This was a rare week where the Liverpool boys swim team rested, secure with a 10-0 mark, a regular-season Salt City Athletic Conference Metro division title secure and plenty of important stuff ahead.
While the Warriors awaited Wednesday’s regular-season finale against Oswego, Cicero-North Syracuse, who lost 92-83 to the Warriors on Jan. 25, resumed action last Tuesday and fell to Mexico 106-80.
Payton Connors and Sean Payrot would win races for C-NS as Connors covered the 200-yard individual medley in two minutes, 15.20 seconds and Payrot, in 22.79 seconds, pulled away to win the 50 freestyle.
They would also be part of the Northstars’ winning effort in the 200 freestyle relay, joining Logan Petralia and Eli Ward as C-NS posted 1:35.06 to pull away from Mexico (1:45.83).
In the 100 freestyle, Payrot, in 51.10 seconds, was just behind the Tigers’ Anthony Yost (50.38), who also won the 100 backstroke (59.21 seconds with Connors (1:02.96) in second place.
Petralia was second in the 200 freestyle in 2:06.58, with Robert Walter second in the 100 breaststroke in 1:13.82. Sean Rein joined Ward, Payrot and Connors as C-NS, in 1:50.39, was second to Mexico’s 1:47.96 in the 200 medley relay.
Mexico got two titles from Dylan Long in the 200 freestyle (2:01.56) and 500 freestyle (5:13.33), with John Ocker winning the 100 breaststroke in 1:02.57 and second in the 50 freestyle toPayrot.
Back in the pool again on Thursday night, C-NS traveled to Oswego and improved its overall record to 4-7-1, putting together a 91-72 victory over the Buccaneers, the big highlight a time of 1:35.34 in the 200 freestyle relay done by Payrot, Connors, Ward and Petralia.
Early wins by Petralia in the 200 freestyle (2:02.72) and Rein in the 200 IM, where in 2:34.32 he went 1-2-3 with Ward and Joe Gucciardi, got the Northstars in front, as did Payrot, Gucciardi, Jon Smith and Dillon Johnson taking the 200 medley relay in 2:02.25.
Payrot went 1:09.65 to take first place in the 100 butterfly, while John Harbaugh went 6:14 flat in the 500 freestyle. Ryan Heitman had the quickest time in the 100 backstroke with 1:09.21 and Connors did the same in the 100 breaststroke with 1:13.93.
Some of Liverpool’s swimmers were part of the “One More Chance” meet on Saturday, where Ian Denny swam the 50 freestyle in 26.03 seconds, improving his best time of the winter by more than a second, and helped Simon VanHoute, Derek Zurenda and Brayden Catalina go 1:49.35 in the 200 freestyle relay.
