Before and after it snared the top spot at New Hartford’s Empire Invitational on Sept. 29, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls swim team earned a pair of important league wins.
None was as crucial as last Tuesday’s battle with West Genesee. First place in the CNY Counties League was at stake, and the undefeated Hornets handed the Wildcats its first loss of the season by a 94-80 margin.
As it had done before, F-M piled up all the points it needed with a handful of races left, starting with a 1-2-3 sweep of the 200-yard freestyle where Emma Luttrell won in two minutes, 4.71 seconds, followed by Hannah Kellogg (2:05.40) and Meghan Seidberg (2:10.90).
Cara Campell was victorious in the 50 freestyle in 25.98 seconds over Morgan Kingsley (26.90), with Campell also second in the 100 freestyle as Kellogg took the 100 butterfly in 1:06.55.
Lindsay Mathews, in 5:26.92, edged Luttrell (5:27.11) in the 500 freestyle as another top-three sweep came in diving where Alessandra Manicone, with 180.45 points, beat Noelle Anthis (166.45) and Meaghan Maloney (152.15).
Kingsley, in 1:12.52, had the quickest time in the 100 breaststroke as Addie Antshel went 1:07.77 in the 100 backstroke. Campell, Kellogg, Michelle Sipple and Sasha Brown won the 200 freestyle relay in 1:46.65 as Luttrell and Mathews joined Campell and Kellogg to go 3:52.17 in the 400 freestyle relay.
Back on Sept. 28, the Hornets hosted Cicero-North Syracuse Cazenovia College and, with each of its top swimmers making major contributions, turned back the Northstars 94-84.
Kellogg was first in the 200 freestyle in 2:04.17 as Campell went 25.68 seconds to pull away and win the 50 freestyle. Antshel got a victory in the 100 butterfly in 1:05.20 as Luttrell beat the field in the 500 freestyle in 5:33.14.
Jessey Eisenhut had the quickest 100 backstroke time of 1:09.38. Sipple, in 59.08 seconds, was second to C-NS’s Grace Devinney (58.90) in the 100 freestyle as Kingsley went 1:13.28 in the 100 breaststroke.
Campell, Luttrell, Kingsley and Saya Hrosar had started the meet by going 1:59.28 to win the 200 medley relay. Then Kellogg and Brown joined Campell and Sipple to win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:45.41.
F-M followed up these wins by taking out Oswego 93-84 on Friday night. Again, Luttrell prevailed in two races, swimming the 200 IM in 2:23.29 before holding off Kingsley, 58.10 seconds to 58.34, in the 100 freestyle.
Manicone improved to 209.85 points in diving to win there as Mathews went 1:03.50 in the 100 butterfly and 1:14.39 in the 100 breaststroke. Antshel, second in the 200 freestyle, went to the top in the 500 freestyle in 5:45.57.
Brown had the quickest time of 1:08.61 in the 100 backstroke, with Luttrell, Campell, Antshel and Kingsley swimming the 200 medley relay in 1:59.08 before Kara Wilson joined Luttrell, Campell and Kingsley to go 1:52.01 in the 200 freestyle relay.
Christian Brothers Academy took a 100-86 defeat to Liverpool last Tuesday despite many individual titles and wins in the 200 medley relay in 1:59.52 and 200 freestyle relay in 1:45.02.
Lauren Kelly was part of both winning relays and, on her own, roared to first in the 200 IM in 2:20.62 before getting first place in the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.50, one of her best times of the fall.
Before and after helping the 200 freestyle relay side, Darien Tompkins roared to a time of 1:02.72 in the 100 butterfly and then claimed the 100 backstroke in 1:05.49. Karrina Pullano was second in diving with 201.75 points.
Kaitlyn Bushnell swam a leg in both relays, also finishing second (26.56 seconds) to Liverpool’s Delaney Gellert (26.46) in the 50 freestyle as she also was second in the 100 freestyle in 1:00.18 to Gellert’s 57.93. Katelyn Wendt was second in the 200 freestyle.
Hosting Skaneateles Thursday at Le Moyne College, CBA prevailed 95-86 over the Lakers, led again by Tompkins, who was first in the 200 IM in 2:23.53 and also won the 500 freestyle in 5:45.91.
Bushnell claimed the 50 freestyle in 26.14 seconds and the 100 freestyle in 59.47 seconds after helping Tompkins, Howard and Annah Nizar go 1:59.39 in the 200 medley relay. Howard was first in the 100 butterfly (1:11.51) as Karina Pullano, with 183.60 points, claimed the diving competition.
