Moving to 5-3 on the season, the Liverpool girls swim team turned back the challenge from 5-2 West Genesee last Wednesday night, prevailing 101-83 over the Wildcats.
To get an early edge, the Warriors got Ali Testone, Jessica Testone, Megan Winn and Maddie Rose together as they posted a time of two minutes, 1.31 seconds in the 200-yard medley relay.
The lead continued to build as Jessica Testone won twice, going 26.75 seconds in the 50 freestyle and 1:07.11 to win the 100 butterfly. In between, Sarah LaValley amassed 238.95 points on the diving board as Sophia Recuparo was second with 188.00 points.
Ali Testone would also win two races, going 2:19.48 in the 200 individual medley and, later in the meet, making it through the 100 breaststroke in 1:12.71. The Testone sisters paired with Jaida Fox and Avery Clarke to take the 200 freestyle relay, edging WG by seven-hundredths of a second, 1:48.86 to the Wildcat’s 1:48.93.
Rose was a close second (58.54 seconds) to WG’s Maddie Zapisek (58.30 seconds) in the 100 freestyle, with Fox second in the 200 freestyle in 2:11.41 as Zapisek (2:08.93) won there, too. Winn, in 1:10.73, was second to the Wildcats’ Anna Ivery (1:10.12) in the 100 backstroke.
On that same night, Cicero-North Syracuse engaged in a close meet against Auburn, not decided until the final race as the Northstars lost to the Maroons 87-82.
Grace Devinney gave the Northstars an early title when she swam the 200 IM in 2:35.38. Maria Kasarda took the 500 freestyle in 6:26.71, but every other individual race went in Auburn’s favor.
Kennedy Wilson (50 freestyle, 100 freestyle) and Claire Alexander (200 freestyle, 100 butterfly) each won twice for the Maroons, who also swept the three relays.
Brooke Fedi took second place in the 200 freestyle (2:11.80) and 100 backstroke, where her 1:06.60 was just behind Auburn’s Maura Moochler (1:06.28). Sarah Walter was second in the 200 IM and 100 butterfly as Olivia Griffin took second in the 50 freestyle and Brandi Feeney was second in the 100 breaststroke.
Liverpool and C-NS both took part in Saturday’s Salt City Athletic Conference Invitational at Nottingham High School, which also served as a fund-raiser for the American Red Cross and its hurricane relief efforts as more than $2,000 was raised for the cause.
Ali Testone emerged victorious in the 200 IM, her time of 2:19.25 more than three seconds ahead of the field as Delaney Gellert was seventh in 2:30.52. Then Testone won the 100 breaststroke in 1:11.54 over Auburn’s Sydney Murinka (1:12.10).
LaValley earned 391.75 points in diving for third place as Madeline Thorne got fifth place for C-NS with 360.65 points, with Recuparto sixth, Macy Moore ninth and Ilyssa Hollenbeck 11th for Liverpool.
In the 200 freestyle relay, the Warriors had Fox, Marissa Pisegna and the Testone sisters finish second in 2:00.87 to Auburn’s 1:55.13. Fedi gave C-NS its best finish when she got fourth place in the 100 backstroke in 1:07.67.
Fox went from there to get third place in the 500 freestyle in 5:44.63, edging Rose (5:44.67), who was fourth. C-NS had Griffin take fifth place in 5:49.69 and Fedi get sixth place in 5:51.58, with
Jessica Testone was fifth in the 100 freestyle in 59.91 seconds, where Walter was 11th for C-NS, and ninth in the 50 freestyle, with Fox in 11th place. Pisegna got to seventh place in the 100 breaststroke in 1:18.37.
Rose was also sixth in the 200 freestyle in 2:07.31.Fox, Ali Testone and Gellert were fourth in the 400 medley relay in 3:55.17. Gellert was ninth in the 500 freestyle and the Warriors were sixth (1:50.91) in the 200 freestyle relay, with the Northstars ninth in 1:54.24.
