Improving its overall record to 2-3, the Baldwinsville boys swim team prevailed again in last Monday’s meet against the Auburn Maroons.
It was close between two B’ville sides in the opening 200-yard medley relay. Aidan Solomon, Brennan Gruppe, Ben Webster and Keenan Smith went exactly one minute, 58 seconds, just ahead of the 1:58.18 from the quartet of Hayden Miranda, Alexander Lakomski, Trevor Kantak and Harrison Meyers.
Then Mikey White stepped to the forefront, winning twice. White covered the 200 freestyle in 1:57.81, with Matthew Lange (2:03.29) second, and then was victorious in the 100 freestyle in 54.33 seconds to Solomon’s 56.60.
Tristan Miranda went 5:10.78 in the 500 freestyle to pull away from Meyers (5:44.78), later swimming the fastest 100 breaststroke time of 1:10.80 as Hayden Miranda was second in the 200 individual medley in 2:47.41.
Solomon went 1:03.57 to top the field in the 100 backstroke, while in the 50 freestyle Kantak required a time of 25.34 seconds to beat Webster (25.83) in yet another 1-2 B’ville finish.
Miranda, White, Meyers and Lange paired up for a quick 3:42.36 in the 400 freestyle relay. White, Meyers, Jonathan Stevens and Elijah Bettinger swam the 200 freestyle relay in 1:48.28 to the 1:48.91 from Lange, Lucas Clay, Ryan Wilson and Zach Ehrig.
B’ville competed again Friday at Nottingham High School against Syracuse City and claimed its second consecutive victory by an 85-70 margin.
Lange would win twice, taking the 50 freestyle in 24.61 seconds and then holding off Meyers, 5:34.87 to 5:40.13, in the 500 freestyle.
Miranda, going 1:53.32 to top White (1:58.25) in the 200 freestyle, later swam the 100 butterfly in 1:03.78 to beat out Gruppe’s 1:05.70 as Solomon posted the fastest 100 backstroke time of 1:03.39.
Kantak, Webster and Jonathan Stevens joined Lange in going 1:57.28 in the 200 medley relay to edge the 1:57.31 from Solomon, Meyers, White and Wilson. In the 200 freestyle, Miranda, White, Smith and Webster posted 1:42.68.
All of this followed a Feb. 3 meet with visting Fayetteville-Manlius where the Bees took a 48-44 defeat, to the Hornets.
Miranda still flourished, winning the 200 freestyle in 1:55.16, the only sub-two-minute time on either side, as he then pulled away to win the 500 freestyle in 5:13.85.
White, in 53.59 seconds, was second to F-M’s Lucas Weires (50.06) in the 100 freestyle, while Kantak took second in the 100 butterfly in 1:04.97.
Solomon, in 1:03.93, beat out Lange (1:06.60) in the 100 backstroke, with Smith going 1:13.11 in the 100 breaststroke. Meyers was third in the 200 IM and White third in the 50 freestyle.
In the 200 freestyle relay, White, Wilson, Lange and Lakomski were second in 1:42.47 to the Hornets’ 1:34.95, this after Solomon, Smith, Kantak and Webster were second in the 200 medley relay in 1:56.30.
Moving to the 400 freestyle relay, Miranda, Solomon, Webster and Wilson finished in 3:54.77, just ahead of the 3:55.05 from Meyers, Lange, Lakomski and Stevens.
