DEWITT – For the second time in as many weeks, two area high school girls swim teams confronted one another, and again Jamesville-DeWitt was on the wrong side of it.
Only this time it was Fayetteville-Manlius getting the victory against the Red Rams, the Hornets prevailing 99-79 in last Tuesday night’s encounter at J-D Middle School.
F-M won every single event on the card, starting with the 200-yard medley relay, where Addie Antshel, Emma Luttrell, Morgan Kingsley and Hannah Kellogg finished in one minute, 58.19 seconds to the 2:00.28 from J-D’s Gwen Lister, Claire Huyck, Emily Ninestein and Audrey Norden.
Two races later, in the 200 individual medley, Luttrell prevailed in 2:16.56 to Lister’s 2:22.63, with Luttrell also going 1:03.38 to edge Huyk (1:03.73) in a close 100 backstroke.
Lister returned in the 100 breaststroke, where her 1:11.92 was just behind Kingsley’s 1:10.82. In the 50 freestyle, it was Georgia Langan going 26.24 seconds to edge Kingsley (26.30) for the top spot.
Langan went on to swim the 100 freestyle in 57.89 seconds to beat Meghan Seidberg’s 1:00.34, with Grace Reyna third in 1:01.34 as Seidberg, in 2:11.83, beat out Reyna (2:14.86) in the 200 freestyle.
On the diving board, the Hornets’ Grace VanBarner needed 197.50 points to hold off the 194.00 points put up by the Rams’ Abby McGuire.
Hali Seidberg claimed the 100 butterfly in 1:05.26 to Ninestein’s 1:06.47, while in the 500 freestyle the only time under six minutes went to Elise Wratney, who won in 5:48.92.
Pulling away in the 200 freestyle relay, Kingsley, Kellogg, Seidberg and Langan went 1:47.12 to J-D’s 1:53.43, and in the 400 freestyle relay Langan, Seidberg, Kellogg and Luttrell finished in 3:57.87.
Three nights later, F-M handled Syracuse 100-75, seeing Antshel prevail twice, taking the 200 IM in 2:29.30 and the 100 butterfly in 1:11.80, with Jessey Eisenhut going 6:08.67 to take the 500 freestyle.
Elise Wratney stepped up with two wins, swimming the 100 freestyle in 58.58 seconds and the 200 freestyle in 2:08.89. Victories also went to Lauren Hayes in the 50 freestyle (28.61 seconds) and Chayse Sedlack, who edged Gabby Dardis, 1:14.03 to 1:14.60, in the 100 backsroke as Katie Ottaviano went 1:17.05 in the 100 breaststroke.
J-D then faced Oswego on Saturday, and turned around from its defeat to F-M in a big way, pulling away to earn a 103-82 victory over the Buccaneers.
Lister led the Rams, taking the 200 freestyle in 2:06.44 and pulling clear to win the 100 breaststroke in 1:12.48, while Huyck went 1:07.44 to secure first place in the 100 backstroke.
McGuire, earning 198.23 points in diving, went 1-2 with Grace Evans (179.25), with Huyck, Lister, Ninestein and Josie Coyne pairing up to win the 400 freestyle relay in 4:07.44.
Norden was second in the 50 and 100 freestyle, with Huyck taking second in the 200 IM, Ninestein second in the 100 butterfly and Lucy Heflin second in the 500 freestyle, each of them earning valuable team points.
Christian Brothers Academy took on Auburn last Thursday at Nottingham High School and handled the Maroons 69-56, led by Jenna Filahn, who was first in the 200 freestyle in 2:14.92 and the 100 butterfly in 1:07.16.
Lauren Kelly, in 25.49 seconds, beat out Darien Tompkins (26.09) in the 50 freestyle after Kayla Newman took her turn in the 200 IM and prevailed in 2:16.09.
Kelly also went 56.91 seconds in the 100 freestyle before Tompkins, in the 100 backstroke, posted 1:06.03. Claire Krueger beat the field in the 100 breaststroke in 1:18.63 as Sophie Menar scored 199.51 points in diving.
