94 seconds.
Now, Rose got her victory in the 500 freestyle in 5:48.73 and, two races later, Ali Testone prevailed a second time in the 100 backstroke in a season-best 1:03.78. Still, with CBA claiming the 200 freestyle relay (1:47.03) and Lauren Kelly winning the 100 breaststroke, the Warriors trailed, 88-84, with one race left.
Liverpool put together Rose, Fox, Gellert and Testone for the 400 freestyle relay, and together, their time of 3:55.77, combined with a third-place effort from Lauren Flynn, Natalie Petit, Nina Strom and Lauren Flynn, helped the Warriors get the clinching points as Torell, Toole, Wendt and Tompkins were second in 4:04.55.
