Work picked up for the Fayetteville-Manlius and Jamesville-DeWitt girls swim teams last week, each of them competing twice and winning all of the meets.
F-M swam at Mexico last Tuesday and stayed undefeated, beating the Tigers 93-81while relying on its unmatched depth, starting with Addie Antshel, Cara Campell, Morgan Kingsley and Emma Reed winning the 200 medley relay in 2:00.88.
Antshel took the 200 IM in 2:23.96 before Campell won the 50 freestyle in 25.90 seconds. Kingsley was first in the 100 freestyle (1:00.08) as Riley Miller (245.77 points) beat Francesca Femia (224.40) and Alessandra Mannicone (193.73 points) in a 1-2-3 F-M effort.
Lindsay Mathews was second in both the 200 freestyle and 500 freestyle, but helped Campell, Michelle Sipple and Mairead Egan go 4:01.18 in the 400 freestyle relay after Kingsley swam the 100 breaststroke in 1:14.51.
All of this followed a meet against Oswego on Oct. 11 where Miller, by scoring 289.15 points, broke the F-M school record for a single-day competition while also setting a new Oswego pool mark with that total.
Then, in last Saturday’s Syracuse Diving Invitational, Miller finished third, but her total of 448.65 points meant that she would join Liverpool’s Sarah LaValley and CBA’s Sam Lanzafame in qualifying for the Nov. 17-18 state championship meet at Ithaca College. Francesca Femia was fifth with 400 points as Alessandra Manicone was 10th and Noelle Anthis finished 17th.
J-D followed up its great effort in the Salt City Athletic Conference Invitational on Oct. 14 with a trip to West Genesee that resulted in a 99-85 victory over the Wildcats.
Amelia Hesler and Mackenzie Moore won two races apiece, Hesler going 2:18.35 in the 200 IM and a swift 5:22.54 in the 500 freestyle as Moore took the 50 freestyle in exactly 26 seconds and added a 100 backstroke victory in 1:06.79.
Alexis Phillips won the 100 breaststroke in 1:17.28, while Emma Galletta, in 57.31 seconds, beat Phillips (59.23) in the 100 freestyle and Emily Ninestein claimed the 100 butterfly in 1:06.77.
Lauren Saletsky earned 211.55 points on the diving board. Hesler, Phillips, Galletta and Moore won the 200 medley relay in 1:59.04 as Sawyer Parker joined Galletta, Moore and Phillips to win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:46.34.
On Friday night, J-D faced Oswego and again proved too tough to catch, Hesler leading the way as the Red Rams beat the Buccaneers 98-87.
After anchoring J-D’s 200 medley relay team that, in 2:02.86, edged Oswego (2:03.51) for the top spot, Hesler tore to first place in the 200 freestyle in 2:04.50, and then went 5:25.11 to win the 500 freestyle.
Ninestein won, too, following up her second-place finish to Hesler in the 200 freestyle by claiming the 100 backstroke in 1:07.03 and also pairing with Phillips, Parker and Galletta to win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:46.92.
Archer, in 1:18.15, beat Oswego’s Madi Casper (1:18.18) by three-hundredths of a second in the 100 breaststroke, with Galletta (1:05.18) just behind the Bucs’ Margo McBreaty (1:04.90) in the 100 butterfly.
Parker was second in the 100 backstroke behind Ninestein as Phillips, in 56.96 seconds, was a close second to Oswego’s Sydney DeLapp (56.69 seconds) in the 100 freestyle. Galletta, Ninestein, Moore and Audrey Norden won the 400 freestyle relay in 3:56.03.
