For its first two meets of the 2019-20 season, the Fayetteville-Manlius boys swim team would need to go on the road, and it wouldn’t prove easy.
The Hornets started at Fulton last Tuesday night, and were close most of the way before the Red Raiders’ 1-2 finish in the 100-yard breaststroke clinched the meet, the Hornets taking a 96-90 defeat.
Quinn Smith provided a highlight for the Hornets with his pair of individual titles. Smith swam the 200-yard individual medley in two minutes, 13.14 seconds and then edged Fulton’s Nate Archer, 1:01.10 to 1:01.44, to finish first in the 100 backstroke.
Connor Gleasman was first in diving with 192.30 points. F-M also had its 200 freestyle relay team of Lucas Wieres, Eric Bang, Michael Magee and Ben Rabin get first place in 1:38.55.
Wieres twice took second, in the 200 freestyle (1:59.73) to Bryce Rogers (1:56.54) and in the 100 butterfly, where his 58.07 seconds was inches behind the 58.04 from the Red Raiders’ T.J. Clayton.
Rabin got second place in the 500 freestyle in 5:46 flat, with the Hornets able to prevail in the closing 400 freestyle relay as Bang, Wieres, Smith and Jason Porter went 3:37.13 to Fulton’s 3:39 flat.
Then it was F-M against Cicero-North Syracuse Friday at Le Moyne College, but here the Hornets would finish on top, getting past the Northstars 96-87.
A 1-2 finish in the 200 medley relay set the tone as Rabin, Porter, Carter Page and Cooper Hughes won in 1:55.52, Porter going on to finish first in the 200 IM in 2:15.58 and then win the 100 butterfly in 59.18 seconds.
Smith, second in the 200 freestyle (1:57.87), would prevail in the 100 backstroke in 59.99 seconds, right before Richard Wan took the 100 breaststroke in 1:09.68. Miguel Aldana was victorious in the 500 freestyle in 5:36.61.
Gleasman improved to 223.67 points in diving as Michael Magee got second place with 181.56 points. Wieres was second in both the 50 freestyle (23.76 seconds) and 100 freestyle (51.86 seconds).
That same night, Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA hosted New Hartford, looking to bounce back from its season-opening defeat to Baldwinsville a week earlier – which it did, getting a 100-83 victory over the Spartans.
Nate Wales and Conlan Rourke both won twice, with Wales going 2:00.65 in the 200 freestyle and 5:26.36 in the 500 freestyle as Rourke was first in the 50 freestyle in 23.98 seconds and rolled to first in the 100 freestyle in 52.64 seconds.
Lucas Dekaney accumulated 313.25 points in diving, with Nathan Chen going 1:05.92 in the 100 breaststroke to go with a second in the 100 butterfly. Bobby Diel was second in the 200 IM in 2:20.27.
To start the meet, Rourke, Chen, Colby Porter and Mike Bratslavsky went 1:51.93 in the 200 medley relay, and in the 200 freestyle relay Wales and Rourke helped Peter Hatton and Ryan Brazell prevail in 1:39.51.
