In the most technical of terms, the Liverpool girls swim team’s meet at Oswego Tuesday night was not a long road trip since was using the pool at Fulton’s Granby Elementary School for its home meets this fall.
Whatever the circumstances, it still proved successful for the Warriors, who defeated the Buccaneers 92-86 in its lone meet last week.
To get things going, Liverpool had its 200-yard medley relay team of Megan Winn, Samantha Walker, Jessica Testone and Kaitlyn Thompson earn first place in two minutes, 6.56 seconds.
From there, Testone went on to win the 100 freestyle in 59.38 seconds and finish second in the 200 freestyle in 2:11.60. Thompson, in 27.02 seconds, was runner-up to teammate Delaney Gellert in the 50 freestyle as Gellert won in 26.43 seconds.
Emerson Gellert got a title of her own in the 100 butterfly, holding off Oswego’s Sydney DeLapp, 1:04.12 to 1:04.93, with Thompson second in the 500 freestyle (6:02.81) and Winn the runner-up in the 100 backstroke in 1:09.31 as Nicole Testone finished third.
Liverpool went 1-2-3 in the diving competition to pile up points. Sophia Recuparo won with 194.70 points, just ahead of Macy Moore’s 190.60 points as Aija McIntyre (167.60) got third place.
Sophia Russo joined Thompson and the Gellert sisters to go 4:05.35 in the 400 freestyle relay, with Jessica Testone joining Russo and the Gellerts for a time of 1:49.98 in the 200 freestyle relay.
Two nights later, Cicero-North Syracuse went to New Hartford, where it improved to 6-2-1 on the season by recording a 95-88 victory over the Spartans.
In the first two races, Kate Gucciardi won twice, getting the 200 freestyle in 2:08.43 to the 2:08.45 for New Hartford’s Julia Ficano after helping Brittany Wood, Alayna Harbaugh and Bryn Myers go 2:01.33 to edge the Spartans (2:02.02) in the 200 freestyle relay.
Much later in the meet, Gucciardi pulled away to take the 100 backstroke in 1:06.45 as Myers got a sprint sweep, going 26.17 seconds in the 50 freestyle and 58.33 seconds to fend off New Hartford’s Nikolette Nesci (58.51) in the 100 freestyle.
Kaitlyn Carroll won her latest diving duel with Madeline Thorne, earning 254.20 points to Thorne’s 251.15 as the Spartans’ Isabella Kolb earned 249.10 points.
And though Wood finished second in the 200 IM (2:29.36) and 100 breaststroke (1:20.97), she did pair with Myers, Gucciardi and Harbaugh to go 1:47.63 to claim a close 200 freestyle relay over New Hartford’s 1:47.81.
Other than Liverpool’s meet at Baldwinsville next Tuesday, both the Warriors and C-NS would mostly practice during the week before Friday’s Salt City Athletic Conference championships at Nottingham.
